Si svolge dal 17 al 23 settembre 2001, presso l’Università di Friburgo (Svizzera), il Congresso mondiale dell’UCIP (Unione Cattolica Internazionale della Stampa) sul tema: I media e la sfida della globalizzazione - Nuove responsabilità dei giornalisti.
Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma che il Santo Padre Giovanni Paolo II ha inviato ieri - tramite il Cardinale Angelo Sodano, Segretario di Stato - ai partecipanti al Congresso:

HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II SENDS CORDIAL GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES TO ALL ASSEMBLED IN FRIBOURG FOR THE WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC UNION OF THE PRESS. HIS HOLINESS NOTES WITH SATISFACTION THAT THE CONGRESS HAS TAKEN AS ITS THEME THE RESPONSE OF THE COMMUNICATION MEDIA TO THE URGENT CHALLENGES RAISED BY THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION. HE ENCOURAGES THOSE PRESENT TO PONDER THE SIGNIFICANT ETHICAL ISSUES WHICH GLOBALIZATION RAISES IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL VISION OF THE INALIENABLE DIGNITY OF EACH HUMAN BEING, THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN FAMILY AND THE MORAL IMPERATIVE OF FOSTERING AUTHENTIC HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING A WORLD OF SOLIDARITY, JUSTICE AND PEACE. ASSURING THE ORGANIZERS AND ALL TAKING PART IN THE CONGRESS OF A REMEMBRANCE IN HIS PRAYERS THE HOLY FATHER WILLINGLY IMPARTS HIS APOSTOLIC BLESSING AS A PLEDGE OF JOY AND PEACE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO
SECRETARY OF STATE

[01449-02.01] [Original text: English]