Minsk and Vatican will connect the telephone

Telemon Minsk - Vatican will allow you to make a prayer virtual meeting of Belarusian youth with Pope Benedict XVI . This was said by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarusia, Archbishop of the Minsk-Mogilev Tadeusz Kondrusevich at a press conference in Minsk on February 26.

According to him, the teleconference "Europe and America together to build a civilization of love", dedicated to the VI European Day of Universities Day, will be held on March 1 from 18.00 to 20.00 with the participation of young people from Romania, Italy, France, the USA, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Belarus.

In the Minsk Arkhipedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, equipment will be installed that will allow the National State Television and Radio Company through the satellite to communicate with the hall of Paul VI in the Vatican. In this case, the television will not be broadcast on domestic television channels. As the archbishop noted, Catholic hierarchs and delegations from all Catholic dioceses of Belarus will take part in the action, the website of Belarusian News reports.

According to T. Kondrusevich, the initiator of annual meetings with students of Rome during the Great Lent was John Pavel II . In 2002, such meetings with students of a number of European countries began to illuminate television. It should be noted that the participation of Belarusian youth in the current television system was initiated by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusevich, who is a member of the Papal Council "Justice and Peace".

The press secretary of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, Priest Alexander Amelchenya, said that everyone who wants to take part in the television system will be able to take part, regardless of their religion and attitude to religion. According to him, not only the naves of the temple, but also its basement are provided to accommodate the television participants.

Video -information about the action will be broadcast on nine large plasma screens installed in the church and is accompanied by synchronous translation into Belarusian. Stretch marks with the text will be posted on the columns of the temple: "Belarus vitai I chaka Svyatoga Aitz" in translation into English, Italian and German.