SUMMARY:
- HOLY
SEE'S ONGOING COMMITMENT TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING
- WOMEN
AND CHILDREN, BENEFICIARIES OF THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE ROAD
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HOLY
SEE'S ONGOING COMMITMENT TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING
Vatican
City, 11 September 2012 (VIS) - In the wake of the recent MONEYVAL
report, the Holy See is continuing to respond to the report's
recommendations and ever more efficaciously pursue transparency and
financial trustworthiness, thus contributing more effectively to the
fight against money laundering.
According
to Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J.,
speaking on Vatican Radio today, one powerful sign of commitment to
work in this direction is that the Holy See has hired an
international expert in Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of
Terrorism (AML/CFT) activities.
Rene
Bruelhart, 40, a lawyer originally from Fribourg, Switzerland, spent
eight years as the director of Liechtenstein’s Financial
Intelligence Unit (FIU), and is an expert in AML/CFT. As director of
Liechtenstein’s FIU, he was also appointed in 2010 as the
vice-chair of the Egmont Group, the global network of FIUs.
Bruelhart
began work this month as a consultant to the Holy See in all matters
related to AML/CFT. His role is to assist the Holy See in
strengthening its framework to fight financial crimes. This is based
on the clear commitment the Holy See has already expressed in its
active efforts to address these matters effectively.
WOMEN
AND CHILDREN, BENEFICIARIES OF THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE ROAD
Vatican
City, 11 September 2012 (VIS) - Under the theme of "Jesus
himself came up and walked by their side", the first Integrated
Meeting for the Pastoral Care of the Road/Street for the Continent of
Africa and Madagascar is opening today in the Tanzanian capital of
Dar-Es-Salaam.
The
initiative, which has been promoted by the Pontifical Council for the
Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples in collaboration with
Tanzania's Episcopal Commission for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples,
will examine certain crucial issues such as the position of women and
girls who, engaged in voluntary and forced prostitution in Africa and
Madagascar, become victims of new forms of slavery. "Unfortunately",
reads a communique released by the pontifical council, "insufficient
recognition of the dignity and rights of women means they have fewer
opportunities for formation, work and respect".
The
meeting will also examine the situation of street children and
adolescents, a problem which arises from family, social and cultural
contrasts on the continent. The causes which force women and children
to live on the street include poverty, family violence, tribal and
civil conflicts, superstition, organised criminality and
exploitation.
Attention
will also be given to the problems and requirements of transport
workers who, on long journeys with low pay and no work or health
insurance, have to face multiple difficulties, such as separation
from their families, long waits at frontiers and fatigue.
All these
issues will be examined in the light of the "Guidelines for the
Pastoral Care of the Road" published by the Pontifical Council
for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples in 2007, as
well as that of two documents of Church Magisterium concerning the
African continent and the mission of the Church there: the Apostolic
Exhortations "Ecclesia in Africa" (1995) and "Africae
Munus" (2011).
The
meeting is being attended by more than eighty-five people from
thirty-one African nations. They include bishops, priests, religious
and lay people, delegates of various episcopal commissions for
migrants and itinerant peoples, of Caritas internationalis and of
religious institutes which dedicate their efforts to the pastoral
care of people who live on or from the road.
During
this afternoon's inaugural session a message will be read out, sent
to the meeting in the Holy Father's name by Cardinal Secretary of
State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. The first lecture will be given
tomorrow by Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil, secretary of the
Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant
Peoples, who will present his dicastery's core document "Guidelines
for the Pastoral Care of the Road", which includes the point of
view not only of the "users" of the road, but also of the
people who are obliged to live there. Bishop Kalathiparambil will
emphasise the Church’s pastoral responsibility to denounce all
forms of injustice, to defend the dignity of those exploited or
mistreated by family or social situations, and to commit herself to
helping them.
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