AMERICA/PERU - Bishops' Conferences launches radio project to make the Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine, better and wider known

Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Through its Commission for Social Communications the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Peru has launched a radio project to make the Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine better and wider known.
The programme on Catholic Social Doctrine will involve almost 200 commercial, diocesan, parish and community radio stations all over the country (1.285.215.60 km2).
Presenting the the initiative Bishop Ricardo García García, Bishop of the Prelado de Yauyos and president of the Communications Commission, said the aim was "to bring the contents of the Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine to millions of Peruvians, in order to build a society of more justice and solidarity". Bishop García said the radio was chosen as the best channel to diffuse the teaching, in Peru and all over Latin America.
The project will treat the first part of the Compendium (God's plan of love for humanity, the Church's Mission and Social Doctrine, the human person and human rights and the principles of the Church's Social Doctrine) with 112 micro-programmes each 30 seconds long, broadcast for 16 weeks, and the possibility to repeat the series of programmes.
For even wider diffusion of the material, a web site offers information on the project and explains that one of the reasons which prompted the initiative was reception given to the messages addressed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Church in Latin America when he inaugurated last May in Aparecida, Brazil the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine was made public in October 2004 by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace "as a tool to facilitate the moral and pastoral discernment of complex events of our day " (Compendium n. 10). (RG) (Agenzia Fides 6/12/2007; righe 27, parole 346)