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Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Some 80 people - bishops, communications experts, spokespersons for Europe's 34 bishops' conferences and representatives of various Catholic communications agencies - will gather at the Barnabite Fathers' cultural centre in Warsaw from Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 September 2005 to try to answer the question “Who paints the picture of the world that young people have?”. Hosting the assembly is Archbishop Leszek Slawoj Glódz of Warsaw-Praga, who is the bishop responsible for media initiatives in the Polish Bishops' Conference. The meeting is organised by the European Bishops' Media Commission (CEEM). Media experts, producers of media aimed at children and young people, and some young people themselves, will speak from different perspectives on the relationship between the media, the languages younger people use and the handing on of Christian faith. Participants will meet local Catholics and also visit the European Centre of Communication and Culture run by the Jesuit community at Falenica on the outskirts of the city.
The President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Archbishop John P. Foley, and Archbishop Józef Kowalczyk, the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, will also be taking part in the assembly.
The plenary assembly will follow the annual meeting for press officers and spokespersons for Europe's bishops' conferences (14-15 September). The central theme for them will be ‘Catholic news agencies’. There will be discussions on the network of Catholic webmasters, on the media impact of the World Youth Day and on relations with the press at the time of the death of Pope John Paul II. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 8/9/2005; righe 20, parole 252)
