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eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 30 May 2003

Catholic priest shares Eucharist with Protestants, gets cardinal’s rebuke

By Stephen Brown Berlin, 30 May (ENI)–Hundreds of people packed into a Berlin church for an ecumenical service that challenged official Vatican dogma preventing Protestants and Roman Catholics from sharing the Eucharist. “All are invited,” said Gotthold Hasenhuttl, aged 69, a Roman Catholic priest and professor of systematic theology, inviting non-Catholics to take the bread and wine at the Catholic Eucharist he presided. [445 words, 03-0246]

Zimbabwe police break up prayer meeting ahead of protests

Harare, 30 May (ENI)–Armed riot police barged through a prayer meeting in a shopping mall in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, and arrested at least three women worshippers and beat up several others, a witness said. The prayer meeting in the busy First Street Mall was attended by Christians from various denominations responding to an appeal by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change political party leader Morgan Tsvangirai for Zimbabweans to engage in a week of prayer, ahead of mass protests planned by the opposition for 2 June to force President Robert Mugabe to step down. [406 words, ENI-03-0246]

Church leaders urge G-8 to give more money to fight AIDS

Geneva, 30 May (ENI)–Church leaders from around the world have demanded that their governments deliver more money for the fight against AIDS, two days before a summit meeting of the world’s eight most industrial nations, or G-8, in Evian, France. Dozens of church leaders, gathered in Berlin from every continent, urged the governments convening in the French resort of Evian, near Geneva, to deliver an additional $1.4 billion to the United Nations’ Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. [306 words, ENI-03-0244]

Chariot-drawn Orthodox leader in India celebrates golden jubilee

Thrissur, India, 30 May (ENI)–The crowd will remember the day for another 50 years. Atop a chariot drawn by white horses, Catholicos Baselios Marthoma Mathews II, head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, marked the 50th anniversary of his ordination. The 88-year old Catholicos Mathews II was escorted in the chariot, or hamsa ratham, while 100 young church women in ceremonial dress preceded him, waving multi-coloured umbrellas. [403 words, ENI-03-0245]

The life of an Ecumenical Juror at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes, France, 30 May (ENI)–You wouldn’t expect to find a church-sponsored jury awarding a prize at the glittering Cannes Film Festival, known for the stars who come to parade themselves on the red-carpeted stairs of the Palais du Festival. Yet for 29 years Signis, the World Catholic Association for Communication and Interfilm, supported by Protestant churches and agencies in Europe, have appointed a jury to screen all the movies in the official competition at Cannes and to award a prize to the film that best portrays positive human values. [505 words, ENI-03-0243]

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