International Day of Peace Events in DM

Central Iowa will observe the UN call for an International Day of

Peace with 2 special events. Below and attached is an announcement

from the Catholic Peace Ministry of an Ecumenical Prayer Service on

Friday, Sept. 21.



The following day – Sat. Sept 22, AFSC and twenty co-sponsoring

organizations present central Iowa's second International Day of Peace

– Peace Fair in downtown DM. Note Peace Fair attachment.



See you then.

Kathleen



Romanian Catholic Bishop to speak at

Ecumenical prayer service

Friday, September 21, 7 PM

St Ambrose Cathedral, 607 High Street, Des Moines



On Friday evening at 7, September 21, the day proclaimed by the United

Nations as The International Day of Peace, Catholic Peace Ministry

will host an ecumenical service of repentance and prayer for peace at

Saint Ambrose Cathedral, 607 High Street, Des Moines.



Preaching a homily at this service will be the Most Reverend John

Michael Botean, bishop of the Romanian Catholic Diocese of Canton,

Ohio, and the most outspoken critic of the war in Iraq among the US

Catholic hierarchy. “Beyond a reasonable doubt this war is morally

incompatible with the Person and Way of Jesus Christ,” Bishop Botean

wrote in a March 2003 pastoral letter to the faithful of his diocese,

all Romanian Catholics within the borders of the United States, “With

moral certainty I say to you it does not meet even the minimal

standards of the Catholic just war theory.”



Catholic Peace Ministry invites the public to this event which will be

held in union with prayer services for peace that will held at houses

of worship of many faiths around the globe on the evening of September

21.



For more information contact

Brian Terrell Catholic Peace Ministry

515-255-8114

terrellcpm@yahoo.com