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Pope to Meet Filipino Youth via Satellite Linkup 8 March 2007 - POPE Benedict will meet Catholic Filipino students in praying the rosary on March 10 along with dozen European and Asian countries linked via satellite with the Vatican. The event in the Vatican also aims to discuss charity and cooperation between the two continents. The Philippines, represented by students of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), is among the three Asian countries invited to join the occasion. "Intellectual Charity, Path for New Cooperation between Europe and Asia" is the theme of the Saturday event, which will begin at 4 PM in Rome (around 11 PM here). During the event, Benedict XVI will symbolically pass on to the students Pope John Paul II's apostolic exhortations "Ecclesia in Europa" and "Ecclesia in Asia," documents featuring the conclusions of the two continental synods of bishops. The meeting will end with the young people joining the Pope in praying the rosary. The students will be joined Papal Nuncio Archbishop Fernando Filoni and Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) head Archbishop Angel Lagdameo who will also lead a Eucharistic celebration. The German Pope is not the first to use satellite technology to meet the faithful. John Paul II reached nearly 1 billion viewers in 1987, in 16 different countries, for the event "A Prayer for World Peace," and later that year joined American youth during his Los Angeles visit, connecting four U.S. cities. Other cities in which the young people will gather to be connected by satellite with the Vatican are: Bologna, Italy; Calcutta, India; Coimbra, Portugal, Krakow, Poland; Hong Kong; and Manchester, England.
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