International Day of Peace Events in DM
By Catholic Peace Ministry

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