Message to the International Tourism Fair
(February 19, 2011) Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants has issued a message to the International Tourism Fair being held at Rho-Pero in Milan, Italy. The President of the Council, Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò writing to the participants at the BIT-Tourism Fair appealed for a sense of responsibility in defending the bio-diversity of the natural environment. BIT is a trade show dedicated to Travel & Tourism. Not only social, economic, cultural and ecological motives inspired this respect for the environment, he said, but also religious motives. For, nature speaks to us of God the Creator, who is actively present in his creation. The Archdiocese of Milan, the Italian Bishops’ conference and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council, staffed a stand at the Fair, to promote such ideas. Among the projects presented at this stand was a village in Capo Verde, known as Case do sol, which was an initiative of a Capucin missionary, who had made the village a social health centre. Vatican’s Council called on those responsible to educate people to contemplate the beauties of nature and to help the tourist to discover the traces of God in the abundant wealth of bio-diversity. The Fair that began on February 17th will close on Sunday.
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