2012-04-26 18:58:19

Vatican to host Conference on Blindness


April 26, 2012: An International Study Meeting and conference is organized at the Vatican City on 4-5 May 2012 by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers in collaboration with CMB-Italia (Christian Missions for the Blind in the World). This conference will take place within the framework of the ‘Good Samaritan’ Foundation which was instituted on 12 September 2004 by the Blessed John Paul II with the aim of providing economic support to those sick people most in need, and in particular people afflicted by AIDS, who ask for a gesture of supportive love from the Church.

This meeting seeks to be an occasion for in-depth analysis and dialogue in relation to the subjects of the prevention and treatment of blindness and poor sight, according to the new perspectives of study and research, taking into account, as well, the experience that has been matured through traditional approaches. In addition, this will be an occasion to promote above all the pastoral dimension that provides help to non-sighted people but also to encourage all national and international, ecclesial and institutional organisations to achieve one of the priority objectives of the fight against blindness: universal and free access to treatment.

This conference will begin from an analysis of the portrayal of non-sighted people in Holy Scripture and in the historical concern of the Church for non-sighted people. A series of important contributions will follow given by experts in the field who will explore the principal causes of avoidable blindness and the models for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. An important aspect of the conference will be on pastoral care and ecclesial projects for the non-sighted, with important testimonies offered from the five continents of the world.

Speakers of a high human, theological-pastoral, medical-scientific, educational and social character will help those taking part in the conference to find practical answers to the need for accompanying and treatment of non-sighted people.








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