Archbishop Zimowski at Rimini Meeting

(August 27, 2011) Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, President of the Vatican Council for Health Care Workers addressed the Rimini meeting on Friday highlighting the certainty of health. During the last week of August, Rimini becomes the international capital of culture and gets invaded by people from all over the world for this event that has taken taken place yearly, since more than thirty years. Rimini in North eastern Italy is a city on the Adriatic coast. This Meeting for the Friendship Amongst Peoples was born in 1980, under the patronage of the association known as Communion and Liberation founded by Fr Luigi Guissani. In his discourse Archbishop Zimowski pointed out the physical and spiritual aspects of healthcare and reminded Christians to respect and promote the wellbeing and dignity of all persons, created to the image and likeness of God He stressed the necessity of extending basic healthcare to each and every person and of humanizing medical healing. He thanked the volunteers who like Good Samaritans care for the sick. He announced that the 26th meeting of his dicastery , due to be held at the Vatican from 24th to 26th November will have as its theme pastoral health care in the light of the teaching of Blessed John Paul II.