{"id":342858,"date":"2014-03-08T04:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/haiti-towards-a-culture-of-encounter\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:12:00","slug":"haiti-towards-a-culture-of-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/haiti-towards-a-culture-of-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: Towards a culture of encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a year of preparation<\/strong> from a distance via internet, five experts coming from different countries (Argentina<\/a>, Per\u00f9 <\/a>and Cuba<\/a>), arrived in Haiti <\/a>two days ahead of the beginning of the Seminar, so as to get to know and to immerse themselves in the reality of the people and of the local Church. \u201cWe visited Radio-Tele Soleil<\/a> \u2013 they shared<\/strong> \u2013 which transmits from a temporary office at Port Au Prince, since the building of the Archbishop\u2019s House, wher ethey used to have their office, was destroyed by the earthquake. In that disaster unfortunately some of their collaborators lost their life. Theirs is the most important Catholic broadcasting station, with a national coverage. We were able to visit also the city center of Port Au Prince, with the Cathedral that is sstill in ruions but which remains as the symbol of the suffering of this people. It was a strong experience, which helped us in the succeeding days to establish relationships in an adequate way with the persons we met.\u201d   \u201cFrom the life of the Word<\/strong> to the need to communicate. Towards a true culture of encounter\u201d. With this title, from February 17 to 23, the Interdiocesan Seminar on Communication, organized by the Office of Communications of the CELAM <\/a>was held in the Diocese of Anse \u00e0 Veau et Miragoane (Haiti). The 79 participants were coming from 8 of the 10 Haitian Dioceses: Les Cayes, Gona\u00efves, Cap-Haitien, Jeremie, Hinche, Port-aut-Prince, Port-de-Paix and from the diocese that hosted the convention. The Seminar was requested by Mons. Pierre A. Dumas,<\/strong> Bishop of Anse \u00e0 Veau et Miragoane, and was brought ahead by a team of NetOne<\/a> in Latin America (Latam), a network of communicators who take their inspiration from the spirituality of the Focolare.<\/a> The Seminar went beyond all our expectations<\/strong>: 5 intense days, imprinted with the \u201ctrinitarian vision\u201d of communication, with the proposal of the life of the Word even before the communicative event itself.\u00a0 Everyday began with an exchange of experiences on how each one tried to live the phrase of the Gospel that was proposed the day before, and then a meditation on the new phrase chosen for that day. Then, the different means of communication were tackled, through theoretical explanations and moments of specific workshops: radio, print media, theater, television and internet. The dialogue,<\/strong> the questions, the group work, were very much participated and inclusive. The themes were given in Spanish, the texts of the powerpoint presentations and written copies of the themes were in French, with Creole translation… Nevertheless language was not a barrier for anyone! In conclusion,<\/strong> the Mass celebrated by Mons. Pierre Dumas, was really a moment of joy and emotion: we felt that during those 5 days a piece of renewed humanity was built among the participants. \u201cFor us \u2013 relates the group of NetOne<\/strong> \u2013 it was the possibility of seeing this marvelous people in a new way, who often are not presented in this way by the means of communication of our countries. We were conquered by the simplicity, the joy, enthusiasm and hope of the Haitians. We realized that we are one family, wherein we live as brothers \u00a0the reciprocity between Latin America and the Carribean. We left Haiti with the awareness thar we have received so much more that what we came to give\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team of NetOne held a Seminar on Communication on an island of the Caribbean that was destroyed by the earthquake of 2010. The life of the Gospel is at the basis of the sharing that makes us all brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}