13-15.06.2014 in Parish House of Our Lady Help of Christians
in West Byfleet (Surrey, on the
London & South Western Railway) has
been held the Meeting of representatives of the ICCPPC of European countries
under the guidance of Mngr. Malachy Keegan, who accepted the role of European
Coordinator as long as Fr. Mark Helfer has resigned from the position of
European Regional Representative of ICCPPC.
Fr. Robert Friskovec (Slovenia), Péter Takács (Hungary), Rev. Msgr. Malachy Keegan (Great Britain), Martin Schmitz (Germany), Martins Kruklis (Latvia), and Fr. Constantin
Panteley (Ukraine) (from right to left).
This working group of The ICCPPC-Europe has discussed the
main contemporary problems of European region and developed approaches how to revive International communication and solidarity
of European Catholic Prison Ministry in the ICCPPC.
The tasks are as follows:
1)
communication development: to collect all actual
contacts of national representatives for the ICСPPC-Europe, create share
database and initiate ones a month Skype conferences to spread news and to
exchange the information (responsible Fr. Robert Friskovec and Fr. Constantin
Panteley);
2)
connection with the Board of the ICCPPC for more
active cooperation and common support (responsible Martin Schmitz);
3)
for every annual meetings have to be organized
trainings and other issues of pastoral support (responsible Mngr. Malachy
Keegan);
4) European fundraising & resources (responsible Fr. Robert Friskovec and Martin Schmitz);
4) European fundraising & resources (responsible Fr. Robert Friskovec and Martin Schmitz);
5)
living contacts with Holly See (Fr. Brian
Gowans);
6)
Social doctrine of the Church in penitentiary
policy, human rights protection, lobbying, mapping political situation, analisis
of legislations in European countries, links with UN Office in Geneva (we would
like to ask Mark Platzer and Christian Kuhn)
7)
theological reflections on prison ministry,
spirituality and applied theology (responsible Péter Takács and Fr. Constantin
Panteley).
The working group has expressed support and living prayer
for Ukraine in very hard but, still, inspiring for other countries time during
24-th year of independence, when Russia breaks the International low, escalates
aggression and provides hybrid war.
