New York Encounter is an annual four-day public cultural festival organized by Communion and Liberation and Crossroads Cultural Center.

New York Encounter intends to offer to a large audience opportunities for education, dialogue, and friendship through conferences, artistic performances, and exhibits. Its goal is to foster, in a friendly January 14-17, 2011 and welcoming setting, interest in the full spectrum of reality and appreciation for what is beautiful, true, good, and worthwhile in various expressions of human life. This openness and desire are the fruit of the education received in the Roman Catholic Church. conferences presentations Communion and Liberation

DAYS is an international movement in artistic performances the Roman Catholic Church exhibits founded in 1954 by the late Msgr. Luigi Giussani. Its purpose is the education to the Catholic faith of its adherents. 4 www.clonline.org 2 LOCATIONS CENTER NEW YORKER HOTEL Crossroads Cultural Center Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday, January 17, 2011 was founded in 2004 by January 14-16, 2011 581 Eighth Avenue at members of Communion and 311 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001 Liberation who shared an at 8th Avenue interest in the relationship New York, NY 10001 between religion and culture. St. Paul’s suggestion, "Test everything, retain what

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