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ICCS - CICS - CICE - IKKP November 2011 New Regional Chaplain for ICCS ported a lot of international encounters of World Council of ICCS in St. Louis scouts from JUNAK with scout groups from Africa / USA the neighbour countries. Josef is a model of Fr. Ceasar Motovu, National Chaplain of lay commitment in the Church. Congratula- the Catholic Scouts in Uganda and former tions and best wishes for further activ years Assistant to the Regional Chaplain of the in good health conditions! ICCS Africa, has been appointed as Re- gional Chaplain after the death of Father Meeting with the Swedish King Victor Ajdamago. Fr. Caesar has partici- pated in several ICCS activities on World level: for example during the World Scout Jamborees in England and Sweden in the team of the ICCS headquarter and in the From 1st to 5th December the next World ICCS African Workshop 2009 in Kampala. Council of ICCS, that has to be run every Father Motovu succeeded in Uganda to re- three years, will take place in Saint Louis, alize a most attrative Campsite for Catholic MO, USA. The National Catholic Committte Scouts at Lake Victoria. Congratulaitions of Scouting (NCCS), part of the “Boy Scouts and best wishes for the new responsibility! of America”, will host the event. Our former World Ecclesiastical Assistant, Bishop Mr. Toby Suzuki, member of the ICCS New National Chaplain of AGESCI Robert Guglielmone (Diocese of Charleston Foundation (ICSF) and Baldur Hermans, /South Carolina) will be with us and speak Secretary General of ICCS, both Bronce Don Francesco Marconato has finished about the relationship of Family and Scout- Wolf Holders of the World Organzation of after two mandates his pastoral service in ing in the frame of a Catholic education.Im- the Scout Movement, were on 6th August AGESCI/Italy, as General Ecclesiastical As- portant points on the agenda are also: 2011 - during the World Scout Jamboree - th sistant. On 30 October he was installed as election of a new Secretary General and invited to a Luncheon with King Carl XVI priest of the Parish S. Martino Vescovo in deputies, creation of a “Fellowship Saint Gustav and Queen Silvia from Sweden and Cornuda (TV), Italy. P. Alessandro Cali- Paul” for the financial needs of ICCS, plan- Princess Benedict from Danmark. The 6th naci has been appointed as his successor ning of our budget, system of fees, future August was one of the very rare splendid by the Italian Bishops’Conference. activities of World ICCS. summer days of the World Scout Jamboree Thanks by heart to Father Marconato. Best so all participants could experience the wishes and the Lord’s blessings for P.Cali- A digniefied Celebration in Prague summer beauty of the Swedish landscape. naci as National Scout Chaplain. Last 7th November 2011 Dr. Jiri Navratil and Josef Hermanek, members of the Professor Carriquiry left the New members of the Brotherhood Czeck Scout Association JUNAK, were hon- Pontifical Council for the Laity Saint George oured after a pleasant and devout celebra- tion of the Eucharist in the historical, For generations of ICCS officials Professor The Steering Committee more than 1000 years old Chapel of Guzmán Carriquiry was as director in the of ICCS decided during Saint Martin on Vysehrad Castle in Pontifical Council for the Laity (PCL) in its meeting in Sep- Prague with the membership doc- Rome contact partner for ICCS. He knew tember in Rome/ ument and medal of the Brother- very well the history, objectives and the ac- Italy to honour hood Saint George by the ICCS tivities of Scouting and in particular of Ramzi Ghanem Secretary General Baldur Her- ICCS. This year he changed from the PCL (Jordan), George mans. Members of the families of to the Pontifical Commission for Latin Amer- Ghorayeb (Libanon), Jiri and Josef and Scoutfriends ica as Secretary. President of this Commis- P. Guido Hügen OSB were present and gave their con- sion is Marc Cardinal Quellet PSS. (Germany), Antonius gratulations. Jiri Navratil, President of Thanks for his attention to ICCS for so Kiwall (Germany), Dr. Junak, suffered for beeing a scout many many years and best wishes and blessings Siegfried Riediger(Germany) years as a slave worker in the prisons of the for the new duties and challenges! and the Congregation of “Sainte Croix Communist Regime, but started his com- de Jerusalem”, Boran / France, a founda- mittment in Scouting as a true Catholic tion of P. Jaques Sevin SJ, for their out- again immediately after the fall of the red A Scout friend at European top standing service to young Catholics in regime.Josef Hermanek, had a simular his- Cardinal Peter Erdö, Archbishop of Eszter- Scouting and to the International Catholic tory with the communist regime, was activ gom / Hungary has been elected for a sec- Conference of Scouting (ICCS/CICS). In the as a Sea Scout Leader and started also ond term as President of the Council of the next editions of the Circular Letter we will again - after the political change in his European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE). inform in detail about the new members of country - in Scouting and in sport activities Cardinal Erdö is known as a friend of Scout- the Brotherhood Saint George. with young people. He organized and sup- ing. In the session of the CCEE in Tirana/Al- 1 bania, where he was reelected, he warned The Archbishop promised to support the in- A new ICCS folder of the growing discrimination of the terests of ASCRO in the Romanian Bishops’ Churches in Europe and the campaign of Conference. With good reasons a black/white folder desinformation towards faith and belief. about ICCS has been produced with little We wish the Lord’s blessings for his ungo- 6th African ICCS Workshop in chapters: What we do … formation and in- ing responsibility! formation and religion and spirituality/ How Yaoundé/Cameroun we do it … Conclusions/ Who we are … The folder will be distributed on occasion of Monaco back to activ membership ICCS - and general Scouting events. The "Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco" re-activated their membership to New publications of ICCS ICCS after a period of static relationship. ICCS has send a heartful welcome to the The World Secretariat of ICCS has pub- President of the Association, Mr. Jean Ker- lished a new pocket calendar “Saint aurden. George” for 2012, A booklet “Songs of faith and confidence” Middle East Visits for internal use at ICCS conferences, sem- inars, workshops and encounters. And a The Secretary General Baldur Hermans and new broschure in the series Cahier/ Rev. Father Imad Twal, member of the Notes/Apuntes/Hefte with texts from the World Secretariat of ICCS, visited in Sep- Peace Seminar 2008 in Santiago de Com- tember Jordan , Israel and Palestine, look- postela and from the World Seminar 2009 ing after different projects and needs of the on Jeju Island / Korea. Catholic groupements in Scouting in the Middle East. Main projects of interest were Documentation of the 2nd the Catholic Scout Center in Nazareth that needs a more intensivs attention from pil- Ecumenical Encounter October 15- grims and visitors - mainly of the Scout 17, 2010 in Athens movements - from abroad and the Camp- site project of the Catholic scout groups in From the 24th to the 29th October the 6th DESMOS has published on the web-site:” Palestine, by chance in the village of Taybe. African ICCS workshop took place in http//www.desmos.info/en/news.html” the The Auxiliare Bishop of Jerusalem, Msgr. Yaoundé/Cameroun (Centre d’Accueil CICM documentation of the 2nd Ecumenical En- William Shomali, supports the idea of a real – Mvolye). The participants came from the counter with all talks and lectures of the Campsite, run by the Catholic Scouts of countries Cameroun, Togo, Ivory Coast, Metropolitan of Prikonissos, Most Rev. Palestine. Tchad and Centrafrique. The target of the Joseph, (about “Christianity and the Envi- ICCS African Workshops is to give a clear roment”),of Christos Papageorgiu, Presi- Central European Pastoral basic understanding of pastoral committ- dent of the International Link of Orthodox ment in scouting, of Christian values and Christian Scouts/ DESMOS,of representa- Seminar ethics as orientation for the scout methods, tives of the Scouts of Greece (Soma Helli- to experience ways and examples of pray- non Proskopon), of Prof. Dr. Marios Bezgos This year the tradional Central European ing and celebration, to discover the realities from the Universitay of Athens as key note th Pastoral Semnar (CEPS) took place from 6 in social life and good projects, to learn and speaker (about the “Interreligious Dia- th to 9 October in Hungary at Lake Balaton in to inform about ICCS. logue”), andof Dr. Baldur Hermans, Secre- the Village of Szabadifürdö. The partici- tary General of ICCS (about “A Christian The participants visited an orphanage of pants came from 5 different associations. Culture of Respect of Nature and Environ- children whose parents died by aids and The Seminar was focussed on pastoral and ment in Scouting”. The documentation in- they discussed how scouts could get in- educational consequences of the different cludes also pictures and a Message to the volved in a service for such poor children social and mental situation of young people Encounter by His All Holiness the Ecumeni- and in aids preventive measures.They in the countries from where the participants cal Patriarch Bartholomew. A printed ver- made a critical visit to a Zoo reflecting the came from.The next CEPS will take place in sion is not anounced. Slovakia in 2012 with a focus on the im- dignity of animals and all creation and dis- portance of the family and educational cussed activities for Scouting.