Belo to attend humanism seminar

Belo to attend humanism seminar

DILI, East Timor: Dili Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo will
leave Jakarta today for Prague for an international seminar on
humanism.

The seminar on humanism in the 21st century is scheduled to
open Thursday. About 200 people will participate in the seminar,
including heads of government, religious leaders, scientists and
observers of humanist matters.

Belo said he would try to contribute ideas to the Western
world, especially Eastern Europe where ideological wars had torn
countries apart. He added he would help countries choose the
right track in entering the third millennium with a new humanism.

Chairman of the East Timor Center for Development Studies
(PSPTT) Domingos M.D. Soares said a team from the center had
prepared a paper to be presented by Bishop Belo at the Prague
seminar.

The paper was written in Indonesian and Portuguese.

Enriched by precious and scientific analyses made by Leo
Kleden, a philosophy lecturer at Ledalero Catholic Higher
Learning Institute, the paper discussed humanism for the 21st
century from the viewpoint of the ideal values incorporated in
Indonesia's state Pancasila philosophy, Soares said. (33)