"The International Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli" (John XXIII) award will be presented in Rome >Special Invitation <
Marco Roncalli Marco Roncalli was born in Bergamo, on July 31st., 1959. Following his humanistic studies in Bergamo he graduated in Law from the University "Studi di Milano", with a thesis on canonical law about the Secretariat for the Unity of Christians. For the last 25 years, Mr. Roncalli has been engaged in the media world, starting at "Epoca" and "Il Sole 24 ore" and nowadays he is collaborating with "Periodici San Paolo" and "Avvenire". In those newspapers, through his columns, he closely follows the issue of Righteous Gentiles and the research about the Shoah. Marco
Roncalli has also stepped into the world of historical and literature
editions. Among the works he was involved in, one can mention
those devoted to the figure of Angelo Giusseppe Roncalli, who
became Pope John XXIII as of 1958. In particular, "John
XXIII, letters to the family", Milan, 1988 (Rusconi Editore);
the Italian edition of Peter Hebblethwaite – "John
XXIII, the Pope of the Concilium", Milan 1989 (Rusconi
Editore); "John XXIII – In remembrance", by
Secretary F. Capovilla, interview with previously unpublished
documents, Milan, 1995; the correspondence Shuster-Roncalli
"Nel nome della santita", Milan 1996 (Ediciones San
Paolo); John XXIII, "Nostra pace e la volonta di Dio",
previously unpublished notebooks, Milan 2001, edited by San
Paolo, "Giovanni XXIII. La mia Venezia" , Venecia
2000 (Canal e Studium Cattolico Veneziano); Loris Capovilla,
Giuseppe De Luca, "Giovanni XXIII, Carteggio", Roma
2005, edited by Marco Roncalli, (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura);
"Giovanni XXIII, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli una vita nella
storia" (Le Scie-Mondadori 2006, Oscar Mondadori 2007). During
the event, a special tribute will be paid to Ms. Stanislawa
Slawinska, a Polish Catholic hero from the town of Grodzisk
Mazowiecki, who during the Holocaust sheltered at her own home
10 Jews who fled from the Warsaw Ghetto. About the organizers The International Raoul Wallenberg foundation is an NGO whose mission is to develop educational projects to promote the exercise of the values of civil courage and solidarity that were the driving force of the feats of the rescuers of the Holocaust. It was co-founded by Baruch Tenembaum and the late U.S. Congressman – Tom Lantos. Casa
Argentina en Israel – Tierra Santa is a sister foundation
of the IRWF which promotes the cultural relationships between
the Spanish speaking countries and Israel and fosters the interfaith
dialogue between the monotheistic religions. It was founded
more than four decades ago and it has offices in Buenos Aires
and Jerusalem. In June 2003, following an initiative from the Angelo Roncalli Committee of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, the Argentine Post Office issued a special postal card of the ex Apostolic Delegate of the Vatican. On that same month, Mr. Tenembaum had the privilege of closing the conference "The Hebrew World and Roncalli – Revisitare Giovanni XXIII", an academic meeting sponsored by the University of Bologna and the Foundation for Religious Sciences John XXIII, with his lecture – "Angelo Roncalli, moral inspiration to mankind". On July 10th., 2004, Cardenal Walter Kasper, President of the Vatican Commission for the religious relationship with Judaism, inaugurated the Angelo Roncalli Kindergarden at the Raoul Wallenberg Community Center, Headquarters of the Movement of Unemployed Workers of La Matanza, in the La Juanita quarters, district of Gregorio de Laferrere, Province of Buenos Aires. ZENIT is an international non-profit news agency, made of a team of professionals and volunteers who believe in the extraordinary riches of the messages spread by the Catholic Church, particularly its Social Doctrine, as a guiding light to understand the present times. In 2006, Mr. Jesus Colina, received the Raoul Wallenberg award, in recognition to his journalistic excellence in service of the interfaith dialogue and reconciliation. |
