Caritas Japan has organised an annual diocesan directors meeting from 9 to 11 November in Hiroshima. Though the respective dioceses have quite different type of Caritas organisations, majority of the directors from 16 Catholic dioceses in Japan got together in the diocesan administration office in Hiroshima. As these directors have been appointed by their own bishops for charitable activities or welfare activities in their dioceses and not directly for the national organisation, Caritas Japan have to coordinate with the diocesan directors at least once a year to ask their assistance especially in fund raising activities. Without assistance from them, Caritas Japan is unable to organise fund raising as we have been doing.
It was my second time to visit Hiroshima. Since I did not have enough time to visit the A-bomb memorial last time, I wanted to make sure to take time to visit the memorial. I have been to Nagasaki memorial several times but Hiroshima memorial also had quite an impact on me. We human beings should utilise our wisdom which has been granted by God to avoid such misery of our own making. (Photo above: Hiroshima Peace memorial Chapel with a statue of JPII who visited Hiroshima in 1981)
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