Christmas concert in the Vatican
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| Dee Dee Bridgewater, one of the participants at the 2018 Vatican Christmass concert. |
The
audience hall of Paul VI will be the venue of the annual Vatican Christmas
concert on December 15th. Two projects dedicated to helping refugees in Uganda
and Iraq will benefit from the concert.
By
Joachim Teigen
Details
of the annual Vatican Christmas concert were announced this week. The two
projects whose work will be aided by the sale of concert tickets are the “Don
Bosco Mission” working for the improvement of conditions for refugees in
Uganda, and the “Scholas Project” aiming to provide education for refugees in
Iraq. The concert will take place on December 15th at 18.30 in
the Paul VI audience hall in the Vatican.
Refugees
in focus
The
theme of this year’s concert is “Refugees”. With migration issues very present
in public awareness, this concert will try to shed light on the situation of
refugees who can travel no further than to neighbouring countries. In the wake
of the war in South Sudan, for example, millions of refugees have sought
shelter in Uganda. This is where the Salesians of the “Don Bosco Mission” do
their share to meet the refugees with an hospitable welcome. They provide the
youth with specialised education, which they get to put to use through
micro-work inside the camp. The “Scholas Ocurrentes Project” does similar work
in Erbil, Iraq, where it also aims to provide collaboration between university
students in Italy and the ones who find themselves in the refugee camps.
Love
of music and neighbour
Ever
since 1993, the Paul VI Audience Hall has hosted the Vatican Christmas concert,
during which a wide range of Italian and international artists perform free of
charge. The concert has always sought to bring high quality music together with
solidarity, thus countering the stereotype of many a commercial Christmas
concert by putting into action the message of the Christmas season.
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