But the World Cup doesn’t only mean matches. The many initiatives promoted by the German religious bodies and associations include the outstanding "ecumenical feast of peoples and cultures”, which took place in Hamburg on June 10th, attended by 15 thousand people who watched the matches on big screens, cheered up by ethnic music and traditional food from all over the world. In Cologne, card. Joachim Meisner decided to have the Cathedral Masses celebrated in different churches so that the matches could be broadcasted on a big screen in the Cathedral Square. Dortmund saw the opening of the “Café Mundial”, the tent of the evangelical and Catholic churches, 100 square metres of exhibitions with a café and a sale of fair trade products, including footballs made according to fair trade principles
