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NINETY MINUTES FOR PEACE
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AUDIENCES
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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NINETY
MINUTES FOR PEACE
Vatican
City, 23 July 2014 (VIS) – An “Interreligious Match for Peace”
will be held on 1 September at 8.45 p.m., at the Olympic Stadium in
Rome. The event will involve the participation of world level players
and coaches such as Lionel Messi, Gianluigi Buffon, Zinedine Zidane,
Javier Zanetti, Roberto Baggio, Andrea Pirlo, Yuto Nagatomo and
Samuel Eto'o, and the proceeds will be donated to charity.
The
idea for the match originates from April 2013, when the Pope met with
the Argentine and Italian teams following a friendly match between
them. On that occasion, the footballer Javier Zanetti communicated to
the Pope his idea of organising a sporting event uniting people of
different religions. A year later, the idea took shape. Tickets for
the event will be available from Friday 25 July, and all the proceeds
will be donated to “Scholas Occurrentes” and to the P.U.P.I.
Foundation.
Scholas
Occurrentes is an educational organisation, supported by Pope Francis
through the Pontifical Council for Sciences, that uses technology,
art and sport to promote social integration and the culture of
encounter. The P.U.P.I. Foundation is a non-profit organisation
created by Paula and Javier Zanetti over ten years ago, promotes and
supports distance adoption programmes and assistance for children in
difficult social conditions.
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 23 July 2014 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father received in
audience Archbishop Charles John Brown, apostolic nuncio in Ireland.
Yesterday
afternoon, 22 July, the Holy Father received in audience Archbishop
Giorgio Lingua, apostolic nuncio in Jordan and Iraq.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 23 July 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Fr. Jan
Kot O.M.I. as bishop of Ze Doca (area 35,110, population 332,000,
Catholics 305,000, priests 25, permanent deacons 1, religious 30),
Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Mokon, Poland in 1962, gave his
perpetual vows in 1986 and was ordained a priest in 1992. He holds a
licentiate history of the Church from the University of Rybnik,
Poland, and has served as priest in the parishes of Siedlce, Poland,
and in Jussarval and subsequently Vitoria di Santo Antao, in the
archdiocese of Olinda and Recife, Brazil. He is currently priest of
the “Sagrado Coracao de Maria” parish in Campo Alegre do Fidalgo,
Brazil. He succeeds Bishop Carlo Ellena, whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same diocese, upon reaching the age limit, was
accepted by the Holy Father.
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