SUMMARY:
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TELEGRAM FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL BERNARD AGRE
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PROGRAMME OF THE POPE'S VISIT TO CASSANO ALL'JONIO
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THE “POPULORUM PROGRESSIO” FOUNDATION FOR LATIN AMERICA MEETS IN
THE VATICAN
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TELEGRAM
FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL BERNARD AGRE
Vatican
City, 10 June 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has sent a telegram of
condolences to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa, archbishop of Abidjan,
Ivory Coast, for the death of Cardinal Bernard Agre, archbishop
emeritus of Abidjan, who passed away in Paris yesterday, Monday 9
June, at the age of 88.
The
Pope expresses his sadness and recollects “this faithful pastor
who, during a long and fruitful episcopate, served the Church with
faith and generosity. With his intense pastoral activity, the late
cardinal was a man of God, devoted to the proclamation of the Gospel
and the human and spiritual development of the people”.
PROGRAMME
OF THE POPE'S VISIT TO CASSANO ALL'JONIO
Vatican
City, 10 June 2014 (VIS) – Today the Holy See Press Office has
published the programme of the pastoral visit Pope Francis will make
on Saturday, 21 June, to the diocese of Cassano all'Jonio in the
province of Cosenza, in the Italian region of Calabria.
The
Holy Father will leave the Vatican by helicopter at 7.25 a.m., and
will land in the square in front of the “Rosetta Sisca”
penitentiary of Castrovillari, where he will meet with detainees,
prison staff, and their families. From there he will proceed to
Cassano all'Jonio, again by helicopter, where he will land in the
“Pietro Toscano” sports field. Following a brief welcome ceremony
he will visit the “Giuseppe Moscati” centre for palliative care
for the terminally ill.
At
midday he will meet with the clergy of the diocese at the cathedral,
and around 1 p.m. he will lunch in the John Paul I seminary with the
poor assisted by the diocesan Caritas and with the young people in
the “Mauro Rostagno” residential therapeutic rehabilitation
centre. At 2.30 p.m. he will visit the elderly in the “Casa Serena”
residence and at 4 p.m. he will celebrate Holy Mass at Piana di
Sibari.
The
Holy Father will leave at 6 p.m., leaving from the heliport at Marina
di Sibari and arriving in the Vatican at 7.30 p.m.
THE
“POPULORUM PROGRESSIO” FOUNDATION FOR LATIN AMERICA MEETS IN THE
VATICAN
Vatican
City, 10 June 2014 (VIS) – The managing board of the Foundation
“Populorum Progressio” for Latin America, which upon its
institution in 1992 was entrusted by St. John Paul II to the
Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”, will hold its annual meeting in
the Vatican from 10 to 14 July.
The
members of the board are Cardinal Robert Sarah, president ex officio
of the Foundation; Archbishop Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero
of La Paz, Bolivia, president of the managing board; Archbishop
Antonio Arregui Yarza of Guayaquil, Ecuador, vice-president; Cardinal
Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo; and
Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega of Villavicencio, Colombia; Archbishop
Murilo Sebastiao Ramos Krieger of Sao Salvador de Bahia, Brazil;
Archbishop Javier Augusto de Rio Alba of Arequipa, Peru, and Msgr.
Segundo Tejada Munoz, representative of the Pontifical Council “Cor
Unum”.
During
the meeting the members of the managing board discussed the financing
of projects to assist indigenous, mestizo, Afro-American and peasant
populations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting will
offer an opportunity for reflection, taking as a starting point the
directions given by the Holy Father, on the most effective ways of
providing the service of charity of a “poor Church for the poor”,
who fulfils her mission in the human and existential peripheries, and
with particular attention to those most in need.
So
far approximately four thousand projects have been carried out by the
Foundation, funded by a total of more than 35 million dollars. They
are all characterised by a participatory approach involving local
communities and are directed at various sectors, including
agriculture and animal husbandry, crafts and cottage industries,
infrastructure for drinking water, training and provision for
schools, health care, and construction.
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