VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 108
DATE 10-06-2014

Summary:
- TELEGRAM FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL BERNARD AGRE
- PROGRAMME OF THE POPE'S VISIT TO CASSANO ALL'JONIO
- 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".

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 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.

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 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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