VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 136
DATE 22-07-2014

Summary:
- THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL, A MISSIONARY JOY: WORLD CONGRESS OF ECCLESIAL
MOVEMENTS AND NEW COMMUNITIES
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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 THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL, A MISSIONARY JOY: WORLD CONGRESS OF ECCLESIAL
MOVEMENTS AND NEW COMMUNITIES
 Vatican City, 22 July 2014 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council for the Laity will
hold its third world congress of ecclesial movements and new communities from
20 to 22 November 2014, entitled "The joy of the Gospel: a missionary joy",
based on Pope Francis' Apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium. The event, to
take place at the Pontifical International College Maria Mater Ecclesiae in
Rome, Italy, will be attended by delegates from international associations
with the most widespread presence all over the world, already recognised as
international associations of the faithful or in constant dialogue with the
aforementioned dicastery.
 Before the Angelus prayer on 19 May 2013, the Sunday of Pentecost during the
Year of Faith, the Holy Father addressed the new movements and new ecclesial
communities, encouraging them to continue in their work: "You are a gift and
wealth for the Church! Always carry forth the strength of the Gospel! Do not
be afraid! Always keep alive your joy and passion for the communion of the
Church!". After this encounter, the Pope presented the Apostolic exhortation
Evangelii Gaudium, "a true vademecum for ecclesial movements and new
communities" that has as its main objective the need for a renewed evangelical
phase in the life of the Church in our times.
 Starting from this assumption, the Pontifical Council for the Laity has
consulted with the movements and new ecclesial communities regarding the
organisation, logistics and main themes to be considered in the Congress. The
registration of delegates at the Congress is formally open and so far members
have enrolled from ecclesial movements and new communities from all continents
and from more than eighty international associative entities, which will be
accompanied by various bishops from the diocese and organs of the Roman Curia.
 In addition, more than fifty-five founders and general heads of various
communities from around the world have already enrolled. The superiors of the
dicastery dedicated their annual meeting of 27 June 2014 to ecclesial
movements and new communities, in preparation for this important event, and to
hearing the participants in the meeting from over thirty international
associations of the faithful.

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 AUDIENCES
 Vatican City, 22 July 2014 (VIS) - Yesterday afternoon, 21 July, the Holy
Father received in audience Bishop Nunzio Galantino of Cassano dell'Jonio,
secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

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 OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
 Vatican City, 22 July 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has:
 - appointed the following members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity: Archbishop Carlos Jose Nanez of Cordoba, Argentina; Bishop
Rodolfo Valenzuela Nunez of Vera Paz and president of the Episcopal Conference
of Guatemala; and Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg, Federal Republic of
Germany.
 - appointed the following as consultors of the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity: Cristiano Bettega, director of the National Office
for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue of the Italian Episcopal Conference;
Hector Sherri, president of the Theological Commission of Malta and the
Diocesan Ecumenical Commission, Malta; Michael Joeng-Hun Shin, official for
ecumenism of the Korean Episcopal Conference; Fernando Rodriguez Garrapucho,
director of the John XXIII Centre for Oriental and Ecumenical Studies at the
Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain; Br. Enzo Bianchi, prior of the
Monastery of Bose, Italy; Fr. Franck Lemaitre, O.P., director of the National
Service for Christian Unity of the Bishops' Conference of France; John
Crossins, O.S.F.S., executive director of the secretariat for ecumenical and
interreligious matters of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops;
Fr. Jorge A. Scampini, O.P., professor of ecumenism at the faculty of theology
of the Pontifical Catholic University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fr. Milan
Zust, S.J., Slovenia, lecturer at the faculty of missiology of the Pontifical
Gregorian University, Rome; Sister Maria Ha Fong Ko, F.M.A., Macau, lecturer
in New Testament exegesis at the Pontifical Faculty of Education Sciences
(Auxilium), Rome and at the Holy Spirit Seminary of Hong Kong.

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