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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