VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 137
DATE 23-07-2014

Summary:
- NINETY MINUTES FOR PEACE
- AUDIENCES
- 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.

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 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.

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 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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