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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