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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