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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