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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