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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