VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 147   
   DATE 04-09-2014   
      
   Summary:   
   - RELIGIONS AND PEACE AT THE CENTRE OF THE POPE'S AUDIENCES WITH ISRAELI   
   EX-PRESIDENT SHIMON PERES AND PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL OF JORDAN   
   - MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE ECONOMY   
   - AUDIENCES   
   - IN MEMORIAM   
      
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    RELIGIONS AND PEACE AT THE CENTRE OF THE POPE'S AUDIENCES WITH ISRAELI   
   EX-PRESIDENT SHIMON PERES AND PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL OF JORDAN   
    Vatican City, 4 September 2014 (VIS) - Peace and the role of religions were   
   the central theme of the Pope's meeting with the ex-president of the State of   
   Israel, Shimon Peres. During their long discussion, lasting around 45 minutes,   
   in which Peres presented to the Pontiff his plan to create a sort of United   
   Nations for religions, based on the assumption that while in the past the   
   majority of wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood, in the current   
   world the trigger for conflicts is primarily the excuse of religion. The Holy   
   Father listened attentively and with interest to the Israeli ex-president's   
   proposal, and the discussion took place in a very cordial atmosphere.   
    Similarly, peace and religion were the key point in the Holy Father's meeting   
   with Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The   
   prince, founder of the "Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies", presented the   
   centre's activity to the Pope, emphasising the common ground shared by   
   religions and the possibilities of collaboration in activities of solidarity   
   with the least fortunate in a globalised world. The meeting, again of a   
   cordial nature, lasted around half an hour.   
      
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    MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE ECONOMY   
    Vatican City, 4 September 2014 (VIS) - The Council for the Economy,   
   instituted by the Holy Father on 24 February by the Motu proprio "Fidelis   
   dispensator et prudens", will meet today to discuss the statutes of this   
   institution. During the meeting, which will conclude this afternoon, the   
   Council will also discuss the transfer of competences from APSA    
   Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See) to the Secretariat for   
   the Economy and the criteria for drawing up a budget balances system.   
      
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    AUDIENCES   
    Vatican City, 4 September 2014 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience fifteen prelates from the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon,   
   on their "ad limina" visit:   
    - Bishop Dieudonne Bogmis of Eseka;   
    - Bishop Dieudonne Espoir Atangana of Nkongsamba;   
    - Archbishop Antoine Ntalou of Garoua;   
    - Bishop Bruno Ateba Edo of Maroua-Mokolo, with Bishop emeritus Philippe   
   Albert Joseph Stevens;   
    - Bishop Joseph Djida of Ngaoundere;   
    - Bishop Barthelemy Yaouda Hourgo of Yagoua;   
    - Bishop Jean-Marie Benoit Bala of Bafia, with Bishop emeritus Athanase Bala;   
    - Bishop Jean Mbarga of Ebolowa, apostolic administrator "ad Nutum Sanctae   
   Sedis" of Yaounde, with Archbishop emeritus Simon-Victor Tonye Bakot of   
   Yaounde;   
    - Bishop Adalbert Ndzana of Mbalmayo;   
    - Bishop Sosthene Leopold Bayemi Matjei of Obala, with Bishop emeritus Jerome   
   Owono-Mimboe;   
    - Bishop Christophe Zoa of Sangmelima.   
      
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    IN MEMORIAM   
    Vatican City, 4 September 2014 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent   
   weeks:   
    - Bishop Robert William Donnelly, auxiliary emeritus of Toledo, Ohio, USA, on   
   21 July at the age of 83.   
    - Bishop Pedro Luis Antonio, emeritus of Kwito-Bie, Angola on 25 July, at the   
   age of 93.   
    - Bishop Spiridon Mattar, emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Paraiso em Sao Paulo   
   of the Greek Melkites, Brazil, on 26 July at the age of 93.   
    - Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, president emeritus of the Labour Office of   
   the Apostolic See, on 27 July at the age of 85.   
    - Cardinal Edward Bede Clancy, archbishop emeritus of Sydney, Australia, on 3   
   August at the age of 90.   
    - Archbishop Benedito de Ulhoa Vieira, emeritus of Uberaba, Brazil, on 3   
   August at the age of 93.   
    - Bishop Luciano Bux, emeritus of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy, on 8 August   
   at the age of 78.   
    - Bishop Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C, emeritus of Darwin, Australia,   
   on 8 August at the age of 83.   
    - Archbishop Leonardo Zamora Legaspi, O.P., emeritus of Caceres, Philippines,   
   on 8 August at the age of 78.   
    - Archbishop Armando Cirio, O.S.I. emeritus of Cascavel, Brazil, on 11 August   
   at the age of 98.   
    - Bishop Morkos Hakim, O.F.M., emeritus of Sohag of the Copts, Egypt, on 11   
   August at the age of 83.   
    - Bishop Paul Nguyen Thanh Hoan, emeritus of Phan Thiet, Vietnam, on 18   
   August at the age of 74.   
    - Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka, president emeritus of the Governorate of   
   Vatican City State, on 20 August at the age of 86.   
    - Bishop Ramon Echarren Isturiz, emeritus of the Canary Isles, Spain, on 25   
   August at the age of 84.   
    - Bishop John Joseph Nevins, emeritus of Venice, Florida, USA, on 26 August   
   at the age of 82.   
    - Bishop Simon Akwali Okafor, emeritus of Awka, Nigeria, on 29 August at the   
   age of 79.   
      
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