VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 209   
   DATE 25-11-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - The Pope greets victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, before   
   commencing his eleventh apostolic trip   
   - Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez, Pope's special envoy to Cumana   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    The Pope greets victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, before   
   commencing his eleventh apostolic trip   
    Vatican City, 25 November 2015 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father departed   
   for Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic, on the eleventh apostolic   
   trip of his papacy.   
    At 7.15 a.m., before leaving for Rome's Fiumicino airport, he received in the   
   Domus Sanctae Marthae eleven women and six children from a Refuge House for   
   victims of domestic violence and trafficking for the purposes of prostitution,   
   according to the Apostolic Almoner. The women were Italian, Nigerian, Romanian   
   and Ukrainian, and are housed in a structure managed by a religious   
   congregation   
   in a village in the Lazio region.   
    Following the audience, the Pope travelled by car to Fiumicino where he   
   departed for Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, where he is expected to arrive   
   shortly after 3 p.m. (Rome), 5 p.m. local time. He will be received by the   
   president of the Republic, Uhuru Kenyatta, and by the cardinal archbishop of   
   Nairobi John Njue, along with the president of the Episcopal Conference Bishop   
   Philip A. Anyolo and other representatives of the episcopate.   
    He will then transfer to the State House of Nairobi, where the welcome   
   ceremony   
   and courtesy visit to President Uhuru Kenyatta will take place. Subsequently,   
   in   
   the garden of the State House, he will meet with the authorities and the   
   diplomatic corps, along with other figures from the political, economic and   
   cultural spheres, after which he will pronounce his first discourse on African   
   soil.   
      
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    Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez, Pope's special envoy to Cumana   
    Vatican City, 25 November 2015 (VIS) - In a letter published today, written in   
   Latin and dated 9 November, the Holy Father appoints Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus   
   Lopez Rodriguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo, as his special envoy to the   
   celebration of the fifth centenary of Cumana, Venezuela, the birthplace of the   
   evangelisation of South America, to be held on 27 November.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 25 November 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has:   
    - accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nazare,   
   Brazil, presented by Bishop Severino Vatista de Franca, O.F.M. Cap., in   
   accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.   
    - accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Campanha,   
   Brazil, presented by Bishop Diamantino Prata de Carvalho, O.F.M., upon reaching   
   the age limit. He is succeeded by Bishop Pedro Cunha Cruz, coadjutor of the   
   same   
   diocese.   
    - appointed Bishop Edmar Paron, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Sao Paulo,   
   Brazil, as bishop of Paranagua (area 11,537, population 507,000, Catholics   
   391,000, priests 29, deacons 1, religious 42), Brazil.   
    - appointed Msgr. Roberto Filippini as bishop of Pescia (area 224, population   
   121,637, Catholics 112,920, priests 67, deacons 8, religious 80), Italy. The   
   bishop-elect was born in 1948 in Vinci, Italy, and was ordained a priest in   
   1973. He holds a licentiate in scripture, and has served as parish priest,   
   diocesan vicar, head of the inter-diocesan school of theology in Camaiore,   
   Lucca, and rector of the "Santa Caterina" archiepiscopal seminary in Pisa. He   
   is   
   currently spiritual father of the same "Santa Caterina" seminary and chaplain   
   of   
   the prison of Pisa.   
      
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