Subject: VISnews 110719   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 134   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 19 JULY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Aid for the People of the Horn of Africa   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   AID FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE HORN OF AFRICA   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 19 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" today   
   released the following communique:   
      
     "As the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled in an appeal he made following   
   the Angelus on Sunday 17 July, the famine caused by a drought in the Horn of   
   Africa is provoking a critical humanitarian emergency. Around ten million   
   people are suffering, and hundreds of thousands of refugees risk dying   
   because of a lack of basic necessities. Somalia and northern Kenya are the   
   worst struck areas.   
      
     "As a sign of his closeness and concern the Pope has, via the Pontifical   
   Council 'Cor Unum', sent the sum of euro 50,000 to Bishop Giorgio Bertin   
   O.F.M., apostolic administrator of Mogadishu, who is directly involved in   
   bringing assistance to the people affected".   
   CON-CU/                                                         VIS 20110719   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 19 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical   
   Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as a   
   counsellor of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.   
      
    - Appointed as members of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America:   
   Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, archbishop emeritus of Santiago de   
   Chile, Chile; Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval C.SS.R., archbishop of Santa   
   Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga   
   S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani   
   Thorne, archbishop of Lima, Peru, and Cardinal Hummes O.F.M., prefect   
   emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy.   
      
    - Appointed Joseph F. X. Zahra, a member of the governing council of the   
   "Centesimus Annus-Pro Pontefice" Foundation, as international reviser of the   
   Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.   
      
    - Appointed as members of the Academic Council of the Holy See's Agency for   
   the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Universities and Ecclesiastical   
   Faculties (AVEPRO): Fr. Gabino Uribarri Bilbao S.J., dean of the faculty of   
   theology at the Pontifical University of "Comillias" in Madrid, Spain;   
   Pascal Mueller-Jourdan, professor of theology at the faculty of theology in   
   the "Universtie Catholique de l'Ouest", Angers, France, and Sigrid Muller,   
   vice dean of the "Katholisch-Theologische Fakultat" at the University of   
   Vienna, Austria.   
      
    - Appointed Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap. of Denver, U.S.A., as   
   archbishop of Philadelphia (area 5,652, population 3,892,194, Catholics   
   1,464,938, priests 988, permanent deacons 234, religious 3,244), U.S.A. He   
   succeeds Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, whose resignation from the pastoral care   
   of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the   
   age limit.   
      
    - Appointed Fr. Gregory John Hartmayer O.F.M. Conv., pastor of the parish   
   of St. John Vianney at Lithia Springs in the archdiocese of Atlanta, U.S.A.,   
   as bishop of Savannah (area 95,928, population 2,904,000, Catholics 84,500,   
   priests 104, permanent deacons 56, religious 114), U.S.A. The bishop-elect   
   was born in Buffalo, U.S.A. in 1951 and ordained a priest in 1979. He   
   succeeds Bishop John Kevin Boland, whose resignation from the pastoral care   
   of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age   
   limit.   
   NA:NER:RE/                                                              VIS   
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