SUMMARY:
- PAN
AFRICAN CONGRESS FOR CATHOLIC LAITY
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
- IN
MEMORIAM
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PAN
AFRICAN CONGRESS FOR CATHOLIC LAITY
Vatican
City, 13 July 2012 (VIS) - "Being witnesses of Jesus Christ in
Africa today. 'Salt of the earth ... light of the World'" is the
theme of the forthcoming Pan African Congress for Catholic Laity,
which has been organised by the Pontifical Council for the Laity and
is due to take place in Yaounde, Cameroon, from 4 to 9 September. The
initiative is part of the council's tradition of organising
continental and/or regional congresses for Catholic lay people in
various parts of the world.
The event
will be held at the Catholic University of Central Africa, and the
decision to hold the congress in Africa is related to the Holy
Father's apostolic trip to Cameroon and Angola in 2009 and, more
recently, his visit to Benin in November 2011 to sign the
Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Africae Munus".
According
to a communique released today: "the meeting demonstrates the
commitment of the Pontifical Council for the Laity to journey
together with the particular Churches. It also helps the laity to
live their faith in communion with their pastors and to rediscover
their co-responsibility for the Church’s mission in its many fields
of apostolate".
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 13 July 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father accepted the resignation
from the pastoral care of the diocese of Choluteca, Honduras,
presented by Bishop Guido Plante P.M.E., upon having reached the age
limit.
IN
MEMORIAM
Vatican
City, 13 July 2012 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent
weeks:
-
Cardinal Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruno, archbishop emeritus of
Guatemala, Guatemala, on 4 June at the age of 80.
-
Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales, archbishop emeritus of Sao
Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 9 July at the age of 91.
- Bishop
Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, emeritus of Guarulhos, Brazil, on 13 June at
the age of 76.
-
Archbishop Raymond Eid, emeritus of Damascus of the Maronites, Syria,
on 11 June at the age of 81.
- Bishop
Ireneo Garcia Alonso, emeritus of Albacete, Spain, on 4 June at the
age of 89.
- Bishop
Jouzas Tunaitis, former auxiliary of Vilnius, Lithuania, on 1 June at
the age of 83.
- Bishop
Albino Mamede Cleto, emeritus of Coimbra, Portugal, on 15 June at the
age of 77.
- Bishop
Angelo Cuniberti I.M.C., former apostolic vicar of Florencia,
Colombia, on 26 June at the age of 91.
- Bishop
Sergio Goretti emeritus of Assisi - Nocera Umbra - Gualdo Tadino,
Italy, on 22 June at the age of 83.
- Bishop
Anthony Ekezia Ilonu, emeritus of Okigwe, Nigeria, on 15 June at the
age of 74.
-
Archbishop Joviano de Lima Junior S.S.S. of Riberao Preto, Brazil, on
21 June at the age of 70.
-
Archbishop Alcides Mendoza Castro, emeritus of Cuzco, Peru, on 20
June at the age of 84.
- Bishop
Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, emeritus of Polokwane, South Africa, on 29
June at the age of 74.
-
Archbishop Aloysio Jose Leal Penna S.J., emeritus of Botucatu,
Brazil, on 19 June at the age of 79.
- Bishop
Gilbert Blaize Rego, emeritus of Simla and Chandigarh, India, on 21
June at the age of 90.
- Bishop
Rudolf Schmid, former auxiliary of Augsburg, Germany, on 24 June at
the age of 97.
-
Archbishop Albert Joseph Tsiahoana, emeritus of Antsiranana,
Madagascar, on 15 June at the age of 84.
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