SUMMARY:
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PROJECTS FOR INDIGENOUS, MIXED RACE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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PROJECTS
FOR INDIGENOUS, MIXED RACE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN LATIN
AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Vatican
City, 24 July 2012 (VIS) - The administrative council of the
Populorum Progressio Foundation is holding its annual meeting from 24
to 27 July at the Pastoral Care and Spirituality Centre of the
Episcopal Conference of Colombia, to deliberate on the financing of
projects in support of poor indigenous, mixed race and
African-American communities of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Populorum Progressio, which was founded in 1992, is part of the
Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".
The
administrative council is composed of the following members: Cardinal
Robert Sarah, president of the Foundation and of the Pontifical
Council "Cor Unum"; Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez,
archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico and president of the administrative
council; Archbishop Edmundo Luis Abastoflor Montero of La Paz,
Bolivia and vice president of the administrative council; Archbishop
Murilo Sebastiao Ramos Krieger S.C.I. of Sao Sebastiao da Bahia,
Brazil; Archbishop Javier Augusto del Rio Alba of Arequipa, Peru;
Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza of Guayaquil, Ecuador; Archbishop
Oscar Urbina Ortega of Villavicencio, Colombia, and Msgr. Segundo
Tejado Munoz, under secretary of the Pontifical Council "Cor
Unum". Archbishops Ramos Krieger and del Rio Alba joined the
council this year as new representatives, respectively, of Brazil and
Peru.
The
Foundation receives its principal financial support from the Italian
Episcopal Conference's committee for charitable initiatives in favour
of the Third World, and from private donors. The administrative
council traditionally holds its annual session in a country of Latin
America or the Caribbean in order to draw attention to the activities
and initiatives of the particular Churches there.
A total
of 203 projects have been presented this year, involving 19 countries
and a total value of USD 2,908,727. The number of projects presented
by country are: Brazil (59), Colombia (42), Peru (15), Ecuador (16),
El Salvador (6), Haiti (12), Guatemala (5), Argentina (5), Bolivia
(10), Paraguay (4), Chile (4), Cuba (5), Costa Rica (6), Mexico (3),
Venezuela (2), Nicaragua (3), Dominican Republic (2), Honduras (2)
and Uruguay (2).
The
Foundation is currently going through a period of renewal, both of
its membership and secretariat, with the aim of identifying new ways
to propagate the activities of Populorum Progressio. This will
include a project to be presented to the members by Juan Carlos
Navarro, an expert on foundations, with the assistance of Msgr.
Silverio Nieto, juridical consultant of "Cor Unum",
containing possible changes to the working methods of the Foundation.
This year's meeting will also serve to elect a new president and vice
president of the administrative council.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 24 July 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
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Appointed Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley, Scotland, as
metropolitan archbishop of Glasgow (area 1,165, population 815,200,
Catholics 193,200, priests 192, permanent deacons 15, religious 250),
Scotland. He succeeds Archbishop Mario Conti, whose resignation from
the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted,
upon having reached the age limit.
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Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of
Lutsk of the Latins, Ukraine, presented by Bishop Markyian
Trofym'yak, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon
Law, appointing Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk O.F.M., auxiliary of
Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine, as apostolic administrator "sede vacante
et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Lutsk of the Latins.
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Appointed Fr. Tadeusz Wojda S.A.C., bureau chief of the Congregation
for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as under secretary of the same
congregation.
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