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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