ENVOY NAMED TO CENTENARY OF EVANGELIZATION OF RWANDA

VATICAN CITY, JAN 29, 2001 (VIS) - Made public today was a Pontifical Letter, dated January 4, 2001 and written in Latin, in which the Holy Father named Cardinal Roger Etchegaray his special envoy to the concluding celebrations of the centenary of evangelization of Rwanda. These will take place in Kigali on February 8.

Also published were the names of those who will accompany the cardinal: Fathers Silas Ngerero of the diocesan clergy of Kabgayi, national director in Rwanda for the Pontifical Missionary Works, and Pedro Sala, M.Afr., provincial superior of the Missionaries of Africa.

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