Tuesday, March 15, 2005

ARCHBISHOP FOLEY IN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA FOR SERIES OF TALKS


VATICAN CITY, MAR 15, 2005 (VIS) - Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is in Kiev, Ukraine, where he has delivered a series of talks in recent days.

  On March 10 and 11 he attended and spoke at the Seventh European Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy. Yesterday he spoke on "Communication as a Way of Life" at the Kievan Mohyla Academy and today he addressed a meeting for the presentation of the Ukrainian translation of Church documents on communication at the Institute of Journalists in the presence of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians.

  On March 17, Archbishop Foley will speak on "Religion and Church in the Information Society" at the conference of religious and government leaders in the Round Hall of the President Hotel in Moscow, Russia.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 15, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Lake Charles, U.S.A., as bishop of Belleville (area 30,224, population 845,906, Catholics 107,041, priests 155, permanent deacons 29, religious 270), U.S.A.
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