VATICAN CITY, OCT 7, 2006 (VIS) - Made public today was a Letter from Benedict XVI to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, archbishop of Naples, Italy, and special papal envoy to the Asian Mission Congress which is due to be held in Chang Mai, Thailand on October 19-22.
In his Letter, which is written in Latin, the Holy Father expresses his solicitude for the people of Asia, recalls the Christian mission to "evangelize the poor and promulgate the year of the grace of the Lord," and transmits his best wishes to Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu, archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand.
Cardinal Sepe will be accompanied on his mission by Fr. Livio Maggi P.I.M.E. regional superior for Thailand and Cambodia of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, and Fr. John Baptist Somkiart Trinikorn, rector of the Baan Phu Waan pastoral training center of the archdiocese of Bangkok.
BXVI-LETTER/SPECIAL ENVOY/SEPE VIS 20061009 (160)
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