CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MALAWI

VATICAN CITY, JUL 19, 2001 (VIS) - Made public today was the text of a letter, written in Latin, from the Holy Father to Cardinal Francis Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, in which the Holy Father names the Cardinal as his special envoy to the celebrations of the centenary of the Catholic Church in Malawi, planned for July 28.

The Cardinal will be accompanied by Fr. Martin Mtumbuka, rector of the Minor Seminary of St. Patrick, in the diocese of Mzuzu, and Fr. John Bechtold, S.M.M., in charge of the Nantipwili Pastoral Center of the archdiocese of Blantyre.

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