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septiembre, 2009

VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 23, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI today was given the last volume of the New Catholic Encyclopedia in Japanese, the final part of a 30-year project.

The "precious gift" was given him by Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, director of the administrative council of the Sofia University of Tokyo, Vatican Radio reported.

With the April 21 publication of the fourth volume, the work of nearly 30 years and more than 6,000 pages has been completed.

The Sofia University has supported the project, in the framework of the 100th anniversary of its foundation by the Society of Jesus, which will be celebrated in 2013.

The project, undertaken in 1981, updates the previous edition from 1960 and incorporates new content, especially from the Second Vatican Council.

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Pope Mourns Missionary Slain in Brazil

VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 22, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI expressed his condolences at the death of Father Ruggero Ruvoletto, an Italian missionary killed Saturday in Brazil.

The Pope sent his sympathies in a telegram signed by his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and addressed to Archbishop Luiz Soares Vieira of Manaus.

In the message, the Holy Father strongly condemns this «vile and cruel act against a peaceful servant of the Gospel,» and transmits his spiritual closeness in prayer.

Father Ruvoletto was murdered on Saturday in his parish of St. Evelina, on the outskirts of Manaus, in northeastern Brazil.

Police initially said the homicide was associated with a robbery. However the Italian episcopate’s SIR news agency reported today that there is growing certainty that the slaying is part of a series of «acts of intimidation against the Church in the Manaus region because for a long time it has denounced criminal activities, drug trafficking and the traffic of human beings.»

There are documents and interviews dating back to 2006 that show how Father Ruvoletto was vocal in denouncing «drugs and prostitution as social plagues.»