Vatican official visits Peru

(Jan. 11, 2012) The President of Vatican’s Pontifical Council Cor Unum, visiting Peru this week has promised Vatican aid for the social works carried out by the archdiocese of Lima.
Cor Unum is Vatican’s coordinating body for Catholic charities worldwide. In Perù, Cardinal Robert Sarah, visited Manchay locality on the outskirts of Lima, an urban settlement of more than 70,000 inhabitants suffering problems of extreme poverty, lack of water and terrorist violence. The prelate told the parents to educate their children in the love of God and conveyed Pope Benedict XVI’s solidarity, saying he was spiritually close to them in their suffering .
Cardinal Sarah, who hails from Guinea explained that another reason for his visit to Lima was to make a pilgrimage to all the places where St. Rose of Lima lived, as
St. Rose is the patroness of his parish in Africa, which will mark its 100th anniversary next month.