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                         VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
                            HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE
                            V.I.S.   VIS internet

      04.19.2005 
           Fifteenth Year  - N.78  
        
      SUMMARY:

      - CARDINALS FAIL TO ELECT NEW POPE IN MORNING BALLOTING
      - COR UNUM REPORT: 2004 PAPAL CHARITY TOTALLED $9,252,047

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      CARDINALS FAIL TO ELECT NEW POPE IN MORNING BALLOTING

+++      VATICAN CITY, APR 19, 2005 (VIS) - Black smoke appeared from
the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at 11:49 this morning to signal
that the 115 cardinal electors had failed to select a new Pope in
the two ballots cast today.

        Cardinals are expected to re-enter the Sistine Chapel this
afternoon at 4 to vote again.
.../CONCLAVE/...       VIS      050419 (70)


      COR UNUM REPORT: 2004 PAPAL CHARITY TOTALLED $9,252,047

+++      VATICAN CITY, APR 19, 2005 (VIS) - The just-published annual
report on papal charity, prepared by the Pontifical Council "Cor
Unum," announced that Pope John Paul's aid to the poor and suffering
for 2004 amounted to $9,252,047. This included aid to victims of
both the December 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and the internal
conflict in Sudan, as well as monies allocated for projects of two
foundations established by the late pope: the John Paul II
Foundation for the Sahel and the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation.

        Cor Unum is the pontifical council charged with dispensing
charity to the poor and needy, to victims of natural disasters and
to projects approved by the two above-mentioned foundations. 
According to the 1988 Apostolic Constitution "Pastor Bonus," this
financial aid is distributed in the name of the Holy Father "to
stimulate the witness to evangelical charity." Money is donated to 
Cor Unum for papal charity through the "spontaneous generosity of
dioceses, religious institutes, parishes, schools and individual
faithful."

        Relief sent to victims of the December tsunami totaled
$460,000. Archbishop Paul Cordes, president of the Pontifical
Council Cor Unum, was sent by Pope John Paul as his special envoy to 
Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two nations struck the hardest by the
tsunami, from January 29 to February 4, 2005.

        In July 2004 the archbishop visited Darfur, Sudan as the
Pope's envoy to express his closeness to the populations struck by
the internal conflict in that country and to bring aid for the
neediest in the amount of 100,000 euro. A month earlier he visited
the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, hit hard by
devastating floods.

        Aid provided by Cor Unum in 2004 for other calamities and
urgent situations such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods, wars and
refugee situations totaled $992,530. Financial assistance to
developing nations for non-urgent matters in fields such as
agriculture, education, health care, professional formation and
home-building amounted to $2,024,532.

        The 2004 contribution to the John Paul II Foundation for the
Sahel, established in 1984, amounted to $2,296,336 and was earmarked
for 169 projects in 9 African countries.

        The Populorum Progressio Foundation, which the Pope
instituted in 1992, distributed aid last year totaling $1,881,000 to
19 Latin American nations to be used for 231 projects for indigenous
peoples, Afro-Americans and poor mestizo farmers.

        "With regard to the two Foundations," states the Cor Unum
report, "it is important to underscore how Pope John Paul II, in
establishing them, wished to give a permanent witness of his love
for the populations of the Sahel (region of Africa) and of Latin
America, calling on all local Churches, the faithful and men and
women of good will to support this precious service aimed at the 
integral promotion of those peoples." CON-CU/PAPAL CHARITY 2004/...
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