Copa America - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 18 Jun 2015 02:23:57 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Copa America - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican suspends charity deal until FIFA investigation ends https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/06/19/vatican-suspends-charity-deal-until-fifa-investigation-ends/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:09:20 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=72895 A charity established by Pope Francis has suspended a donations agreement with a football federation in the wake of the FIFA corruption scandals. The South American football federation CONMEBOL had pledged to donate US$10,000 to the Vatican charity Scholas Occurrentes for every goal scored during the Copa America, which began in Chile on June 11. Read more

Vatican suspends charity deal until FIFA investigation ends... Read more]]> A charity established by Pope Francis has suspended a donations agreement with a football federation in the wake of the FIFA corruption scandals.

The South American football federation CONMEBOL had pledged to donate US$10,000 to the Vatican charity Scholas Occurrentes for every goal scored during the Copa America, which began in Chile on June 11.

The federation had signed the agreement in the presence of Pope Francis at the Vatican on April 21.

Venezuelan Rafael Esquivel, who was among the seven FIFA officials arrested on May 27 to face corruption charges in the US, was among those signing the Vatican agreement

A June 15 statement from the charity, signed by Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, stated it "will refrain from receiving any funds until the ongoing judicial investigation is clarified".

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