Today, Thursday 10 October, at the briefing on the work of the Synod, taking place at 13.30 in the Holy See Press Office, Via della Conciliazione 54, the following will be present:

Bishop Wilmar Santin, O. Carm., bishop-prelate of Itaituba, Brazil;

Bishop Medardo de Jesús Henao Del Rio, M.X.Y., vicar apostolic of Mitú, titular of Case mediane, Colombia;

Sr. Gloria Liliana Franco Echeverri, O.D.N., president of the Latin American Confederation of Religious (C.I.A.R.), Colombia;

Dr. Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication;

Fr. Giacomo Costa, S.J., secretary of the Commission for Information.

The briefing will be chaired by the vice-director of the Holy See Press Office, Cristiane Murray.