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Peace Corps (sh) and Honorius III (sh)


Peace Corps (sh)




U.S. government agency of volunteers, formed in 1961 by Pres.

John F. Kennedy. Its purpose is to assist Other countries in their development efforts by providing skilled workers in the fields of Education, agriculture, Health, trade, technology, and community development. Volunteers are expected to serve for two years as good neighbours in the host country, to speak its language, and to live on a level comparable to that of the local residents. By the early 21st century, more than 165,000 volunteers had served in the corps.


Honorius III (sh)




orig. Cencio Savelli

born Rome
died March 18, 1227, Rome

Pope (1216-27).

He extended Innocent III's policies on church reform and the recovery of the Holy Land, proclaiming a Crusade to regain Jerusalem in 1216 (see Crusades). He crowned Frederick II as Holy Roman emperor (1220) but threatened to excommunicate him if he failed to join the Crusade. Honorius also undertook a Crusade against the Moors in Spain (1218) and settled the Barons' War in England (1223). He continued the Albigensian Crusade against the heretics of southern France. He approved the Dominican, Franciscan, and Carmelite orders and authorized the first official book of canon law.