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MARIO CAPPELLO

BIOGRAPHY

Mario and his wife Anna founded and direct hopeXchange, a humanitarian organization that promotes human dignity in developing countries. One of the current projects of hopeXchange is the construction of a state-of-the art Medical Centre in Kumasi, Ghana: www.hopexchangemedicalcenter.org. It serves also as the coordinating center for increasing healthcare capacity in Africa.

Mario is the President of the Institute for World Evangelization – ICPE Mission, which he also founded together with his wife Anna in 1985, as a response to the late Pope John Paul II’s call to a ‘new evangelization’.

Since then, the Institute received Pontifical Recognition by the Holy See in 2002, and has spread to New Zealand, Germany, Malta, Poland, Ghana, Singapore, India, the Philippines, Indonesia and the USA.

While directing the Institute for World Evangelization and other initiatives of evangelization and humanitarian work, Mario became a trusted figure within the Vatican. In 2004, Mario was also honored by the Vatican.

Mario Cappello founded Millennium Films International, an organization that promotes the spreading of the Word of God in several countries including China, through the media.

Mr. Cappello serves as the Managing Director and Chief Operation Officer of the National Evangelization of America (NEA), which is a Pan American Catholic organization that promotes evangelization through the mass media and communications.

He is also a consultant to various interfaith, multicultural efforts that promote Justice, Reconciliation and Peace through dialogue and cooperative efforts, involving high level religious, business  and political leaders from around the world.

Mission trips and humanitarian projects took Mario to more than 50 different countries across all continents.

Mario has been married to Anna since 1983. They currently reside in Rome, Italy, from where they coordinate the different international organization.