VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 232
DATE 29-12-2015

Summary:
- Rome welcomes the Pueri Cantores
- Other Pontifical Acts

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 Rome welcomes the Pueri Cantores
 Vatican City, 29 December 2015 (VIS) - In the morning of Thursday 31 December
the Holy Father will receive in audience the participants in the 40 th
International Congress of the International Federation of Pueri Cantores, held
in Rome from 28 December to 1 January.
 "Cantate Spem vestram" is the motto of the congress, which opened yesterday
afternoon with a procession along Via della Conciliazione to the Holy Door,
which the participants then passed through, and the inauguration ceremony in
the
Paul VI Hall, led by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical
Council for New Evangelisation.
 During these five days "concerts of hope" will be held in various churches
around the capital: at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday 29 December in the Basilica of
Sant'Andrea della Valle, the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles and the Basilica
of
St. Cecilia in Trastevere; on Wednesday 30 September in the Church of Santa
Maria in Traspontina and in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Christ the
King.
The same Wednesday from 9 to 11 a.m. there will be prayers for peace. Finally,
the congress will conclude on Friday with a Mass celebrated in St. Peter's
Basilica.

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 Other Pontifical Acts
 Vatican City, 29 December 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:
 - erected the new diocese of Barisal (area 20,708, population 15,183,927,
Catholics 29,685, priests 19, religious 33), Bangladesh, with territory from
the
diocese of Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
 - appointed Bishop Subroto Lawrence Howlader, C.S.C., auxiliary of Chittagong,
as first bishop of the diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh.

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