VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 117
DATE 24-06-2014

Summary:
- INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE WITH INDONESIA
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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 INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE WITH INDONESIA
 Vatican City, 24 June 2014 (VIS) - The secretary of the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue, Fr. Miguel Ayuso Guixot MCCJ, and Fr. Markus Solo
S.V.D., attache in the same dicastery for Islam in Asia and the Pacific, will
be in Indonesia until 27 June in order to meet with various members of the
episcopal Conference, as well as the Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and
other Catholic institutions engaged in dialogue. They will also visit
Indonesia's most important Islamic organisations, notably the Nahdlatul Ulama
and the Muhammadiyah, and will also meet the Council of the Ulama.
 In the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, this visit has
the aim of implementing interreligious dialogue within a context of respect and
friendship, as indicated by Pope Francis.

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 AUDIENCES
 Yesterday, the Holy Father received in audience:
 - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
 - Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops.

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 OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
 Vatican City, 24 June 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Skiper
Bladimir Yanez Calvachi as bishop of Guaranda (area 3,336, population 206,000,
Catholics 187,700, priests 34, permanent deacons 6, religious 69), Ecuador. The
bishop-elect was born in Machachi, Ecuador in 1972 and was ordained a priest in
1996. He holds a licentiate in dogmatic theology from the Gregorian Pontifical
University and has served in a number of pastoral and administrative roles,
including priest in various parishes in the archdiocese of Quito, director of
the historical archive of the archdiocese,, notary of the ecclesiastical
tribunal of First Instance in Quito and chaplain of various higher colleges. He
is currently judge in the ecclesiastical tribunal of First Instance in Quito,
chancellor of the archdiocesan curia, editor of the archdiocesan ecclesiastical
bulletin, member of the metropolitan cathedral chapter, priest of the parish of
"San Juan Bautista" in Sangolqui and episcopal vicar of the zone "Valle de los
Chillos y Machachi".

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