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PRAYING WITH MOZART ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE TSUNAMI IN JAPAN
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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PRAYING
WITH MOZART ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE TSUNAMI IN JAPAN
Vatican
City, 11 March 2014 (VIS) – The concert “Mozart's Requiem for
Japan from the Vatican” will be held today in the Basilica of St.
Paul Outside-the-Walls to commemorate the third anniversary of the
earthquake that occurred in Japan on 11 March 2011. This initiative,
organised with the patronage of the Japanese embassy to the Holy See,
is intended to raise prayers for the victims of the tsunami and the
earthquake that afflicted Japan in 2011.
The
Gioacchino Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro and the San Carlo
choir from the same city, conducted by the maestro Daniele Agiman,
will perform Mozart's Requiem at 8 p.m. Entry to the concert is free
and open to all those who wish to participate in this act of
remembrance for this tragic event which cost the lives of over
fifteen thousand people, caused fifty thousand casualties and left
four thousand missing.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 11 March 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Fr.
Placide Lubamba Ndjibu, M. Afr., as bishop of Kasongo (area 75,300,
population 1,700,000, Catholics 570,000, priests 59, religious 21),
Democratic Republic of Congo. The bishop-elect was born in
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959, and was ordained a
priest in 1991. He completed his studies in theology at the Catholic
Institute of Tolosa, France, and studied journalism and social
communications at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has
served in a number of pastoral roles, including priest of the “Sacred
Heart” parish in Manzeze, Tanzania, editor of the KARIBU bulletin
in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, and chaplain of the Wima
High School and the Saio military camp, Bukavu, and priest of the
“St. Bernadette” parish in Lubumbashi. Since 2010 he is the
provincial of the White Fathers for Central Africa (Burundi, Rwanda
and Democratic Republic of Congo).
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