Subject: VISnews140311   
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    VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 48   
   DATE 11-03-2014   
      
   Summary:   
    - PRAYING WITH MOZART ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE TSUNAMI IN JAPAN   
    - 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.   
      
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   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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