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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