conscience, exploring its various dimensions and content, ranging from the   
   civil   
   effects of canonical marriage, the "customary facilities" for the different   
   rites, respect for feast days and the right of Christians who work in public   
   offices to be able comply with the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, religious   
   assistance for the armed forces and prisoners, and the right of parents to   
   impart a "religious and moral" education to their children. The explicit   
   acknowledgement of authentic conscientious objection as a practice consistent   
   with the right of freedom of thought, belief and religion is notable for its   
   current relevance.   
    The signing of the Agreement urges the Parties to look to the future without   
   forgetting history and those events that, on political and legal levels, have   
   outlined the condition, social fabric and normative order of Palestine, and   
   within this, the action of the Church, as may be seen in the following   
   chapters:   
    Chapter 3, recognising the legal personality and right to self-organisation of   
   the Church, protects its internal order, the freedom to confer ecclesiastical   
   office, and the exemption of clergy from obligatory personal service such as   
   military service, etc. Confirmation is given of the competence, as stipulated   
   by   
   Palestinian law, of ecclesiastical tribunals to exercise civil jurisdiction.   
   The   
   issue, further clarified in chapter 4, also relates to matters such as   
   marriage,   
   filiation and adoption, following the personal status of Christians in the Holy   
   Land.   
    Chapter 5, starting from the regime of the "Status Quo", lists the nature and   
   typology of the Holy Places. The concept of holiness - from which that of   
   religious rights derives - is posited as the source of the obligation of the   
   civil authorities to respect for the Holy Places the exclusive authority and   
   canonical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church, except in the case of joint   
   actions to the contrary. The issue is linked to freedom of worship and the   
   necessary guarantees for pilgrimages and structures offering hospitality to   
   pilgrims.   
    Chapter 6 guarantees the Church's right to work in educational, social,   
   charitable and communications sectors, and regulates the relationship with the   
   Palestinian legal system. This is accompanied by general regulations on the   
   freedom to receive funds and the discretion appropriate to ecclesiastical   
   institutions with regard to their function and personnel.   
    Chapter 7 is dedicated entirely to Church property and the special fiscal   
   regime applicable to them, inspired by functional criteria of non-liability,   
   issues which due to their direct link to the local situation and legislation   
   will be the object of further negotiations and agreements.   
    The participation of the Palestinian Catholic community in the lengthy   
   negotiations, which began in a systematic fashion in 2010, gave the Agreement   
   an   
   added value. The local Church has been shown to be an effective agent,   
   providing   
   a valuable contribution not only towards the consolidation of the ecclesial   
   reality, but also to the image of Palestine and the Holy Land as a whole.   
      
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    Metropolitan archbishops to receive the pallium   
    Vatican City, 26 June 2015 (VIS) - Forty-six metropolitan archbishops have   
   been   
   nominated by the Holy Father to receive the pallium this year, imposed every 29   
   June, Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul Apostles, in the Vatican Basilica:   
    Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne, Germany   
    Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, archbishop of Valencia, Spain   
    Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia   
    Archbishop Eduardo Eliseo Martin of Rosario, Argentina   
    Archbishop Florentino Galang Lavarias of San Fernando, Philippines   
    Archbishop Anthony Pappusamy of Madurai, India   
    Archbishop Sevastianos Rossolatos of Athens, Greece   
    Archbishop Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda of Osaka, Japan   
    Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid, Spain   
    Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Ireland   
    Archbishop Anthony Colin Fisher, O.P., of Sydney, Australia   
    Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, U.S.A.   
    Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Cespedes of Cochabamba, Bolivia   
    Archbishop Jose Antonio Fernandez Hurtado of Durango, Mexico   
    Archbishop Stane Zore, O.F.M., of Ljubljana, Slovenia   
    Archbishop Djalwana Laurent Lompo of Niamey, Nigeria   
    Archbishop Vincenzo Pelvi of Foggia-Bovino, Italy   
    Archbishop Richard Daniel Alarcon Urrutia of Cuzco, Peru   
    Archbishop Jean Mbarga of Yaounde, Cameroon   
    Archbishop Edmundo Ponciano Valenzuela Mellid, S.D.B., of Asuncion, Paraguay   
    Archbishop Beatus Kinyaiya, O.F.M. Cap., of Dodoma, Tanzania   
    Archbishop Max Leroy Mesidor of Cap-Haitien, Haiti   
    Archbishop Kieran O'Reilley, S.M.A., of Cashel, Ireland   
    Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Luanda, Angola   
    Archbishop Martin Musonde Kivuva of Mombasa, Kenya   
    Archbishop Vicente Jimenez Zamora of Zaragoza, Spain   
    Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye of Dakar, Senegal   
    Archbishop Jose Antonio Peruzzo of Curitiba, Brazil   
    Archbishop Menghesteab Tesfamariam, M.C.C.J., of Asmara, Eritrea   
    Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg, Germany   
    Archbishop Juan Nsue Edjang Maye of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea   
    Archbishop Yustinus Harjosusanto, M.S.F., of Samarinda, Indonesia   
    Archbishop Freddy Antonio de Jesus Breton Martinez of Santiago de los   
   Caballeros, Dominican Republic   
    Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna of Malta, Malta   
    Archbishop David Macaire, O.P., of Fort-de-France, Martinique, France   
    Archbishop Alojzij Cvikl. S.J., of Maribor, Slovenia   
    Archbishop Fulop Kocsis of Hajdudorog for Catholics of Byzantine Rite, Hungary   
    Archbishop John Charles Wester of Santa Fe, U.S.A.   
    Archbishop Denis Grondin of Rimouski, Canada   
    Archbishop Francescantonio Nole, O.F.M. Conv., of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy   
    Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta of Merida-Badajoz, Spain   
    Archbishop Gustavo Rodriguez Vega of Yucatan, Mexico   
    Archbishop-elect Erio Castellucci of Modena-Nonantola, Italy   
    Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin, Germany   
    Archbishop Lionginas Virbalas, S.J., of Kaunas, Lithuania   
    Archbishop Thomas Ignatius Macwan of Gandhinagar, India.   
      
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    Audiences   
    Vatican City, 26 June 2015 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
    - Peter Sutherland, president of the "International Catholic Migration   
   Commission";   
    - Georgios Papadopoulos, ambassador of Greece to the Holy See, on his farewell   
   visit;   
    - Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine   
   of the Faith;   
    - Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental   
   Churches.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 26 June 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Bishop Francisco Antonio Nieto Sua of San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, as   
   bishop of Engativa (area 133, population 2,000,000, Catholics 1,533,932,   
   priests   
   116, permanent deacons 34, religious 407), Colombia.   
    - Msgr. Juan Carlos Cardenas Toro as auxiliary of Cali (area 2,504, population   
   2,854,000, Catholics 2,425,000, priests 392, permanent deacons 17, religious   
   899), Colombia. The bishop-elect was born in Cartago, Colombia in 1968 and was   
   ordained a priest in 1997. He holds a licentiate in philosophy from the   
   Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral   
   roles in the diocese of Cartago, including parish vicar, professor and   
   spiritual   
   director of the minor seminary, parish priest, rector of the "Divino Ecce Homo"   
   Shrine in Ricaurte, formator, bursar and spiritual director of the major   
   seminary, and diocesan delegate for social communications. He has also served   
   as   
   sub director for the national secretariat for social pastoral ministry and   
   coordinator of the pastoral centre for social evangelisation of the Episcopal   
   Conference of Colombia. He is currently adjunct secretary of the Episcopal   
   Conference of Colombia.   
      
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    Notice   
    Vatican City, 26 June 2015 (VIS) - We inform our readers that no Vatican   
   Information Service Bulletin will be transmitted on Monday 29 June, Solemnity   
   of   
   Sts. Peter and Paul Apostles, and a holiday in the Vatican. Service will resume   
   on Tuesday 30 June.   
      
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