VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 232   
   DATE 29-12-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - Rome welcomes the Pueri Cantores   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    Rome welcomes the Pueri Cantores   
    Vatican City, 29 December 2015 (VIS) - In the morning of Thursday 31 December   
   the Holy Father will receive in audience the participants in the 40 th   
   International Congress of the International Federation of Pueri Cantores, held   
   in Rome from 28 December to 1 January.   
    "Cantate Spem vestram" is the motto of the congress, which opened yesterday   
   afternoon with a procession along Via della Conciliazione to the Holy Door,   
   which the participants then passed through, and the inauguration ceremony in   
   the   
   Paul VI Hall, led by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical   
   Council for New Evangelisation.   
    During these five days "concerts of hope" will be held in various churches   
   around the capital: at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday 29 December in the Basilica of   
   Sant'Andrea della Valle, the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles and the Basilica   
   of   
   St. Cecilia in Trastevere; on Wednesday 30 September in the Church of Santa   
   Maria in Traspontina and in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Christ the   
   King.   
   The same Wednesday from 9 to 11 a.m. there will be prayers for peace. Finally,   
   the congress will conclude on Friday with a Mass celebrated in St. Peter's   
   Basilica.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 29 December 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - erected the new diocese of Barisal (area 20,708, population 15,183,927,   
   Catholics 29,685, priests 19, religious 33), Bangladesh, with territory from   
   the   
   diocese of Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dhaka,   
   Bangladesh.   
    - appointed Bishop Subroto Lawrence Howlader, C.S.C., auxiliary of Chittagong,   
   as first bishop of the diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh.   
      
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