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As Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Gabriel Villaruz Reyes of Antipolo of Philippines, on Friday who stepped down on his retirement, Coadjutor Bishop Francisco Mendoza De Leon automatically took charge of the same diocese. Bishop Francisco Mendoza was born on June 11, 1947 in La Huerta, Paranaque. He was ordained a priest on June 28, 1975 in the Archdiocese of Manila. Was appointed Titular Bishop of Bosetano and Auxiliary Bishop of Antipolo on June 27, 2007 and was ordained a bishop on September 1, 2007 at Manila Cathedral. He was installed as Auxiliary Bishop of Antipolo on September 8, 2007 and appointed Coadjutor of the same diocese on November 21, 2015. Antipolo Diocese is one of the 9 suffragans that make up the ecclesiastical province of Manila
The Diocese of Miao in extreme north-east India’s Arunachal Pradesh state on Thursday paid homage to the Catholic Church’s newest saint, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, by blessing and dedicating its first hospital to her. At the ceremony, a statue of St. Teresa of Calcutta was installed at the entrance to the hospital. Named after the two French Missionaries, Frs. Nicolas Krick and Augustin Bourry of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who were martyred in Somme Village of Arunachal Pradesh on their way to Tibet in the year 1852, the Krick and Bourry Memorial Hospital (KBM) is in Injan village of Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh. In his remarks at the blessing, local Circle Officer Mr. Rai said it is a huge blessing for the people in the district and in the east of the state. The 25-bed hospital, inaugurated on 14 April, was under construction for the last four years and the process was slow due to lack of funds and uns...
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican on Friday released details of Pope Francis’ trip to Sweden at the end of October to mark the joint Lutheran-Catholic commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.The Pope is scheduled to leave from Rome’s Fiumicino airport at 08.20 on the morning on Monday October 31st and arrive in the southern Swedish city of Malmö at 11.00.Following an official welcome, the Pope will travel to the nearby city of Lund and pay a courtesy visit to the Swedish royal family before leading an ecumenical prayer service with Lutheran leaders in Lund cathedral.In the afternoon the Pope will take part in a second ecumenical event in Malmö arena and meet with delegations of different Christian Churches present for the occasion.The following morning, Tuesday November 1st, the Pope will preside at Mass in Malmö for the Swedish Catholic community before travelling back to the international airport there for an official departure ceremo...
Denver, Colo., Sep 9, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA).- A newly released report shows that traffic deaths, crime, emergency room visits and youth usage of marijuana have significantly increased in the two years since the legalization of recreational pot in the state of Colorado.Released by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, the report compared marijuana-related statistics from previous years in Colorado to data from 2013-2015, the years after the legalization of recreational marijuana in the state in November 2012.The results aren’t promising.Marijuana-related traffic deaths increased by 62 percent in 2013, the first year of legalization of recreational marijuana. About one in five more youth are now reporting having used marijuana in the past month since its legalization. Marijuana-related hospitalizations in the state nearly doubled from 6,305 in 2011 to 11,439 in 2014.“Perhaps there is not much value in saying to my beloved state of Colorado that ‘I ...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A federal judge has said he will rule by Friday on the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's lawsuit that challenges federal permits for the four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. The lawsuit alleges that the pipeline, which would be placed less than a mile upstream of the tribe's reservation, could impact drinking water for more than 8,000 tribal members and millions who rely on it downstream. Protesters and private security guards have skirmished on...
CHAMONIX, France (AP) -- Dozens of tourists, including three children, were rescued Friday after being trapped overnight in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps....
GENEVA (AP) -- American officials played down hopes Friday of an imminent cease-fire agreement for Syria as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened a fourth set of negotiations with his Russian counterpart in the past two weeks. Previously, officials suggested Kerry wouldn't travel to Geneva unless a deal was clearly at hand....
TOKYO (AP) -- Mark up another first for North Korea - two nuclear tests in one year. And that's not all. With leader Kim Jong Un smiling broadly all the while, bigger and better ballistic missiles have been flying off the North's shores, and now even from under its waters, at breakneck pace....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said it conducted a "higher level" nuclear test explosion on Friday that will allow it to finally build "at will" an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons. It was the North's fifth atomic test and the second in eight months....
(Vatican Radio) North Korea confirmed on Friday it tested a fifth nuclear device in defiance of a UN resolution. The nuclear test came on the same day as the country’s National Day, celebrating the founding of the current regime.Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: North Korea’s state run news agency said the country carried out ‘a higher level’ nuclear test explosion, just hours after US president Barack Obama departed from his tour of Asia.Pyongyang said the test had been of a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of being mounted on a ballistic missile. That claim is unconfirmed.What is known is that the test came on the north’s National Day honoring the founding of the current regime.Also, the US Geological Survey reported a 5.3-magnitude ‘artificial’ earthquake in the same area where four previous nuclear tests were carried out.The explosion appears to have been on the surface in the northeast of the country. Previous test...
