Regulations regarding Ash Wednesday voting in Indonesia
Indonesia's Roman Catholic bishops have made special provisions to ensure minority RC residents can participate in elections scheduled to be held on Ash Wednesday, February 14. Some dioceses have been given permission to hold the beginning of Lent service on other days. “Participating actively in both events is a responsibility to fulfill our duty as citizens and our call to repentance as Christians,” Bishop Antonius Subianto Bundjamin of Bandung, president of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference, told the American Online spoke to the agency Clax. “I believe we must live as 100 percent Catholics and 100 percent Indonesians.”
Bishop Curry recovering from surgery
The Most Reverend Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, was recuperating at home last Thursday after successful medical treatment to alleviate the underlying condition that caused the church's subdural hematoma to recur. ing. This was announced by the public relations department. Bishop Curry suffered a brain hemorrhage after falling during a visit to New York last month and underwent surgery (News, December 8, 2023). The 70-year-old is in the final year of his nine-year term as chairman.
Nuns abducted during violence in Haiti
Last Friday, six monks from the Sisters of Sainte-Anne were kidnapped in broad daylight in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Vatican News reported. “The armed group stopped a minibus heading to the university and boarded it, taking all the passengers hostage,” the statement said. Bishop Pierre-André Dumas, Bishop of Anse-à-Vaux and Miragoane, said: “The whole of Haitian society should join hands to form a circle of true solidarity around all the hostages in the country and to demand their release and unconditional support.'' He called for a quick and safe return to families and communities. ” He also declared his willingness to take hostage in their place. Demonstrations are being organized across the country to protest the lack of security amid clashes between rival gangs and kidnappings.