5 Asian bishops nominated to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

October 27, 2012: Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Members of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, on Saturday. Among them are Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, and five bishops from Asia. They are Angelito R. LAMPON, O.M.I., Titular Bishop. of Valliposita, Vicar Apostolic of Jolo Philippines; Chusak Sirisut Joseph, Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand; Sebastian Francis SHAH, OFM, Titular Bishop. Tino, Auxiliary Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan, Peter Takeo Okada, Archbishop of Tokyo, Japan andJean Benjamin Sleiman, OCD, Archbishop of Baghdad of the Latins, Iraq.
The other members of the Commission are Daniel Joseph BOHAN, Archbishop of Regina (Canada), Michel DUBOST, CIM, Bishop of Evry Corbeil Essonnes (France); BIASIN Francis, Bishop of Barra do Piraí Volta Redonda (Brazil); Michael Didi Adgum MANGORIA, Coadjutor Bishop of El Obeid (Sudan); Tomo VUKŠI, Military Ordinary of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Bishop of Sokoto (Nigeria).