The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

In an opinion dated June 24, 1998 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, issued a Notification from the Congregation ( and approved by the Pope John Paul II ):

* Benedict House and Shop — 57 Rockwell Road ( added 1998 )

* Benedict Akwuegbu ( 1998 – 2003 )

In 1998, English explorer Benedict Allen set out to talk to the Kalapalo Indians, said by Villas Boas to have confessed to having killed the three Fawcett expedition members.

Recent Celebrants have included: The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2012 ); The Reverend Paul Keane, Old Oratorian and Chaplain to the University of Essex ( 2011 ); The Very Reverend Richard Duffield, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Promoter of the Cause of Canonisation for John Henry Cardinal Newman ( 2010 ); The Very Reverend Robert Byrne, Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 2009 ); The Right Reverend Patrick O ' Donoghue, Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster ( 2008 ); The Right Reverend Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside ( 2007 ); Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville, Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham ( 2006 ); The Right Reverend Dom Cuthbert Brogan, Abbot of Farnborough ( 2005 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2004 ); The Right Reverend Bishop George Stack, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2003 ); His Eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O ’ Connor, Archbishop of Westminster ( 2002 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds ( 2001 ); Bishop Victor Guazzelli, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2000 ); The Abbot of Ampleforth ( 1999 ); The Catholic Chaplain to Harrow School ( 1998 ); the Provost of the London Oratory ( 1997 ); the Apostolic Nuncio ( 1996 ); His Eminence George Basil Cardinal Hume ( 1995 ); Dom Stanislaus Hobbs of St Benedict ’ s Abbey, Ealing ( 1994 ); the Master of St Benet ’ s Hall, Oxford ( 1993 ); and the Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 1992 ).

He also won acclaim for his roles as Brother Benedict in Lamb ( 1986 ), Grandfather George in John Boorman's Hope and Glory ( 1987 ) ( for which he received a second " Best Supporting Actor " BAFTA nomination ), the elder Robert de Brus in Braveheart ( 1995 ), and as the touchingly crafty villager in Waking Ned Devine ( 1998 ).

After a standard process of approval within the church often referred to as a " cause for sainthood ," she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 1998 and finally canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic church on October 15, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI.

Opera North has given world premières of the following operas: Rebecca by Wilfred Josephs ( 1983 ), Caritas by Robert Saxton ( 1991 ), Baa, Baa, Black Sheep by Michael Berkeley ( 1993 ), Playing Away by Benedict Mason ( 1994 ), The Nightingale's to Blame by Simon Holt ( 1998 ), Jonathan Dove's The Adventures of Pinocchio ( 2007 ) and Swanhunter ( 2009 ), and Skin Deep by David Sawer and Armando Iannucci ( 2009 ).

Nobol was the birthplace of Narcisa de Jesús, who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 12, 2008 and the Santuario de Santa Narcisa de Jesus Martillo y Morán located in the town center was dedicated to her on August 22, 1998.

In addition to this new European scene, the Scheme for the Promotion of Plurilingualism has learned a lot from the first experimental bilingual sections set up in some schools by the Andalusian government in 1998.

In 1998 during an ENRED meeting in Panamá including NIC-MX, this theme was discussed and they learned that another group formed by commercial organizations like CABASE — Cámara Argentina de Base de Datos y Servicio en Línea and e-COMLAC ( Latin America and Caribbean Federation for Internet and Electronic Commerce ), were also discussing the idea of a Latin American registry.

* 1998: Some Orthodox Jewish congregations started to employ women as congregational interns, a job created for learned Orthodox Jewish women.

As of 1998, the country with the largest percentage of TM practitioners is Israel, where 50, 000 people have learned the technique since its introduction in the 1960s, according to observers and people within the movement.

Pillman never learned that Melanie was pregnant with Skylar, who was born on May 5, 1998, seven months after Pillman's death in October 1997.

In the summer of 1998, Maathai learned of a government plan to privatize large areas of public land in the Karura Forest, just outside Nairobi, and give it to political supporters.

Since Andrew ’ s return home he has learned a lot about his people and his culture and fully participate in the Wet ’ suwet ’ en Batlats ( Potlatch ) system, and even became a hereditary Chief ( wing chief ) in 1998 with a traditional name of Skit ’ den which in Andrew ’ s language means ‘ the wise man ’.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

The contents of the Darnley urn are also problematic ; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of digital television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite and digital terrestrial television viewers to also view the service.

In 1998, Chaplin also received a statue in Waterville, Ireland, where he spent several summers with his family in the 1960s.

They also released a full length album soundtrack for the film He Got Game in 1998.

Flockhart also appeared on the June 29, 1998, cover of Time magazine, placed as the newest iteration in the evolution of feminism, relating to the ongoing debate about the role depicted by her character.

In 1998, Compaq also signed new sales and equipment alliance with NaviSite.

In 1998, he also succeeded Theo Waigel as chairman of the CSU.

Since 1998, it also has a tax number assigned by the state of New Jersey.

La Niña also formed in 1995 and from 1998 – 2000, and a minor one from 2000 – 2001.

In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).

The financial sector, tourism ( almost 5 million visitors in 1998 ), shipping services fees, and duties on consumer goods also generate revenue.

They also include lack of infrastructure, particularly in the transportation, telecommunications, and electricity sectors, although the state telephone company and electricity distribution were privatized in 1998.

The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two number-one hits between 1997 and 1998, " Two Pina Coladas " and " To Make You Feel My Love ", which also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.

He also co-starred with Will Smith in the 1998 film Enemy of the State, where his character was reminiscent of the one from The Conversation.

Every Mac made between 1986 and 1998 has a SCSI port on the back, making external expansion easy ; also, " toaster " Compact Macs did not have easily accessible hard drive bays ( or, in the case of the Mac Plus, any hard drive bay at all ), so on those models, external SCSI disks were the only reasonable option.

It was further enhanced in projects known as H. 263v2 ( also known as H. 263 + or H. 263 1998 ), MPEG-4 Part 2 and H. 263v3 ( also known as H. 263 ++ or H. 263 2000 ).

H. 263v2 ( also known as H. 263 +, or as the 1998 version of H. 263 ) is the informal name of the second edition of the ITU-T H. 263 international video coding standard.

It has also been possible to run Novell products without IPX for some time, as they have supported both IPX and TCP / IP since NetWare reached version 5 in late 1998.

Some countries have adapted the international standard, such as the " ICD-10-AM " published in Australia in 1998 ( also used in New Zealand ), and the " ICD-10-CA " introduced in Canada in 2000.

Jaxson's antics got him into trouble in 1998 and stemmed the changing of the NFL's mascot rules, and also caused him to calm down.

Since 1998, Angola has successfully worked with the United Nations Security Council to impose and carry out sanctions on UNITA.

* Tim Puckett, the principal investigator of the Puckett Observatory World Supernova Search team, which has discovered over 200 supernovae since 1998.

Since the 1998 – 99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

Since 1998 it has been available in an electronic edition, alongside its regular print edition.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

Since 1998, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Athens.

Mobile phone technology has skyrocketed in Burkina Faso in the last decade, growing from 2, 700 subscribers in 1998 to 398, 000 in 2004.

Since 1998, home field advantage has been given to the team that has the better regular season record, unless that team happens to be the Wild Card team.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

The Division Series has followed a 2-2-1 format since 1998.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

Pendragon ( acquired in 1998 by Green Knight Publishing, and 2005 by White Wolf ), while related, has sufficiently different mechanics that it can be seen as a separate system.

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

Although a 1990 law authorizes private radio and television stations, the government has not granted any licenses as of March 1998.

Inflation has not exceeded 5 % since 1998.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

In science fiction, the impact of comets has been depicted as a threat overcome by technology and heroism ( Deep Impact, 1998 ), or as a trigger of global apocalypse ( Lucifer's Hammer, 1979 ) or of waves of zombies ( Night of the Comet, 1984 ).