Paul Hinder

Paul Hinder OFM Cap ( born April 22, 1942 in Lanterswil - Stehrenberg in the community Bussnang, Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland ) is the Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia.

Life

Paul Hinder grew up with his three brothers, William, and Joseph Pius on in Stehrenberg in the canton of Thurgau. He joined in 1962 the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin ( OFM Cap ) in, put his profession on September 18 in 1966 and studied at the Theological Seminary of the Capuchins in Solothurn and received there on July 4, 1967, the ordination. Hinder was at Fribourg University with a thesis on the fundamental rights in the church in which canons Eugenio Corecco, from 1986 Bishop of Lugano, PhD.

After several years in pastoral ministry, he was Regional Superior of the German Swiss Capuchin and 1989 Provincial of the Swiss Capuchins. 1994 Paul Hinder was elected to the General Council of the Capuchin Order in charge of the German - and French-speaking provinces as well as for the Capuchins in the Middle East.

Tasks

In 2003 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed auxiliary bishop in the Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia and Titular Bishop of Macon. He received his episcopal consecration on 30 January 2004 Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. His motto is Justitia et pax et gaudium. On 21 March 2005, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Vicar of Arabia with its headquarters in Abu Dhabi.

Apostolic Vicar of Arabia

The Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia is the world with over three million square kilometers flächengößte diocese and includes the countries of Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates ( UAE), Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. He primarily serves over one million international Christians who are professionally active in the Arabian Peninsula, including all Eastern rites churches in Arabia, for example, Maronites in Lebanon or the Syro - Malabar and Syro- Karen from India.

When conducting Christian pastors only in Muslim countries ( the working conditions of foreign employees eg concerning ) are Paul Hinder regarding social criticism largely bound hands under the threat of expulsion. As regards the alleged threat of Islam to Europe he thinks that the danger lies in the religious laxity of Europeans in his opinion.

Appointments

On 19 July 2008, he became a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.

According to the communication of the Catholic International Press Agency kipa / apic of 4 July 2009 Paul Hinder, together with Heinz Wilhelm Cuttings (62 ), Superior General of the Missionary Order of the Immaculate Oblates ( OMI ) by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed as a consultant in the Mission Congregation.

• Fundamental rights in the Church: An investigation into the justification for the basic rights of the Church; University of Fribourg 1977, ISBN 3-7278-0174-3
• Between East and West: The Middle East and the Christians; Dialogue, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-941462-55-7 (ed. Thomas Sternberg )