back in sÃo francisco, an evening ceremony is underway.ly young women who are playing leading roles, and they're asking for a greater say in the church. julia: it would be nice if women could finally hold mass. we're also affected by the shortage of priests. that's why i think women should be permitted to give communion. reporter: most members of milson's congregation support the end of celibacy in the priesthood. then, mass could be held every sunday, and not just once every three months. if married men could lead services, milson would also be willing. mariria: there's no reason noto do this. we seeee that protesestant minis have wives andhihildren. that's what we want, too. reporter: a historic shift in the catholic church may be underway, inspired in part by the amazon region. host: that's all from us at "global 3000" this week. as you know, we love hearing from you. write to us at global3000@dw.com and check us out on facebook, dw women. see you soon. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible f

after 10 am in san francisco 3 pm in sao paulo 9 at night here in moscow this thursday january 16th welcome to our to international community. russia has a new prime minister lawmakers approved. of the sea early thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment. well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russia's constitution which by the way didn't automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the country's new prime minister that is mikhail so the result was $383.00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the and coming prime minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some of them. used to produce them i can do up to ensure you that all members of the new government will carry pe