 On May 23, 2009, the day the Parliament elected the prime minister, a bomb attack damaged the Cathedral of the Assumption, the only place of Catholic worship allowed in the country.The explosion, caused by a bomb placed under a seat among the faithful, left three dead and 13 wounded.The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal ("Vicariatus Apostolicus Nepalianus") which was raised to its current status by Pope Benedict XVI through the bull ""Ad aptius consulendum""