Countries/Dioceses not allowing communion in the hand

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In which part of the world (if there’s still any) is communion in the hand prohibited?
 
Nigeria, a couple of dioceses in Bolivia and Argentina. I’m not sure of an exhaustive list. It’s permitted (as law, not an indult) in all English-speaking countries.
 
In India in many dioceses receiving communion by hand is not allowed.The reason is that certain instances were noticed whereby some people,instead of immediately eating it take it outside and it is allegedly usd for black mass etc.Each one fetches some good money if sold to such people as it is considered to be having some power.
 
At one point, there was an indult for Communion in the hand in countries like the US and Canada. With the release of the new GIRM, it became a matter of local law in English-speaking countries.
 
Huh.

The English GIRM, as hosted eg by the USCCB seems a faithful translation of the Latin original?
161 If Communion is given only under the species of bread, the Priest raises the host slightly and shows it to each, saying, The Body of Christ. The communicant replies, Amen, and receives the Sacrament either on the tongue or, where this is allowed, in the hand, the choice lying with the communicant. As soon as the communicant receives the host, he or she consumes the whole of it.
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161 Si Communio sub specie tantum panis fit, sacerdos hostiam parum elevatam unicuique ostendit dicens: Corpus Christi. Communicandus respondet: Amen, et Sacramentum recipit, ore vel, ubi concessum sit, manu, pro libitu suo. Communicandus statim ac sacram hostiam recipit, eam ex integro consumit.
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And each still seems to indicate the necessity of the indult (viz. “where this is allowed, in the hand” / “ubi concessum sit, manu” )

Huh.
 
I’m not so sure about that. I was under the impression that communion on the tongue remains the norm for all countries/dioceses, and that communion in the hand still, even if it has been ‘30 years, i.e. local custom’, remains under the indult.

As I understand it, if Pope Francis tomorrow declared that he was revoking the indult for communion in the hand, all the countries where it is practiced would have to stop offering it and return to communion on the tongue only.

Same with non-Lenten Friday abstinence, right? The bishops in England and Wales a few years ago asked that the indult to allow meat on Fridays outside Lent be lifted, but AFAIK the practice of non-Lenten Friday meat eating had existed longer than 30 years, i.e., if it had become a ‘local custom’, it was still ‘under the indult’.
 
if you look at the preceding paragraph, you’ll see that the choice of reception lies with the communicant. In English-speaking countries covered by the GIRM, reception is permitted by this delineation in the GIRM —the law. An indult applies when something is not allowed by law, so was required in 1969 when Communion in the hand was permitted by indult in the US.
 
No, as I understand it, the Law itself now envisions the local bishops conferences establishing certain norms. So in the case of Friday abstinence, local law will vary, but it’s still the law, not a mere indult.
 
From the USCCB: Reception of Holy Communion at Mass
The General Instruction asks each country’s Conference of Bishops to determine the posture to be used for the reception of Communion and the act of reverence to be made by each person as he or she receives Communion. In the United States, the body of Bishops determined that Communion should be received standing, and that a bow is the act of reverence made by those receiving. These norms may require some adjustment on the part of those who have been used to other practices, however the significance of unity in posture and gesture as a symbol of our unity as members of the one body of Christ should be the governing factor in our own actions.

Those who receive Communion may receive either in the hand or on the tongue, and the decision should be that of the individual receiving, not of the person distributing Communion
 
I’m pretty sure Italy does not allow communion in the hand.

When I was there, the bishop used intinction, making it impossible I receive any other way to begin with.
 
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