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29 December 2012
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Missionary Argentina, share your faith": the preparation of COMINA 4 begins
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies of Argentina issued the official convocation of the Fourth National Missionary Congress (COMINA 4), to be held from August 17 to 19 2013 in San Fernando del ...
29 December 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - "Missionary Disciples in the web 2.0": the archdiocese of Santiago launches new website
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The new website of our archdiocese has everything you need to be a means of communication of our time," says the statement sent by the Episcopal Conference of Chile to Fides Agency for the ope ...
29 December 2012
VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2012
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost their lives in a violent manner over the course of the last 12 months. According to information ...
29 December 2012
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop Rugambwa in Sierra Leone for the ordination of the Bishop of Makeni
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Protase Rugambwa, Secretary Adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) will pay a visit in Sierra ...
29 December 2012
ASIA/JORDAN - The Islamists assert themselves at the university elections; for Archbishop Lahham it is not a result of political importance
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the elections of student representatives have just been celebrated at the University of Jordan. There was no tension, the representatives of Islamist forces won 36 of the 94 seats, ...
29 December 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic Senators will not resign, so they give a sign of willingness to cooperate
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Senators members of the Shura, the upper house of the Egyptian Parliament, will remain and not follow the footsteps of Nadia Henry, their Anglican colleague who resigned in protest ag ...
28 December 2012
VATICAN - May peace spring up for the people of Syria, in the Land where the Redeemer was born, in the Countries of Africa and on the vast continent of Asia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " In this Year of Faith, I express my Christmas greetings and good wishes in these words taken from a Psalm: 'Truth has sprung out from the earth.' This is how the Holy Father Benedict XVI ...
28 December 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Year of Faith, "a challenge to promote social cohesion": Cardinal Urosa Savino’s message
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, published his New Year message addressed to all Venezuelans calling for citizens to promote social cohesion and the to authorities to incr ...
28 December 2012
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Coadjutor of Bùi Chu
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 24, 2012 appointed His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Vu Dinh Hieu, Titular Bishop of Baanna and Auxiliary of Xuan Loc as coadjutor Bishop of Bùi Chu (Viet Nam). ...
28 December 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN - "We are faced with a family and faith emergency ": On Sunday a demonstration in defense of the Christian family
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The Christian family is misunderstood and mistreated" denounced the President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, speaking to the Catholic TV COPE, on the o ...
28 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Nazzaro: authorities in Aleppo have welcomed the Pope's words, churches full at Christmas
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of Aleppo, Mohammad Vakhid Akkad, accompanied by other local political authorities, yesterday wanted to meet the Bishops and Catholic priests gathered in the Syrian cities to extend ...
28 December 2012
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Rediscovering our faith and witnessing it in society: letter from the Bishop of Bissau
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "Reviving and witnessing our faith" is the title chosen by the Bishop of Bissau, His Excf. Mgr. José Camnate na Bissign, for his pastoral Letter addressed to Christian communities and all people ...
28 December 2012
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Patriarch Gregoire III: nobody has the right to arm Christians
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In his Christmas message sent to his faithful, the Greek-Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, Grégoire III Laham turned his gaze to the situation faced by the Arab world, pointing to all that the Chr ...
21 December 2012
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - Resignation of the Archbishop of Suva and appointment of Successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 19, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Suva (Fiji), presented by Archbishop Petero Mataca, in accordan ...
21 December 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - A film on the Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione, a painter at the court of the Chinese emperor
Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - A documentary film on Brother Giuseppe Castiglione (Milan 1688-Beijing 1766), the Jesuit painter at the court of the Chinese emperors, will be produced by Kuangchi Program Service (KPS), the tele ...
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