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10 February 2012
EUROPE/ITALY - Carrying out missionary animation in the heart of a metropolis: 50 years of the PIME centre in Milan
Milan (Agenzia Fides) - For fifty years the "Center of culture and PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) missionary animation" in Milan proposes itself as a place of meeting, exchange, reflection and planning ...
10 February 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 20, 2011 appointed Father Godefroid Manunga, of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) as National Director of ...
10 February 2012
AFRICA - On February 13 the Second Symposium of the European and African Bishops opens in Rome
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On February 13 the Second Symposium of the European and African Bishops opens in Rome, which has the theme "Evangelization Today: Communion and pastoral cooperation between Africa and Europe. The ...
10 February 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For Cardinal Urosa Savino every presidential candidate must possess the values of love, justice and freedom
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, said that the Catholic values that every presidential candidate must have are love, justice, freedom, respect for people and for the people in ...
9 February 2012
AMERICA/REP. DOMINICAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 10, 2011 appointed Rev. Anselmo Alejandro Peña Sanchez , of the diocesan clergy of Mao-Monte Cristi as National D ...
9 February 2012
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on December 16, 2011 appointed Father Fausto de Carvalho Rosado , of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( ...
9 February 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - The Church of Taiwan is preparing for the International Eucharistic Congress
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The National Eucharistic Congress, a special site has been created, full of pages dedicated to the theme, the publication of books and teaching aid on the Eucharist, awareness of the faithful, t ...
9 February 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN - Year of Faith, the year of the missionaries who proclaim it
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "A year dedicated to faith is a year for those who preach it. Because faith, as St. Paul taught, comes from hearing, preaching. This is why a preacher is necessary and can educate in this faith t ...
9 February 2012
ASIA/INDONESIA - A Muslim Study Centre: "To save the churches from radical Islamic groups is possible"
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To save the Christian churches in Indonesia from the influence and attacks on behalf of radical Islamic groups is necessary and possible, according to a new Report published by the "Paramadina ...
9 February 2012
AFRICA/SUDAN - Winds of war between Sudan and South Sudan
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "In Khartoum, the population follows through the media the war of words between the Government of Sudan and Southern Sudan. For the moment, the situation is calm, but it is unknown whether the ...
9 February 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic Fundamentalists re-launch the new anti-blasphemy "Facebook"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic fundamentalist groups in Pakistan have launched a campaign to promote a social network "conformed to Islam", and inviting all the "true Muslims in the country to abandon and boycott th ...
9 February 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Police in Bahia still on strike while crime rages, now the Church mediates
Sao Salvador da Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The police continue the strike and the people of Bahia, state in northeastern Brazil, live in anguish. In just six days there have been 87 murders, the result of criminal acts, and ...
9 February 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Cholera runs along the river Congo: alert
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cholera continues to claim victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), especially in the provinces bordering the Congo River, which is therefore both an important trading route and a car ...
9 February 2012
AMERICA/ECUADOR - 25 years later, a blog remembers Mgr. Alejandro Labaka and Sister Ines Arango
Aguarico (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, the Capuchin Bishop Mgr. Alejandro Labaka, Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico and Sister Ines Arango, of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family, both missionaries in the Am ...
9 February 2012
AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Lacunza intermediary between government and indigenous protesters to avoid other deaths
Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Luis Lacunza, OAR, Bishop of the Diocese of David, has succeeded in his mission as mediator between the government and the ...
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