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21 October 2011
VATICAN - World Mission Day: Catholic Church Statistics
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, October 23 this year, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panorama of the missionary Church all over the world ...
21 October 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - The death of Colonel Gaddafi, "a tragic epilogue, which one cannot rejoice over, but we must work to build peace and harmony"
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "When faced with the death of a man, sentiments of Christian piety, besides human sentiments must always prevail. One cannot therefore rejoice over an epilogue, the death of Colonel Gaddafi, th ...
21 October 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - Churches seized, civilians beaten, women raped: abuse of the military on Kachin Christians
Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese military army continues violence against civilians and do not spare the churches: this is what Fides sources denounce in the diocese of Banmaw in northern Mynamar, where a bloody war ...
21 October 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - First Missionary Congress of Higher Education: "Apostles of a new evangelization"
Santiago (Agenzia Fides ) - Today, Friday October 21, from 9 am to 6pm at the headquarters of the Pontifical University of Chile, the first Missionary Congress of Higher Education will be held. The Congress is organized ...
21 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The Association of the Rosary spreads, "to draw strength and wisdom from evangelization"
Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of St. Luke, 18 October, during the month of the Rosary and Missions, the Association of the Rosary in parish of Xi Ling, in the diocese of Wen Zhou was born. According to reports ...
21 October 2011
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - For the first time the Mass for World Mission Day will be celebrated in Russian
Astana (Agenzia Fides) - There are many initiatives for World Mission Day in Kazakhstan, where the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) were established in 2008 and since then continue to work in order to raise the Kazakhs ...
21 October 2011
AFRICA/ANGOLA - "The population still needs to be reconciled in its innermost self", says the Bishop Lwena to Fides
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "The hope is through faith that enlivens our communities despite the serious problems that they are afflicted by," said His Exc. Mgr. Jesus Tirso Blanco, Bishop of Lwena, in eastern Angola, pass ...
21 October 2011
ASIA/LEBANON - "Blessed Paolo Manna translated into Arabic, to be missionaries in the Middle East", says the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Although they are a small minority, and despite the difficulties, "the Christians in Lebanon want to be leaven in the mass, for the Middle East. This is why we encourage t missionary experiences; ...
21 October 2011
VATICAN - Don Guanella, "father of the poor" in 4 continents: over 12 thousand pilgrims for his canonization on World Mission Day
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the World Assembly of Guanella Lay Movement the program of initiatives for the canonization of Blessed Don Luigi Guanella, founder of the Servants of Charity and the Daughters of St. Mary of D ...
20 October 2011
VATICAN - On Mission Sunday the canonization of Msgr. Conforti: Bishop of Parma ardent zeal for the salvation of all men
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Missionary is the most beautiful and sublime personification of the ideal life. He has contemplated in the spirit Jesus Christ who shows the Apostles the world they must conquer for th ...
20 October 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - Dedicated to the Catholic funeral Liturgy and the inculturation of the 15th Asian Liturgy Forum
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic funeral liturgy and Inculturation" is the theme of the 15th Asian Liturgy Forum that is taking place in Tai Pei, from October 17 to 21, sponsored by the Liturgical Commission of the Ep ...
20 October 2011
VATICAN - "Let us remain faithful to the original inspiration, looking to the future": an interview with Msgr.Jan Dumon, General Secretary of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We have remained faithful to the original mission conceived by the founders. The work was born from the awareness that a newly formed Church needs to be helped in forming their own ministe ...
20 October 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - "The Mission and the challenges of the New Evangelization": Chile celebrates World Mission Sunday
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In view of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Chile have prepared a full calendar of activities at a national level, with a clear aim: "To awaken and renew the commitm ...
20 October 2011
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Bill: Churches can also collect illegal weapons
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of different Puerto Rican Churches have positively welcomed the draft law providing for an amnesty of 60 days during which anyone with a weapon, can deliver it to the police or chur ...
20 October 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Apostolic Nuncio in Ambon, safe city, the seminar and the new school catechetical were inaugurated
Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen the fraternal relations between the different religious communities in Ambon; give a signal of trust and dialogue; bringing words of peace to a community that fears a new war: with t ...
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