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27 September 2011
EUROPE/ ITALY - 50 years of commitment to the Italian Association Friends of Raoul Follereau
Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - From 21 to 23 October 2011, the Italian Association Friends of Raoul Follereau (AIFO) will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation on the occasion of the XXIII International Confere ...
27 September 2011
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Multi-purpose school and training center for girls in the province of Gourma
Gourma (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of the Australian Province of the Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) are involved in the project for the construction of a multi-purpose school and a ...
27 September 2011
EUROPE/RUSSIA - A statue of Mother Teresa has been inaugurated in Moscow, but her sisters are homeless
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 September, a statue dedicated to the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was inaugurated in Moscow, during the celebrations for the centenary of the consecration of the Immaculate Conception ...
27 September 2011
AFRICA/GUINEA - Clashes in Conakry: one dead and several injured
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) –One dead and several wounded is the provisional estimates of the clashes taking place in Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea, between police and opposition demonstrators. The latter ...
27 September 2011
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Half a century of solidarity: a research for Caritas to celebrate its 50 years
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - In 2012, Caritas Uruguay celebrates 50 years of its foundation in the country and wants to remember the event carrying out a project of social research, ie collecting the history of the count ...
27 September 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Only in Christ and faith there is the strength to deal with family life and marriage
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Only in Christ and in faith we can find the strength to face the trials and challenges of family life and marriage: the 20 couples participating in the First Meeting of Catholic marriage and fa ...
27 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - A life for the Gospel: Farewell to Fr. Luigi, "recordman" 75 years of mission
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - A community mourns, but praises the Lord for the extraordinary life of Father Luigi Gobetti, Salesian missionary who died on Sept. 22, aged 91, in Bandel (Diocese of Calcutta), after 75 years o ...
26 September 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - Lay Scalabrinian killed "for her work in the media"
Nuevo Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of Scalabrinian Lay Movement (SLM) is mourning over the terrible violent death of a member: Maria Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39, known as Marisol, who worked for a newspaper in ...
26 September 2011
EUROPE/ALBANIA - CCEE Plenary Assembly on the New Evangelization in Europe
Tirana (Agenzia Fides) – The next Plenary Assembly of the Council of European Bishops’ conferences (CCEE) will take place, from September 29 to October 2. The central theme of the assemblt will be the New Evangelizat ...
26 September 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - Laity, witnesses of faith in different areas of commitment
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Witnessing faith and to be "signs" of faith through commitment on behalf of the laity (extraordinary ministers of communion, pastoral workers, catechists ...); to analyze the biblical, liturg ...
26 September 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Alert in Abuja for possible suicide bombings during the celebrations for independence
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Islamic Boko Haram sect is planning suicide bombings in the federal capital, Abuja, to disrupt the celebrations of national independence on 1 October. This is what the Nigerian press ...
26 September 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Valparaíso, "we must not accept any attack on the life of an unborn child for allegedly therapeutic reasons"
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gonzalo Duarte García, Bishop of Valparaiso, in Chile, has recently launched an appeal to the Christians of his country so that they oppose to the laws that allow abortion or are likely ...
26 September 2011
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Presidential elections in November: the Church lines up 30,000 electoral observers
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 30,000 electoral observers that the Catholic Church is preparing to line up to help ensure the regularity of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be ...
26 September 2011
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "We urgently need to break the chain of violence", Nunzio's appeal
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, stressed the urgent need to break the chain of violence and death that affects the Dominican Republic and asked ...
26 September 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - After the bomb in a church, interfaith prayer in Solo to say "No" to violence
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - There is concern and confusion among Christians of the diocese of Semarang (Central Java) after the suicide attack which occurred yesterday, on Sunday, Sept. 25, in a Protestant Christian churc ...
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