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10 May 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Church-government: dialogue and prayer in view of the approval of the Document on Reproductive Health
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - An intense prayer and a renewed desire for dialogue between the Church and the government to seek "common ground": these are the elements that characterize the Philippines in the aftermath of the ...
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10 May 2011
VATICAN-Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Filoni Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI today appointed Archbishop Fernando Filoni, titular Archbishop of Volturno, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples of Volturno, until now Deputy Sec ...
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9 May 2011
VATICAN-Benedict XVI in Aquileia: faced with new challenges it is necessary to "promote the Christian meaning of life through the explicit proclamation of the Gospel"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Aquileia and Venice began on the afternoon of Saturday, May 7. In the Basilica of Aquileia, the Pope met with representatives of the dioceses of Triveneto ...
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9 May 2011
VATICAN-The Pope in Venice: "The Gospel is the greatest force for transforming the world, it is not utopia, nor ideology"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - By inviting representatives from the cultural, art and economy world not to be afraid of the Gospel, symbolically contained in the coat of arms of San Marco, the patron saint of Venice, bec ...
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9 May 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT-Catholic church has also been attacked and the father of a postulant killed, "Muslims must reject violence based on religion," says a missionary in Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Twelve deaths and a hundred wounded is the toll of the assault carried out by groups of Salafis against some churches in the district of Imbaba, in the north-west of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. " ...
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9 May 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Muslim minister out, new "Ministry for inter-religious harmony and Minorities is born"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - With yet another change, the Department of Religious Minorities in Pakistan becomes "Federal Ministry for Inter-faith Harmony and Minorities." At the Summit of the department two Catholic lead ...
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9 May 2011
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-"The reorganization of the capital without including violence, but dialogue, " says Archbishop Escobar Alas
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church approves the decision of the President of the Republic, Mauricio Funes, who extends by one year the presence in the capital of the Armed Forces with the responsibility f ...
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9 May 2011
AMERICA/HAITI-It is urgent to help Haitians affected by the earthquake to become self-sufficient
West Hartford (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the enormous aid to the Haitian people hit by an earthquake 16 months ago, the Caribbean nation still needs a lot of support. A note of the Catholic Transcript, the magazine of ...
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9 May 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA-Ignorance, fear and precariousness of services: are the main causes of 37% maternal deaths recorded each year
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Every year 37% of maternal deaths are recorded in health centers in Bolivia. According to data by the organization Visión Mundial, more than 17 000 kids and 600 mothers die annually in the count ...
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9 May 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN-Three events for the Diocese of Kao Hsiung: 130 years since the foundation of a parish, 30 years of priesthood for three Dominican missionaries and the opening of the new Center for the Laity
Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Taiwan's Kao Hsiung celebrates three major events at the beginning of the month of Mary. According to the various bodies of information and information gathered by Fides, the ...
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9 May 2011
ASIA/INDIA-A " saffron colored corridor " to attack Christians: two Memorandum to the President of India
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There is a real "saffron-colored corridor" - the color used by militants of the Hindu extremist groups - which extends from one side to the other side in India, on the western and the easter ...
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9 May 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA -"United to promote the integral development and to eliminate poverty": concluded the First Congress on the social doctrine of the church
Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Commission for the Social Pastoral, Archbishop Jorge Casaretto, Bishop of the Diocese of San Isidro, said that the Church of Argentina recognizes "all the progress ...
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7 May 2011
ASIA/CHINA-In the few years of his episcopal ministry, Bishop Lu gave a lot to the Diocese, working hard and without attracting attention
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 April, S.E.Mgr. Francis Lu Shouwang, Bishop of the Diocese of Yichang (Ichang), in Hubei province (China) died at the hospital of Tongji in Wuhan, where he was hospitalized last September for ...
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7 May 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA-"The Church has become the reference point for the foreign community deprived of an embassy, " said Bishop Martinelli from Tripoli
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We spent a very calm and silent night. Maybe there was a moment of reflection by those who bomb " Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli says to Fides. "I appreci ...
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7 May 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Post Bin Laden: radio broadcast battle between " propaganda of hatred" and "propaganda of peace"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There are radio stations that fuel religious hatred and terrorist propaganda and those who combine their efforts to send messages of peace, dialogue and harmony: it is through radio broadcast ...
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