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12 April 2011
ASIA/JAPAN - Religious awakening in Japan, wounded by the disaster: impact on society for the future
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – In Japan, wounded by the terrible natural events and struck by the nuclear disaster, we can see signs of a religious awakening: reports Fr Olmes Milani, CS, Scalabrinian missionary living in Tok ...
12 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Captured Gbagbo remains incognito among armed civilians and the invisible commando
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “In some quarters of Abidjan firearms could still be heard throughout the night and also this morning,” says Jean Djoman, Director of Development and Human Promotion for Caritas in Abidjan, ...
12 April 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - “We should listen to youth to reach peace,” says Bishop Martinelli of Tripoli
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “We will see how it will all end. Unfortunately we can not see anything of substance yet,” says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, following the transitional n ...
12 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Case of blasphemy in Faisalabad: lawyers of Arif demand his immediate release
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “Immediate release”: this is the request made by Arif Masih's legal team, the 40 year old Christian arrested in Faisalabad for blasphemy. Thanks to the intervention by the Masihi Foundation ...
12 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Thanks for the Day of Prayer on 20 April”
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Asia Bibi, the woman condemned to death for blasphemy, behind bars in the Sheikupura prison, thanks the Masih Foundation and all those who will pray for her on the “Special Day of Prayer” o ...
12 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Despite hundreds of deaths and more than a million refugees the missionaries will not leave the Country
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – To this point the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire has caused irreparable damage both to the economy and to the Country and the people, as well as causing hundreds of deaths and more than a million r ...
12 April 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - Only Japanese priest in Taiwan thanks the Taiwanese for their support to earthquake-shaken Japanese
Chia Yi (Agenzia Fides) – The only Japanese priest in Taiwan, Fr Michael Shintate, thanked the Taiwanese for their support to earthquake-shaken Japanese during the Mass recently celebrated in the Cathedral of the Dioce ...
12 April 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops invite all to participate in the September elections and ask: who is financing the electoral campaign?
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – In a document published by the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (ECG), the Bishops invite all to participate in the September general elections to strengthen democracy in the Country. ...
12 April 2011
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Creation of ecclesiastical province of Malanje and appointment of first Archbishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 12 April 2011, created the new ecclesiastical province of Malanje (area 107,000, population 1,090,000, Catholics 500,000, priests 49, religious 140) Angola ...
12 April 2011
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Creation of ecclesiastical province of Saurimo and appointment of first Archbishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 12 April 2011, created the new ecclesiastical province of Saurimo (area 77,600, population 420,000, Catholics 61,700, priests 11, religious 28) Angola, rais ...
12 April 2011
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of Bishop of Tete
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 12 April 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Tete (Mozambique), Fr P. Inácio Saure, I.M.C., Master of Novices at the International Novitiate in M ...
11 April 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Course dedicated to Sacred Scripture in Chinese State High Schools in Xi Shi
Chong Qing (Agenzia Fides) - “The greatest of all is love”: this Pauline teaching on love was the theme of the first class on 7 April, of the course on Sacred Scripture in a Chinese State High School. According to i ...
11 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Fighting continues in Abidjan; humanitarian situation worsens; Archbishop calls for peace prayers
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Bombing around the presidential residence has gone on throughout the night. Here at the Nunciature (200 metres from Gbagbo's residence), the shots were felt very strongly,” Archbishop Ambro ...
11 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Day of Prayer for Asia Bibi and for victims of the blasphemy law
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Around the world people will be in prayer for Asia Bibi, the woman unjustly condemned to death for blasphemy. On 20 April, Wednesday of Holy Week, a “Special Day of Prayer for Asia Bibi and f ...
11 April 2011
VATICAN - Commission on the Catholic Church in China begins today in the Vatican
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The commission instituted in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI to study the most important issues in the life of the Catholic Church in China is meeting from 11 to 13 April in the Vatican. The Va ...
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