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31 March 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Landmines: After Afghanistan, Colombia is the nation with the greatest number of victims in the world
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – International Day for Mine Awareness will be celebrated on 4 April. The date has been promoted by the General Assembly of the UN to reject the indiscriminate use of these devices and create aw ...
31 March 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Sainz: respect for Catholics not discrimination
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – “We cannot talk about discrimination but rather respect for people.” With these words, Archbishop Luis Sainz, Auxiliary Archbishop of Cochabamba and President of the Episcopal Commissio ...
31 March 2011
OCEANIA/TAHITI - Resignation by Archbishop of Papeete
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 31 March 2011, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Papeete (Tahiti), presented by Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath, in confo ...
31 March 2011
AFRICA/CONGO - Removal of Bishop of Pointe-Noire
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 31 March 2011, removed from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Pointe-Noire (Congo-Brazzaville), Bishop Jean-Claude Makaya Loemba. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 31 ...
30 March 2011
ASIA/JAPAN - The Christian heroes in Fukushima, who sacrifice their lives to avoid a nuclear catastrophe
Sendai (Agenzia Fides) – Among the workers who are truly sacrificing their lives in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, to quell the growing radioactivity and to try to secure the power plant, are also some Christians. ...
30 March 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - “The road to peace passes through the African Union,” says the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who adds: “the humanitarian bombs are creating civilian casualties”
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “IF we really want to find a diplomatic solution to the Libyan crisis, we need to go through the African Union. Its absence from the Conference in London disappointed me,” says Bishop Giovan ...
30 March 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - “We are pleased about the Holy Father's words. We hope that his voice is heard,” says the Archbishop of Abidjan after Benedict XVI's appeal for peace in Côte d'Ivoire
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “We are pleased about the Holy Father's words and we thank him for them. We hope that his voice is heard,” says Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan, in Côte d'Ivoire to Fides. In additi ...
30 March 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest beaten in Madhya Pradesh: the Church writes to the Prime Minister
Khandwa (Agenzia Fides) – Another serious act of aggression has shaken the Catholic Church in India: Fr Sebastian Kaiparambil, a Catholic priest of 45 years, residing in Badwha in the Diocese of Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh ...
30 March 2011
ASIA/JAPAN - Support via radio for victims and prayer for “friendship between China and Japan”
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – In addition to humanitarian aid, the Japanese people also need psychological and spiritual sustenance: Christian radio began with this conviction, reported missionaries in Japan to Fides, and ha ...
30 March 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - Scrutiny of 1,700 catechumens, who “are witnesses to the faith by their words and actions”
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Faith is a gift from God; faith is built on Jesus; keep away from sin; bear witness to Jesus: these are the four recommendations of Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, to the catechumens during ...
30 March 2011
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Diocese of Bissau opens a house for 100 children
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – With the approval of the Guinean executive, expressed by the Minister for women's affairs, social cohesion and the fight against poverty, the Babaram House for Children in the Diocese of Bissa ...
30 March 2011
MISSIONARY INTENTION - “That by proclamation of the Gospel and the witness of their lives, missionaries may bring Christ to those who do not yet know him” - Comment on the Missionary Intention for April 2011
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI's Homily on 9 March, Ash Wednesday, he highlighted the need for Christians to be a living message, through their witness to the Gospel. Many peopl ...
29 March 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - The Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli is grateful “for the fraternal solidarity from various Episcopal Conferences”
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “In Tripoli the situation is quite calm but the mood of the people is brought down by the continual queues for fuel and the difficulties in obtaining food, even office work and schools are aff ...
29 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic church attacked in Rawalpindi. The Archbishop: “Trust in God and in the institutions”
Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – New alerts in the Pakistani Catholic community: the Catholic church of St Thomas, in the town of Wah Canntt, about 50 km from Rawalpindi, was attacked by a groups armed men last night, Mond ...
29 March 2011
ASIA/JAPAN - The nuclear disaster is “a lesson for Japan and for the whole world,” notes Bishop
Osaka (Agenzia Fides) – Alarm is rising amongst the Japanese people with regard to the high levels of radioactivity recorded near the nuclear facility in Fukushima, and even the Catholic Church is asking the “nuclear ...
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