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25 January 2011
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - The Community of Villaregia celebrates 30 years in the service of mission in the Missionary Centre under construction
Arecibo (Agenzia Fides) – Father Luigi Prandin and Maria Luigia Corona, founders of the Missionary Community of Villaregia (MCV), were the main testimonies in the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Missionary Communi ...
24 January 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - Intense journey of prayer for Christian unity, in harmony with the universal Church
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – In keeping with the instruction of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, the Catholic faithful are participating intensely in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity together with other ...
24 January 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Bishops: yes to life imprisonment, no to capital punishment for the murder of a missionary
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The Indian Bishops accept and respectfully welcome the decision of the Supreme Court to reduce the sentence of the death penalty to life imprisonment for Dara Singh, the man responsible burn ...
24 January 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Presidential elections only one round: the concerns of the Church
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The power in Kinshasa want to avoid the syndrome of the desired but unattained victory of Laurent Gbagbo, in the first round of presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire,” says a note sent ...
24 January 2011
AFRICA/CHAD - A new project to guarantee potable water and limit the outbreak of cholera
Bongor (Agenzia Fides) – In mid-December in Chad 6,369 cases of cholera and 180 deaths were recorded: these statistics were released by the United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The African Count ...
24 January 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Defending Asia Bibi to build a civilisation for coexisting
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We welcome with satisfaction and hope Italy's commitment to saving Asia Bibi and to the abolition of the blasphemy law,” Fides was told by Peter Jacob, Executive Secretary of the Justice and ...
24 January 2011
ASIA/VIETNAM - New hope for the Church in Vietnam in 2011
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – A new year brings new hope to the Church in Vietnam: testifying to this are the appointment of non-resident pontifical representative to Vietnam, Bishop Leopoldo Girelli, (who will also be the A ...
24 January 2011
VATICAN - “It is also true in the digital world that a message cannot be proclaimed without a consistent witness on the part of the one who proclaims it”: Message for the World Day of Social Communications
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “As with every other fruit of human ingenuity, the new communications technologies must be placed at the service of the integral good of the individual and of the whole of humanity. If ...
24 January 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Diplomatic and economic pressures increase to force Gbagbo to surrender power
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- Nigeria intends to ask the UN Security Council for a resolution to authorise the use of force to remove Laurent Gbagbo from power, the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire. The Nigerian Foreign M ...
24 January 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - Missionaries of Punta Arenas collaborate on Caritas project in earthquake-affected zones
Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Silvia Barañados, adviser and school pastoral care minister, together with seven religious sisters and some youth from Punta Arenas, profited from the winter vacation period by ta ...
22 January 2011
EUROPE/POLAND - New impetus for “Star Singers” and for missionary formation
Varsavia (Agenzia Fides) – The development of the initiative known as “Star Singers”, the intensification of formation in the Pontifical Society of St Peter Apostle, the deepening of missionary commitment by the g ...
22 January 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - “Meaning, mission, challenges and trends”: meeting of Superiors of the Chinese Salesians
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – “Called by the Lord to be Superiors: meaning, mission, challenges and trends” was the theme of the formation event which brought together men and women Salesian superiors in the Chinese ...
22 January 2011
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Finding new motivation and courage to proclaim the Gospel
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – The National Council of the Pontifical Mission Society (PMS) of Zambia met on 19 and 20 January 2011 at the Charles Lwanga Retreat Centre in Lusaka. “It was a very important meeting, because ...
22 January 2011
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Malagasy population of Tolagnaro continues to die of thirst
Fort Dauphin (Agenzia Fides) – The drought has always the cause of periods of severe famine and epidemics that have plagued the people of Fort Dauphin, or Tolagnaro in the Malagasy language. According to local missiona ...
22 January 2011
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Almost all Central Africa to vote to elect the new President
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, 23 January, 1,800,000 will vote in the presidential and legislative elections of the Central African Republic. “The situation in the capital of Bangui is calm. Our hope is that the ...
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