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23 December 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Bishops in mourning
Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 November, 2010, Bishop Paul Jiang Taoran died, aged 84, bishop emeritus who had exercised his episcopal ministry in Shijiazhuang, in the diocese of Zhengding (Hebei Province, mainland ...
23 December 2010
ASIA/HONG KONG - “The Gifts of the Magi”: Christmas letter to the “family” in which Bishop John Tong shares four dreams with his faithful
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “To continue evangelization efforts”, “to promote vocations”, “to take care of faithful foreigners”, and “to assume the role of bridge” are the four dreams of Bishop John Tong, ...
23 December 2010
AMERICA/ECUADOR - New programs for the 52,000 Colombians migrated to Ecuador
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministers for Foreign Affairs from Colombia and Ecuador have asked the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help in assisting more th ...
21 December 2010
VATICANO - “Faith is not a thing of the past, but an encounter with the God Who lives and acts now”: Benedict XVI to the Roman Curia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his Address to the Roman Curia on the occasion of exchanging Christmas greetings on 20 December, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled as usual on this occasion, the main events of the ...
21 December 2010
ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic community is getting ready for Christmas in the name of charity and promoting vocations
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The faith, evangelization, charity, solidarity, promotion of vocations: on these key issues the mainland Chinese Catholic community is preparing the path for Christmas. Several initiative ...
21 December 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - “We fear LRA massacres at Christmas and during the referendum in January,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambo
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “There are at least four villages in Western Equatoria where people live in real fear of new attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambo, so ...
21 December 2010
ASIA/NEPAL - “Living for God, working for Nepal”: Jesuit schools continue to expand
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty years after opening the first school in Nepal, the Jesuits continue to expand the educational apostolate in the Country. In fact another floor, the fourth, has just been added at St Xavi ...
21 December 2010
ASIA/THAILAND - In a detention centre: children, women, elderly and sick people fleeing from Pakistan
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 85 displaced people from Pakistan have been taken into custody by immigration in Bangkok, according to a statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission received by Fides. The group ...
21 December 2010
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Situation still blocked while the European Union adopted sanctions against Gbagbo
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “The political situation is blocked and the sanctions decided on by the European Union and the UN seem to have taken effect, at least for now, to strengthen the determination of Gbagbo's camp ...
21 December 2010
ASIA/IRAQ - Increased security measures, especially for religious and ethnic communities
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Mosul are increasingly targeted by armed men that, as reported by the press in Iraq, killed at least five people in the month of November. News of kidnappings and murders of Chris ...
21 December 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Cabrejos asks presidential candidates to support proposals for the good of the country, regardless of ideology
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference (CEP), Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos, asked the presidential candidates to not fall into the “politics of trivial things”, but to support the prop ...
20 December 2010
AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of the Bishop of Damongo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 17 December, 2010, appointed as Bishop of Damongo (Ghana), Mons. Peter Paul Angkyier, former Vicar General and diocesan consultant of Damongo.
The new Bish ...
20 December 2010
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kottapuram
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 18 December, 2010, appointed as Bishop of Kottapuram (India), Bishop Joseph Karikkassery, until now Titular Bishop of Buxentum and Auxiliary Bishop of Verap ...
20 December 2010
ASIA/TAIWAN - Inauguration of the Centre for Pastoral Care Service at the Sanctuary of the Mount of Beatitudes
Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The great dream of Cardinal Paul Shan, Bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung Diocese and President emeritus of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, and that of many Catholics in Taiwan has fina ...
20 December 2010
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In Manila, a new house for disabled children, to enhance their capabilities
Quezon City (Agenzia Fides) - The Guanella Home for Special Children, a simple house with a familial environment designed to accommodate about twenty children with mental and physical disabilities, was inaugurated on 12 ...
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