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29 September 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - Father Louis Lougen elected Superior General of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI)
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 35th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), being held in Rome (see Fides 07/09/2010), has elected Superior General Fr. Lougen Louis, age 58, currently Provincial ...
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29 September 2010
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A long preparation for the Month of the Missions, with the goal of promoting HCA throughout the country
Managua (Agenzia Fides) – In Nicaragua, preparations for the missionary month of October have been underway since August 21, date of the first National Meeting of Group Leaders of the Holy Childhood Association, during ...
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29 September 2010
ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop John Hung personally accompanies two young men entering the Seminary
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – For Archbishop John Hung, Archbishop of Taipei, this past September 1st was the most beautiful and joyous day of his episcopate. On that day, he accompanied two young men of the archdiocese wh ...
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29 September 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Severe storms lead to 4 deaths, 100 missing, and hundreds of damaged homes in the State of Oaxaca
Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – The Civil Protection has confirmed the news that 4 people were killed after a landslide that occurred yesterday in the community of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Th ...
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27 September 2010
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Mutilated cadavers discovered: “an extremely disturbing situation” a local source tells Fides
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – "It is a worrying situation that threatens to bring us back to the dark years of civil war," Fides was told by a source from the Church in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. For security rea ...
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27 September 2010
ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa's dream: a home for terminally ill patients in Ayodhya
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - "Mother Teresa wanted the land disputed between Hindus and Muslims in the town of Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh, to become the site for a shelter for the poorest of the poor, for the terminally ill ...
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25 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Community of Sant’Egidio tells of refugees camped out in the cemetery
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – They go out to the refugees in boats, the only means to help the people of Kot Addu (near Muzaffargahr, South Punjab), an area still flooded by the waters. The volunteers of the Community of Sa ...
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25 September 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Catechists aware of the importance of evangelization and spirituality
Nan Chong (Agenzia Fides) – The 85 catechists, 3 religious, and 3 seminarians who attended the fourth edition of the training course for catechists organized by the Diocese of Nan Chong, in the Si Chuan province on mai ...
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25 September 2010
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Meeting in Abidjan in preparation for Forum on “Culture, Identity of Peoples, and Development in Africa and in the Black Diaspora.”
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Culture, Identity of Peoples, and Development in Africa and in the Black Diaspora.” This is the theme of a Forum being promoted by the Pontifical Council for Culture, in collaboration with ...
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25 September 2010
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Archbishop Rouamba tells Fides of “a very positive meeting,” after participating in the Congress for the International Catholic Union of the Press held for the first time in Africa
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting was very positive, as I was able to observe in talking to some journalists from my country who participated in it," Fides learned from Archbishop Séraphin François Rouamba, Ar ...
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25 September 2010
AMERICA/PERU - “Politics should seek the common good”: Bishops' message on upcoming elections
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – In light of the regional and municipal elections scheduled to take place Sunday, October 3, the Bishops of Peru have issued a message asking candidates to seek the common good of the population a ...
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25 September 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missions Month begins in Catamarca, in the jubilee year of the diocese
San Fernando del Valle (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, October 2 at 18, at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Valley, there will be a Mass celebrated for the beginning of the Missions Month, October. The Mass wil ...
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24 September 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombian Bishops express hope for dialogue with FARC: “It is time for the war to end.”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Colombian Bishops' Conference (CEC), Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Barranquilla, says that the death of the guerrilla leader Victor Julio Suarez Rojas could mean the op ...
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24 September 2010
ASIA/INDIA - Ayodhya verdict postponed thanks to “visionary lawyer” who still believes in peace
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The long-awaited verdict on the Ayodhya dispute (location in the state of Uttar Pradesh), site disputed by Hindus and Muslims, has been postponed to September 28. The dispute led to bloody c ...
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24 September 2010
EUROPE/GERMANY - Missions Office Director says: “We need to promote new forms of missionary apostolate according to the signs of the times.”
Fulda (Agenzia Fides) – During their Plenary Assembly which was held September 20 to 23 in Fulda, the German bishops outlined an initial assessment of the work of the new Office for the Missions based in Erfurt (German ...
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