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1 July 2010
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops offer Mass and list of priorities for President Aquino
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Carry out the long-awaited land reform; reject the document on sexual and reproductive health; eradicate nepotism and corruption from government; ensure food security in the country...These are ...
30 June 2010
VATICAN - Note from the Press Office regarding the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The following is the entire text of the statement published by the Holy See Press Office on June 28, 2010.
Faced with news reports which, for some time now, have been circulating with ...
30 June 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Onaiyekan following release of Fr. Ukpong: we will not pay a ransom
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - "The Reverend Professor Justin Ukpong, and his driver were released Sunday, June 27, without payment of any ransom, thanks to the work of police at the place where the two were held by their kidna ...
30 June 2010
VATICAN - “The universal Church faces the challenge of the new evangelization”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “There are regions in the world that still wait for a first evangelization; others that received it but need more profound work; others still in which the Gospel put down roots a long tim ...
30 June 2010
VATICAN - God frees his faithful servants from every evil and frees the Church from negative powers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “God is close to his faithful servants and frees them from all evil, and frees the Church from negative powers.” This was the theme of the biblical texts proclaimed on the Solemnity of ...
30 June 2010
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocese thanks families of priests and religious for supporting vocations
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocesan Vocations Commission, with a solemn Mass presided by Bishop John Tong of the Diocese of Hong Kong, thanked the families of priests, men and women religious, and seminarians for ...
30 June 2010
ASIA/CHINA - New Bishop for Diocese of Sanyuan in Shaanxi
Yuanmenxiang (Agenzia Fides) – Thursday, June 24, in the Cathedral Church of the Sacred Heart in Yuanmenxiang, there was an episcopal ordination held for Bishop Joseph Han Yingjin of the diocesan clergy, 51 years of ag ...
30 June 2010
ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic extremists' campaign against Christians; for the Church “the only way is dialogue”
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Indonesian Islamic extremist groups have launched a campaign “against the Christianization of Indonesia” and "the adoption of Sharia in the country.” In the past several days, Bekasi, a ...
30 June 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Congolese Bishops: “Let us restore the shattered dream of independence”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – "Our beloved country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is celebrating the golden jubilee of its independence. The Congolese people are called to use all their energies to reconstruct its ide ...
30 June 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA - Awaiting election results, religious leaders unite to preach peace
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – June 27 presidential elections were held in calm and with a high turnout in the Republic of Guinea, the first truly free elections in the country since its independence in 1958. The interim re ...
30 June 2010
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Church responds to violence on public transport: “need for real operational plans, timely concrete actions”
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Violence carried out by the feared "maras" (youth gangs) of Central America continues to claim lives in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 20, 17 p ...
30 June 2010
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Haiti among group of Ibero-American cooperation countries
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – Representatives from 22 countries attended the Tuesday, June 29th celebration of "Ibero-American Cooperation Day" held every year, this time celebrated in the Dominican Republic, to prom ...
28 June 2010
ASIA/INDONESIA - The youth, morals, and “the altar of new mass media”
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "For young Indonesians, the new technologies and new media are like 'new altars,' places to spend all their passion and their life. The Church's mission today cannot ignore this phenomenon.” T ...
28 June 2010
ASIA/INDONESIA - Archbishop of Jakarta resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI, on June 28, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Jakarta (Indonesia), presented by Cardinal Jiulius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, SJ, i ...
28 June 2010
MISSIONARY INTENTION - Pope's Missionary Intention for July 2010: “That Christians may strive to offer everywhere, but especially in great urban centers, an effective contribution to the promotion of education, justice, solidarity and peace.” Commentary.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The contemporary world lives in constant mutation. The economic phenomena, industrialization, the technological revolution, have produced significant changes in social structures, both on ...
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