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9 January 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - First Missionary Congress in Aiquile: “Let's go on missions!”
Aiquile (Agenzia Fides) - “Let's go on missions!” sound's like a song refrain, but instead it is the clear shout raised y over 300 children participating in the First Missionary Congress taking place in the Prelature ...
9 January 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - 5th National Convention for Animators and Leaders of the Holy Childhood Association
Iquique (Agenzia Fides) - About 200 people attend the Fifth National Conference of Animators and Leaders of the ministry of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood Association, held from Friday, January 8 to Monday, Jan ...
9 January 2010
ASIA/LAOS - Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on January 9, 2010, appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet (Laos), Fr. Jean Marie Vianney Prida Inthirath, parish priest and Rector of the Major Seminar ...
9 January 2010
AFRICA/CHAD - “Religions should work for peace and reconciliation,” Bishops of Chad say
N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) – An invitation to all religious leaders to engage in the search for peace and national reconciliation has been made by the Bishops of Chad. "Through the Synod of Bishops for Africa, we became ...
9 January 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - On the outskirts of Sao Paolo, amidst unemployment and insecurity, the Missionaries of the Immaculate are at work
São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – Unemployment, insecurity, lack of health care, illiteracy...all of these things are are present in many of the “favelas” of São Paulo, Brazil. Sister Annamaria Fornasiero, Missionary o ...
9 January 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Care centers for street children, a home for disabled children, a farming colony:initiatives of the Opera Don Guanella
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – There are many centers in Congo being run and activities being organized by religious Opera Don Guanella, to meet some of the emergency needs facing the country. Among these are the Limete Wo ...
8 January 2010
EUROPE/POLAND - “Star Singers” of the Holy Childhood Association of Czestochowa conclude Christmas activities in an encounter with the Archbishop
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation of children from the Archdiocese of Czestochowa who are part of the “Star Singers” of the Holy Childhood Association met with Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak of Czestochowa, in ...
8 January 2010
ASIA/HONG KONG - The role of the priest for a more efficient evangelization: formation encounter for diocesan priests
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Reflecting together on the priesthood in terms of theological, spiritual and psychological viewpoints, to promote a more reasoned and in key pastoral evangelization: this was the main reason f ...
8 January 2010
AFRICA/EGYPT - “They are trying to turn Christian feast days into days of mourning” denounces Coptic Catholic Bishop of Luxor
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This attack on the day of Orthodox Christmas did not happen by chance: there is a clear plan to transform the Christian holidays into days of suffering," Fides was told by Archbishop Youhannes Za ...
8 January 2010
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Solidarity and hope for the Holy Land: European and American Bishops' visit
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From January 10 - 14, a delegation of twenty people including bishops and representatives of bishops' conferences and ecclesial bodies in Europe and North America, will visit the Christian people a ...
8 January 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Nearly 400 children and youth at National HCA Congress
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From January 7 to 10, the Prelature of Aiquile will be hosting the first National Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (HCA), with the main objective of asse ...
8 January 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro and Caritas launch a campaign to help homeless from torrential rains
Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2009 ended with a heavy rain, which hit many regions of Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, many people have died and thousands of families have been left homeless. The solidarity of the ...
8 January 2010
EUROPE/ENGLAND - New Salesian Primary School in Bootle, open to international relations
Liverpool (Agenzia Fides) - The new Bootle school, “All Saints RC Primary”, based in the Salesian parish of St. James was officially opened recently. The school offers a state of the art educational and community fac ...
8 January 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - Peace at risk in South Sudan say 10 NGOs working in the country
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Peace is at risk in southern Sudan. This it was has been revealed by a report submitted by 10 NGOs, including some Catholic ones, working in the region. According to the report, entitled "Res ...
7 January 2010
VATICAN - Pope at Angelus on the Epiphany, greets “affectionately all the little missionaries present in the five continents”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the feast of the Epiphany, on January 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled the day for the Holy Childhood Association at the Angelus, expressing his greeting and encouragement to a ...
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