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12 October 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - Special section opened on Comboni Missionaries website: “Preparing for the 10th General Chapter 2010”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – As of October 10, the Comboni Missionary Sisters have opened a new section on their official website entitled “Preparing for the 10th General Chapter 2010.” The date chosen is no coincidence, ...
12 October 2009
VATICAN - “In this time of grace the whole of the Christian community is called to rediscover the beauty of the priestly vocation and thus to pray for priests.” Letter to the sick, suffering, and health care workers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Year for Priests, which His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI declared beginning with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, this past June 19, 2009, the Pontifical C ...
12 October 2009
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Missionary kidnapped in South Philippines; Appeal from Bishops of Mindanao
Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – The plague of kidnappings continues to afflict the Catholic community of South Philippines. Yesterday evening, October 11, a missionary from the Society of Saint Columban was kidnapped. No n ...
12 October 2009
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Preparations underway for World Mission Sunday, with special appeal to children and laity to get involved in the Church and Korean society
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Children and laity active in the missionary effort: this will be the main goal behind the events being planned for World Mission Sunday (WMS), which is October 18.
In a message sent to Agenzia ...
12 October 2009
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Pontifical Mission Societies prepares for World Mission Sunday: PMS National Director in Zambia speaks with Fides
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - “The Pontifical Mission Society of the Holy Childhood is very young in Zambia. 10 years ago dioceses started a serious program of organizing the Society as part of the overall life of the local ...
12 October 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA - “The crisis in Guinea risks turning into an ethnic conflict,” local sources tell Fides.
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - “We have no confirmation that among those who were suppressed in the protest on September 28 were former Liberian rebels of Ulimo and the NPFL,” Agenzia Fides was told by sources from the Ch ...
12 October 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - Death of Bishop Francis Baldacchino, First Bishop of the Diocese of Malindi
Malindi (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Francis Baldacchino, OFMCap, of Malindi (Kenya) passed away on October 10, 2009. Born in Malta, on July 6, 1936, the Capuchin Friar and missionary worked in Africa for over 40 years (La ...
12 October 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Large attendance at perpetual vows of 5 religious from Franciscan Order of the Child Jesus, on the First Sunday of the Missionary Month
Yi Chang (Agenzia Fides) – Five religious sisters of the Franciscan Order of the Child Jesus in the Diocese of Yi Chang made their perpetual vows on the First Sunday of the Missionary Month of October. According to inf ...
9 October 2009
VATICAN - To our Fides readers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Mr. Luca De Mata will no longer be serving as Director of Agenzia Fides, having reached the age of retirement. We express to him our gratitude, from the Congregation of the Evangelization ...
9 October 2009
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop of Gurue resigns
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on October 9, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Gurue (Mozambique) presented by Bishop Manuel Chuanguira Machado, ...
9 October 2009
VATICAN - Solidarity of President Delegates and Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops with Archbishop of Bukavu, forced to return to his homeland as a result of the dangerous situation
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The President Delegates and Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops sent the following letter to Archbishop François Xavier Maroy Rusengo of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo).
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9 October 2009
VATICAN - Saturday, October 10, Marian Vigil of university students with the Pope and Synod Fathers “for Africa and with Africa,” with satellite connections to 8 African countries
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, on October 10, at 5pm in the Paul VI Audience Hall, there will be a Marian Vigil for university students fro ...
9 October 2009
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Four weeks of prayer for the missions” - PMS of Zambia proposes prayer intentions: II Synod of Africa, General Chapter of Combonian Missionaries, and Priests
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – Zambia has also been celebrating this October dedicated to the missions with prayer and missionary activities. As a statement sent to Agenzia Fides from the National Director of the Pontifical ...
9 October 2009
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Important initiative from South African Bishops presented to the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops: Catholic Parliamentarian Liaison Office
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Auxiliary Bishop Barry Alexander Anthony Wood of Durban, South Africa, in his address to the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, presented an initiative from the Southern Africa Catholic Bi ...
9 October 2009
AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Are they trying to send a warning sign to the Church?” a missionary in eastern Congo asks following attacks on churches
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “Are they trying to send a warning sign to the Church?” is the question presented to Agenzia Fides in an interview with a missionary from South Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic R ...
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