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14 September 2009
AMERICA/PERU - Family Day: Archbishop of Lima exhorts engaged couples to be concerned “with that which unites” and tells parents to be “primary educators” of their children with their example
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – “A society that openly kills the unborn is a sick society.” This is what the Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, said in a radio show “Faith Dialogue” on Saturday, September ...
14 September 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Crisis in Madagascar worsens following the canceled meeting for the application of the Maputo Accords
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - “In the last two days, new developments seem to have complicated the political crisis in Madagascar,” sources from Don Bosco Radio, the main Catholic radio station in Madagascar, told A ...
14 September 2009
AFRICA/UGANDA - Calm returns to Kampala following attacks in recent days that led to at least 21 dead
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – At least 21 people have been killed in the fighting that has taken place in recent days in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. This is what rescue workers have reported, as it seems that peace has ...
14 September 2009
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bible Apostolate as an effective instrument in the mission
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Promoting Bible Apostolate in parishes, forming teachers, organizing seminars and retreats in the area for all the faithful: this is the proposal that arose from the 18th Plenary Assembly of the ...
14 September 2009
ASIA/VIETNAM - 2010 will be a Jubilee Year for the Church in Vietnam, with culminating event of National Congress in Hue
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – 2010 will be a Jubilee Year for the Church in Vietnam, as is read in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides from the Bishops' Conference. The Church in Vietnam will celebrate the 50th anniversary of ...
14 September 2009
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “New Year, New Life!” campaign from Ethiopian government to encourage citizens to be tested for HIV
Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) – The Ethiopian government, as a pretext for encouraging citizens to have themselves tested for HIV, is using modern technologies and the celebration of the New Year in the country. “New Y ...
14 September 2009
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - At least 673 cases of acute diarrhea and/or cholera in 11 of the 34 provinces in the nation
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – In the last two months, in Afghanistan, 28 people have died from cholera and Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD). According to information from the Ministry of Public Health, at least 673 cases of AWD a ...
12 September 2009
Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
During the month of August the Sunday and feast day appointments for the recitation of the Angelus prayer and for the Wednesday General Audiences took place in the courtyard of the Pope's Summer Residence in the hillside ...
12 September 2009
Dossier - The principal regional economic institutions of Africa (2)
The Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Introduction
The Teaching of the African Bishops in the Instrumentum Laboris for the Synod
A major regional financial-economic institution in Africa:
the So ...
11 September 2009
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A “missionary experience” in Papua: the offering of the De La Salle Brothers to the Australian youth
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - “See to believe in the missionary vocation,” for gaining light for personal discernment and deciding to give your entire life to the preaching of the Gospel and the service of others: t ...
11 September 2009
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Martyrs Museum reopens in Seoul
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a place of extraordinary importance for making the history of the Church in Korea and the faith of our predecessors known”: with these words, Cardinal Nicholas Choeng, Archbishop of Seo ...
11 September 2009
EUROPE/POLAND - Interfaith relations in the realization of the Church's mission, focus of the International Conference of Canonists in Czestochowa
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “A divided Church is against the will of Jesus Christ and is anti-missionary and anti-evangelizing. We should use every means possible, such as prayer, to fulfill Jesus' will. Loving the C ...
11 September 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Chorus, orchestra, and ballet placed at the service of evangelization: an initiative of the community of Wei Xian, Province of He Bei
Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – The initiatives for the new evangelization promoted by the community of Wei Xian, in the Province of He Bei, show the necessary participation of the entire community in the Church's mission. I ...
11 September 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Marian Mission and Permanent Mission of Military Diocese begin: “With Mary, Our Mother, Missionary Disciples for Bolivia”
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 9, at the Cathedral of La Paz, Bishop Gonzalo del Castillo, Military Bishop of Bolivia, presided the Mass at the beginning of the Marian Mission and the Permanent Missio ...
11 September 2009
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Migrant Week 2009: “Establishing dignity in cultural diversity”: “offering a testimony of fraternal charity at the service of our brother immigrants and refugees”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “Establishing dignity in cultural diversity” will be the theme of Migrant Week 2009, which will be held in Colombia, September 13-20. The event is coordinated by the Section of Human Mobility ...
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