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24 June 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Prayers for the sanctification of priests and ordination of 5 deacons open the Year of the Priesthood in the diocese Shang Hai; initiatives in many other mainland dioceses
Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) – “Pray for the sanctification of the 408,000 Catholic priests in the world, pray for these 5 deacons, future priests, that they may have the holiness which the name of apostle of Jesus dese ...
24 June 2009
ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Year of the Priesthood opens at Saint Jean Marie Vianney major seminary in Phnom Penh in the presence of the Saint relics; intense programme of activities
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Friday 19 June, the Year of the Priesthood was solemnly opened at Saint Jean Marie Vianney major seminary in Phnom Penh, in the presence of the Vicar apostolic of Phnom Penh, Bishop Emile D ...
24 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - Darfur and southern Sudan: Caritas Internationalis forum on the dramatic crisis
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Figures in Darfur and southern Sudan are dramatic: decades of civil war, nine out of ten people living on less than a dollar a day, 300,000 people killed, 2.7 uprooted from their homes, 290.000 m ...
24 June 2009
EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “A Suitcase with String”: if you want to join the army of emigrants you will probably have to pay money! A lot of money! Your debt will be infinite, like the hope in every human heart...
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - If you want to join the army of emigrants you will probably have to pay money! A of lot money! Your debt will be infinite, like the sweetest hopes in every human heart. Give lots of money! And you ...
24 June 2009
ASIA/TURKEY - “The Year of St Paul has helped the faithful in Turkey to rediscover their Christian identity and given new impulse to ecumenism” Bishop Luigi Padovese, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, tells Fides
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – “The celebration of the Year of St Paul was certainly a most significant ecclesial event for the different Churches in Turkey. The celebrations brought the different Christian communities a ...
24 June 2009
EUROPE/GERMANY - Catholic Bible Federation Cattolica celebrates 40 years of foundation and moves from Stuttgart to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Ottilien
Sankt Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of 40 years of the foundation of the Catholic Bible Federation (CBF/KBF) and the transfer of its offices to the monastery of the Missionary Benedictines of St. Ottilien ...
24 June 2009
VATICAN - Migration and new forms of slavery: “The Church combats modern forms of slavery, through her convictions, teachings and activity, inspired by the Lord's Gospel of love and compassion and the dignity of every human person ”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “ The Church combats modern forms of slavery, through her convictions, teachings and activity, inspired by the Lord's Gospel of love and compassion and the dignity of every human person, using ...
24 June 2009
VATICAN - Ave Maria: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The Year of the Priesthood
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of the Priesthood inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI is a great occasion of grace, above all for those of us who are priests, to rediscover and to reflect on our vocation as servants ...
23 June 2009
ASIA/VIETNAM - Catholic Bishops of Vietnam begin Ad Limina to the Holy See - The situation of the Catholic Church in Vietnam
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Ad Limina Apostolorum Visit of the Bishops of Vietnam, 22 June, Fides will publish information on the life of the local Catholic Church, other religions present, th ...
23 June 2009
ASIA/CAMBODIA - First Meeting for Novices, postulants and seminarians in Cambodia
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time, on Thursday 18 June, all the novices, postulants and seminarians of Cambodia gathered together for a day of pray and reflection organised by the Catholic Seminary of Phn ...
23 June 2009
ASIA/TAIWAN - Taiwan parish dedicated to the Apostle of the Nations, plans solemn celebrations to close the Year of St Paul
Hsin Chuang (Agenzia Fides) – A great Concert dedicated to the closing of the Year of St Paul will be held on 28 June, vigil of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, at St Paul's Catholic Parish Church, archdiocese of Ta ...
23 June 2009
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “I am in my diocese. Shall I not share the plight of my children?”. The Catholic Church in Sierra Leone commemorates the first Vicar Apostolic on the 150th anniversary of his death
Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- Catholics in Sierra Leone are commemorating Bishop Melchior de Marion de Brésillac, the country's Vicar Apostolic, who died 150 years ago. On the occasion of the anniversary Italian Xaverian mi ...
23 June 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Madagascar amidst hopes and uncertainties prepares to celebrate annual National Holiday, while the south continues to suffer hunger and thirst
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- While Madagascar waits anxiously for national dialogue to begin, the country is preparing to celebrate the annual National Holiday on 26 June. “The situation is calm, although both the pol ...
23 June 2009
EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase with string”: it is unacceptable that three women should be raped and forced into slavery and prostitution, it is unacceptable that people from a rich continent like Africa arrive in the north of the world along paths of blackmail and a thousand threats
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - It is unacceptable that three women should be raped and forced into slavery and prostitution. It is unacceptable that that a girl of 15 should cross a desert alone, accompanied only by death. It is ...
23 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - The Circus Maximus in Rome to host Italy's third National Eucharistic Gathering, animated by young members of more than 100 different associative realities, Saturday/Sunday night 27 and 28 June
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - During the night 27 / 28 June 2009 there will be the third edition of Italy's National Eucharistic Gathering, animated by young people in the nocturnal setting of Rome's famous Circus Maximus. Man ...
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