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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 ...
23 June 2009
EUROPE/POLAND - Catholic weekly Niedziela opens new Year of the Priesthood web site with texts of the Magisterium and testimony on the part of members of faithful on priests whom they have encountered in their lives
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – “Fidelity of Christ, Fidelity of the Priest - Year of the Priesthood” is the title of a web site launched by Poland's Catholic weekly Niedziela, and inaugurated for the Year of the Pri ...
23 June 2009
VATICAN - Closing Day of the Year of St Paul with Benedict XVI in St Paul's Basilica; Papal Letter appointing seven Cardinal Envoys to closing celebrations in 'St Paul' places
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 28 June at 6pm in St Paul's Basilica in Rome, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will preside solemn Vespers on the occasion of the closing of the Year of St Paul. Monday 29 June, at 5.3 ...
22 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Council of the Alcide De Gasperi Foundation: “may the memory of his experience of government and his Christian witness be of encouragement and impulse for those who have in their hands the destiny of Italy and other peoples ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Formed at the school of the Gospel, De Gasperi expressed the faith he professed with concrete and coherent action. Spirituality and politics were two dimensions which lived side by sid ...
22 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - Because the food crisis over one million people in the world suffer from hunger, rich countries also affected
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Because of the present food crisis, hunger, which already affects large sectors of the world population, threatens to reach a new dramatic record level. One sixth of the people on our planet, tha ...
22 June 2009
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase with string”: Mexicans abandoned as far as 600km away from their villages. And Mexican women! Deported at the age of 17. The most vulnerable, in places where there is no one to help them.
Nogales Arizona (Agenzia Fides) – We are in Nogales Arizona, a city which borders on Nogales Sonora, another city in Mexico. Hundreds of migrants deported from the United States back to Mexico pass through here every d ...
22 June 2009
ASIA/CHINA - “Today as the Year of the Priesthood opens, let us pray for all our priests”: crowds of faithful attend initiatives in dioceses and parishes; new web pages, publications
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Solemn Celebration of the Eucharist, Adoration, special prayers for priests all over the world, new pages on Catholic web sites, publications on the theme of the priesthood, marked the opening ...
22 June 2009
ASIA/MYANMAR - Solemn opening in Yangon of the Year of the Priesthood
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – A great celebration of prayer and sharing among bishops and priests: this is how the Catholic Church in Myanmar, united heart and mind with the Holy Father, Benedict XVI and the universal Churc ...
22 June 2009
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Catholics commemorate the start of the fifth year of the Pontificate of Benedict XVI
Cairo (Agenzia Fides)- Egyptian Catholics are preparing to celebrate the beginning of the fifth year of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI with various ceremonies. On June 25 a special Mass will be celebrated at Alexan ...
22 June 2009
VATICAN - The Pope in San Giovanni Rotondo - to priests, religious and young people: “Like Padre Pio, be faithful friends of the Lord Jesus, establishing with Him a daily relationship through prayer and listening to his Word, assiduous reception of the Sacraments and cordial membership of his family, the Church”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – The last appointment of the pastoral visit of the Holy Father Benedict XVI at San Giovanni Rotondo, in the afternoon of Sunday 21 June, was with the local clergy, men and women re ...
22 June 2009
VATICAN - the Pope in San Giovanni Rotondo - “Being ‘reserves of love: this is the mission to which our Saint this evening calls you who, with different roles, form the great family of this Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of Sunday 21 June, in front of the monumental entrance of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza at San Giovanni Rotondo, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, addressed the ...
22 June 2009
VATICAN - At the Angelus from San Giovanni Rotondo the Pope entrusts to the intercession of Our Lady and san Pio da Pietrelcina the Year of the Priesthood and launches an appeal in aid of refugees: “ Receiving them creates no few difficulties yet it is nonetheless our duty”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of the Holy Mass celebrated in front of the church of San Pio da Pietrelcina at San Giovanni Rotondo, Sunday 21 June, the Holy Father Benedict XVI, led the recitation o ...
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