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15 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation: “the financial crisis shows in a clear way how the economic and financial paradigms that have been dominant in recent years must be rethought”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The financial crisis that has struck the industrialized nations, the emergent nations and those that are developing, shows in a clear way how the economic and financial paradigms that ha ...
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15 June 2009
VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus mentions: “'Corpus Domini' is a manifestation of God, an attestation that God is love” and “the hundreds of millions of persons who suffer from hunger...is an absolutely unacceptable reality that is hard to control”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the Sunday on which several countries celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (or 'Corpus Domini), “ the feast of the Eucharist, in which the sacrament of the Lord's Body is carried so ...
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13 June 2009
Instrumentum mensis Maii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The principal event in the month of May was the Holy Father's pilgrimage to the Holy Land 8- 15, during which Benedict XVI visited Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. We mention among his many engagements, a ...
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12 June 2009
ASIA/INDONESIA - Presidential elections in Indonesia: religious minorities call for guarantees and rights
Yakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Religious minority groups in Indonesia are calling for guarantee of security, respect for basic rights, and civil liberties during the electoral campaign leading up to elections scheduled for ...
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12 June 2009
ASIA/NEPAL - A Christian testimony of forgiveness in the aftermath of the Cathedral bombing
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – Balan Joseph Palamootil, Catholic layman of Indian background who was wounded in the attack on the Assumption Cathedral in Kathmandu on May 23 of this year (see Fides 25/5/2009), forgave in ...
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12 June 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics celebrate Corpus Christi with a public Solemn Eucharistic Procession: an evangelizing testimony to non-believers
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, also known as the feast of Corpus Christi, is very widely celebrated among Chinese Catholics. According to information released to Agenzia Fides, the ma ...
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12 June 2009
AMERICA/PERU - Launching of “Compartir” Campaign 2009, to promote the reconstruction of churches destroyed in the 2007 earthquake
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – With the title: “Earthquakes Destroy, Sharing Rebuilds,” the Peruvian Bishops' Conference will launch a campaign on June 12, entitled “Compartir” (Share) 2009. This year, the Bishops are ...
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12 June 2009
AMERICA/REPUBLICA DOMINICANA - Government rejects proposal to modify civil effects of marriage in Constitution
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – On June 10, the Revisionary Assembly vetoed a proposal aimed at acknowledging the civil effects of the marriages held in all the churches present in the Dominican Republic, in the Consti ...
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12 June 2009
AMERICA/CUBA - Community of Sant'Egidio inaugurates “Home of Peace and Dialogue” in Havana
Havana (Agenzia Fides) – On June 5, the Community of Sant'Egidio inaugurated the “Home of Peace and Dialogue” in Havana (Cuba). From now on, it will serve as the headquarters of the movement on the island.
At ...
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12 June 2009
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Bishops' concern for situation in Guinea Bissau and Mauritania
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, and Guinea Bissau have launched an appeal to the government and the “active forces” of these nations, asking that they respect the common good ...
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12 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - “The Suitcase with a String”: Haven't we noticed how Africa is here among us, cultivating our lands? Haven't we all realized that our fields are no longer filled with our youth?
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “When I hear someone with a big heart say 'now I want to give Africa an ambulance,' I think of the fact that beforehand, they would need streets, sewage systems, water purifiers, drinking water.. ...
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12 June 2009
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - It is the Sacrifice which makes the Banquet possible.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his homily for the Solemnity of Corpus Christ 2009, the Holy Father Benedict XVI once again warned the whole Church of the danger of “secularisation” among the Catholic faithful, eve ...
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12 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - June 20, Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo celebrate ordinations to the priesthood and diaconate
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, June 20, at 3:30pm, Archbishop Paulo Pezzi of the Diocese of the Mother of God in Moscow, will preside an Ordination Mass for priests and deacons of the Priestly Fraternity of the Mi ...
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12 June 2009
AFRICA/EGYPT - Tonight: Schubert's “Stabat Mater” at the Latin Basilica of Our Lady of Heliopolis, Cairo, for the first time outside of the Christmas Season
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Today, June 12, the Latin Basilica of Our Lady of Heliopolis will hold a free concert, open to the general public.
The “Celebration Choir and Orchestra” will perform Schubert's “Stabat Ma ...
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12 June 2009
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Rector of the Theological Interdiocesan Seminary of Archdiocese of Lusaka appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 7, 2009, appointed Fr. Benjamin Phiri, of the clergy of the Diocese of Chipata (Zambia), Rector o ...
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