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10 June 2009
EUROPE/SPAIN - Day for analyzing the efficiency of youth drug prevention activity
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – A study performed by the University of Valencia, promoted by the Don Bosco Confederation, with the support of the Health and Social-Political Minister, concluded that youth who participate in a ...
10 June 2009
AMERICA/ECUADOR - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 28, 2009, appointed Fr. Reynaldo Noé Franco Velásquez, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Port ...
10 June 2009
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “The Suitcase with a String”: the whole day spent in the fields, under the sun, without food, with only water...but we can't go back home until we pay the debt, the entire debt we owe the ones who led us here
New York (Agenzia Fides) – The immigrants who manage to reach the US from Mexico become prisoners of those who had helped them get there, and until they pay their debt with the traffickers, they cannot even think about ...
10 June 2009
AMERICA/HONDURAS - National Pastoral Commission denounces weakening of democratic system with the public loss of credibility and trust in government institutions
Siguatepeque (Agenzia Fides) – In a meeting held in Siguatepeque, June 1 and 2 for the ordinary session, members of the National Pastoral Commission analyzed the situation of the country, which they view with great con ...
10 June 2009
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops' Conference accepts government's petition for mediation work with Amazon communities involved in the conflict
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The Peruvian government has asked the Catholic Church to join in the mediation effort with the Amazon communities in the conflict that took a bad fall on Friday following an uprising near Baguan ...
10 June 2009
VATICAN - Ave Maria: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Faithful to the Word and to prayer
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “If we want to prevent Pentecost from being reduced to a mere rite or even an evocative commemoration but want it to be an actual event of salvation, we must prepare ourselves in devout e ...
9 June 2009
VATICAN - “In defense of Pius XII - The Historical Reasons”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Upon the gracious consent of the author, we here publish a translation of the Introduction to the book “In difesa di Pio XII – Le ragioni della storia” (“In defense of Pius XII ...
9 June 2009
ASIA/BANGLADESH - The mission among the tribal areas continues: a new church for the Diocese of Dinajpur
Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) – This will be another sign of hope and a light that will shine in the Diocese of Dinajpur: the new church recently consecrated in the city of Jamtuli. The church will be a center for spreading ...
9 June 2009
AMERICA/MEXICO - Church in Mexico gathers in prayer for the children who died in the day care fire and for those that remain in serious condition in the hospitals “that they may soon recover and return home with their parents”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference issued a statement signed by their Secretary General Bishop Leopoldo Gonzalez, expressing their condolences to the families whose children died in the tragi ...
9 June 2009
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Conclusion of the XI Continental Encounter of the Information Network if the Church in Latin America, with guideline proposals in support of the Continental Mission
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The XI Continental Encounter of the Information Network if the Church in Latin America has finally concluded, offering guidelines to continue promoting RIIAL's spirit.
“As Bishop and on beha ...
9 June 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The Suitcase with a String”: the shirt in style on sale in Europe is often made by people working in slave-like conditions in Latin America, and the business prospers...
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The immigration problem, beyond any judgment on economics and politics, is a question of respect for the dignity of the person, of the other individual that lives in our midst. As a young ...
9 June 2009
ASIA/CHINA - At the Cathedral of Tian Jin: 208 baptisms on the vigil of the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China: in recent years, newly baptized shown to be younger and more learned
Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) – On the vigil of the Solemnity of the Ascension and the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China (May 24), declared by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his Letter to Catholics in China in 20 ...
9 June 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Evangelization and education are the two main priorities of the five Dehonian missions in Madagascar
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – The Dehonian Missionaries reached Madagascar in 1976 (from Italy) and 1982 (from Portugal). Today, they are fully integrated into Madagascar's culture and in the local Church, which has 2 ...
9 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Venezuelan Bishops on their Ad Limina visit: “I therefore encourage you to increase initiatives that aim to make the figure and message of Jesus Christ known in all their fullness and beauty. To this end, apart from sound doctrinal formation of the People of God, it is important to encourage lives of profound faith and prayer.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The challenges you have to face in your pastoral work are increasingly numerous and difficult, and have recently been further augmented by a serious worldwide economic crisis. Nonethele ...
9 June 2009
EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - Pontifical Mission Societies in England and Wales re-focuses missionary work with launch of “Missio”
London (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in England and Wales announced today, June 9, that they will relaunch the missionary society with the name of “Missio,” according to a statement sent to ...
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