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10 February 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - Youth Missionary Congress during the Year of St. Paul on “Paul's secret” and European Youth Missionary Pilgrimage to Rome with theme: “Missionaries like Paul.”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In this, the year of the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the Apostle to the Gentiles, the Youth Missionary Movement has organized a Youth Missionary Congress to be celebrated April 30 – May ...
10 February 2009
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Prayer and solidarity of the Church, for fire victims
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Australia has responded to the fire that has been raging in the last several days in the state of Victoria (where the capital is Melbourne), with prayer and solidarity ...
10 February 2009
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: “The Church's commitment is to reach out to the human being in his integral reality”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – In his opening address to the Bishops in their 86th Plenary Assembly, Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Barranquilla, President of the Colombian Bishops Conference, explained that the meeting w ...
10 February 2009
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Council for the Laity decries violence in light of upcoming referendum and calls for a National Day of Prayer for Peace on February 11
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The National Council for Laity in Venezuela issued a statement on February 6 denouncing the “situation of growing conflict in the country, manifest in the widespread violence, not only again ...
10 February 2009
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Jesus Christ is the foundation and source of our communion”: concluding message of the 17th Assembly of French-speaking Bishops of Western Africa
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Promote peace and respect for human life, encourage responsible citizenship and healthy governing of public life...These were the main points of the appeal made to political leaders in western ...
10 February 2009
ASIA/TAIWAN - In great humility, Bishop of Hwalien receives new priest of Pai Wan ethnic origin
Hwalien (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Hwalien, located on the island of Taiwan, kicked off 2009 with what will remain an historical event for the local Church, as the welcome a new priest, Fr. Xie Hui Neng, who is o ...
9 February 2009
VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus says: “man's truest and deepest illness is the absence of God, who is the fount of truth and love. And only reconciliation with God can give us true healing, true life” - Appeal for Madagascar
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, February 8, in his brief address prior to the recitation of the Angelus, the Holy Father Benedict XVI reflected on the Gospel proclaimed in the liturgy of the day (cfr Mk 1:29- ...
9 February 2009
AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Bishop of Gaborone resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, on 5 February 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Gaborone (Botswana) presented by Bishop Boniface Tshosa Setlale ...
9 February 2009
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Enugu resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, on 9 February 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Gaborone (Botswana) presented by Bishop Anthony Okonkwo Gbuji, ...
9 February 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Han Dan shows itself to be active and well-received within society
Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – The faithful of the Diocese of Han Dan celebrated Chinese New Year as an opportunity to relaunch the evangelization of the Pauline Year. Two parishes, that of Gua Jing and the that of Wang Bai ...
9 February 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “The bloodshed has incited the population,” Fides sources say
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - “Our reports show that over 40 persons have died and over 200 are wounded,” Agenzia Fides learned from sources at Radio Don Bosco in Anatananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, where on S ...
9 February 2009
AFRICA/DR CONGO - What's not making headlines: 900 people massacred in one month in Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – This is what is not making headlines this week: the figure of how many people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo from Christmas up until today: over 900. However th ...
9 February 2009
ASIA/MYANMAR - Missionaries of Saint Paul: a strength for evangelization
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – The evangelization of Myanmar continues forward with the example of Saint Paul, especially through the Congregation of the “Brothers and Sisters Missionaries of Saint Paul,” an institute of ...
9 February 2009
AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Youth Without Borders” missionaries celebrate 30 years of life and service
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The group “Jovenes sin Fronteras” (Youth Without Borders) of Ecuador celebrated its 30th anniversary of missionary service in the country on February 4, according to a report sent to Agenzia ...
9 February 2009
AMERICA/HONDURAS - National Pastoral Assembly analyzes country's problems: “only a commitment on everyone's part will pave the way for valid and equal responses”
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Honduras and various different pastoral associations in the eight dioceses met January 25-29 2009 in the National Assembly of the Catholic Pastoral Ministry, at the “L ...
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