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26 January 2009
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Archdiocese of San Jose launches Continental Mission: “our objective is to enter into a permanent missionary state”
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, seminarians, and faithful gathered together this past Sunday, January 25, in the Cathedral of San Jose (Costa Rica), to celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul and inaugurate the Great ...
26 January 2009
ASIA/LAOS - A new Laotian priest: signs of hope for the Church
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – Each new priest implies an immense gift to the Catholics of Laos, This is what Apostolic Delegate to Laos, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, said in addressing the faithful at the priestly ...
26 January 2009
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The time of talking is over: Mugabe should step down”: Southern African Bishops take a firm stance, as South Africa hosts yet another meeting on the Zimbabwe crisis
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “The appalling tragedy in Zimbabwe means that the time of talking is over. Six months of talks have resulted only in a stalemate. It is clear that the present mediation and negotiations h ...
26 January 2009
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “You should strive to venture into activities that will help to awaken, enliven and support the missionary efforts of the Church,” Apostolic Nuncio tells the PMS National Assembly in Zambia
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - “The meeting was an opportunity to renew our vision of the missionary church. It helped us to renew our vision to actions and helped us to find new stimulus and boldness for missionary animati ...
26 January 2009
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - “The new technologies are helping to break the isolation and foster communion”: Agenzia Fides interviews Fr. Roger McCarrick, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Bishops' Conference (CEPAC)
Suva (Agenzia Fides) – Communion, sharing, cooperation, in spite of the isolation, thanks to the new forms of media and technology...this is the depiction of the Church in the Pacific Islands made by Fr. Roger McCarric ...
23 January 2009
EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid begin with a youth encounter February 7 in the Diocese of Granada
Granada (Agenzia Fides) – In view of preparations for World Youth Day, which Pope Benedict XVI will preside in Madrid in 2011, the Youth Delegation of the Diocese of Granada has organized a series of encounters for the ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/PERU - On Sunday, January 25, a new Church to be inaugurated in Lima, on the occasion of Cardinal Cipriani's 10th anniversary as Archbishop of Lima
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Lima will inaugurate a new Church this Sunday, January 25, in honor of Cardinal Cipriani's 10th anniversary as Archbishop of Lima.
After 18 years of waiting, the dream of the ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops once again call on authorities to use just treatment and not to involve the Church nor her Hierarchy in pre-election political propaganda
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has expressed “its surprise and concern for the constant attacks and disqualifications that the highest authority in the country has made against the pe ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishops alert on the situation of violence and the rise of delinquency in the country
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Auxiliary Bishops of Santo Domingo and Santiago, in their homilies in honor of Our Lady of Altagracia (the country's patroness), their concern for the situation of violence and the r ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The exclusive moving testimony of Cardinal Castillo Lara given to Agenzia Fides just days before his death: “taking lives does not eliminate poverty.”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara, a Salesian from Venezuela, President emeritus of Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See and President emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatica ...
23 January 2009
ASIA/HONG KONG - Christian leaders in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: unite efforts in fighting the environmental and financial crises in the world
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Unite efforts to fight the environmental and financial crises in the world: this is the conviction that the Christian leaders of Hong Kong have expressed during the prayer encounter they org ...
23 January 2009
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer Encounter for the Week for Christian Unity: faithful praying for the “divided nation”
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians of various confessions present in Korea gathered to pray together, reflect on the divisions among them, and invoke God, in the name of unity. The encounter was attended by over 4, ...
23 January 2009
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Biological colonialism is on our doorstep:harvesting ovarian human eggs in Africa will help meet the needs of embryonic stem cell research in industrialized countries,” says the Archbishop of Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “The Global ethic is a challenge to the churches,” Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg said in his opening address at the Plenary Assembly of the Southern African Catholic B ...
23 January 2009
ASIA/HONG KONG - Message for Chinese New Year from the six major religious groups of Hong Kong: solidarity, charity, moral principles, interior purification, and spirituality are the keys to overcoming the current crisis, to bring about peace and harmony
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity, charity, moral principles, interior purification, and spirituality are the key points that the leaders of the six major religious groups of the Special Administration of Hong Kong ...
23 January 2009
AFRICA/CONGO DR - General Nkunda, one of the main perpetrators in the war in North Kivu, arrested in Rwanda. One missionary tells Fides: “We are worried about the underhanded activity of the military operations.”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Congolese rebel General Laurent Nkunda was arrested yesterday (January 22) evening in Rwanda in a joint operation carried out by Rwandan and Congolese armed forces. Nkunda, who is accused of ...
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