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26 November 2008
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Report on the impact of metal mining on health and the environment: mining activity implies a high cost with little profit
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The social organizations in the campaign “I Reject Metal Mining,” including Caritas El Salvador, have presented a scientific study showing the impact that metal mining would have on ...
26 November 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Third International Symposium on Missiology, to analyze the CAM 3 conclusions and study the American Missionary Project
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – December 8-12, Quito (Ecuador) will be hosting the Third International Symposium on Missiology, on the theme: “On a mission for humanity.” The main objective of the encounter will be to refl ...
26 November 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “We condemn the corrupt individuals who have created an artificial food shortage,” the Archbishop of Mombasa declares
Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - “We are shocked to learn that senior government officials and businessmen are responsible...[for] an artificial shortage of maize and maize flour...in the country,” says a statement sent to ...
26 November 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The presence of Jesus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then he got into the boat followed by his disciples. Suddenly a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the boat was being swamped by the waves. But he was asleep. So they went to him ...
26 November 2008
VATICAN - Pope's Message to the Pontifical Academy: “our announcement of the Gospel should be perceived in its beauty and novelty, our daily mission should be an eloquent manifestation of the beauty of God's love”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The urgent need for a renewed dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, between beauty, truth and goodness,” was addressed by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his Message sent to the Pres ...
26 November 2008
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem makes an appeal for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas Jerusalem has recently issued an appeal in response to the recent block on the Gaza Strip declared by the Israeli government. They say that there is an urgent need to end the siege o ...
26 November 2008
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Murdered reporter may have had important information; even if he did not, a threatening sign has been sent out to all those thinking of revealing the truth behind the war in Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “Just before his murder, Didace Namujimbo had handed over a report to the MONUC on the death of his colleague from Radio Okapi, Serge Maheshe, assassinated in Bukavu on June 13, 2007. Perhaps ...
26 November 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Keep the WYD spirit alive,” Apostolic Nuncio tells Australian youth
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “World Youth Day in Sydney was a moment of great grace. And now, it is very important that the WYD spirit remains alive through creative initiatives, designed to promote and renew youth ministr ...
25 November 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians: “Surely the growth in understanding, respect and cooperation which has emerged from ecumenical dialogue promises much for the proclamation of the Gospel in our time.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, November 24, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, in an audience. After the private audience and that of the Bisho ...
25 November 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Metropolitan Archbishop of Pretoria and Military Ordinary of South Africa resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 24, 2008,
accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Pretoria, and the Office of Military Ordinary for South A ...
25 November 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 24, 2008, appointed Fr. Jose Luis Gerardo Ponce de Leon I.M.C., Secretary General and Procurator general of the Consolata Missionaries, as Apostoli ...
25 November 2008
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishop of Toamasina resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 24, 2008,
accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Toamasina (Madagascar), presented by Bishop René Rakotondrabé ...
25 November 2008
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Berge appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 24, 2008, appointed Fr. Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara, M.E.P., Diocesan Director of Catholic Education, of the Diocese of Mahajanga, as Coadjut ...
25 November 2008
MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - The Pope's Missionary Intention for December 2008: “That especially in mission countries Christians may show with acts of fraternal love that the Child born in the stable at Bethlehem is the luminous Hope of the world.” Commentary.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – We are truly witnessing a loss of the Christian roots characteristic of Europe and of those countries of long-standing Christian tradition. The City Council of Oxford (England) has decide ...
25 November 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Cardinal Rouco Varela, President of the Bishops' Conference, issues an alert on the risk of a breakdown in the nation's peaceful co-existence, and on the responsibility and moral demands in the face of the economic crisis. Study of the document: “The current relevance of the mission ad gentes in Spain”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, in Madrid, the 92nd Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Conference of Bishops (CEE) began. The Assembly will last until Friday, November 28. Among the topics of discussion is the study a ...
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