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13 January 2009
AMERICA/MEXICO - Everything set for tomorrow's opening of the 6th World Meeting of Families, with the theme: “The Family: Teacher of Human and Christian Values”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Everything is prepared in Mexico City, awaiting the inauguration of the 6th World Meeting of Families, with the theme: “The Family: Teacher of Human and Christian Values,” which will t ...
13 January 2009
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church makes a call to participate in the city and legal elections on Sunday, January 18: “all of us are protagonists and subjects in politics.”
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of El Salvador (CEDES) has made an announcement asking all citizens to participate in the vote to be held on Sunday, 18 for city and legislative representatives, a ...
13 January 2009
ASIA/BANGLADESH - “Bible Week” in Satkhira: the first ever in the country, on the occasion of the Year of St. Paul
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time in the history of the Church in Bangladesh, there is a Bible exposition and a “Bible Week” attracting not only Christian faithful, but also non-Christians. The initiative ...
13 January 2009
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Family and migration”: Seminar sponsored by the Bishops' Commission on the Family
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Reflect on the relationship between the family institution and the immigration phenomenon, its sociological implications, the prospects and pastoral needs of the Church: this was the central the ...
13 January 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - The price of food remains too high, in spite of government aid; 10 million Kenyans at risk for hunger
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The food emergency continues in Kenya, where one third of the population, 10 million people, is at risk for going hungry. Among these, 1.5 million are children and 2.5 million are people suffe ...
13 January 2009
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Inflation, loss of employment, government spending-cuts: the financial crisis is taking its toll on Nigeria
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – The global financial crisis and the drop in the cost of fuel are seriously threatening the economy in Nigeria. According to economic experts, interviewed by the loval press, the depreciation of ...
12 January 2009
VATICAN - At the Angelus, the Pope recalls that Baptism is a “gift, joy, but also responsibility,” as parents and godparents “must bring up their children according to the Gospel,” and asks for prayers for the 6th World Meeting of Families
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – After having administered the Sacrament of Baptism to several children in the Sistine Chapel, the Holy Father Benedict XVI went to the window of his study on January 11, to recite the Ang ...
12 January 2009
VATICAN - On the Feast of the Lord's Baptism, Benedict XVI baptizes 13 newborns: “when...we baptize children, bringing them into God's light and his teachings, we are not doing violence to them; rather we are giving them the wealth of divine life in which true freedom is rooted, which is that of being children of God.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “And if Christmas and Epiphany serve above all to make us capable of seeing, to opening our eyes and hearts to the mystery of a God who comes to be with us, the feast of the baptism of Je ...
12 January 2009
ASIA/CHINA - In a remote village of the Mongolian steppe, over 500 faithful were moved during the celebration of their first Christmas in a simple little chapel
Ordos (Agenzia Fides) – Setting their eyes for the first time on the Nativity Scene, with the Baby Jesus at the center, the Christmas tree decorated with a Christian message, the faithful of the community of Dong Sheng ...
12 January 2009
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishop of Kundiawa resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on January 12, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Kundiawa (Papua New Guinea) presented by Bishop Henk Te Maarssen, ...
12 January 2009
ASIA/INDIA - “Christimes,” a new periodical for the Catholic Church in India
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “Christimes” is the new Catholic newspaper being published in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka (southwest India), in an effort to offer good news, to announce the Gospel, and to give a ...
12 January 2009
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Drafting of a new anti-conversion law presented in Parliament; the Catholic Church responds
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is closely following the legal process of the new anti-conversion law that has been presented in recent days to the country's Parliament.
It is a strong measu ...
12 January 2009
VATICAN - The Holy Father tells the Neocatechumenal Way in the Diocese of Rome: “Your apostolic activities, already highly praiseworthy in themselves, will be even more effective in the degree to which you constantly strive to cultivate that desire for unity which Jesus communicated to the Twelve at the Last Supper.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “How can we not bless the Lord for the spiritual fruits which, through the methodology of evangelization that you apply, have been harvested in these years? The Pope, Bishop of Rome, than ...
12 January 2009
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Sunday, January 18, national collection in all parishes for earthquake victims
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Costa Rica is organizing a national collection that will take place this Sunday, January 18, in all the parishes of the country, to benefit the victims of the earthquak ...
12 January 2009
AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops invite the people to participate in upcoming general elections as an opportunity to foster hope and strengthen democracy
Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - “As Bishops, we wish to make our voice heard, on the eve of the elections for new national and local leaders, in this time in which as Panamanians, we our experiencing great opportunities ...
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