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20 October 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Over 7,000 faithful participated in the diocesan celebration of World Mission Sunday, with the theme “Walking with Paul”
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “May you be salt and light to the world, instruments of peace”: this was the exhortation of Coadjutor Bishop John Tong of the Diocese of Hong Kong, in the solemn “missionary sending” h ...
20 October 2008
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - East Timor says “no” to abortion and proposes an “Accord” with the Catholic Church
Dili (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in East Timor has expressed its satisfaction and appreciation for the recent draft bill on the national Penal Code, now awaiting government approval in the next month and a half.
The ...
18 October 2008
Mission Sunday 2008- Special Feature
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
"Servants and Apostles of Christ Jesus"
“St Paul, an example for all committed to promoting the Word of God among ...
18 October 2008
Dossier - Panorama of missionary activity in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America
World Mission Sunday 2008
Panorama of missionary activity in
AFRICA
ASIA
OCEANIA
LATIN AMERICA ...
17 October 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Bishops of Ecuador: “under the divine impulse of the Holy Spirit, the missionary zeal of the initial stages of the preaching of the Gospel, and the first proclamation of the Good News in your land, are renewed.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I note with satisfaction that one of the pastoral initiatives you consider to be most important for the Church in Ecuador is implementing the 'great mission' identified by the Latin Amer ...
17 October 2008
VATICAN - Pope's Message: “an effective campaign against hunger, in order to confront climate change or to allocate agricultural production primarily to food, calls for much more than mere scientific studies. It is necessary, above all, to rediscover the significance of human beings in their individual and community dimensions, from the basis of family life, from which come the sense of solidarity and sharing.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the message sent to the Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf, for the occasion of World Food Day, whose theme this year is: “ ...
17 October 2008
VATICAN - “Ten years later, an attentive reading of the encyclical Fides et Ratio allows us to admire its constant relevance”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses the International Congress celebrating its 10th anniversary
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Ten years later, an attentive reading of the encyclical Fides et Ratio allows us to admire its constant relevance: it reveals the profound and long-sightedness of my unforgettable Predec ...
17 October 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Vietnam. Hunger for bread, thirst for God.”: campaign organized by Aid to the Church in Need, for formation projects and construction of new Church structures in Vietnam
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Association of Pontifical Right “Aid to the Church in Need” is performing a campaign from October until December 25, promoting awareness and solidarity for the Catholic Church in Vietna ...
17 October 2008
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Following Christ, so as to transform our life and that of the world: Message from the Bishops, on their new pastoral plan
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – The transformation of one's own life in light of the Word of Christ, is the theme chosen by the Bishops' Conference of Angola and Sao Tome, for their pastoral plan for the next two years. “Af ...
17 October 2008
ASIA/INDIA - A peaceful demonstration on World Mission Sunday, to say “no” to anti-Christian violence
Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in India has organized a non-violent public demonstration, with silence and prayer, to say “no” to all forms of violence and highlight its desire to have a say in Indian socie ...
17 October 2008
ASIA/INDIA - The Year of St. Paul, the Synod, and World Mission Sunday all help in “Living and proclaiming the Word of God,” even in the midst of the sufferings at present
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - “Living and proclaiming the Word of God”: this is the theme for World Mission Sunday (October 19) in India. Catholics in India has wished to focus the theme on the proclamation of the Word ...
17 October 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Private and community prayer, Rosaries, retreats, pilgrimages, Bible studies, religious professions, and ordinations: Chinese Catholics live the missionary month, in preparation for World Mission Sunday
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Here are some of the activities being carried out by Catholics in China, in preparation for World Mission Sunday: invocation for the help and protection of the Blessed Mother, through the Rosa ...
16 October 2008
VATICAN - Pope’s catechesis at the General Audience: “Paul shows he knows well and he brings us to understand that the Church is not his and is not ours: the Church is the body of Christ, it is ‘Church of God,’ ‘field of God,’ construction of God … ‘temple of God.’”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Paul’s teaching on the Church was the main focus of the catechesis given by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his General Audience held on Wednesday, October 15. The Pope primarily focuse ...
16 October 2008
EUROPE/POLAND - 1.5 million copies of the New Testament distributed as a special addition to the Catholic weekly “Niedzela”
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In preparation for the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God taking place in Rome, in the Year of Saint Paul, the Polish Catholic weekly “Niedzela,” based in Czestochowa, has been promot ...
16 October 2008
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Living faith as hope
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his Encyclical Spe salvi reflects on the nature of Christian hope in order to comprehend St Paul's statement that we are already redeemed. The theory is that “faith i ...
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