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15 October 2008
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Fourth Missionary Congress in Salta, with the theme: “The Church in Salta, Missionary Disciple: Listen, Learn, and Proclaim.”
Salta (Agenzia Fides) – October 17-19, in this month of the missions, the town of El Galpon will host the Fourth Missionary Congress of Salta (CoMSa 4), with the theme: “The Church in Salta, Missionary Disciple: List ...
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15 October 2008
AMERICA - Spanish company “Telefonica” and CELAM sign an accord to lower communication costs for Catholic institutions
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, October 14, 2008, at the Vatican headquarters of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, an agreement was signed between CELAM (the Latin American Bishops’ Council) ...
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15 October 2008
AMERICA/CHILE - Over 14,000 faithful participate in the 6th Walk for the Family and Life, to demonstrate the importance of the family and the value of life
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Over 14,000 people participated in the 6th Walk for the Family and Life held on Saturday, October 11, in honor of the Week for Life and the Family being celebrated by the Church in Chile (see ...
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15 October 2008
AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of San Bernardo indicates several guidelines for voting in upcoming city elections
San Bernardo (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of San Bernardo (Chile), His Excellency Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, issued a statement on several guidelines for voting in right conscience, to help Catholics and all believers to h ...
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15 October 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Caritas Hong Kong opens a “lifeline” for helping to overcome the financial crisis, because we should always “love life and not isolate ourselves in the moments of difficulty.”
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas Hong Kong has opened a “lifeline” for helping citizens, Catholic or non, to overcome the present financial crisis. According to a report from the Kong Ko Bao (the diocesan bullet ...
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15 October 2008
EUROPE/ITALY - Rome is a “multi-ethnic city,” open to all foreign citizens and religious faiths, says a press conference given by the Foreign Citizen Council
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Rome has never been a racist city”: this is what the President of the “Citizen Council for the Representation of Foreign Communities” in the City of Rome, Mr. Pan Yong Chang, affirmed in ...
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15 October 2008
AFRICA/MALAWI - Montfort Missionaries’ work with the youth of Malawi at the heart of the celebration of World Mission Day
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – The laborious activity of the missionaries is the best way to celebrate World Mission Day in Malawi. Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Montfort Missionary who has been working in the small African natio ...
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15 October 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Mbeki’s mediation raises cautious hope for an agreement between the majority and the opposition
Harare (Agenzia Fides) – There is a cautious hope for reaching an accord in the drawn out crisis of Zimbabwe. After President Robert Mugabe decided to name key Ministers (Defense, Exterior, Interior, etc...) for the go ...
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14 October 2008
ASIA/CHINA - In order to live the missionary month and prepare for World Missions Day, the faithful of the parish of Tong Tang make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Fr. Matteo Ricci, with the firm commitment to follow in his footsteps
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics from the parish of Tong Tang, dedicated to St. Joesph, in the Archdiocese of Beijing, took a pilgrimage to the tomb of the great missionary Fr. Matteo Ricci, in honor of this year of ...
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14 October 2008
ASIA/CAMBODIA - For World Missions Day, the Church makes a renewed effort to form missionaries and youth according to the example of Saint Paul
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – An encounter for all new missionaries, religious, and laity interested in working or who have been working already in the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh; the preparation of especially dy ...
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14 October 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A “double blessing” for World Mission Day, to become “missionaries in our own land”
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, will be blessing World Mission Day 2008 in a special manner. On October 19, Zelie and Louis Martin will be beatified and their ...
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14 October 2008
AMERICA/CUBA - The Church celebrates World Mission Day with the joy of the upcoming beatification of Venerable Padre Olallo, a man of charity, the second Cuban to be declared Blessed
Santiago de Cuba (Agenzia Fides) – For the entire month of October, all communities are be encouraged to pray for the missionary work of the Church and are being sent various different prayer intentions each week, says ...
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14 October 2008
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Extraordinary Assembly of Bishops to reflect on the present situation in the country and the launching of the Great Continental Mission
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The 28th Extraordinary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference is underway beginning today, October 14, until October 17.
Over the course of the week, they will address various topic ...
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14 October 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - The passing away of Cardinal Antonio González Zumárraga, who was a fundamental support in carrying out the Third American Missionary Congress with great responsibility and commitment as President of the Central Committee
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Antonio González Zumárraga, Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, President of Honor of the Ecuadorian Bishops’ Conference and President of the Central Committee of the Third American Missi ...
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14 October 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI encourages acceptance of the teaching of the Apostle Paul, who “compares the Church to the human body, made up of members very different one from the other but all indispensable to its correct functioning. In the same way, this orchestra and choir are formed of various instruments and voices which, in harmony together, produce a melody sweet to the ear and to the spirit.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the evening of October 13, in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls the Holy Father attended a concert given by the Fondazione pro Musica e Arte Sacra, during the XII Ordinary G ...
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