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13 October 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholics in Hong Kong celebrate the 350th anniversary of the foundation and missions in Asia of the Paris Foreign Missions Society
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) is celebrating this year its 350th anniversary of foundation of their Asian missions. According to a report from the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version ...
13 October 2008
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church looks towards the new technologies: the Archdiocese of Karachi launches a new Web-TV
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A TV on the Internet to offer information and formation for the faithful, thanks to modern technological means: this is the project developed by the Archdiocese of Karachi, which will be launc ...
13 October 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “The Holy Father’s appeal for Kivu sheds light on an area that is often left in darkness,” a missionary from East Congo tells Fides
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “I saw the Holy Father’s address at the Angelus, live on the television. My fellow brethren and I wish to give him our heartfelt thanks for the appeal for peace in Kivu,” one missionary ...
13 October 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Former South African President Mbeki in Zimbabwe to solve political crisis; however Mugabe proceeds unilaterally with the appointment of key Ministers
Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Former South African President Thabo Mbeki will arrive today, October 13, in Zimbabwe to try and overcome the crisis occurring in the formation of the government of national unity, called for b ...
11 October 2008
Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The Holy Father, as usual, spent the month of September at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, from where he returned to the Vatican on the 30th. The first half of the month was marked by two important events: on Su ...
10 October 2008
VATICAN - “While we pray that the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Pius XII may continue smoothly, it is good to remember that sanctity was his ideal, an ideal he never failed to propose to everyone”: Benedict XVI on the 50th anniversary of his death, recalls the “notable impulse” of Pius XII in the Church’s missionary activity.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The passage of the book of Sirach, in which it says that those who follow the Lord will find trials, difficulties and suffering, and the prologue of the First Letter of Saint Peter, in wh ...
10 October 2008
ASIA/KOREA - Coadjutor Bishop of Suwon appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedic XVI, on October 10, 2008, named Fr. Matthias Ri Iong-hoon, auxiliary of Suwon, Korea, as coadjutor of the same diocese. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/10/2008) ...
10 October 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Canonization of Narcisa of Jesus: an event that raises spirits amidst preparations for World Mission Day
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – This October 12, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will canonize Ecuadorian Narcisa of Jesus Martillo, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992, along with three other people. She will become th ...
10 October 2008
EUROPE/POLAND - Numerous activities in missionary October, with the theme: “The disciple of Jesus is the missionary of hope.”
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – Starting in September, various different events have been organized in Poland for missionary animation, says National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies (PMS) in Poland, Jan Piotro ...
10 October 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “Guarantee food for Kenyans”: exhortation from the Catholic Church to the leaders of the country
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Kenya is showing its great concern for the situation of internal refugees and the sharp rise in the price of food products, which is threatening the lives of millions of ...
10 October 2008
ASIA/INDIA - The Church rejoices at the canonization of its first Indian saint: Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Amidst a moment of suffering, the Church in India has a great reason to rejoice, as the first Indian saint in the history of the Church is canonized. Her name is Sister Alphonsa of the Immac ...
10 October 2008
ASIA/INDIA - Attacks on Christians in India continue; a Jesuit explains Hindu ideology
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The violence has not ended. In spite of international pressure and measures taken by the federal government, in various states of India, Christians are still a target.
During the Synod of B ...
10 October 2008
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The literacy rate is on the rise, however drastic differences still exist between national and regional areas: the slow progress being made in Sub-Sahara Africa and parts of Asia
New York (Agenzia Fides) – The literacy rate is growing on a worldwide level, however the situation in South and West Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa is cause for concern and the financial aid for literacy programs is stil ...
10 October 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “As in Darfur, here there are over a million people who have lost their homes, and yet there is no public opinion group working to help them. Why not?” says a missionary from east Congo, currently at risk for war
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “I don’t think that there will be a great war after another invasion of both Kivus. My impression is that they are limiting themselves to conquering several strategic locations in the nor ...
9 October 2008
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Pius XII, fifty years after his death: no discontinuity with the Church of the Council
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “A Church which is silent, when she should speak; a Church which waters down the law of God, adapting it to the taste of human desires, when she should nobly proclaim and defend it; a Chu ...
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