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9 October 2008
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Sunday, October 12, the Church in Argentina celebrates World Missions Day; a chain of prayer for the missions in the entire country, during the month of October 2008
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Argentina will be celebrating World Missions Day this coming Sunday, October 12, as a sign of brotherhood and universal solidarity and as a central activity during missionar ...
9 October 2008
VATICAN - “The words and actions of Jesus for Paul do not pertain to a historic time, to the past. Jesus lives now and speaks with us now, and lives for us”: catechesis of the Pope in the General Audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – After speaking in the most recent General Audiences on Saint Paul’s encounter with the Risen Christ and his relationship with the 12 Apostles and the Church of Jerusalem, in his cateche ...
9 October 2008
VATICAN - Message from Benedict XVI for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “Today too the message of salvation must be presented with the same approach as that of the Apostle to the Gentiles, taking into account the different social and cultural situations and special difficulties of each one as a consequence of his or her condition as a migrant or itinerant person.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The life and preaching of Saint Paul “were wholly directed to making Jesus known and loved by all, for all persons are called to become a single people in him. This is the mission of th ...
9 October 2008
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Mary in the Land of the Gulag: a Cathedral-Sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, in honor of the victims of the persecution
Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) – For over 50 years, the light of the faith was fought, in an attempt to silence it. For half a century, those Christians who were not afraid to testify to their faith in Christ have paid with ...
9 October 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Do not forget the drama of more than 3 million Somalis!
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The international community continues to fix its gaze on the ship “Faina,” the Ukrainian cargo ship being held hostage by Somali pirates that remain under permanent surveillance by ships ...
9 October 2008
AMERICA/PANAMA - The Church says the law on reproductive health “introduces a cultural and moral system based on criteria which are foreign to our cultural, moral e spiritual life ”
Panama (Agenzia Fides) –Archbishop Dimas Cedeño Delgado of Panama vice-president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Panama, in a message addressed to the National Assembly of the central American nation, reaffirme ...
8 October 2008
VATICANO - Father Timothy Lehane, the new Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, tells Agenzia Fides: “I hope to be able to accompany the missionaries and National Directors, so that they can feel the support of the Universal Church in their work.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I have been a missionary for the last 25 years in Ecuador, a country with a great natural beauty and wonderful people, but at the same time, with many needs. I have worked in a parish, ...
8 October 2008
VATICAN - “AVE MARIA” by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Jesus, I trust in you"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The act of faith “ Jesus, I trust in you ”, which permeates the spirituality of Divine Mercy and devotion to the Merciful Jesus spread by Saint Faustina Kowalska, should also animate ou ...
8 October 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - Preparing for the VI World Meeting of Families, “an occasion for all families to improve and defend this basic cell of society.”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Enrique Glennie, Secretary General of the VI World Meeting of Families, in a press conference presented the most recent progress being made in the preparation of the Encounter sched ...
8 October 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Cardinal Njue leads Catholics in the fight against abortion: “start submitting signatures so that after gathering them in their millions we move to petition the competent authorities to stop this campaign of discussing how to kill the unborn babies.”
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – “Now, I call upon you to stand firm and defend the life of the unborn babies. Say and shout it aloud that: Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy by killing the unborn and def ...
8 October 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Dramatic testimony of a Salesian missionary in East Congo, housing 2,782 children
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The humanitarian situation in North Kivu, in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo, is worsening each day, due to fighting that has broken out between the regular army and rebels l ...
8 October 2008
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Celebration of World Missions Day coincides with the 80th anniversary of the Pontifical Missionary Societies in the country
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies of Colombia are celebrating, along with World Missions Day, the 80th anniversary of PMS in the country (1929-2009), according to a report made to Agenzia Fides ...
7 October 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s meditation at the opening session of the Synod of Bishops: “evangelization, the proclamation of the Gospel, the mission are not a type of ecclesial colonialism, where we wish to insert others into our group. It means going beyond the individual culture into the universality that connects all, unites all, makes us all brothers.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In opening the sessions of the XII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, on Monday, October 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the celebration of the liturgy of the hou ...
7 October 2008
VATICAN - Holy Father’s Message: “the service that the Church offers in its marriage and family pastoral care must be able to direct couples to understand with the heart the wonderful design that God has inscribed in the human body, helping them to accept all that is entailed in a genuine path of maturing.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the International Congress “Humanae Vitae: Current Importance and Prophecy of an Encyclical” organized by the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marri ...
7 October 2008
EUROPE/ITALY - Plenary Indulgence granted during the Year of St. Paul to pilgrims visiting the Church of San Paolo alla Regola, the Apostle’s first residence in Rome
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In the context of the Year of Saint Paul, the Holy Father Benedict XVI, with a Decree from the Apostolic Penitentiary issued on September 23, 2008, has granted the Church of San Paolo alla Regola ...
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