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26 May 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Day of Prayer for the Church in China: Chinese Catholics in Spain pray the Rosary with other faithful from their country and Taiwan
Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 24, at the Shrine of Torreciudad, a small Chinese Catholic community in Spain celebrated the Day of Prayer for the Church in China, in response to the general appeal made by the ...
26 May 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Symposium on “The mission of the Church” and the re-birth of the missionary spirit, sponsored by the Missiology Department of the Theological Institute of San Damaso in Madrid
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Missiology Department of the Theological Institute of San Damaso in Madrid has organized a symposium on “The mission of the Church” and the re-birth of the missionary spirit, to take plac ...
26 May 2008
AMERICA/PERU - 4th Symposium on the Eucharist 2008, on the quest “to begin a new pastoral era and greater missionary commitment”
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “The Eucharist, privileged encounter of the disciple with the Lord,” will be the main theme for the 4th Symposium on the Eucharist 2008 being organized by the Parish of Saint Joseph the Worker, ...
26 May 2008
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 5th National Congress for the Holy Childhood Association, for children to listen, learn, and announce from their missionary experience that they are Christ’s witnesses among other children
Manizales (Agenzia Fides) - “Missionary Children: listen, learn, and announce,” is the theme for the National Holy Childhood Association Day, which will be celebrated in May and will serve as a preparation for the 5t ...
26 May 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa’s President Mbeki condemns violence against immigrants
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - South Africa continues its investigation regarding the violence that has targeted immigrants, defined by President Thabo Mbeki as “an absolute disgrace” and acts of “an unprecedented ...
26 May 2008
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Opposition leader’s arrest by Belgian authorities leads to controversy and questioning
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Questions and controversy have arisen in political spheres in Kinshasa (capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo) following the arrest in Belgium of Senator -Pierre Bemba Gombo, leader ...
26 May 2008
EUROPE/ITALY - “I ragazzi di via Sandri”: champions of life in Rome’s lower-class suburbs
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Via Sandro Sandri, a street in Casal Bruciato, is one of the many locations on Rome’s outskirts where the social unease, pain and suffering, the escape from everything, the violence, the crime, a ...
24 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Day of Prayer for the Church in China: earthquake victims of Si Chuan prayed in their tents made chapels; 500 faithful from Beijing on pilgrimage
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Chinese living in the earthquake-struck area in the province of Si Chuan celebrated the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China declared by the Holy Father, in the tents that serve as chape ...
24 May 2008
VATICAN - Archbishop Henryk Hoser, Secretary Adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, appointed by the Pope to be Archbishop of Warsaw-Praga. Bishop Vacchelli will be new President of PMS
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed today, May 24, Archbishop Henryk Hoser, S.A.C. as Archbishop of Warsaw-Praga (Poland), remaining Archbishop. Until now, Archbishop Hoser served as Sec ...
23 May 2008
VATICAN - Pope’s catechesis at the General Audience dedicated to Romanus the Melodist, “who belongs to the group of theologians that have transformed theology into poetry.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his series of catechesis dedicated the Fathers of the Church, during the General Audience held on Wednesday, May 21, the Holy Father Benedict XVI reflected on one of the least-known figu ...
23 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Prayers and donations increase for China’s earthquake victims, drawing strength from the Holy Father’s prayer for the Day of Prayer for the Church in China
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - There is an ever-increasing number of expressions of support from all over the world, not only from China, for the people suffering from the aftermath of the earthquake, and it comes simultaneou ...
23 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics prepare for the Day of Prayer for the Church in China declared by the Holy Father one year ago, with a Novena and the Rosary
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics are making intense preparations, although with discretion, for the first Day of Prayer for the Church in China declared by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in the Letter to Chinese ...
23 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - History of the Shrine to Our Lady of Sheshan
Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - The Shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Sheshan is located in the district of Song Jiang, near the great metropolis of Shang Hai, and is dedicated to Our Lady Help of Christians of Sheshan.
In 18 ...
23 May 2008
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The relationship between I and we, in the Church and in the liturgy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the well known book “Rapporto sulla fede” (1985), the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger observed that the prayer which precedes communion in the Roman liturgy, “Domine Iesu Christe… ...
23 May 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholics in Spain will celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China at the Shrine of Torreciudad
Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - The community of Chinese Catholics in Spain will flock to the Shrine of Torreciudad (Huesca, Spain) on Saturday, May 24, to celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China. The encounter will ...
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