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12 April 2008
Instrumentum mensis Martii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
On the first day of the month of March, the Holy Father presided a Prayer Vigil on the occasion of the 6th European Day for University Students, dedicated in particular this year to the continents of Europe and America. ...
11 April 2008
VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations: Message from Benedict XVI: the “missionary dimension is associated in a special and intimate way with the priestly vocation.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Vocations at the service of the Church on mission” is the theme that was chosen by the Holy Father Benedict XVI for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations that will be celebrated on Apr ...
11 April 2008
VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations - Increase in vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life in Africa and Asia, while other continents observe decrease
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life have steadily increased over the past few years in Africa and Asia, while a gradual decrease is being observed in Europe and on a lesser sca ...
11 April 2008
VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle supporting 83,767 seminarians in 962 seminaries of the younger Churches
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle, one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies, was founded in Caen (France) in 1889, by Ms. Jeanne Bigard and her mother, Stephanie. The main ...
11 April 2008
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Pontifical Mission Societies launch celebration of the U.S. Church’s 100th anniversary of “missionary independence”
Indianapolis (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor John E. Kozar, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States has officially launched the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Church’s ...
11 April 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Mexican Church mourns the death of Cardinal Ahumada: “a man of convictions, of wise and firm decisions, who never hesitated in following the Lord’s call”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “His Excellency Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada departed from us physically at 5:30 this morning to enter into the Lord’s presence...after having suffered a long and painful Calvary in ...
11 April 2008
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Defense of life, critique of political corruption, announcement of the National Catechetical Year, “Guidelines for Evangelization”: among the themes for the General Assembly
Itaci (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops gathered in Itacia for their 46th General Assembly have once again reaffirmed their position in defense of human life from conception until natural death with a “Note in De ...
11 April 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “We ask that a international mediator of the stature of Kofi Annan intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis”: appeal from Bishops of Southern Africa
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland (gathered at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference), in a statement issued immediately prior to the Summit meeting of Southern A ...
11 April 2008
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Diocese of Myitkina celebrates 50th anniversary of their Cathedral with the inauguration of a new Pastoral Center
Yangoon (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Myanmar is steadily growing in the faith and in charity. Evidence of this is being seen in the Diocese of Myitkina, in northern Myanmar, that has recently celebrated its 50th anniv ...
11 April 2008
ASIA/CHINA - The prominent Chinese periodical “Nan Fang Weekly” publishes an article by a learned Chinese man recalling John Paul II on the third anniversary of his death
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The April 4th issue of the Nan Fang Weekly, a prominent Chinese newspaper contained an article remembering John Paul II on the third anniversary of his death, written by “a learned Chinese man li ...
11 April 2008
AFRICA/UGANDA - Peace signings adjourned in northern Uganda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - “We have returned to Uganda and we will stay here until the head of the negotiation tells us that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is read to sign.” With these words Ruhakana Rugunda, Mini ...
10 April 2008
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Catholic identity and democracy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today a strange “philosophical alliance” appears to be spreading in every democratic country, and especially in the West: between democracy and relativism. It would seem that the only w ...
10 April 2008
AMERICA/COLOMBIA The Colombian delegation for CAM 3 has a special lay character: “not only does it wish to participate in the Congress, but it also seeks to foster a continuation of missionary commitment within the particular dioceses.”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Colombia
have finally determined the delegation that will attend the upcoming
celebration of the Third Missionary Congress CAM 3 that will take place ...
10 April 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR Document on freedom of education, religious freedom,
social justice, respect for life, and marriage and the family presented at
the Constitutive Assembly
Quito (Agenzia Fides) According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides,
authorities from the Ecuadorian Catholic Bishops’ Conference and leaders of
Corporations, Confederations, and Councils for education met in a
...
10 April 2008
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops join in prayer before the Virgin of Lujan for a national policy “in which every Argentinean understands that he is valued and respected, one that allows our community to enjoy an authentic and peaceful coexistence.”
Lujan (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Mercedes-Lujan and second Vice-President of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina, Archbishop Agustin Radrizzani, invoked the Virgin of Lujan during the Mass yesterday in the Ba ...
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