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3 March 2008
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop of La Plata: new subject, “Building Citizenship,” is “a dangerous instrument of indoctrination and politicization of adolescents, with no reference to the integral concept of the human person and the ethical nature of his activity”
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Hector Aguer, of Plata, recently warned faithful of the dangers of a new subject that is trying to be introduced in schools, called, “Building Citizenship,” similar to the ...
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3 March 2008
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The expansion of the Missionary Childhood and Youth, and Missionary October among the themes of the Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Argentina took place on February 26-27 and was attended by the directors of each ecclesiastical district of the country, according ...
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3 March 2008
AMERICA/PERU - Priests prepare for the Great Mission of Lima that begins April 28 and lasts until 2010.
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, February 27, there was a meeting held in the Seminary of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo with over 150 priests, among them were Vicar Generals, parish pastors, and chaplains of the Archdio ...
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3 March 2008
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Pontifical Missionary Union of Nigeria meets to intensify campaign for missionary awareness and responsibility
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies, Nigeria, has concluded a two-day meeting/workshop for the members of the Pontifical Missionary Union of Priests and Religious. The meeting was held at the John P ...
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3 March 2008
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem renews the call on behalf of the suffering people of Gaza
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - As word spreads of the recent retreat of the Israeli Army from the Gaza Strip, Caritas Jerusalem renews its call for help and assistance for the suffering Palestinian people of the area.
“T ...
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3 March 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Violence continues; need for a “healing of people’s souls and resolution of real estate property,” a missionary says
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We need to offer healing of people’s souls: this is one of the most common headlines in Kenya’s newspapers,” Agenzia Fides was told by Fr. Roger Tessier, Canadian missionary of the Whit ...
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3 March 2008
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians join in prayer for the release and saving of the kidnapped Archbishop in Mosul
Bagdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Iraq, throughout the Middle East, and in other places in the world have begun a campaign of intense prayer for the release and saving of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho Chaldean Archb ...
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3 March 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Approaching Easter: Hong Kong examining its catechumens in light of Spes Salvi; the testimony of an 102-year-old recent convert to Catholicism convinces her daughter-in-law to request Baptism
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics are painstakingly preparing for the celebration of a Holy Easter, above all, to offer a welcome of enthusiasm to the catechumens, who this Easter Vigil, will receive the Sacrament ...
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1 March 2008
Dossier - The martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and the repercussions on the missionary world
The martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and the repercussions on the missionary world
General introduction
MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS MARTYRS AND EVANGELISATION
In the meantime what was happening in the missions?
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29 February 2008
VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (fourth part)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...
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29 February 2008
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops concerned for the political crisis: “a serious threat to the foundations of democracy and the institutional life of the country.”
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - “The recent acts of extreme violence, that have already claimed human lives in Epizana, as well as the fighting that has broken out in certain areas, in protest of Parliament, are clear signs o ...
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29 February 2008
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops make a call in facing the health emergency due to epidemics of dengue and yellow fever
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay have made a call in regards to facing the health emergency that the country is now living through, due to epidemics of dengue and yellow fever. In March of last year, th ...
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29 February 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Emergency plan from Caritas Ecuador to provide urgent care to 5,000 families. Danger of gastrointestinal and endemic diseases
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Ecuador currently continues distributing humanitarian aid to the flood victims in the provinces of Los Rios and Manabi where, in collaboration with the Bishops’ Conference of Ecuador, th ...
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29 February 2008
EUROPE - The European Network Institute for Family Policies join the fight against abortion: “There is an urgent need to end this drama that effects millions of women in the world.”
Belgium (Agenzia Fides) - “We need to guarantee the protection of rights for unborn children, and therefore, think seriously about a ban on abortion. “There is an urgent need to end this drama that effects millions o ...
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29 February 2008
VATICAN - The Pope to the Bishops of El Salvador in their Ad Limina visit: “promote ambitious and audacious efforts at evangelization in your diocesan communities, to ensure that all the faithful may experience that intimate meeting with the living Christ which is at the basis and origin of Christian existence.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The El Salvadorian people are characterized by their living faith and deep religious sentiment. The Gospel, taken there by the first missionaries and fervently preached by pastors full o ...
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