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23 January 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Sunday 27 January “pro-life, pro-family, pro- freedom” demonstration will show society what is good for everyone with regard to life, the family, education and teaching
Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 27 some 5,000 people are expected to take part in a rally with the motto “Pro-life, pro-family, pro- freedom. United we can win!” organised at Barcelona's Congress Palace by “P ...
23 January 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Growing demand for electricity and power cuts affected millions in southern Africa
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- Interruption of electricity supplies are having serious repercussions on southern African countries. The situation is most critical in Zimbabwe, where people already suffer from an economic ...
23 January 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics united with universal Church, pray intensely for Christian unity
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics are praying intensely during this annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in communion with the universal Church and in answer to the Holy Father's call last Sunday at the Angel ...
23 January 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Padre Carlos Crespi national communications award” restores human and Christian values in communications
Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 24 January the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Patron saint of journalists, Signis-Ecuador Association of Catholic Communicators will present the national communications award to ...
23 January 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO Cardinal Rivera calls all the baptised to a state of mission “to be light of Christ in the city”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Norberto Rivera, Archbishop of Mexico, presented Pastoral Guidelines for 2008, with the title “Formation for Christian Life” which aim to re-launch a permanent state of mission ...
23 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Unrest in Kenya seriously affects activity of Italian Amici di Raul Follereau Association partners
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Disorder in Kenya following political elections last December, has had serious effects in areas where partners of the Italian Association Amici di Raul Follereau operate programmes of social and ...
23 January 2008
ASIA/SRI LANKA - More than 70,000 children affected by floods in eastern regions; fresh warning of natural disasters due to climate change
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Days of torrential and uninterrupted rain in the districts Ampara and Batticaloa in Sri Lanka have forced about 30,000 people to abandon their homes to escape the flood waters.
In the district ...
22 January 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Catholic Education: “teaching is an expression of the charity of Christ and it is the first spiritual work of mercy to which the Church is called”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 January the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the participants at a Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Catholic Education and in his address he highli ...
22 January 2008
VATICAN - “Everyone in fact must be offered, through the grace of the Holy Spirit, the opportunity to encounter the living Word, Jesus Christ ”: the Pope addresses the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The main duties of the ecclesial community in the world today - among many I underline evangelisation and ecumenism - are focused on the Word of God and at the same time are supported an ...
22 January 2008
VATICAN - The Year of St Paul: programme of initiatives at the Papal Basilica of St Paul's outside the Walls
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St Paul's outside the Walls, presented the programme of initiatives planned by the Basilica for the Year of ...
22 January 2008
VATICAN - Missionary activity and non Catholic Churches and ecclesial communities, Fr Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The title might sound strange and inadequate in the light of Vatican II which speaks of “various elements of sanctification and truth” present “outside her [Catholic Church] visible o ...
22 January 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Towards a divided Somalia?
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- While the crisis in central southern Somalia becomes ever more acute, Somaliland (northern region self-proclaimed independent in 1991) receives signals of possible international acknowledgement ...
22 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes in Kenya continue, situation of displaced persons ever more serious, expectation for mediator Kofi Annan
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - While Kenya awaits the arrival of former UN secretary general Kenya Kofi Annan, charged by the African Union to head a delegation to mediate the political crisis, clashes continue between the p ...
22 January 2008
ASIA/CHINA - International channel of national TV shows 15 minutes of life in a Catholic community
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 January the international channel of national TV in China showed a 15 minute programme on life in Catholic communities in China, including part of a Mass. According to Faith bulletin publi ...
22 January 2008
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem: calls for an end to humanitarian crisis in Gaza and assistance for Palestinian children
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Jerusalem has called for the block of persons and goods which is causing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to be lifted. It joined major international humanitarian organisations in warni ...
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