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15 October 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria and India intensify economic collaboration with visit by India's Prime Minister
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Yesterday, 14 October the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, arrived in the Nigerian capital Abuja to intensify economic relations between Nigeria e India especially in the field of energy.
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15 October 2007
AFRICA/TOGO - “Peaceful legislative elections with high number of voters” says Catholic Archbishop of Lome
Lome (Agenzia Fides)- “The elections were peaceful and the situation is calm: there is hope for the future” said Archbishop Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah of Lomé, capital of Togo, where legislative elections were held ...
15 October 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Ji Ning diocese in Mongolia, celebrates consecration of new Cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary; the diocese hosts the continent's most famous Marian Shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary
Ji Ning (Agenzia Fides) - “The Cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary is also a splendid symbol of the city. The church alone is a strong message of evangelisation", the parish priest said about the Ji Ning dio ...
15 October 2007
AMERICA/CUBA - World Mission Sunday in the wake of Cuba's first Blessed Brother José López Piteira; first Holy Childhood Mission Sunday initiative “One million children pray for peace ”
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Cuba will celebrate Mission Sunday on 21 October on the theme of Pope Benedict XVI Mission Sunday Message 2007, "All the Churches for all the world", said PMS ...
15 October 2007
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops appeal in view of elections on November 4: “May our country be ruled by Law and Justice, so we may walk towards sustainable and inclusive development to ensure everyone a more worthy life"
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "We encourage citizens to participate with responsibility. The legitimacy of the presidential elections will depend on the percentage of voters who exercise their right to vote”: this ...
12 October 2007
EUROPE/POLAND - “Love, the source of the missionary vocation” is the Mission Sunday theme in Poland chosen in keeping with the local Church's pastoral programme 2006/2007
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland prepared material for animation and celebration of World Mission Sunday on the theme “Love, the source of the missionary vocation” which PMS nationa ...
12 October 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni web site also in Spanish
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 October the feast day of St Daniele Comboni, the Comboni Missionary Sisters opened the Spanish page of the Institute's official web site www.comboniane.org. A statement sent to Fides said the ...
12 October 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Bishops' Commission for the Evangelisation of Peoples and cooperation among Churches issues a statement on the 50th anniversary of the Fide donum Encyclical
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church in Italy gives thanks to the Lord for the hundreds of fidei donum priests and many lay men and women sent on mission in these past fifty years, and encourages those who are living thi ...
12 October 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - First anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Filippo Smaldone, Apostle of the deaf: new missionary challenges for the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 17 October a delegation of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts founded by Saint Filippo Smaldone (1848-1923), accompanied by the mother general, Sr Maria Longo and Archbishop Cos ...
12 October 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - National Youth Pro vita Congress discusses pro-life policies, bio-ethics, abortion and assistance for women: "We bet on real, positive change committed to protect life"
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 students from all over Spain will gather in Valencia, for a 3 day National Pro-Life Youth Congress to discuss discusses pro-life policies, bio-ethics, abortion and assistance for women ...
12 October 2007
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Do not forget Southern Sudan. There is not only Darfur” says a missionary after southern Sudan ministers withdraw from national government
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “While then international community focuses on Darfur, they are forgetting Southern Sudan thinking that with the peace agreement in 2005 this region is now paradise on earth! They fail to real ...
12 October 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Precarious situation in north Kivu after rebel general Nkunda announced a cessation of hostilities
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- There is a very precarious calm in the east of Democratic del Congo after a unilateral cease fire declaration was made by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. Although clashes between the army and Nkund ...
12 October 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Series of multimedia products for evangelisation in view of Mission Sunday and the 150th anniversary of the evangelisation of southern Taiwan
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The executive Commission of the Voice of the Catholic Church Association of Taiwan, the Communications office of the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference, asked Kuangchi Program Service and Guan ...
12 October 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Web site in memory of Chaldean Catholic priest Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed recently, and to defend the presence of Iraqi Christians in their homeland
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraq's Chaldean Catholic community has announced the imminent opening of a web site in memory of Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed by insurgents in Mosul. The web site will also defend ...
12 October 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is now “de facto” abolitionist of capital punishment, to the satisfaction of Christians and civil rights associations
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Since there have been no executions in South Korea for ten years the Republic is now an abolitionist “de facto”, although officially the death penalty is still part of the country's juridical ...
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