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12 October 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - 1st National Catholic Church Assembly: “let us reawaken missionary ardour in our Church in Latin America … like Juan Diego we must go out to evangelise with in one hand the Bible and in the other a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary "
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Some five hundred people are gathered for the 1st National Assembly of the Catholic Church in Chile which opened on Wednesday 10 October with a Mass presided by Cardinal Francisco Javier Erráz ...
12 October 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - With enthusiasm and spiritual preparation Salesian Youth Movement members prepare for World Youth Day next year
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day 2008 will be a meeting of different charisma in the Church, of young members of different lay associations and diverse spiritual paths. Besides sharing experience and ides with ...
12 October 2007
ASIA/VIETNAM - The Pope appoints Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 12 October 2007, appointed Rev. Joseph Dang Duc Ngan, as Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Viêt Nam). Until now Rev Joseph Dang Duc Ngan was vicar ge ...
12 October 2007
AMERICA/JAMAICA The Pope appoints Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston-in-Jamaica
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 12 October 2007, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston-in-Jamaica (Jamaica) Bishop Donald Reece, until now Bishop of the diocese of Saint John’ ...
12 October 2007
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Maternal mortality drops in average income countries, but in low income countries mothers continue to die during pregnancy
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The maternal mortality rate, the number of deaths for every 100,000 babies born alive, is diminishing too slowly to reach the 5th Millennium Goal to reduce by two thirds by 2015 the number of wo ...
11 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI dedicates his weekly catechesis to the figure of Saint Hilary of Poitiers, who “consecrated his life to defending faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ, Son of God and God as the Father, who generated him from all eternity”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “To oppose Aryans who considered the Son of God Jesus a creature, albeit excellent, but only a creature, Hilary consecrated his whole life to defending faith in the divinity of Jesus Chri ...
11 October 2007
VATICAN - How the Pontifical Mission Societies sustain the life of the young Churches, the formation of seminarians and priests, and initiatives for children in need
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of the Pontifical Mission Societies, directed by a Supreme Committee presided by the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, is to foster awarene ...
11 October 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Not everyone can understand, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The violent attack on Catholic celibacy which had marked the dominant culture in the West for some years has 'landed' in Italy. Newspapers, television talks shows and various features, are ...
11 October 2007
EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Two thousand children take part in 3rd Holy Childhood Congress: “You not only listen to the Word of God and announce it, with your presence and example you announce God's love to the world”
Brno (Agenzia Fides) - For the third time Holy Childhood children and adolescents in the Czech Republic celebrated their annual Day with a solemnity worthy of the best missionary tradition. About 2,000 children from Cath ...
11 October 2007
AFRICA - Tourism to boost economies of two African getting over dramatic civil wars
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Two Africa countries, devastated by civil war, are hoping tourism will re-launch their economies. One is Rwanda, which after the civil war and genocide of 1994 is determined to take the path of ec ...
11 October 2007
AFRICA -“Stop Kalashnikov ammunition supplies” a report on wars in Africa which 'burned up' at least 300 billion dollars 1990 and 2005
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 billion dollars were lost because of African wars between 1990 and 2005. Billions were diverted from development in Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democ ...
11 October 2007
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - From South America to the Central Asian steppe lands: women religious start new mission in Kazakhstan
Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - Three Sisters, Servants of the Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary of Matara (SSVM) a congregation founded in Argentina, have just opened a new mission in the diocese of Almaty in Kazakhstan, to be ...
11 October 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in Nan An, in Fu Jian province make long 1 October national holiday a great feast in honour of the patron saint of the Missions
Nan An (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux, patron saint of the missions Fr Lin Yong Quan, parish priest St Therese Catholic parish in Quan Zhou in the province of Fu Jian, in the south east of ...
11 October 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Saint Columban Missionaries work despite difficulties and tension to announce and live the Word of God building bridges of peace
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Mission continues despite difficulties, tension and violence and the Good News comforts and changes the lives of many families especially in remote forgotten areas of the country thanks to Saint ...
11 October 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - World Mission Sunday: “The most important aspect of our missionary campaign is to foster prayer, incessant prayer, that the Lord Jesus who sends us on mission will give us his Spirit of fortitude to be His witnesses ”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In Mexico we have prepared to celebrate the missionary month of October and especially World Mission Sunday with greater efforts for various programmes of missionary animation to increase ...
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