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13 August 2007
Dossier - THE DEATH PENALTY: “Love your enemies”
THE DEATH PENALTY: “Love your enemies”.
How States take lives.
Stones? Big, but not too big
Death with a rope around the neck lasts between 8 and 13 minutes.
One blow of the sword is not always sufficient t ...
6 August 2007
Instrumentum mensis Iulii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The month of July opened with the publication of an important document: the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum with which the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, granted the faithful who so desire, on the condition that they a ...
3 August 2007
Dossier - Drugs in Africa: a global problem
In Africa drugs are a problem and one more obstacle to development. This is the opinion of international bodies charged with fighting international drugs trafficking. “After experience in hashish and heroine smuggling ...
1 August 2007
Dossier - THE MOTU PROPRIO of Benedict XVI
THE MOTU PROPRIO of Benedict XVI
Summorum Pontificum cura
1. THE ANTECEDENTS
The Sacrosanctum Concilium
The Constitution Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI (1969)
The Indult Quattuor Abhinc Annos of Pope John Paul ...
28 July 2007
Dossier - NEW, SMALL AND GREAT CHURCH REALITIES
Dossier - NEW, SMALL AND GREAT CHURCH REALITIES
RENEWAL IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Development - Pastoral activity - Ministerial Activity- Organisation - Formation
Events - Publications - Missions and Projects - Institutes ...
27 July 2007
The Pope's Missionary Prayer intention for August: “That the Church in China may show ever stronger unity within herself and effective and visible communion with the Successor of Peter ”, Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Never has a Papal Letter aroused so much expectation, interest and curiosity as the recent Letter addressed by Pope Benedict XVI to the members of the Catholic Church living in the Chinese ...
27 July 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Official Comboni Missionary Sisters web site www.comboniane.org, now in English
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “If the world of today travels via the web, mission will carry the Word along the same way”. With these words on March 15 the Comboni Missionary Sisters announced the inauguration of the Congr ...
27 July 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “The situation is tense, but it is important to keep calm and not throw fuel on the fire” says local source with regard to situation in east Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “ The situation is tense but it is important not throw fuel on the fire with bellicose declarations or false alarms. It is necessary to work for peace in collaboration with the international c ...
27 July 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Work to build Nigeria's first atomic power plant will start in 2011 which will produce 1.000 megawatt of energy by 2017
Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- Work to construct Nigeria's first nuclear power plant will start in 2011. This was announced yesterday 26 July by the chairman of the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission Dr Franklin Erepamo Osaisai w ...
27 July 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic school in north India sacked and devastated: local Church calls for justice and protection
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic school run by the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Graces in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand (or Uttaranchal), was devastated by a gang of radical Hindu militants, member ...
27 July 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake leaves more homeless, but greatest fear is fresh interreligious violence
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - the recent earthquake in Sulawesi (east Indonesia) is not the greatest concern, although more than 100 people are reported dead or missing and the island was already devastated by recent landsl ...
27 July 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - New Italian aid agency to increase capacity to provide prompt, effective and transparent intervention in the case of a major humanitarian crisis
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Agire is the name of a new emergency agency recently presented in Rome, launched by a partnership of six international NGOs: Actionaid, Amref, Save the children Italia, Terre des hommes Italia, Vis ...
27 July 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Pontifical Salesian University reaches academic agreements with three universities in China
An interesting development in Catholic Church relations with the Peoples Republic of China was reported by the Salesian news agency ANS. During a seven day visit to China, 2-9 July, a delegation of the Pontifical Salesia ...
27 July 2007
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Women in west Africa have little choice. Many would be mothers die due to preventable complications
Dar Es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - After Sierra Leone, Niger, Malawi and Angola Tanzania is the fifth country in Africa where pregnant women are at risk. According to World Bank statistics in Tanzania in 2000, for every 100 ...
26 July 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for 23rd World Youth Day Mission: “you must be holy and you must be missionaries since we can never separate holiness from missio… Be prepared to put your life on the line in order to enlighten the world with the truth of Christ; to respond with love to hatred and disregard for life; to proclaim the hope of the risen Christ in every corner of the earth.”
Lorenzago (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia from 15 - 20 July 2008 on the theme: “ You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses” ...
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