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13 January 2007
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The missionary path of the Church in Africa: French-speaking Africa Mission Congress
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - To help the Church in Africa in her mission to evangelise, a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa was held in Rome in 1994 from 10 April to the 8 May, on the theme “The Chur ...
13 January 2007
AFRICA - Statistics on the Catholic Church in Africa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Pan African Congress on Evangelisation we give statistics on the presence of the Catholic Church in Africa taken from the most recent edition of the Church’s Book o ...
13 January 2007
Instrumentum mensis Decembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
As every year, one of the most important moments of the month of December is the Holy Father’s annual meeting with the Roman Curia just before Christmas to exchange Christmas Greetings. On this occasion Pope Benedict X ...
12 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops’ message for Migration Day: "an opportunity to increase awareness of the situation and let it challenge us in the light of the word of God to make a new start with greater commitment "
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “You are 44 million members of one family... "you are members of the family of God " (Eph 2,19)", is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Spain on the occasion of Migration ...
12 January 2007
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Crushed by world’s highest inflation rate half the population relies on international aid to subsist
Harare (Fides Service)- Zimbabwe’s social economic situation is increasingly critical with an inflation rate of 1.281,1 per cent, the highest in the world.
The month-on-month cost of living for an urban family of six ...
12 January 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - Talks for peace in northern Uganda about to resume: justice is major issue
Kampala (Fides Service)- Peace negotiations between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels will resume on 15 January after having been suspended in mid December. The talks are held in Juba the cap ...
12 January 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “I ask you in God’s name to stop fighting among brothers”: Archbishop of Cochabamba appeals for prayers after serious clashes in which 2 died and 70 were injured
Cochabamba (Fides Service) - “My words have no power to solve such a serious problem as the one we are living. But I would ask you in the name of God to stop fighting among brothers. Confrontation leads to nothing beca ...
12 January 2007
AFRICA/KENYA - Rift Valley fever strikes north east Kenya: dozens die of this haemorrhagic fever
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the past month 75 people have died in north eastern Kenya in a serious outbreak of Rift Valley fever.
Rift Valley fever is a rare viral disease about which not much is known. It is transmitted ...
12 January 2007
EUROPA/ITALY - Malaria kills two million people every year in Africa. Capuchins of Padre in front line to eradicate causes of the disease in Chad
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “Let’s stop the silent massacre”. This was the message launched during a charity dinner organised by Capuchin Friar Donato Ramolo, at San Giovanni Rotondo in Italy. The evening was part of a ...
11 January 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Co-ordination of Bishops’ Conferences in Support of the Church of the Holy Land: A group of European and North American bishops is visiting the Holy Land from 12th to 18th January
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - A group of European and North American bishops is visiting the Holy Land from 12th to 18th January this year. This is an established group, which was set up at the request of the Holy See in J ...
11 January 2007
VATICAN - The life of St Stephan teaches us that “social works of charity must never be separated from courageous proclamation of the faith”: Pope Benedict XVI dedicates Wednesday Audience teaching to the first Christian martyr
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI chose St Stephen the first martyr as the subject of his teaching at the Wednesday General Audience on January 10. “Saint Stephen is the most representative of a group o ...
11 January 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Participation (1) Basic Elements of the Roman Liturgy
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Fides Service) -Widespread among the clergy and certain “committed laity” the idea that active participation in the liturgy consists in involving as many people as possible, as often as possible, to sin ...
11 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Bhagalpur
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 11 January 2007 appointed as Bishop of Bhagalpur (India) Rev. Kurian Valiakandathil, a member of the clergy of Bhagalpur, until now parish priest at Le ...
11 January 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops encourage dialogue to settle disagreements and avoid violence “which only breeds more violence”
Cochabamba (Fides Service) - "Dialogue is the only way to solve conflict. Violence only breeds more violence and deplorable results causing offence and damage" said Archbishop Tito Solari of Cochabamba at a press confere ...
11 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - “A Bridge between Europe and Asia: Saint Francis Xavier 5th centenary”: Goa hosts international Conference on the patron Saint of the Missions promoted by Navarra University in Spain
Goa (Agenzia Fides) - “A Bridge between Europe and Asia: Saint Francis Xavier 5th centenary” is the title of an International Conference on Saint Francis Xavier organised 22-25 January in the Indian city of Goa by th ...
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