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26 March 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - Events in Northern Africa pose interesting questions for the Christian community
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “We need to see how this transition phase will develop. Then on the basis of this development we as a Church will be able to make our evaluation,” says Fr Luciano Verdoscia, the Columban missi ...
26 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian lawyer threatened with death for calling for the abolition of the blasphemy law
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – New threats to Christian leaders who go against the blasphemy law: under threat now is Joseph Francis, lawyer and director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) in Pakis ...
26 March 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay missionaries of St Columban: evangelising in foreign lands changes your life, enriches faith
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – “Evangelising in foreign lands has changed our lives, enriched our faith and our view of the world,” says Filipino Gracia Kibad - one of the 60 lay Columban missionaries (of the Society ...
26 March 2011
ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of Bishop of Takamatsu
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 25 March 2011, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Takamatsu (Japan), presented by Mons. Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, S.D.B. ...
26 March 2011
ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of Bishop of Oita
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 25 March 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Oita (Japan), Fr Paul Sueo Hamaguchi, Parish Priest of the Cathedral of Takamatsu.
Fr Paul Sueo Hama ...
25 March 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Prayer vigil for the Annunciation: for peace, the victims of natural disasters and all people who suffer
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – For the peace of the world created by God but destroyed by man-made wars and natural disasters, and the Lord's blessing on all those who suffer: these prayers were addressed to the Lord by the ...
25 March 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Celebrate life from its beginnings”: today is the Day for the Unborn Child
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – “Recalling the Annunciation, we may say that God made the decision to participate in the history of humankind. He assumed all the vicissitudes of human existence. God loved us so much t ...
25 March 2011
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Card. Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 28 August 2010, appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Madagascar, for th ...
25 March 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - “The European Union should drop the embargo on medicine”: appeal to Fides by Archbishop of Abidjan
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “I call on all to respect life. In the name of the right to health, I ask that the European Union drop the embargo on medicine”. This is the appeal launched through Fides by Archbishop Jean- ...
25 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Contempt of religion and blasphemy: at the UN, Pakistan changes course
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – With a sharp change of course, Pakistan has stopped its campaign at the United Nations concerning the contempt of religion, accepting the need to reconcile freedom of religion and freedom of ex ...
25 March 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Mission and Ecology”: first Meeting of Society of Holy Childhood and Missionary Adolescence for the State of São Paulo
São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – The organisation of the first Regional Meeting of the Society of Holy Childhood and Missionary Adolescence, which will be held on 16 and 17 July in the city of Embù, was the focus of the r ...
25 March 2011
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Fourteen thousand new cases of tuberculosis in Addis Abeba, Government taking action
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – Health officials in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, are concerned about the spread of tuberculosis in the city, whose population is more than 2.7 million. In a statement by Desalegn Gebr ...
25 March 2011
ASIA/VIETNAM - Caritas and Justice and Peace Commission: more commitment by Church to social work
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – The Church of Vietnam intends to strengthen its presence in society, serving the poor and marginalised, in development projects and peace. Taking this direction of greater consolidation and more ...
25 March 2011
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Bishops: The Bible is a call to all, those who write “Christian publications” seized on
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – “The Bible is an authentic announcement of Salvation directed to all those who wish to hear it”: with these words the Catholic Bishops of Malaysia express their opinion on the vexing ...
24 March 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - “I have trust in African wisdom,” says Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli; a ship of refugees bound for Italy turned back
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “I have trust in African wisdom to resolve the crisis. The Europeans delude themselves that they can resolve this matter with bombs. We need to allow room for mediation by the African Union. ...
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