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4 March 2011
VATICAN - Lineamenta presented for 2012 Synod on the New Evangelisation
Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, this morning presented in the Holy See Press Office the “Lineamenta” (Guidelines) for the XIII General Ordinary Assembl ...
4 March 2011
VATICAN - “Dialogue with other religions remains a high priority, especially in the southern areas of your Country,” states the Pope to the third group of Bishops from the Philippines
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Dialogue with other religions remains a high priority, especially in the southern areas of your Country,” emphasised the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 3 March, receiving a group o ...
4 March 2011
VATICAN - Holy Mass for Pakistani Christians in Rome to remember Minister Bhatti
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, sisters and Pakistani laity who live in Italy and work in various offices of the Holy See will unite in Rome, on Sunday, 6 March 2011, at 4.30 pm, for a Memorial Mass for Ministe ...
4 March 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholic Immigrant workers search for work with a nearby church to continue to live their faith
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – In view of Lent, the mainland Catholic community is intensifying its youth ministry. According to information furnished by “Faith” of He Bei to Fides, “the Church invites young pe ...
4 March 2011
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Two minutes of silence for the earthquake victims ; thousands of people still in grave difficulty
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – At exactly 12.51 on Wednesday, 2 March, all the cities in New Zealand stopped for two minutes of silence in memory of all those, last week, who lost their lives in the terrible earthquake which ...
4 March 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Initiatives by the Guanellian family for the canonisation of the “father of the poor”
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming Canonisation of Fr Luigi Guanella, Founder of the Order of the Servants of Charity, on 23 October in the Vatican, various initiatives have been organised in Bogotà. On ...
4 March 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bible in the K’iché language, the most widespread Mayan language
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – During the study of the post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, Bishop Julio Cabrera of Jalapa, presented the recent publication of the Bible translated into K'iché, the most ...
4 March 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The impression left in Colombia 25 years ago by Pope John Paul II
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – On 3 March the Forum on “John Paul II and his mark on Colombia 25 years later” was held in Bogotà, to remember the significance and teachings from the Papal Visit to Colombia from 1 to 7 ...
3 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Closed schools, prayer and Christians protesting about Bhatti's murder, tomorrow the funeral
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian community in Pakistan, convulsed by grief after the murder of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, is reacting to the event with spontaneous demonstrations of peaceful protest, with vigil ...
3 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti “killed for religious hatred” which is being fueled in public schools: missionary's analysis
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Shahbaz Bhatti was killed “because he was a Christian, an infidel and a blasphemer.” His assassination is part of a “religious war to eliminate those who wish to amend the blasphemy la ...
3 March 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA - Three Catholic sisters on the border, helping mothers flee from Libya
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) – Three Catholic nuns who work in collaboration with a group of Protestant laity left this morning for the border between Tunisia and Libya to assist foreign workers fleeing Libya. Archbishop Maro ...
3 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: need to reform security forces and cleanse them of extremists
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – In what may be defined as “a dark day for the nation's history,” civil society in Pakistan raises the burning question of the complicity by some of the State apparatus with extremist for ...
3 March 2011
EUROPE/ITALY - Twenty years after the first landing of Albanian refugees on the Italian coast
Otranto (Agenzia Fides) – On 3 March 1991 the first ship docked in the port of Otranto, carrying many desperate escapees from the Albanian coast. The local community, at all levels of society, immediately responded to ...
3 March 2011
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Satisfaction for the close cooperation between Church and State in Burundi
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “The aim of this visit is to express my respect and my support for all that is being done to rebuild the Country. I am also here to bring the greeting, blessing and prayer of the Holy Father ...
3 March 2011
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Divine Providence Hospital: point of reference for a million residents on the outskirts of the capital
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – Years of devastating conflict, demographic changes and economic decline have reduced the people of Angola to a state of poverty and deprivation among the worst in the world. The unhealthy envir ...
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