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29 January 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - “The police have disappeared from the centre of Cairo while demonstrators march again”: a missionary to Fides
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The police have retreated from the centre of Cairo. The army only protects the buildings of importance such as the Parliament. There is an atmosphere that has never been seen before,” Fides w ...
29 January 2011
VATICAN - The Church's commitment to those sick with leprosy: 529 lepers around the world
Vatican (Agenzia Fides) – The missionary Church has a long tradition of helping those sick with leprosy, often even abandoning their own families and always giving them, apart from medical help and spiritual assistance ...
29 January 2011
VATICAN - Unite efforts to guarantee justice and love to people suffering from Hansen's disease: World Leprosy Day, 30 January
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Unite our efforts in order to better express Justice and Love to people suffering from Hansen’s disease.” This is the title of the Message of Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, President ...
29 January 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Archbishop of Manila: “To respect life in family policies and in society is the correct path for the Country”
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “To promote respect for life at levels throughout the Country: both in family policies, which should be based on the values of unborn life and responsible parenting; and in the daily pattern ...
29 January 2011
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops ask Spanish Government to unite with Europe's call to stop violence against Christians
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – In the final note of the CCXVIII meeting of the Standing Committee of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, held on 26 and 27 January 2011, the Bishops asked the Spanish Government to join the call ...
29 January 2011
AMERICA/PERU - The Archbishop of Lima officially opens RPP TV headquarters: “communication aids in the progress of the human family”
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, officially opened the headquarters of the new television station RPP TV (television from the Catholic radio station “Radio Programas Peru”). T ...
29 January 2011
MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - Holy Father's Missionary Intention for February 2011: “That Christian communities may witness to the presence of Christ in serving those who suffer from disease in those mission territories where the fight against disease is most urgent”. Commentary.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During his earthly life, Jesus was always close to human suffering. The experience of healing the sick occupied a great part of his public mission. They brought Him the sick, the crippled ...
28 January 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops pray for Mandela “Father of the Nation”
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “On behalf of the Bishops, Clergy, Religious Sisters and Brothers as well as the Catholic Church in Southern Africa, the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa extend to President Mandela an ...
28 January 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Preparing a terrorist attack to eliminate Catholic Minister Bhatti
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Terrorist organizations in Pakistan are preparing an attack to eliminate Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Religious Minorities: the alarm was issued to Fides by the “All Pakis ...
28 January 2011
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Obstacles to evangelisation and human promotion in Africa: FIAC meeting concludes
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty and social injustice, bad governance, the persistent insecurity, the bad start to democracy in many Countries, the corruption, the urgency of reconciliation and the integral formation of t ...
28 January 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - Prayer published for the Year for the Laity
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – After having published the 2011 Pastoral Letter dedicated to the Year for the Laity, entitled “Walking together to man, living for the Lord” (see Fides 10/1/2011), the Regional Episcopal C ...
28 January 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Talks resume for peace in Mindanao: hopes of the missionaries
Cotabato City (Agenzia Fides) – Everyone is hoping that it is a real breakthrough: peace talks resume resume between the new Filipino government and representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to addres ...
28 January 2011
ASIA/HOLY LAND - From Jerusalem “the message of hope needs to be sent that peace is possible and God will achieve it”: 2,000 cities around the world pray for peace in the Holy Land
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On 29 and 30 January 2011 the third International Day of Intercession for Peace in the Holy Land will be celebrated, a prayer initiative which arose from the desire of various associations o ...
28 January 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Climate of violence continues: another two young priests assassinated in Bogotà
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – Another two priests were killed in Bogotà on Wednesday evening, 26 January. According to the message from the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the murder of the two priests occurred in the q ...
28 January 2011
AMERICA/PERU - “At the service of human dignity and common good”: Bishops in the context of the April elections
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of its Plenary Assembly the Peruvian Episcopal Conference issued a document that presents a reflection for the community, in the context of the election for President of the Republic w ...
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