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16 July 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ikot Ekpene
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 16 July 2010, appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Ikot Ekpene (Nigeria) Rev. Camillus Raymond Umoh, Professor at Catholic Institute of West Africa in Po ...
16 July 2010
ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of Military Ordinary in Korea
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 16 July 2010, appointed as Military Ordinary in Korea, Rev. Francis Xavier Yu Soo-il, O.F.M, Vicar in the Franciscan House of Formation Seoul.
Friar Franc ...
15 July 2010
EUROPE/SPAIN - There is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human being says the Archbishop Burgos
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Burgos Francisco Gil Hellin, in a recent statement reported by the Catholic News Agency, affirmed that there is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human and conse ...
15 July 2010
EUROPE/GERMANY - Benedictine Missionaries of St. Ottilien and creation protection
Sankt Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) – Today 15 July at the Benedictine Abbey of the Missionaries of St. Ottilien, work begins to build a bio-gas plant for the production of electrical power. The abbey compound, which includ ...
15 July 2010
AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - “ Without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward ”: Congress on Peace in Uvira
Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo there has been no peace for over seven years and “without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward, or even rebuild the region ...
15 July 2010
ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Local Catholic Church receives official government recognition
Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) – “We have received official recognition as the ‘Catholic Church in Turkmenistan’. We are filled with great joy and great hope”: Fr Andrzej Madej, Superior of the Catholic Mission in T ...
15 July 2010
ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - “Religious freedom is the nucleus and the foundation of peace”, says the Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris
Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) – The theme chosen by the Pope for the next World Day for Peace 2011, “is especially important today when, in so many parts of the world, religious freedom is violated or limited. With great ...
15 July 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Angry Muslims stage protest, a hail of stones hits local Catholic church
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – “About a hundred Islamic militants marched in protest calling for the death of two Christians accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed. A little Catholic church was battered by a ...
15 July 2010
ASIA/CHINA - New burial for the earthly remains of a young Belgian missionary and a consecrated lay woman remembering “their missionary example”
Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) – “We have come here today not only to give new burial and to inaugurate this beautiful plaque in memory of Scheut missionary Fr. Jozef Leemans, (CICM), and Yan Francesca Chiara, but also to r ...
15 July 2010
ASIA/INDONESIA - 'Debt2Health agreement': history making agreement between Australia, Indonesia and the Global Fund to Fight TB
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Australia, Indonesia and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and malaria reached a history making agreement to support health programmes to treat and prevent TB in Indonesia. The 'Debt2 ...
15 July 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ Evangelisation is not just planning, it is doing ”: reflections after First National Mission Congress for Seminarians
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – “This meeting has been an important experience of missionary commitment. Prayer, conferences, group discussion, hymns have had one same goal: how to prepare future priests to be shepherds a ...
15 July 2010
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The greater the obstacles the greater still must be our efforts for reconciliation, peace and solidarity”: Assembly of Bishops concludes
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “The great majority of our people desires Venezuela to be ‘a home for all’ the dream of those who founded our Republic: a home of acceptance, tolerance, peace and brotherhood. One great ...
15 July 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Pope appoints National Director of the PMS auxiliary Bishop of El Alto
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, appointed today, 15 July, as Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto (Bolivia), Rev. Eugenio Scarpellini, of the diocesan clergy of Bergamo (Italy), assigning him the ...
14 July 2010
EUROPE/BELGIUM - Religions against discrimination and defamation on religious grounds
Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) – As part of a second series of seminars on 'Islam, Christianity and Europe', today, 14 July, in Brussels, a study meeting on the theme on the theme “The role of religious actors in the fig ...
14 July 2010
ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: “Fundamentalism and anti-conversion laws are contrary to religious freedom ”
Bombay (Agenzia Fides) – “Religious freedom is the only authentic path to peace. The theme is most important for India and for the whole world: a decisive reflection on the world today and respect for basic human rig ...
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