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7 July 2009
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Alarm for xenophobe episodes against immigrants and migrants
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- A year after xenophobe violence against immigrants in South Africa (see Fides 26 and 29 May 2008), embers of xenophobe intolerance appear to be glowing among the ashes.
In Cape Town the tar ...
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7 July 2009
VATICAN - Presentation of Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical “Caritas in veritate: on integral human development in charity and truth”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office a press conference was held to present Benedict XVI's new Encyclical "Caritas in veritate". Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, President of the Po ...
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7 July 2009
VATICAN - “ Tourism - celebrating diversity ” : Pastoral Message on the occasion of World Tourism Day 2009 issued by the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “ Diversity is a fact, a reality, but, as Pope Benedict XVI reminds us, it is also a positive factor, something good, and not a threat or a danger, ” says a Pastoral Message issued by ...
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6 July 2009
VATICAN - Appointment of new Consultors and Members of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 4 July 2009, appointed as Consultors of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: Archbishop Henryk Hoser, S. A. C. Archbishop of Warsaw-Prague ( ...
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6 July 2009
ASIA/CAMBODIA - From the Year of St Paul to the Year of the Priesthood: a river of grace for the Catholic community
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – The gift of God's grace comes through the events and the celebrations which the Church proposes to the people of God: in this spirit the Catholic Church in Cambodia concluded the Year of St ...
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6 July 2009
ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic world opens the Year of the Priesthood in communion with the Holy Father and with the universal Church
Roma (Agenzia Fides) – Various initiatives and solemn celebrations for the opening of the Year of the Priesthood and the closing of the Year of St Paul in communion with the Holy Father and with the universal Church in ...
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6 July 2009
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The shadow of Jemaah Islamiyah over the bomb blast in Cotabato
Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – The hand of Islamic fundamentalists of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) could be behind the bomb blast yesterday, 5 July, which hit Immaculate Conception Cathedral in the city of Cotabato, on the is ...
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6 July 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Alarm for possible masse dismissal of workers after 6 months redundance
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- The political crisis in Madagascar is a growing threat to the existence of an increasing number of families, because businesses have closed and factories have temporarily suspended workers. ...
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6 July 2009
AFRICA/MALAWI - “ You hardly knew him, he spoke only a few words of your language...why have you come to his funeral? This is the power of the faith, this is what it means to be Christians”: Catholics in Malawi mourn Italian voluntary worker who died of malaria
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic community in Mangochi (Malawi) is mourning the death of Giacomo Marcialli 64 year old builder from i Lurano (province of Bergamo, Italia), who decided to spend his retirement puttin ...
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6 July 2009
VATICAN - Letter of the Holy Father to Italian Prime Minster Hon. Berlusconi, in view of the G8: “May the voice of Africa and less developed countries be heard!”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has written a letter to the Italian Prime Minster Hon. Berlusconi on the occasion of the G8 meeting to be held in Aquila, from 8 to 10 July 2009, under ...
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6 July 2009
VATICAN - The Pope to the European Meeting on Vocation Pastoral: “Sow confidence and hope. There is in fact a profound sense of confusion among many young people today ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Vocation pastoral care is for every diocese a pastoral priority which assumes even greater importance in the context of the Year of the Priesthood which has just begun” said the Holy ...
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6 July 2009
VATICAN - The Pope for the reopening of the Pauline Chapel: “For those who come to pray in this Chapel, for the Pope first of all, Peter and Paul are masters of faith ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the early evening of Saturday 4 July, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the Celebration of Vespers in the Pauline Chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, on the occasion of its ...
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6 July 2009
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “ To the cry for blood shed coming from many parts of the earth, God replies with the blood of his Son who gave his life for us. Christ did not respond to evil with evil, but with good, with his infinite love. ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “To the cry for blood shed coming from many parts of the earth, God replies with the blood of his Son who gave his life for us. Christ did not respond to evil with evil, but with good, ...
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6 July 2009
VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Sunday 2009: “The nations will come to its light” (Rev 21, 24)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The goal of the Church's mission is to illuminate with the light of the Gospel all peoples journeying through history towards God, so that in Him they may be fully realised and accompl ...
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6 July 2009
EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: “we are “Rommi” we are rich, I have three children. Some days I try to go to work in the green houses, I get 25 euro a day”
Naples (Agenzia Fides) – – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, we continue our journey among people we call gypsies, a people who have migrated for almost a thousand years, m ...
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