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9 February 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI's Message for the 17th World Day of the Sick: “our attention turns particularly to children, the most fragile and defenseless of all, especially sick and suffering children...A silent cry of pain is heard from all these children; it is a cry that reaches our conscience as persons and believers.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Within the mark of the Year of St. Paul, the Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI for the 17th World Day of the Sick, February 11, 2009 (celebrated on a diocesan level), invites the fa ...
9 February 2009
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Dawn of the era of ACEAO,” the only coordination structure of the western African Bishops' Conferences - Address of Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, accompanied by Archbishop Robert Sarah, Secretary of the same Dicastery, traveled to Abidjan (Ivory Coast) wh ...
6 February 2009
VATICAN - John Paul II and the “Theology of Communication”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - During the launch of a new book from Vatican publisher Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), entitled “John Paul II: Development of a Theology of Communication,” retired papal theologian Georges Ma ...
6 February 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops' Conference presents a 5-year plan for overcoming famine
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Kenya has launched a strategic 5-year plan for overcoming the famine that is now affecting 10 million people in the country, due to the drought and the rise in food ...
6 February 2009
ASIA/INDIA - Children being baptized “Pio” in honor of the Friar of Petrelcina
Miao (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to the “Padre Pio Missionary in the World” project, in a remote area in northeastern India, devotion to Padre Pio has begun to spread. So much so, says Salesian Bishop George Pallippar ...
6 February 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Five new deacons in the Diocese of Tai Yuan
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – Over 4,000 faithful from the Diocese of Tai Tuan (Province of Shan Xi) participated in the ordination of 5 diocesan seminarians to the diaconate, on February 4. Bishop Li Jian Tang, the Dioce ...
6 February 2009
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Caritas distributes aid to over 15,000 flood victims
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – Torrential rains and flooding have left heavy damages in the Solomon Islands. The government has declared a state of emergency and Caritas has responded with immediate emergency aid. This is t ...
6 February 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops conclude meeting on the Continental Mission
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – February 4-5, the Bishops' Permanent Council held its Meeting in the city of Cochabamba, in which they discussed the launching of the Permanent Mission in Bolivia, scheduled to take place o ...
6 February 2009
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops ask that the Federal War not be excessively esteemed, as if the nation's only pride is its bellicose events
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Venezuela, at the close of their Plenary Assembly, issued a statement on the 150th anniversary of the Federal War, which the nation will celebrate this February 20. The Bishops ...
6 February 2009
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Doctors Without Borders helping victims of attacks in DRC and South Sudan
Kinshasa/Rome (Agenzia Fides) – For several months now, rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been carrying out violent attacks on civilians in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on an increa ...
6 February 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - A priest offers Agenzia Fides his reflections on Holocaust Memorial Day
Roma (Agenzia Fides) – On this memorial day, our minds, hearts, and souls feel drawn to silence – a silence filled with memory, silence filled with the desire to find a meaning in this memory that returns with such g ...
6 February 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - “Find a mini-oasis of listening and silence every day.” Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi's “‘Le Parole e i Giorni- Nuovo Breviario Laico,’ presented in Rome
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – At a moment when the world panorama gives the sense of great insecurity, comes a work that offers a coherent and purposeful path through the use of 366 quotes. This is the content of the book “ ...
5 February 2009
VATICAN - The Pope concludes his Catecheses on Saint Paul: “there remains luminous before us the figure of an extremely fruitful and deep apostle and Christian thinker, from whose closeness, every one of us can benefit” - Appeal for Sri Lanka
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his General Audience on February 4, the Holy Father Benedict XVI concluded his series of catecheses on the Apostle Saint Paul, focusing on his death and his legacy. “Ancient Christia ...
5 February 2009
VATICAN - Note from the Secretariat of State
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Here is the text from the Note from the Secretariat of State, released by the Holy See Press Office:
In the wake of reactions provoked by the recent Decree from the Congregation for Bish ...
5 February 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Exchange of experiences in the faith and evangelization between the Diocese of Tai Yuan and Jin Zhong for promoting the mission for the new year
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of priests, religious, sisters, seminarians, catechists, and laity of the Archdiocese of Tai Yuan and the Diocese of Jin Zhong (Yu Ci) participated in a fruitful exchange of faith an ...
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