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• 2 October 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Year for Priests, 50th anniversary of “Manos Unidas,” economic crisis, abortion, and education, at the heart of session for Permanent Committee of Spanish Bishops' Conference, as they express support to Bishops of Honduras Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – From September 29 – October 1, the Permanent Committee of the Spanish Bishops' Conference has been holding its traditional meeting. Among the themes discussed were the Year for Priests, the e ...
• 2 October 2009
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “National Healing and Reconciliation”: Pastoral Letter of the Bishops on the evils of the nation and its path to healing Harare (Agenzia Fides) - “We are all guilty, for those who have been victims at one time have been aggressors at another and many more have done nothing in the face of atrocities perpetrated before their eyes. Today, w ...
• 2 October 2009
  AFRICA - On the eve of the Synod for Africa, African Bishops highlight Church's effort for peace and reconciliation on the continent Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Evangelization, peace, and reconciliation are at the heart of the document of presentation of the Instrumentum Laboris of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, publishe ...
• 2 October 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic workers of the Catholic Social Services Center of Shanghai on pilgrimage to Shrine of “Rosary Village” in the Diocese of Fu Zhou Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - “The pilgrimage has given us a spiritual boost that helps us to live our faith as all Christians, but also to better carry out our mission in social services and Catholic ministry.” This is ...
• 2 October 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic school directors and teachers of working on the mission of evangelization Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – October 14-15, as an initiative of the Bishops' Committee for Evangelization of the Culture and Education and the Department for Education, Culture, and Universities of the Colombian Bishops' C ...
• 2 October 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - President of Bishops' Conference tells communications workers: “May journalism contribute to maintaining a peaceful coexistence among people, families, and communities, promoting the dignity of the human person and the common good.” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the “Day of the Journalist” (October 1), Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, OFM of Trujillo, President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference, greeted “all journali ...
• 2 October 2009
  VATICAN - Preparing for Synod for Africa: “We should continue our work of education and formation” affirms Combonian Fr. Cavallini, a missionary in Ethiopia for 20 years Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “I lived 20 years in Ethiopia as a missionary,” Fr. Giuseppe Cavallini of the Combonian Missionaries told Agenzia Fides. “And I could see the various phases of relations between Christians an ...
• 2 October 2009
  VATICAN - Preparing for the Synod of Africa: “The woman plays a priceless role in the work of reconciliation among peoples and ethnic groups,” Fr. Richard Baawabr of the White Fathers tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Paths of peace have been opened by the Bishops, consecrated persons, Church communities, the laity, individually or in associations. There are still some obstacles to overcome...The Church has p ...
• 1 October 2009
  VATICAN - In General Audience, Benedict XVI recalls highlights of Apostolic Journey to Czech Republic: “It was a real pilgrimage and, at the same time, a mission in the heart of Europe.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ It was a real pilgrimage and, at the same time, a mission in the heart of Europe: a pilgrimage, because Bohemia and Moravia have been for more than a millennium lands of faith and holi ...
• 1 October 2009
  VATICAN - Mission Month begins with feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Patroness of the Missions, preparation for World Mission Sunday, October 18 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – With the liturgical feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), proclaimed Patroness of the Missions in 1927, along with Saint Francis Xavier, today (October 1) marks the beginning of ...
• 1 October 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Church and the unity of the whole human race in the encyclical Caritas in veritate Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Paul VI clearly understood that the social question had become worldwide and he grasped the interconnection between the impetus towards the unification of humanity and the Christian idea ...
• 1 October 2009
  VATICAN - Preparing for the Synod on Africa: “It is our responsibility to offer a concrete resolution, not only in words, to reconcile a continent that is truly ravaged by civil war and fratricide,” Superior General of the Society of African Missions tells Fides Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “It is precisely due to its abundant resources that the African nations attract so many foreign interests and cause wars and fratricide among the African people. Thus, the theme of the up ...
• 1 October 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Seek the Face of God”: Pastoral Letter to the Youth on the occasion of the canonization of Trappist monk Maria Rafael Arnaiz Baron Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Seek the Face of God” is the title of the Pastoral Letter that seven Spanish Bishops have written to the youth “in age and in spirit,” in light of the canonization of Trappist monk Maria ...
• 1 October 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - “We come to the Synod accompanied by the prayers and interest of millions of our fellow Christians,” write the Bishops of the AMECEA Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – How has Africa evolved since 1994, the year of the First Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, looking back now from 2009, on the eve of the II Synod on the continent? This is t ...
• 1 October 2009
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Young man from Community of Sant'Egidio killed by a gang, for his work with the youth San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – William Quijano, age 21, of the Community of Sant'Egidio in San Salvador, was killed on his way home after suffering various bullet wounds on the evening of September 28. According to a s ...