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13 October 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to the Pontifical Shrine in Pompei, Sunday October 19
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, October 19, the Holy Father XVI will make a pastoral visit to the Pontifical Shrine of Pompei. According to the schedule issued by the Holy See Press Office, at 9am he will lea ...
13 October 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archbishop Denis Hart calls new abortion law a “betrayal of humanity”
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) – It is a setback for life, society, and civil coexistence. It is an authentic “betrayal of our shared humanity, a betrayal of women, a betrayal of the innocent unborn child.” This was how ...
13 October 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Madrid for the next three years is centered on the family, in order to respond to “public affronts, warning signs of its imminent disappearance, and evident attacks on its nature and stability.”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Cathedral of the Almudena held a Mass on October 11, which included the presentation of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan for the next three years, with the theme: “The family is alive; with ...
13 October 2008
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops speak out against the country’s main problems, “consequence of the exclusion of God from reality and from our actions, and a lack of moral principles in decision-making”
Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Guatemala have issued a statement at the end of their Plenary Assembly, in which they offer their “words as pastors, in response to some of the situations that the country i ...
13 October 2008
AMERICA/HONDURAS - PMS Guide for Missionary Animation: “a didactic tool in helping our baptized faithful to grow in their faith, open their hearts to their neighbor, and commit their lives in solidarity.”
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – “As head of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Honduras, I am counting on you to do all you can in fulfilling the wishes of our Holy Father, of animating and forming the missionary spir ...
13 October 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholics in Hong Kong celebrate the 350th anniversary of the foundation and missions in Asia of the Paris Foreign Missions Society
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) is celebrating this year its 350th anniversary of foundation of their Asian missions. According to a report from the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version ...
13 October 2008
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church looks towards the new technologies: the Archdiocese of Karachi launches a new Web-TV
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A TV on the Internet to offer information and formation for the faithful, thanks to modern technological means: this is the project developed by the Archdiocese of Karachi, which will be launc ...
13 October 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “The Holy Father’s appeal for Kivu sheds light on an area that is often left in darkness,” a missionary from East Congo tells Fides
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “I saw the Holy Father’s address at the Angelus, live on the television. My fellow brethren and I wish to give him our heartfelt thanks for the appeal for peace in Kivu,” one missionary ...
13 October 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Former South African President Mbeki in Zimbabwe to solve political crisis; however Mugabe proceeds unilaterally with the appointment of key Ministers
Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Former South African President Thabo Mbeki will arrive today, October 13, in Zimbabwe to try and overcome the crisis occurring in the formation of the government of national unity, called for b ...
11 October 2008
Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The Holy Father, as usual, spent the month of September at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, from where he returned to the Vatican on the 30th. The first half of the month was marked by two important events: on Su ...
10 October 2008
VATICAN - “While we pray that the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Pius XII may continue smoothly, it is good to remember that sanctity was his ideal, an ideal he never failed to propose to everyone”: Benedict XVI on the 50th anniversary of his death, recalls the “notable impulse” of Pius XII in the Church’s missionary activity.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The passage of the book of Sirach, in which it says that those who follow the Lord will find trials, difficulties and suffering, and the prologue of the First Letter of Saint Peter, in wh ...
10 October 2008
ASIA/KOREA - Coadjutor Bishop of Suwon appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedic XVI, on October 10, 2008, named Fr. Matthias Ri Iong-hoon, auxiliary of Suwon, Korea, as coadjutor of the same diocese. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/10/2008) ...
10 October 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Canonization of Narcisa of Jesus: an event that raises spirits amidst preparations for World Mission Day
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – This October 12, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will canonize Ecuadorian Narcisa of Jesus Martillo, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992, along with three other people. She will become th ...
10 October 2008
EUROPE/POLAND - Numerous activities in missionary October, with the theme: “The disciple of Jesus is the missionary of hope.”
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – Starting in September, various different events have been organized in Poland for missionary animation, says National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies (PMS) in Poland, Jan Piotro ...
10 October 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “Guarantee food for Kenyans”: exhortation from the Catholic Church to the leaders of the country
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Kenya is showing its great concern for the situation of internal refugees and the sharp rise in the price of food products, which is threatening the lives of millions of ...
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