News
7 March 2008
ASIA/MALAYSIA - “Vote for the Common Good”: exhortation from the Church to all citizens, for upcoming elections
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - In a document issued by the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, published in the diocesan monthly Catholic Asian News, March Edition, the Church makes an appeal to voters on the eve of general ele ...
6 March 2008
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Colombia-Ecuador conflict: Bishops ask for prayer and sacrifice for peace, because “nothing positive and lasting can be established with violence, hate, and war”
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “Nothing positive and lasting can be established with violence, hate, and war,” say Venezuelan Bishops in their Message of March 5, issued amidst the tension and uncertainty that has envelop ...
6 March 2008
AMERICA - Meeting for the Secretary Generals of Episcopal Conferences for discussing and planning the Continental Mission
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From Tuesday to Friday (March 7), the meeting of Secretary Generals from the 21 Episcopal Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean was held in the headquarters of the Latin American Episcop ...
6 March 2008
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - “Missionary Parish, Without Limits” is the theme for the I Missionary Congress of El Salvador, in preparation for CAM3
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - May 16-18, the city of San Salvador will host the First Missionary Congress of El Salvador, with the theme: “Missionary Parish, Without Limits,” according to a statement sent to Agenzia ...
6 March 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Vocational testimony from a lay consecrated woman: “Don’t wait! Don’t be afraid! Put out into the deep!”
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The Lord attracted me toward Him in prayer, a prayer that placed a desire in me to be always with the Lord! Don’t wait! Don’t be afraid! Put out into the deep! When you are at peace, yo ...
6 March 2008
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Concern for the increase in violence and refugees in the country
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Experts on international affairs and non-governmental organizations have issued a notice on the deterioration of the social situation in Sri Lanka, where the civil conflict is having a negative ...
6 March 2008
ASIA/THAILAND - Missionaries recognized for years of commitment to the poor
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - They are Italian religious who have been living for decades in Thailand, dedicating their lives to evangelizing this land: Sr. Esterina Prando and Sr. Nadia Ferro, Salesian Sisters; Fr. Giovanni ...
6 March 2008
ASIA/QATAR - First Catholic church in Qatar will be consecrated by Cardinal Ivan Dias, a joy both for the faithful and the Philippine priest who leads the community
Doha (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Tomasito Veneracion, a Philippine priest that has been caring for the Catholic community in Qatar for years now, will have the joy of celebrating Mass in the new church of Our Lady of the Rosar ...
6 March 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “Move with speed to effect the necessary constitutional amendments”: request from Kenya’s Justice and Peace Commission, as worries mount for food supply shortage
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Appreciation for the agreement reached between the majority and opposition leaders, and an invitation to those in positions of responsibility to attend to the hundreds of thousands of refugees c ...
6 March 2008
VATICAN - Visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to Rome, in honor of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Pontifical Oriental Institute
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for Eastern Churches has announced that the Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holiness Bartholomew I, has accepted the invitation of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, on the occas ...
6 March 2008
VATICAN - Statement from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue on the Catholic-Muslim Forum
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, through the Holy See Press Office, issued the following statement on the Catholic-Muslim forum: In the light of the open letter "A Commo ...
6 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the General Audience: "Let us learn with Saint Leo Magno, to believe in Christ, true God and true Man, and to renew this faith every day in our efforts for peace and in love for our neighbor."
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that all may live this time of study as a unique opportunity for an authentic integral formation. I encourage you to strengthen your adherence to the Gospel, so that you may always ...
6 March 2008
TODAY ON THE INTERNET/SPAIN - No government has approved a series of laws similar to those in Spain, that have so altered family ecology
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5 March 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Msgr. Luciano Alimandi - Looking at reality through Jesus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus reveals to the blind man whom he had healed that he had come into the world for judgement, to separate the blind who can be healed from those who do not allow themselves to be hea ...
5 March 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - Youth Mission continues in the University, “a contemporary areopagus where the truth of Christ should be proclaimed by the words and testimonies of believers.”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Madrid’s University Youth Mission began on Monday, March 3. Following the Mass presided by Bishop Cesar Franco, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, which also included a missionary “sending,” dozen ...
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