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11 October 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Saint Columban Missionaries work despite difficulties and tension to announce and live the Word of God building bridges of peace
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Mission continues despite difficulties, tension and violence and the Good News comforts and changes the lives of many families especially in remote forgotten areas of the country thanks to Saint ...
11 October 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - World Mission Sunday: “The most important aspect of our missionary campaign is to foster prayer, incessant prayer, that the Lord Jesus who sends us on mission will give us his Spirit of fortitude to be His witnesses ”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In Mexico we have prepared to celebrate the missionary month of October and especially World Mission Sunday with greater efforts for various programmes of missionary animation to increase ...
11 October 2007
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Third Communications Congress for Latin America and Caribbean 15 - 19 October on the theme “Communications, citizenship and values”
Loja (Agenzia Fides) - About 500 media operators from all over the world will gather in Loja Ecuador 15 - 19 October to discuss and answer certain basic questions in the field of communications: How to guarantee every on ...
11 October 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Anti-poverty Week: Australian Catholics re-launch awareness building and active solidarity
Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - Australia will live a national week of anti-poverty mobilisation 14 to 21 October in view of the UN World Anti-Poverty Day on 17 October. The local Catholic Church is fully involved in the init ...
11 October 2007
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Food, medicine, and travel expenses to reach hospitals: Caritas-Cambodia assists people with AIDS
Siem Reap (Agenzia Fides) -Caritas Cambodia assists persons affected by HIV/AIDS in this country with the highest infection rate in all South East Asia.
Since 2001, when the Catholic organisation for social service firs ...
10 October 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Jesus, sole rock of human existence , Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand. 2Rain came down, floods rose, gales blew and struck that hous ...
10 October 2007
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Oblate Missionary of Mary Immaculate murdered in car-jacking Northern Province of South Africa
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Oblate novitiate community in South Africa and the Northern Province are mourning the death of the Associate Novice Master, Fr. Allard Msheyene ‘MAKO, shot and killed by roadside carj ...
10 October 2007
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - 11th plenary assembly of the Catholic bishops of English-speaking West Africa, will discuss interreligious dialogue and solidarity with the people of Sierra Leone
Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- The 11th plenary assembly of the Catholic bishops of 5 English-speaking West African countries opened at Lagooda Conference Centre in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, Monday. The plenary b ...
10 October 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - The country calls for better aircraft maintenance after yet another air tragedy involving an old aeroplane
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “The highest national authorities will have to explain the terrible lack of organisation which makes our country look like a banana republic a jungle without order or lay, where only the stron ...
10 October 2007
ASIA/INDIA - 'Carmel and Asian Mission': Carmelite Mission Congress for Asia and Oceania “ "missions are an integral part of a Carmelite vocation”
Mangalore (Fides Service) - 'Carmel and Asian Mission' was the theme of a Mission Congress for Asia and Oceania organised by the Discalced Carmelite Order at Ryshivana, the Institute of Indian Christian Spirituality at R ...
10 October 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Council of India meeting on role of women in the Church and society and the challenges facing the Catholic community in the third millennium
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The role and charisma of women in the Church and in society will be the main theme of a meeting of the Catholic Council of India comprising bishops, clergy, religious and lay people to be hel ...
10 October 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Young people in Manila archdiocese in front life to protect creation
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Manila has launched a programme of study and action on the theme “Global Warming and Climate Change”, mainly for young people. In a recent meeting some 500 young people fro ...
10 October 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Archbishop Giovanni Battista Liang Xisheng died last month
Kaifeng (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giovanni Battista Liang Xisheng, Archbishop of Kaifeng in Henan province, mainland China, died on 23 September at the age of 84. Archbishop died of kidney failure and cardiac complica ...
10 October 2007
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - PMS handbook for the month of October: “May mission increasingly become a reality with the face and the name of many brothers born in our Christian communities”
San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Costa Rica will celebration Mission Sunday on 21 October with the theme "With Christ: listen, learn and announce", Ms Elieth Robles, PMS national secretary ...
10 October 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Faced with initiatives of reform, the decision is in our hands”: Bishops launch campaign to encourage responsible participation of the laity
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "“Faced with initiatives of reform, the decision is in our hands” is the title of an information campaign launched by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of ...
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