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26 June 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 20,000 demonstrators want new Constitution to guarantee respect for human life and the family and not to introduce legal abortion
Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - Some 20,000 people of all ages, whole families, young people and school children took part in a march through the streets of Sucre, Bolivia, demanding that the nation's new Constitution respect fo ...
26 June 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Catholic Bishops call Catholics to join a Continental Mission to go out in search of those who are far from the Church and assume the challenge of evangelisation while not overlooking social duties
Mexico City(Agenzia Fides) - Almost a month after the conclusion of 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida, Brazil, the Bishops of Mexico have calle ...
26 June 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In Brazil one out of every four babies is denied the right to life and is aborted.
Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the health ministry of Brazil, every year 1.104 million women have an abortion: one out of every four babies conceived is denied the right to life and is aborted.
A report issued ...
25 June 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI invokes the intercession of St John the Baptist “that also in our day the Church may remain faithful to Christ and bear witness with courage to His truth and His love for all ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the birth of John the Baptist “means in actual fact, to celebrate Christ, the fulfilment of the promises of all the prophets of whom the greatest was the Baptist called to ...
25 June 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses European University Lecturers: “may universities increasingly become communities committed to the tireless pursuit of truth, "laboratories of culture" where teachers and students join in exploring issues of particular importance for society”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the morning of Saturday June 23 Pope Benedict XVI received in audience participants at the first European Meeting of University Lecturers on the theme "A New Humanism for Europe. The ...
25 June 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: German (3) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Born Winfrid, a native of England, Benedictine monk, the Apostle of Germany, martyred in 755. His feast day June 5, the date of his martyrdom is celebrated by Catholics ad Orthodox Christi ...
25 June 2007
EUROPE/RUMANIA - First Don Orione Piccolo Cottolengo opened in the suburbs of Bucharest
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - The first Don Orione Piccolo Cottolengo in Rumania was recently opened in the Bucharest suburb of Voluntari (population 130.000). In the vast area where a Charity Village is under construction ...
25 June 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Association of Bishops' Conference of Central Africa says “Protocol of Maputo constitutes a slow but relentless destruction of fundamental African values”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The Protocol Maputo introduces a contractual culture which constitutes a threat to the very meaning of love as a freely given gift” members of the ACEAC Association of the Bishops' Conference ...
25 June 2007
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops say proposal to give same sex unions the status of the institution of marriage “is totally inopportune from the point of view of natural law, constitutional right and, for us as Christians, the law of God ”
San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Costa Rica has issued a statement with regard to a proposal put forward by a few members of the national assembly to give unions between same sex couples th ...
25 June 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in Shi Jia Zhuang diocese are deeply devoted to Adoration of Jesus in the Eucharistic and to his Sacred Heart
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - A call to set aside an “an hour a week to keep Jesus company in the Blessed Sacrament during the month of the Sacred Heart" launched in various parishes in the diocese of Shi Jia Zhuang ...
25 June 2007
AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Bururi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 25 June 2007 appointed Rev. Venant Bacinoni of the clergy of Bururi, Professor at Jean Paul II major seminary in Gitega, Bishop of Bururi (Burundi).
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25 June 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Taichung and appoints Successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 25 June 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Taichung (Taiwan), presented by Bishop Joseph Wang Yu-jung in confo ...
25 June 2007
AFRICA/NIGER - The Pope creates Ecclesiastical Province of Niamey and appoints first Metropolitan Archbishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 25 June 2007 elevated the diocese of Niamey (Niger) to the rank of Metropolitan See, with the diocese of Maradi as its only suffragan. The Holy Father ...
25 June 2007
AMERICA/CANADA - The Pope appoints new Bishop Coadjutor of Mackenzie-Fort Smith
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 23 June 2007 appointed Rev. Murray Chatlain of the clergy of Saskatoon, parish priest at St. Patrick’s Church (Saskatoon), Coadjutor Bishop of the di ...
23 June 2007
Pope Benedict XVI missionary prayer intention for July: “That all Christians, aware of their missionary dutt, may provide effective help for those involved in the evangelisation of peoples”. Comment by Fr Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church is the community of the men and women convoked by the Trinity. She is the Holy People of God, called to witness to and to proclaim the salvation brought by Christ. She exists fo ...
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