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• 25 January 2008
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Sibu appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 25 January 2008, appointed Rev. Joseph Hii Teck Kwong, parish priest at Mary Immaculate Conception parish in Kapit, (Malaysia), auxiliary Bishop of th ...
• 25 January 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - National pilgrimage to Mount Christ the King: 50,000 youths pray for life, family and peace Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year Mexico's 'Witness and Hope Movement' has organised the national pilgrimage to Mount Christ the King in Silao, Guanajuato on Sunday 26 January. Some 50,000 young people are ...
• 25 January 2008
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Malnutrition weakens children's resistance and increases the risk of dying from pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, measles and AIDS London (Agenzia Fides) - A series on maternal and child undernutrition in the current issue of the medical journal, The Lancet, correctly puts the spotlight on nutrition as “a desperately neglected aspect of maternal, ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - At the general audience Pope Benedict XVI recalls “what has vivified and continues to vivify the path towards full communion among all Christians, is first of all prayer” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Christians of different Churches and ecclesial Communities for the past few days have been united in a choral prayer to ask the Lord Jesus to restore full unity among all his disciples � ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addresses a Letter to the diocese and the city of Rome on the urgent task of education: “at the root of the education crisis there is a crisis of confidence in life ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We all have at heart the good of those we love, especially our children, adolescents and young people. We know in fact that it is on them that the future of our city depends. So we canno ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Life is nonnegotiable! Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With rulings in Cagliari and Florence, Italian judges have once again scrapped the famous Law number 40, on fertility treatment. The TAR of Lazio Region sent the norms to the Consulta to be ...
• 24 January 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Election guidelines from Andalusian Bishops: protect life and support family and marriage built on the union of man and woman Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the southern Andalusia region of Spain who met for two days, 22 and 23 January issued pastoral guidelines in view of general and autonomous elections on March the 9th. The Bishop ...
• 24 January 2008
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - An American peace for east Congo? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- On January 23 at the end of negotiations, postponed several times, the warring parties in north and south Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, signed an agreement for an immedi ...
• 24 January 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Bishops of Kenya express “full support” for Annan as mediator and ask for immediate cessation of violence Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “It is not too late, however, for our leaders to change their ways and to talk to each other. This is not the time to pass the buck with regard to who is right or wrong. For this reason, we giv ...
• 24 January 2008
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa expresses solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Berhaneyesus D. Souraphiel CM Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Abeba, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia sent the following message expressing solidarity wi ...
• 24 January 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - With the new Prepositor General the Society of Jesus looks towards Asia Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - With the election of Fr Adolfo Nicolás as the 30th Superior General, the Society of Jesus has shown it intends to focus more attention on evangelisation in Asia. This is the conviction of Fr ...
• 24 January 2008
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “In the Name of God, end the siege over Gaza. ”: patriarchs and heads of local Christian Churches in Jerusalem appeal to international community Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - “ In the Name of God, we, the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem and the Holy Land urge the International Community to put an end to this suffering in Gaza" say the Patriarchs and Heads of Chris ...
• 24 January 2008
  ASIA/THAILAND - Salesian missionary wins state award for Training School for the Blind Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The original missionary experience in Thailand of Salesian Father Carlo Velardo, who runs Pakkred Home and Training School for the Blind has been recognised with this year's Outstanding Person i ...
• 24 January 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Xiao Dian parish in Tai Yuan diocese will intensify evangelisation in the Year of St Paul Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) -Xiao Dian parish in the diocese of Tai Yuan, has decoded to give new impulse to evangelisation following the example of Xi Kai Cathedral in the diocese of Tian Jin. Xi Kai Cathedral has l ...
• 24 January 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The mission of women in the Church and in Society ” theme of next plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “ The mission of women in the Church and in Society” is the theme for the 84th plenary assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Colombia to be held in Bogota from 28 January 28 to February 1. T ...