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24 January 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mother of Unity
Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. Now the body is not a single part, but ...
24 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: slogan for Holy Childhood Day on Sunday 28 January
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: is the slogan chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain for Holy Childhood Day celebrated by that local Church on Sunday 28 January. “Set out” ...
24 January 2007
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Church leaders request that Catholic Adoption Agencies be exempt from the obligation to consider same sex couples as adoptive parents
London (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster has written to the British government asking for Catholic Adoption Agencies to be exempt from the obligation to consider same sex couple ...
24 January 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - Work to resume on Mexican Martyrs Shrine symbol of loyalty to Christ and value of martyrdom
Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - On February 5 the feast of Saint Felipe de Gesù Mexico’s first martyr, the archdiocese of Guadalajara will resume work on a new Shrine dedicated to the Mexican Martyrs starting with a sp ...
23 January 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe: Estonia(I)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Brief History. The forefathers of present day Estonians were Esti tribes organised in small states vaguely federal in the first century AD. In 1219 King Waldemar II of Denmark invaded north ...
23 January 2007
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Pan African Congress on Evangelisation Final Statement highlights media, Church-Family-of-God awareness, respect for religious freedom, Laity’s mission in temporal realities, preparations for 2nd Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa
Dar-Es-Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - From the 15th to the 18th January 2007, SECAM held a Pan-African Congress at Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania on the theme: "Evangelisation in Africa: Ecclesia in Africa in Retrospect and the Wa ...
23 January 2007
AFRICA - La Croix du Benin and DIA Agency in Congo: two Catholic realities celebrate anniversary
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Two important Catholic media realities in Africa Cotonou based La Croix du Benin and DIA Catholic news agency based in Kinshasa Congo are marking respectively 60th and 50th anniversaries.
La Croix ...
23 January 2007
AFRICA/RWANDA - Important step towards abolition of death penalty
Kigali (Agenzia Fides)- After comprehensive consultation with the different social and political realities in the country, the Rwandan government approved a proposed Bill to abolish capital punishment. The decision was r ...
23 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - It fails to admit the existence of truth and good, it ignores the existence of God and the transcendent, it imposes an ideology of gender: reasons for rejecting Education to Citizenship proposed new compulsory School Subject
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Professionals for Ethics Association warns that the subject Education to Citizenship which the Spanish government intends to make compulsory “interferes with the moral formation of childre ...
23 January 2007
ASIA/ SRI LANKA - Conflict spirals, thousands more flee for their lives, surge of civilian suffering
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) -Recrudescent civil strife in Sri Lanka is causing widespread suffering among the local people. For weeks the regular army has been trying to flush out from their bases Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...
23 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Electoral motives prompt approval of anti-conversion law in Himachal Pradesh
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There are political motives behind the approval of the anti-conversion law in the north west Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. A local Church source told Fides that the local governing Congres ...
22 January 2007
AMERICA/CANADA - “Suffering is not useless. And it does not diminish human dignity which depends neither on the quality of our lives nor on our autonomy…human dignity finds its source in God who created us in his image and likeness”: Leaflet in preparation for World Day for the Sick 11th February
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the World Day of the Sick which will take place on February 11, 2007, the Catholic Organisation for Life and Family COLF co-sponsored by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bi ...
22 January 2007
VATICAN - “Ecumenism is a profound dialogical experience, listening and speaking to one another, getting to know one other better; this is a task for everyone, especially spiritual ecumenism based on prayer and sharing among Christians as far as this is possible at the moment”: the Pope’s reflection at the Angelus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 21 January, in the middle of the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity", before leading from his study window the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer with the crowds gathered in ...
22 January 2007
VATICAN - “It is necessary to proclaim the integral message of Salvation, so it may impregnate the roots of culture and be incarnated in present day Latin America in order to respond better to its needs and legitimate aspirations.”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants at Pontifical Commission for Latin America plenary
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 20 January in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received the 50 participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America presided by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...
22 January 2007
VATICANO - The Holy See Press Office statement following Meeting on the situation of the Catholic Church in China.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office today released the following statement at the close of a meeting held in the Vatican from January 19 to 20, on the situation of the Catholic Church in China. "Pop ...
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