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11 January 2007
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Peace process in Cabinda enclave starts with disarmament and incorporation in regular army of former rebels
Luanda (Fides Service) - Concrete steps in the Cabinda peace process included the destruction in early January of weapons belonging to the FLEC (Cabinda Liberation Front fighting for independence from Angola).
The dest ...
11 January 2007
AMERICA/ECUADOR - 500 New School Desks made by Andine community children in Cotopaxi
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador, with a population of 13, 40 % indigenous, is a poor country, almost 70% of the country’s 4,8 million children live in extreme poverty. Schools in the Andes region are shoddy with few old ...
11 January 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic parishes participate with enthusiasm in diocesan Year of the Family
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan Year of the Family in Hong Kong, solemnly opened on Sunday 22 October, World Mission Sunday, is putting family and marriage pastoral at the centre of local Church life. According ...
10 January 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA “Mary, the force of witness”
Rev Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past, and John looked towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God!’. And the two disciples heard ...
10 January 2007
EUROPE/FRANCE - Every year 200,000 legal abortions and an unknown number of illegal abortions. National Pro Life March in Paris on Sunday 21 January
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every year in France the deaths of 220,000 aborted babies are officially registered. Since abortion was legalised in France in 1974 more than 7 million babies have been aborted.
Once again this ...
10 January 2007
AMERICA/PERU - First National Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru 15 to 18 January will deepen missionary spirituality and build bonds of reciprocal knowledge and brotherhood
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Lima will host the First National Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru from 15 to 18 January, Fides was informed by executive secretary of the meeting Fr. Ambrogio Cortesi. The meeting, to be ...
10 January 2007
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Fighting in Somalia continues, situation in the capital Mogadishu still tense
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Military operations in Somalia by Government troops and the Ethiopian army to oust the militia of the Union of Islamic Courts continue. Various air strikes are reported but it is not known whe ...
10 January 2007
AFRICA/CHAD - United Nations High Commission for Refugees concerned about security situation of 220,000 refugees from Darfur
N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - UNHCR remains extremely concerned over the security situation in eastern Chad, where there are more than 220,000 Darfur refugees and now over 100,000 internally displaced Chadians - 20,000 o ...
10 January 2007
VATICAN - “The banquet of differences. Dialogue in the societies of the third millennium” International Conference at Urban University
Rome (Fides Service) - “The banquet of differences. Dialogue in the societies of the third millennium” is the title of an International Conference organised for 11 and 12 January by the Missiology Department of the ...
10 January 2007
VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Slovenian - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There have been Christians in Slovenia since the 2nd century. A most important figure of the early Christian community was Bishop Saint Victorinus, martyred in the 3rd century in persecutio ...
10 January 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - 4th National Mission: Catholic university and high school students bear witness to Christ in 58 different areas of the country
Santiago (Fides Service) - Once again this year Catholic university students and high school pupils in Chile are spending part of their three month Summer holidays on mission in various parts of the country as part of th ...
10 January 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Through prayer and service Legion of Mary consolidates the faith: 85th anniversary
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of celebrations for the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Legion of Mary, the spiritual director of the local Praesidium Fr Ferdinand Lok Hung Cheong, told Hong Kong’ ...
9 January 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Ambassadors: “It is by respecting the human person that peace can be promoted, and it is by building peace that the foundations of an authentic integral humanism are laid. Yes, the future can be serene if we work together for humanity”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 8 January Pope Benedict XVI met the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for the customary exchange of New Year greetings. After an opening discourse by the ...
9 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Family Policy Institute calls for National Plan to sustain the birth rate in a situation of social catastrophe of rising numbers of abortions
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish Family Policy Institute IPF a growing number of Spanish women choose to abort their babies. IPF president Eduardo Hertfelder, said today 2 out of 10 pregnancies are termi ...
9 January 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral letter 2007 “Social Concern and Evangelisation”: Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference in Taiwan reflect and act on Encyclical “Deus Caritas est”
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference in Taiwan issued a pastoral letter for the year 2007, dated Dec. 25, 2006, in which they suggest practical ways for Catholics to perform charitable work. ...
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