AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombia welcomes new Pope with great joy: “he will guarantee growth in the faith in the world battered by so many ideologies”

Tuesday, 19 April 2005

Bogota (Fides Service) - Colombians have welcomed with great joy the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Vicar of Christ on earth, certain that Benedict XVI will follow along the path traced by Pope John Paul II. “All the numerous people interviewed by the local media see the new Supreme Pontiff Benedict 16th as a guarantee for growth in the faith in this world battered by so many ideologies” Fr. Hector Valencia López, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Colombia told Fides. (R.Z) (Agenzia Fides 19/4/2005).


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