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• 13 February 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - All baptized should become missionary disciples! Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) – A call to recognize and accept Jesus in our lives and to take responsibility for evangelizing: this is how Fr. Alejandro Castillo, Vicar General of the Diocese of Copiapo, summed up the signif ...
• 13 February 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 2nd National Meeting for Youth Missionary Coordinators Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – From February 12 to 15, the National Headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), in Brasilia, will host the 2nd National Meeting of the General Coordinators of the Youth Missionar ...
• 13 February 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' Message for Elections 2010: a complex year filled with challenges Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Colombia has issued a document on the forthcoming presidential elections to be held in May 2010, just two hundred years since Colombia's independence. The document, a ...
• 13 February 2010
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Rector of “San Pierre Claver” Interdiocesan Major Seminary in Burasira, Archdiocese of Bujumbura appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on November 14, 2009, has appointed Fr. Daniel Nizigiyimana of the Archdiocesan clergy of Gitega, Rector ...
• 13 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics doing volunteer work during school vacations for New Year's Zhang Jia Kou (Agenzia Fides) - During the winter school holidays, young Catholics in the parish of Zhang Jia Kou are set to perform works of charity, becoming volunteers to witness to the love of Christ to all people, b ...
• 13 February 2010
  VATICAN - Walking difficulties among young children: inventor of hip ultrasound visits Bambino Gesu Hospital for two-day study session Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On February 12-13, at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, the Austrian orthopedic Reinhard Graf, inventor of the ultrasonic method for the study of the femoral area in infants, will mak ...
• 13 February 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - "The Church is concerned, but has confidence in the authorities and in justice," President of the Bishops' Conference tells Fides Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Sri Lanka "which is acting in compliance with the institutions and has expressed its concern, is confident in the national legal system, without renouncing her prophetic role and ...
• 13 February 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - President of the Bishops' Commission for Missions inaugurates school in Cape Verde, sponsored by the German Holy Childhood Association Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Amor de Dios" ("The love of God") is the name of a school center that is part of Santiago Island in Cape Verde. The center, which includes a school, several nurseries, and a home for street chil ...
• 13 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - 14 children die, 6 hospitalized after fire at student hostel Dimapur (Agenzia Fides) – On Thursday, February 11, a fire broke out in a small student hostel near the Don Bosco Institute in Palin, in the State of Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China in the “India-Dimapur” Provi ...
• 12 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of hope one month after the earthquake: Apostolic Nuncio ordains two Camillian deacons Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – One month after the earthquake that struck Haiti, especially in its capital city of Port-au-Prince, there is yet another sign of hope for the local community and for the Church, which l ...
• 12 February 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Water and oil, two main players in Southern Sudan's independence Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Water and oil are two of the main principles that would be at stake in the event that Southern Sudan were to become an independent state with the referendum of January 2011. "The victory of ...
• 12 February 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - An on-line “special” from the Youth Missionary Movement dedicated to Archbishop Romero Rome (Agenzia Fides) – There is a new on-line special section on the site of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy on Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, upon the 30th anniversary of his assassination, prepared by the Yout ...
• 12 February 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI on the Day of the Sick: “The Church cannot neglect these two essential works: evangelization and care of the sick in body and spirit.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The Church, which has been entrusted with the task of prolonging the mission of Christ in space and time, cannot neglect these two essential works: evangelization and care of the sick i ...
• 12 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics prepare to live New Year under banner of evangelization Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – In preparation for Chinese New Year, which falls on February 14 and is the great holiday of traditional Chinese culture, the Catholic world from the mainland to Hong Kong is getting ready to w ...
• 10 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Bishop will serve as Shazia Bashir's family lawyer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Timothy Nasir, of the Presbyterian Church in Pakistan, will lead the team of lawyers following the case of Shazia Bashir, the Catholic girl who was tortured, raped, and killed on January ...