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• 12 October 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Relic of new Saint Damien de Veuster on pilgrimage in America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On October 11, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI canonized 5 new saints. One of these saints is the Belgian-born missionary Father Damien De Veuster, the “Apostle of the Lepe ...
• 12 October 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Special section opened on Comboni Missionaries website: “Preparing for the 10th General Chapter 2010” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – As of October 10, the Comboni Missionary Sisters have opened a new section on their official website entitled “Preparing for the 10th General Chapter 2010.” The date chosen is no coincidence, ...
• 12 October 2009
  VATICAN - “In this time of grace the whole of the Christian community is called to rediscover the beauty of the priestly vocation and thus to pray for priests.” Letter to the sick, suffering, and health care workers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Year for Priests, which His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI declared beginning with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, this past June 19, 2009, the Pontifical C ...
• 12 October 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Missionary kidnapped in South Philippines; Appeal from Bishops of Mindanao Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – The plague of kidnappings continues to afflict the Catholic community of South Philippines. Yesterday evening, October 11, a missionary from the Society of Saint Columban was kidnapped. No n ...
• 12 October 2009
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Preparations underway for World Mission Sunday, with special appeal to children and laity to get involved in the Church and Korean society Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Children and laity active in the missionary effort: this will be the main goal behind the events being planned for World Mission Sunday (WMS), which is October 18. In a message sent to Agenzia ...
• 12 October 2009
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Pontifical Mission Societies prepares for World Mission Sunday: PMS National Director in Zambia speaks with Fides Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - “The Pontifical Mission Society of the Holy Childhood is very young in Zambia. 10 years ago dioceses started a serious program of organizing the Society as part of the overall life of the local ...
• 12 October 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA - “The crisis in Guinea risks turning into an ethnic conflict,” local sources tell Fides. Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - “We have no confirmation that among those who were suppressed in the protest on September 28 were former Liberian rebels of Ulimo and the NPFL,” Agenzia Fides was told by sources from the Ch ...
• 12 October 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - Death of Bishop Francis Baldacchino, First Bishop of the Diocese of Malindi Malindi (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Francis Baldacchino, OFMCap, of Malindi (Kenya) passed away on October 10, 2009. Born in Malta, on July 6, 1936, the Capuchin Friar and missionary worked in Africa for over 40 years (La ...
• 12 October 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Large attendance at perpetual vows of 5 religious from Franciscan Order of the Child Jesus, on the First Sunday of the Missionary Month Yi Chang (Agenzia Fides) – Five religious sisters of the Franciscan Order of the Child Jesus in the Diocese of Yi Chang made their perpetual vows on the First Sunday of the Missionary Month of October. According to inf ...
• 9 October 2009
  VATICAN - To our Fides readers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Mr. Luca De Mata will no longer be serving as Director of Agenzia Fides, having reached the age of retirement. We express to him our gratitude, from the Congregation of the Evangelization ...
• 9 October 2009
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop of Gurue resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on October 9, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Gurue (Mozambique) presented by Bishop Manuel Chuanguira Machado, ...
• 9 October 2009
  VATICAN - Solidarity of President Delegates and Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops with Archbishop of Bukavu, forced to return to his homeland as a result of the dangerous situation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The President Delegates and Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops sent the following letter to Archbishop François Xavier Maroy Rusengo of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo). � ...
• 9 October 2009
  VATICAN - Saturday, October 10, Marian Vigil of university students with the Pope and Synod Fathers “for Africa and with Africa,” with satellite connections to 8 African countries Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, on October 10, at 5pm in the Paul VI Audience Hall, there will be a Marian Vigil for university students fro ...
• 9 October 2009
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Four weeks of prayer for the missions” - PMS of Zambia proposes prayer intentions: II Synod of Africa, General Chapter of Combonian Missionaries, and Priests Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – Zambia has also been celebrating this October dedicated to the missions with prayer and missionary activities. As a statement sent to Agenzia Fides from the National Director of the Pontifical ...
• 9 October 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Important initiative from South African Bishops presented to the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops: Catholic Parliamentarian Liaison Office Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Auxiliary Bishop Barry Alexander Anthony Wood of Durban, South Africa, in his address to the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, presented an initiative from the Southern Africa Catholic Bi ...