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• 1 August 2009
  Instrumentum mensis Iulii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Among the most significant events in this month of July 2009, we recall that on 4 July the Holy Father received in Audience the participants at a European Meeting on Vocation Pastoral and on the same day took part in Ves ...
• 31 July 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Church in India mourns priest slaying Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) – The assassination of Fr. James Mukalel, a 39-year-old priest found dead near Mangalore (Karnataka, southern India), is still a mystery without any suspects in custody. His lifeless body was ...
• 31 July 2009
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - A summer of missionary formation and youth ministry: the experience of two Marianist missionaries on the Solomon Islands Auki (Agenzia Fides) – Every year, two Marianist missionaries from New York come to the Solomon Islands to spend two months offering evangelization formation and training and working with the youth. In this manner, the ...
• 31 July 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Message from the President of the Bishops' Conference on celebrations of the homeland: “On our path towards progress, let us never forget that the first profit must be for man.” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “Dear brothers and sisters, in this anniversary of our homeland, from our faith in God the Creator we wish to affirm our hope in the capacities of Peruvians and we call for everyone's participati ...
• 31 July 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - First Congress on the Defense of Life: August 1-2 Medellin (Agenzia Fides) – On August 1-2, Medellin will host the first Congress on the Defense of Life, on the state of defenselessness of the human being today, The event will be organized by the Christian Associatio ...
• 31 July 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparing for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid: official logo presented Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Preparations are already underway for the 26th World Youth Day (WYD) in Madrid, August 15-21, 2011, with the theme: “Rooted and Built Up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith.” Yesterday, July ...
• 31 July 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - A special “holy card” for priests in honor of the Year for Priests Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The Polish Catholic weekly magazine “Niedzela,” the most widely-read magazine in the country, based in Czestochowa, has recently prepared and published a special “holy card” of the ...
• 31 July 2009
  VATICAN - Sunday, September 6, Benedict XVI will make pastoral visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, September 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio. The program released by the Holy See Press Office says that at 9am, the Pope's h ...
• 30 July 2009
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Madhu being prepared,with special prayers for peace Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – With special prayers for peace in all the dioceses, the Church in Sri Lanka is preparing the customary annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu (Diocese of Mannar), which will be h ...
• 30 July 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - A new Lay Center inaugurated New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - “The 'Santwana' (Consolation) Lay Movement is a great gift to the Church in India.” These were the words of Archbishop Vincent Concessao of Delhi, in inaugurating the new Lay Center, recen ...
• 30 July 2009
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Year for Priests is the occasion to learn of the lives of holy priests, like Father Damian, and the missionaries who have spread the Gospel in Tahiti: Letter from the Archbishop of Papeete Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - “It is important that this Year for Priests be an occasion to discover the life of holy priests: the Cure of Ars above all, but also other priests, especially the missionaries of Oceania like ...
• 30 July 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - President of the Bishops' Commission for Catholic Education critiques the official guidelines on Sexual Education La Plata (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, President of the Bishops' Commission for Catholic Education, criticizes the official guidelines for teachers on giving sexual education, in a message enti ...
• 30 July 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Suma tu voz,” an alliance of public and private organizations to speak out in defense of the dignity of the person Leon (Agenzia Fides) – The “Suma tu voz” (literally meaning “Unite your voice”) Association was founded in 2008 in the city of Leon (Mexico), as a response to the many attacks on life that have been occurring i ...
• 30 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father at the summer residence of Castel Gandolfo Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of July 29, the Holy Father Benedict XVI left the summer residence in Les Combes (Introd) in Valle d'Aosta, where he had been since July 13, and traveled by helicopter ...
• 30 July 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Conscience, the foundation of religion which conforms to reason (regarding a new book by Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI “Elogio della coscienza”) [In Italian] Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Conscience leads the human person to seek a covenant with God by means of worship which is “logical”, that is, religion which conforms to reason. What does this mean? The entire person ...