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• 21 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Angola (10) - Address to political and civil authorities: “African men and women themselves, working together for the good of their communities, should be the primary agents of their own development.” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “You are the protagonists and witnesses of an Angola which is on the road to recovery. In the wake of the twenty-seven-year civil war that ravaged this country, peace has begun to take root, br ...
• 21 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Angola (11) - Meeting with Bishops: “continue to raise your voice in defence of the sacredness of human life and the value of the institution of marriage, as well as in promotion of the family’s proper role in the Church and in society” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – On the evening of Friday, March 20, the Holy Father met with members of the Bishops' Conferences of Angola and São Tomé, in the chapel of the Nunciature. “May our prayer of praise rise up, ...
• 21 March 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Spanish priest shot to death, after 34 years of working with street children Recife (Agenzia Fides) – Police sources have informed that 64 year-old Father Ramiro Ludeña, a native of Toledo (Spain) was killed yesterday, March 20, in Recife, in northeastern Brazil where he had been working 34 ye ...
• 21 March 2009
  Instrumentum mensis Februarii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum During the General Audiences this month, The Holy Father Benedict XVI concluded the cycle of catechesis on St Paul to mark the Year of St Paul and on 11 February he started a presentation of the great Writers of the Chur ...
• 20 March 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev. Nicola Bux and rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Mission: contents and method coincide. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his invaluable address to the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Clergy, held in the Vatican 16-18 March, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, among many important indications, offer ...
• 20 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Cameroon (2) - Meeting with Bishops: “In this year dedicated to Saint Paul, it is most opportune to recall the urgent need to proclaim the Gospel to everyone. This mandate, which the Church received from Christ, remains a priority.” Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) – In the Church of Christ-Roi in Tsinga, Yaounde, on the morning of Wednesday, March 18, the Holy Father Benedict XVI met with the Bishops of Cameroon. After recalling the motive of his visit - ...
• 20 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Cameroon (3) - Celebration of Vespers: the example of Saint Joseph “helps us to understand that it is only by complete submission to the will of God that we become effective workers in the service of his plan” Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) – The First Vespers of the Solemnity of Saint Joseph were presided by the Holy Father in the Basilica of Marie, Reine des Apôtres in the Mvolyé neighborhood in Yaoundé, in the afternoon of We ...
• 20 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Cameroon (4) - Meeting with the Muslim community: “May the enthusiastic cooperation of Muslims, Catholics and other Christians in Cameroon be a beacon to other African nations of the enormous potential of an interreligious commitment to peace, justice and the common good!” Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - “May the enthusiastic cooperation of Muslims, Catholics and other Christians in Cameroon be a beacon to other African nations of the enormous potential of an interreligious commitment to peace ...
• 20 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Cameroon (5) - Mass on the occasion of the publication of the Instrumentum Laboris: “Sons and daughters of Africa, do not be afraid to believe, to hope, and to love; do not be afraid to say that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) – On the Solemnity of Saint Joseph (March 19), the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided a special Mass on the occasion of the publication of the Instrumentum Laboris of the Second Special Assembly ...
• 20 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Cameroon (6) - Meeting with the sick and suffering: “Every African who suffers, indeed every person who suffers, helps Christ to carry his Cross and climbs with him the path to Golgotha in order one day to rise again with him.” Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of March 19, the Holy Father Benedict XVI visited the Cardinal Paul Emile Leger Center - Centre National de Réhabilitation des Handicapés – in Yaounde, where he met with a ...
• 20 March 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Meeting for National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Europe, with the theme: “Imitate Me.” Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Warsaw (Poland) is hosting a Meeting for National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Europe, March 19-23, to discuss and reflect on the new challenges of the mission, ...
• 20 March 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - With the hope that the Pope's visit will help strengthen the family and overcome the consequences of the war Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “Pope Benedict XVI's visit, the second time a Pope is on Angolan soil (the first was Pope John Paul II in 1992). This visit happens at a time when the Angolan authorities take measures to tackl ...
• 20 March 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Week for Life and the Family to conclude with large March for Life on March 25 La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – This past March 16 marked the initiation of the Week for Life and the Family with an exposition entitled “Maria Gravida” and a conference on “The Goodness of Marriage,” which was given ...
• 20 March 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We are asking for justice and we offer Christian forgiveness.” - Statement from the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Carreño following the murder of two religious Puerto Carreño (Agenzia Fides) – “Those of us who perform evangelizational services in this Vicariate feel our hearts broken by this cruel act of murder,” says the statement issued by Redemptorist Missionary Franc ...
• 20 March 2009
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “The word of God should be the light for our path to nationhood,” say Nigerian Bishops Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Building a nation, overcoming divisions and evils that impede the people of Nigeria from realizing their potentials was the focus of the Message from the Bishops of Nigeria, published at the clo ...