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• 11 November 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Embassy of Italy to the Holy See, December 13 Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Embassy of Italy to the Holy See has released a statement saying that this December 13, his holiness Benedict XVI will make a visit to the Embassy itself. It will be the fourth time that a Po ...
• 11 November 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI advises Bishops of Bolivia to promote “systematic, widespread and incisive catechesis is needed, catechesis that teaches the Catholic faith clearly and completely. This Year of St. Paul that we are celebrating, is a special occasion to imitate the apostolic and missionary vigor of this great Apostle.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I know well of the difficult circumstances affecting the faithful and citizens of your country, which at the current time seem to be becoming even more marked. These certainly cause conc ...
• 11 November 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Julio Terrazas tells the Holy Father of the joys and hopes, sorrows and concerns of the country, during the Ad Limina visit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Our great desire is that this encounter may be an expression of our affection for the successor of Peter,” said Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz and President ...
• 11 November 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - President of the Pontifical Council for Families calls the WMF 2009 “a splendid experience of universal brotherhood.” The Pope will participate via satellite and send Cardinal Bertone as his delegate Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “As President of the Pontifical Council for the Family and in accord with the Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, I invite you all to participate with your families in ...
• 11 November 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Plenary Assembly of Bishops studies the mission of the laity, formulating strategic guidelines in culture, economy, politics, and mass media, so as to launch the Continental Mission in Mexico Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Mexico are currently celebrating their General Assembly which lasts from November 10-14. The general objective of the Assembly is to clarify, revive, and strengthen the miss ...
• 11 November 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Archbishop Emeritus Pio Jin Peizian of Mukden passed away November 4: one of his main concerns was the formation of priests, religious, and lay faithful. Mukden (Agenzia Fides) – This past November 4, the Archbishop Emeritus of Mukden (Shenyang), province of Liaoning (mainland China) passed away. He was nearly 84 years of age and for some time his health had been frail ...
• 11 November 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The diocese prepares for three new priests to be ordained on November 15 Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholics of Hong Kong are joyfully preparing for the ordinations of three new priests. According to a report from the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version of the diocesan bulletin), three d ...
• 11 November 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - “We want to celebrate Christmas in peace; the state should see to the return of Christians and the reconstruction of Churches”: letter from the Bishops to the Prime Minister of Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Orissa have recently written a list of considerations they wish to bring to the attention of Prime Minister Shri Naveen Patnaij, who is currently governing the eastern India ...
• 11 November 2008
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Uncertainty as to the whereabouts of two Italian religious sisters kidnapped in Kenya by Somalian gunmen Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The two religious sisters who were kidnapped on November 10 in El Wak, a Kenyan town on the border with Somalia, were supposedly taken to Garbahaarey, a small Somali town 175 kilometers away ...
• 11 November 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - As humanitarian crisis continues in North Kivo, the Archbishop of Bukavu asks leading powers to cease their interference, as it only adds to tensions in Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – It seems that the fragil truce declared by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is being kept, however the humanitarian crisis remains seri ...
• 11 November 2008
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Number of children dying from contaminated water is on the rise Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – The missionaries and humanitarian aid organizations stationed in Bangladesh have released an alert saying that over 110,000 children under the age of 5 die each year from diseases related to con ...
• 10 November 2008
  VATICAN - On the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Pope mentions that “the temple of stones is a symbol of the living Church, the Christian community,” recalls the need “to fight against every form of anti-Semitism and discrimination,” and makes an appeal for North Kivu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, “mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world,” on Sunday, November 9, the Holy Father Benedict XV ...
• 10 November 2008
  VATICAN - “Organ donation is a unique testimony of charity,” says the Pope, asking “that the multiplication of transplant petitions do not change around the ethical principles upon which it rests...the body can never be considered as a mere object.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Organ donation is a unique testimony of charity,” said the Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 7, in addressing the participants in the international congress "A Gift for Life. Consi ...
• 10 November 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the new Ambassador from the Republic of China: “The Holy See is pleased to work together with all those who seek to promote peace, prosperity and development, and appreciates the Republic of China’s commitment to that noble cause.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father received His Excellency Mister Wang Larry Yu-yuan, the new Ambassador of the Republic of China to the Holy See, in an audience on Saturday, November 8, in which he accepte ...
• 10 November 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - 97 year-old Bishop Joseph Sun Zhibin, the oldest Chinese bishop, passes away; he was a humble and kind pastor, firm in the faith amidst times of trial in the Catholic Church in China Yidu (Agenzia Fides) – This past October 22, His Excellency Joseph Sun Zhibin, Bishop of the Apostolic Prefecture of Iduhsien (Yiduxian), in the province of Shandong (mainland China), passed away in his hospital room. ...