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• 22 October 2007
  VATICAN - “Ethnic and social differences lived in a spirit of reciprocal respect and love, become a common enrichment rather than a motive for division”: Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Congo on ad limina visit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “May our meeting, expression of communion with the Successor of St Peter, be a source of ever more intense communion among yourselves and among your diocesan Churches, filling you with co ...
• 22 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “We are fighting with you to free you from slavery ”: Catholic Women religious confirm commitment to fight trafficking in human persons Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “We wish to say to victims of human trafficking, women and children especially, we are on your side, you are no longer alone. We are fighting to free you from slavery”. This was stated by the pa ...
• 22 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Miguel Esser, from Chile, is the new international director of the Don Orione International Lay Movement MLO Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Miguel Esser, from Chile has been elected the new president of the Don Orione International Lay Movement MLO. The new president was elected in Madrid during an MLO meeting for general coordinat ...
• 22 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Release of two Catholic priest hostages in northern Iraq Mosul (Agenzia Fides)- The two Catholic priests of Syro-Catholic rite taken hostage in Mosul, northern Iraq on 13 October (see Fides 15 and 16 October 2007) were released yesterday Sunday 21 October. The priests, Fr. Piu ...
• 22 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Born to evangelise”: bi-centenary of Saint Antonio Maria Claret, a great apostle who undertook marvellous missionary work in his life Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - Celebrations to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Saint Anthony Maria Claret, were officially opened 20 and 21 October in Sallent, Barcelona (Spain). The Claretian year will close in the S ...
• 22 October 2007
  AFRICA - Africa rejoices for two new African Cardinals: the Archbishops of Dakar and Nairobi Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “I received the news of my appointment as Cardinal, as a call, a duty, to serve the Lord more and better” said Archbishop Théodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar in Senegal and President of the Bishops' ...
• 22 October 2007
  ASIA/NEPAL - Nepalese Christians concerned for the country's future: instability threatens peace and the democratic process Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Nepal is concerned after the Maoists left the government. There is fear of more instability and chaos. The fact that the convocation of another constituent assembly ...
• 22 October 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops consider proposed constitutional reform morally unacceptable because “it violates the fundamental rights of the democratic system and of the person, threatening freedom and social harmony” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “Called to live in Freedom” is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Venezuela in which they analyse a proposed Bill of Constitutional Reform, presented to the nation on ...
• 22 October 2007
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - New Constitution and general elections in 2009, local Catholic Church called in to help Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Fiji will participate in the moral and civil reconstruction of the country which is starting a progress of normalisation after travailed years of civil war which caused seri ...
• 20 October 2007
  Dossier Fides - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 Sunday 21 october 2007 - Dossier Fides Dossier Fides - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 "All the Churches for all the world" Index Message of his holiness Benedict XVI for the 81st World Mission Sunday 2007 The ...
• 19 October 2007
  VATICAN - “The daily chronicle reveals that society of our day faces many ethic and social emergencies which can undermine its stability and seriously jeopardise its future” Pope Benedict XVI says in a Message to Italy's 45th Catholic Social Week Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of the theme chosen for the 45th Catholic Social Week being held in Pistoia and Pisa from the 18 to the 21 October - “The common good today: a commitment which comes from a ...
• 19 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Meetings, events and a video illustrate World Mission Sunday contents Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church is missionary because it walks in step with humanity” says Rev Denis Kibangu Malanda in a video “All the Churches for all the World ” produced by Missio - Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 19 October 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We are called to help spread the Gospel”: national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies says in letter for World Mission Sunday Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- “World Mission Sunday is an opportunity to reflect on the urgency and importance of the Church's missionary activity, still today, 50 years since the Fide Donum Encyclical” Mgr Hypolite Adigwe, ...
• 19 October 2007
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - “Formation for young people, support for families and promotion of social justice: these are our priorities” says President of Catholic Bishops of Congo, in Rome for the ad limina visit Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “The formation of young people and support for the family are the main concern of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Congo” Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu of Kinkala and President of the Bisho ...
• 19 October 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Intense preparation in the Chinese world in communion with the universal Church for Mission Sunday Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The whole of the Chinese world is mobilising intensely to celebrate World Mission Sunday with the universal Church. According to reports sent to Fides from the continent, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwa ...