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Evangelisation is not just planning, it is doing

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However I must say one thing: mission today tends more to be celebrated rather than realised. We have liturgical celebrations rich in signs proclaiming the urgency and the necessity of mission Ad Gentes. However there is a danger that we stop there, that we are not effectively involved in universal mission. The proclamation of principles must be followed by the practice of these principles. Evangelisation is not just planning, it is doing. It should be the very life of every Christian, as we sang in the hymn of the Continental Mission. -Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME

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Extremists stage protest, a hail of stones hits Waris Pura Catholic church

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"The protest was quite unfounded: the two men, whom they wanted to see condemned to death, had already been arrested once and were found to be innocent”

Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – “About a hundred Islamic militants marched in protest calling for the death of two Christians accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed. A little Catholic church was battered by a hail of stones and rocks. We are in a state of alarm, despite the apparent calm at the moment now the situation is under control”: this testimony was given to Fides by Dominican priest Fr. Pascal Paulus OP, parish priest of Holy Rosary Catholic Church at Waris Pura, one of the largest suburbs of Faisalabad.
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Catholic Church in Turkmenistan receives official government recognition

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Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) – “We have received official recognition as the ‘Catholic Church in Turkmenistan’. We are filled with great joy and great hope”: Fr Andrzej Madej, Superior of the Catholic Mission in Turkmenistan, told Fides. For the small Catholic community in this part of central Asia, just 100 faithful, “this is a decisive moment in the history of the Church in this country”. The Superior was informed in March by Turkmenistan's Ministry of Justice and its Council of Religions that official recognition had been granted. This means the Catholic community here now has official public status with the corresponding benefits at the juridical and pastoral levels.

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There is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human being says the Archbishop Burgos

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Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Burgos Francisco Gil Hellin, in a recent statement reported by the Catholic News Agency, affirmed that there is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human and consequently, no obligation to comply with Spain's new law on abortion. Rather “direct opposition without distinction” must be mounted, he added and continued. “ This law is not a law, although it is presented as such by some politicians and lawmakers.

It is no law because nobody has the right to take the life of an innocent human being. For this reason it is not obligatory. Moreover, it demands direct opposition without distinction,” the archbishop said underscoring that reason cannot recognize abortion as a right because it constitutes the killing “of a person who is not guilty. The right of a person to exist who has already been conceived, although not yet born, is not a belief stemming from any religion.
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Fundamentalism and anti-conversion laws are contrary to religious freedom

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Bombay (Agenzia Fides) – “Religious freedom is the only authentic path to peace. The theme is most important for India and for the whole world: a decisive reflection on the world today and respect for basic human rights”. This was how Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India commented to Fides, the theme chosen by the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, for the celebration of the next World Day for Peace on 1 January 2011, “Religious freedom, the path to pace”.
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