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SPAIN Madrid Book Fair
PAKISTAN A Small Pauline Book Center in the Land of the Taliban
First 3-D movie about Jesus “Made in India”
Entitled Thirty Pieces of Silver, the first-ever 3D film on Jesus, currently under production in India, is scheduled to be released for Easter 2013 in 5,000 movie theaters throughout the world. Filming will start in July 2012 and the completed movie will be dubbed in nine languages, including Malayalam and English. The film’s director, producers… Read more »
ROMANIA Celebrating Pentecost with the Laity
Pakistan: Give Women a More Active Role in Society
About 130 Christian women participated in a congress held in Lahore, during which they analyzed various problems in Pakistani society and proposed initiatives to help resolve them. They took advantage of this event to once more courageously affirm that the women of the country should be allowed to play a more active role in society,… Read more »
PHILIPPINES Ten Years at the Service of Communications
CZECH REPUBLIC A Night Dedicated to the Psalms
AFRICA Intracontinental Commerce: Key to Development
Increased commerce between the countries of Africa is the key to the continent’s development: this is the message that the bankers and economists want to broadcast to the world at the conclusion of their meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. MISNA reports that according to the estimates of the African Union, intracontinental commerce amounts to 10-13% of… Read more »
China: Over 22,000 Baptisms on Easter Sunday
Fides News Agency reports that 22,104 catechumens were baptized on Easter Sunday in China. The data was collected by the Study Center of Faith, located in the country’s Hebei province. The newly-baptized, 75% of whom are adults, belong to 101 dioceses. Sr. Li Guo Shuang of the Study Center says: “Some dioceses and communities were… Read more »