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5 November 2008
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Vocational Week 2008 to help all youth and adolescents to discern, decide, and assume their vocation as disciples and missionaries, following the example of Saint Paul
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – Vocational Week 2008 in Santo Domingo was inaugurated on November 3, with a youth encounter with Cardinal Nicholas de Jesús López, Archbishop of Santo Domingo. The Vocational Week runn ...
5 November 2008
OCEANIA/TAHITI - Religious life is attracting new candidates in Polynesia
Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - “For youth today, the religious life seems to present difficult sacrifices which can certainly be a detriment for some who experience the call. They are called to renounce their independence, ...
5 November 2008
ASIA/INDIA - The Word of God brings new hopes to Orissa: campaign to distribute 1,000 Bibles
Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of Bibles have been burned, destroyed, or damaged in the wave of anti-Christian violence that has struck Orissa. Thus, Indian Christians have launched a campaign to collect 1,000 ...
5 November 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Two pilgrimages led by the Third Order Canossians, on the 200th anniversary of the Order, and in honor of the Year of St. Paul
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Two pilgrimages, in Italy and Hong Kong, are at the center of the celebrations being held by the Third Order Canossians, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Daughters of ...
5 November 2008
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic women in Asia and Oceania working for the family, society, immigrants, and equal opportunity
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic women in eastern Asia and the Pacific are making an effort to work in society, in defense of the family, of immigrants' rights, equal opportunity, to fight marginalization and pove ...
5 November 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Like a drop of water as it falls into the ocean
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The month of November opens with two Feast Days lived intensely by the Liturgy and by popular piety: All Saints and All Souls. These two feasts give depth to the month traditionally dedica ...
5 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Amidst war and propaganda, Kivu continues to suffer; Kinshasa sends in the Mai Mai militia to fight rebels
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Nkunda's rebels have taken over Rutshuru (in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), where they are trying to give an impression of normality, allowing humanitarian aid to reach the local peop ...
5 November 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Work, study, and rights: more space for aborigenes in Australian society
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Australia's society and government are taking important steps in favor of aboriginal minorities. There have been comforting signs in the last few months, which have been applauded by the many c ...
4 November 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Mass for deceased Cardinals and Bishops: “In the face of death all reasons for human pride fall away, and what is really worthwhile emerges. Everything passes; all of us in this world are passing through. God alone has life in Himself; He is the Life.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The day after the Liturgical Commemoration of all souls, we have come together today, in accord with a beautiful tradition, to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for our brother Ca ...
4 November 2008
VATICAN - Communique from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue on the First Seminar organized by the Catholic-Muslim Forum
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The First Seminar organized by the Catholic-Muslim Forum will begin this morning in the Vatican. The Forum was established by the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and by Musl ...
4 November 2008
AFRICA/BENIN - Rector of the Philosophical Interdiocesan Seminary in the Diocese of Abomey appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 19, 2007 appointed Fr. Nicolas Hazoumé, of the clergy of the Diocese of Porto Novo, Rector ...
4 November 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - PMS Youth Council participates in the Youth Ministry Forum, to analyze the situation over the past 50 years and challenges for the future
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – November 7-9, the Municipal Palace of Congresses in Madrid will host the Youth Ministry Forum, which will be attended by over 2,000 young people from all over Spain. The event is being organize ...
4 November 2008
ASIA/INDIA - Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of Orissa, offering hope to persecuted Christians
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops from the Indian state of Orissa have written a letter of encouragement to all the faithful, offering hope to Christians there and thanking the international organizations that ...
4 November 2008
ASIA/TAIWAN - PMS Seminar on “Creative Evangelization,” to renew hope in the Church of Taiwan
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – The living rooms become catechism classroom, the parish church hosts the children's choir, mathematics and literature can become instruments of evangelization as well...This is how Catholics i ...
4 November 2008
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops launch a Great Continental Mission on November 9, feast of “La Virgen de los Treinta y Tres,” Patroness of Uruguay, while they celebrate their Plenary Assembly
Florida (Agenzia Fides) – The Uruguayan Bishops' Conference (CEU) will celebrate its Second Plenary Assembly on November 5-12, in the “Jesus, the Good Shepherd” Retreat House, in Florida. The central theme of the A ...
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