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6 December 2007
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Auxiliary Bishop of Rabaul appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 6 December 2007, appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), Rev. Fr. John Doaninoel, S.M., Regional Superior of the ...
5 December 2007
VATICAN - Opening of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Immaculate Mary at Lourdes - Pope Benedict XVI grants special plenary indulgence
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 December 2007 to 8 December 2008 Lourdes will celebrate a Jubilee Year for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions at the grotto of Massabielle. The intense calendar of 12 months, d ...
5 December 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Humility, how high the price!
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The real battle within the human heart is between pride and humility. The Lord Jesus knows well the hearts of men and so, from beginning to end, his Gospel is a call to become small, to bec ...
5 December 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Blog di Andrea Tornielli: Darwin, evolutionism and man an accidental fruit of chance - Marco Tosatti: Gay, "homophobia" and the Pope. Prison for those who cite him? - Palazzo apostolico.it: surprise, Prodi and Bertone at lunch. Walter reassures the Vatican - Spirituality of creation (Seoul - Korea): Educational activity of Sisters, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ With regard to the heated debate about the origin of man following the Encyclical Spe salvi by Benedict XVI, I think and I recall that evolution, the transformation of living species, w ...
5 December 2007
EUROPE - Augustinian Recollects Vocation Year to promote a culture of vocations begins today; activities all over the world
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The Augustinian Recollects Vocation Year AVAR 2008 announced by Prior General, Fr. Javier Guerra Ayala begins today 5 December. The aim is to diffuse the Augustinian charisma, promote and spread of ...
5 December 2007
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 12 October 2007 appointed Rev. Davison Lukio of the archdiocesan clergy of Harare, National Director of t ...
5 December 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 9 November 2007 appointed Rev. Giovanni Attilio Cesena, of the archdiocesan clergy of Milan, National Dir ...
5 December 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Great Lakes Summit; Congolese press sees US in front line in the quest for peace
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “American Pax ”, “Nkunda challenges Bush: total war in north Kivu” are some of the titles of newspaper in Congo which are giving ample space to the Summit in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, dedic ...
5 December 2007
AFRICA - Two optical fibre cable projects will connect Africa with the rest of the world by 2010, the year of the World Football Championship in South Africa
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - This month the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy, see Fides 30/10/2007), will work on the construction an optical fibre cable destined to become the supporting axis of telecommunication ...
5 December 2007
ASIA/NEPAL - Christianity attracts increasing numbers of young people, with the hope of experiencing a World Youth Day. “Please send more missionaries to Nepal” says Vicar Apostolic
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The small Catholic community (6,226 faithful) in Nepal is living a springtime of the faith, local Church sources told Fides, as increasing numbers of young Nepalese show an interest in Christi ...
5 December 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Ordination of new Auxiliary Bishop for the archdiocese of Yangon: a happy event for the Burmese Catholic community
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the Catholic community in Burma gathered in Santa Maria Cathedral for the ordination of the new Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon, Bishop Justin Saw Min Thide, age 56. The Ordination Mass ...
5 December 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Giuseppe Li Shan, new Catholic Archbishop of Beijing, continues pastoral visits to parishes
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “Prayer and witness” were the two main points in the homily given by the new Archbishop of Beijing, Archbishop Giuseppe Li Shan, during a Mass on his pastoral visit to Christ the King Parish ...
5 December 2007
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Education, development, promotion of women: Caritas Solomons assesses the past and plans the future
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Solomon Islands has just concluded a three year period of intense activity. In a country which has experience ethnic tensions and is still besieged by pockets of endemic poverty and unde ...
5 December 2007
AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Massive mobilisation pro-life: great March against abortion, presentation of document “Respect, defend, serve and love life”
San Pedro de Macorís (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds took part in a Pro Life March on 30 November in Marcia organised by the local Catholic Church and supported by many different Christian organisations. The March moved from ...
5 December 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Archbishop of Caracas says 'Christmas challenges us to be channels of God's peace, to overcome division, disputes, hatred and to avoid all violence'
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge L. Urosa Savino Archbishop of Caracas, has urged the people to live Christmas in a spirit of charity, putting aside hatred, rancour, selfishness and violence, in view of the situa ...
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