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21 November 2007
VATICAN - Consecrated persons and lay men and women together in the great adventure of Christian education: Congregation for Catholic Education presents new document
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of the document “Educating together in Catholic Schools. Shared Mission of Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful”, issued by the Congregation for Education, is to “offer po ...
21 November 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - How great is Mary!
Mgr. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Next Sunday we will celebrate the solemnity of Christ the King, and today is the feast of the Presentation of Our Lady at the Temple: the purest of creatures is offered to God, she is conse ...
21 November 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Osservatore Romano: Nuns in the cloister, the Internet breaks the silence - Schoenstatt diversely-able priest evangelises via the Internet.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “With time the cloister has changed. Today the silence is broken by the Internet. In the past only the bell marked the passing of time. The convent walls seemed impassable. Today computer ...
21 November 2007
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Catholic Church leaders issue statement on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: “a dangerous and unnecessary precedent which does not respect the dignity of the human person.”
Glasgow (Agenzia Fides) - Leading members of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, and Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, who is also Chairman of the Joint C ...
21 November 2007
AFRICA/RWANDA - Helping married couples live marriage according to God's plan
Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - The Fédération Africaine d’Action Familiale (FAAF), whose mission is to help couples live their love and parenthood in keeping with God's plan, recently organised a workshop to draft a Handbo ...
21 November 2007
AFRICA/KENYA - “We intend to continue our mission with the same enthusiasm of the first missionaries” says new Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, in Rome for ad limina visit
Roma (Agenzia Fides)-“We are satisfied with the growth of the Church thanks first of all to the work of missionaries” said Kenya's new Cardinal Archbishop John Njue Nairobi and president of the Catholic Bishops Confe ...
21 November 2007
AFRICA/GHANA - At the end of Cape Coast Seminar African and European Bishops call for new international economic order to end to new forms of slavery
Cape Coast (Agenzia Fides)- ''New forms of slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, child soldiers, prostitution, etc., are due mainly to the enormous economic gap between rich and poor countries and between the rich a ...
21 November 2007
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Caritas Bangladesh point of reference for Cathholic humanitarian assistance, with the support of Caritas Internationalis: Fides speaks with a missionary in Dacca
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - The machine of humanitarian aid is moving despite a thousand difficulties to help three million displaced persons who survived the fury of cyclone Sidr, which struck southern Bangladesh on 15 Nove ...
21 November 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Religious women show they are happy and balanced: Sisters of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Liao Ning diocese take part in Sports and Games
Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - In China of today dominated by consumerism but where there is also a powerful reawakening of religious sentiments and spiritual searching, Catholic Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Fu S ...
21 November 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - School support programmes in El Salvador and India to help a total 1,200 children
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Two countries and two different programmes to guarantee children the right to education: on the occasion of Universal Children's Day, Intervita international organisation builds solar energy plants ...
21 November 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops in plenary assembly elect leading members: Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic confirmed Bishops' Conference President
Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Chile are holding their 94th plenary assembly at Punta de Tralca, which opened on Monday 19 November with a Mass presided by the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Al ...
21 November 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Catholic religious concerned: people have not been given enough time to understand contents and implications of the proposed constitutional reforms
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "For Justice, Peace and Hope" is the title of a statement issued at the end of a meeting of Catholic men and women Religious of Venezuela who express "concern in the national situation and propo ...
21 November 2007
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Sisters Evangelise at Internet cafes
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Becoming familiar with the Internet and new information technology and evangelise at the same time, telling people that being Christians in the third millennium means using the present day media ...
21 November 2007
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishop of Moshi resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, on 21 November 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Moshi (Tanzania), presented by Bishop Amedeus Msarikie, in con ...
21 November 2007
ASIA/KOREA - Bishop of Pusan appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 21 November 2007, appointed Bishop Paul Hwang Cheol-soo, until now auxiliary and diocesan administrator of Pusan (Korea), Bishop of Pusan. (S.L.) (Age ...
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