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1 October 2007
VATICAN - The feast-day of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, named patron saint of the missions 80 years ago, marks the beginning of the missionary month of October; Mass in the chapel of Propaganda Fide presided by Archbishop Sarah: “To evangelise is to carry God's Love to every man and woman”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of the patron saint of the Missions Saint Therese of Lisieux, on October 1st , opens the missionary month which will culminate with the celebration of World Mission Sunday, the la ...
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1 October 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Growing conscious objection to 'education to citizenship' school subject: every Catholic institution shares parents' delicate situation of conscience
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The new school year opened in Spain with the introduction of a new school subject 'Education to Citizenship', already in force in some Autonomous Communities. This highly controversial compulsory ...
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1 October 2007
AFRICA - Helping Africa join world trade to reduce its poverty: international meeting opens in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- Help Africa finds its place in international trade system and promote its economic development. This is the goal of a meeting for African ministers of the economy which opens today 1 Octobe ...
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1 October 2007
AFRICA/SUDAN - “An attack led by someone not invited to the peace talks” says a local source in Darfur with regard to attack on AU peacekeepers at AMIS base
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “The attack was perpetrated by some faction not invited to the peace talks at the end of the month in Libya ” Fides was told by a local Church source near to where the AU peacekeepers were k ...
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1 October 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Local Christian Churches request government permission to hold special week of prayer for the nation
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's Christians, like the rest of the population, are suffering because of the difficult situation in the country and wish to pray to God for the gift of reconciliation and peace. To do this ...
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1 October 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Active participation in diocesan Mission Sunday initiatives on 26 September continue to World Mission Sunday and beyond
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The celebration of the diocesan Mission Sunday 26 September is moved by the desire to foster active participation of the faithful”. This was said by Italian PIME missionary Fr Renzo Mila ...
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1 October 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith killed on 26 September was a diocesan priest not a Jesuit
Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - Fides was informed by the local Church that Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith, killed on 26 September in an attack on the diocese of Mannar, (see Fides 27/9/2006), was not a Jesuit as previously r ...
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1 October 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progress in North - South dialogue for North Korea's de-nuclearisation: the Church prays for peace and stability
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean people, civil associations and Christian Churches welcomed the news of an agreement reached in talks between United States, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas with regard to North ...
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1 October 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thirty years serving the marginalised, the helpless, the excluded: Jesuit Social Service in Australia
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits Social Service JSS in 2007 is celebrating 30 years of activity in Australia with various initiatives including prayer meetings and special solidarity events. Julie Edwards, head of ...
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1 October 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week for the Defence and Promotion of Life in view of proposed Bill to legalise abortion in Brazil at any time in pregnancy
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - October 8 in Brazil will be the annual national Day of the Unborn Child established by the Bishops of Brazil in 2005 at the end of their 43rd general assembly. In the statement the Bishops aske ...
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1 October 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - 25th anniversary of the re-opening of the Pontifical University of Mexico: "the University's mission is to generate culture and in the case of a Catholic university to generate culture with the leaven and the values of the Gospel "
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr Guillermo Moreno, vicar general of the archdiocese of Mexico City, on behalf of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, grand chancellor of the Pontifical University of Mexico has called on th ...
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1 October 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop of Patna and appoints Successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , on 1 October 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Patna (India), presented by Archbishop Benedict John Ost ...
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29 September 2007
Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo. Here, after three weeks in the mountains in northern Italy at Lorenzago di Cadore, for a period of rest, he resumed his ...
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28 September 2007
VATICAN - Message for the end of the month of Ramadan - “Christians and Muslims: called to promote a culture of peace"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the troubled times we are passing through, religious believers have, as servants of the Almighty, a duty above all to work in favour of peace, by showing respect for the convictions o ...
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28 September 2007
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Publications, meetings with seminarians and girls in formation on the Fidei Donum Encyclical during October mission month and next Easter the sending of first four Fidei Donum priests to Mauritania
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “In my country we are giving great importance to the celebration the 50th anniversary of the Fidei Donum encyclical” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Guinea Bissau, Mg ...
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