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28 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (4) : Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt
Vatican City (Fides Service) - CAMEROON: Shrine of Our Lady of the Apostles in Mvolye Hill in Yaoundé.
REPUBLIC OF CONGO. At Linzolo, at one of the first missions opened in 1883 by Spiritan Missionaries a few km from ...
28 May 2007
AFRICA/ COTE D'IVOIRE - Orionini Fathers lay foundation stone for new Seminary at Anyama
Abidjan (Fides Service) - Saturday 26 May will be a day to remember for the Orionini family in Africa. In Cote D'Ivoire in Anyama the foundation stone was laid for a new Orionini seminary. The Congregation of Saint Luigi ...
28 May 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Newly baptised Christians play major role at Pentecost; Pentecost charity party in Tai Pei park
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics received into the Church at Easter played a major part in liturgies on Pentecost Sunday in China, especially in Beijing. During a solemn Mass on Sunday 27 May the newly baptised receiv ...
28 May 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Process of beatification for 36 servants of God missionaries in labour camps during the Korean War
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Order of St Benedict of Wagwan has announced the opening of a process of Beatification for 36 Servants of God who died in labour camps and prison camps in the years of the Korean War 1949 to 1 ...
28 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We face the great challenge to rediscover marriage as a vocation of love and the sacrament of matrimony as the summit which elevates this calling of a man and a women ”: interview with the only married couple at the Conference
Aparecida (Fides Service) - Dr Luis Jensen and his wife Pilar Escudero de Jensen, are representing married couples at 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida. Th ...
28 May 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Reconciliation Week: 40 years since referendum gave citizenship to indigenous Australians, full integration still long way off
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Some progress has been made in forty years but much remains to be done for full integration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians say indigenous leaders, heads of civil organisations, ...
26 May 2007
VATICAN - A “short cut” to holiness for the priests of the third millennium: “Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort show us how to know, love and serve Our Lord with Mary as our Mother, Model and Guide ” - Testimony by Cardinal Ivan Dias
Dublin (Fides Service) - The “Treaty on true devotion to Mary”, written by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) at the beginning of 1700, although addressed to all Christians in general can be especially appl ...
26 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (3): Angola, Benin, Burkina-Faso
Vatican City (Fides Service) - ANGOLA “Land of Mary”.
L’Angola viene chiamata la terra di Maria. The first Catholic missionaries, who were Portuguese, arrived in Angola on, 29 April 1491, and built a church dedi ...
26 May 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - New impulse for Catholic school identity and mission to evangelise youth: 17th International Organisation for Catholic Education conclusions
Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - During the 17th Meeting of OIEC, International Organisation for Catholic Education 21 to 25 May in Santiago de Compostela, in Spain participants listened to reports from the five ...
26 May 2007
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Falling cotton prices, crisis for Burkina Faso producers, government intervenes to save main cotton company from bankruptcy
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - There is alarm in Africa for falling prices of cotton the main export for many countries including Burkina Faso. Ouagadougou authorities say, “subsidies granted by countries in the north t ...
26 May 2007
AMERICA/PERU - 27 May: Holy Childhood Day in Peru on the theme “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!”
Lima (Fides Service) - For the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru Sunday 27 May is the annual nation Holy Childhood Day. This year the slogan is “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries! ...
26 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean seen by the media
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "Your difficult task as communicators is show the world the faces, situations and achievements of the local Churches You will let people at home know what is going on here at Aparecida". This ...
25 May 2007
VATICAN - “The Church's mission and our concern as Bishops must be for each and all: I think this should be remembered particularly in this 50th anniversary year of the Encyclical Fidei donum of Pius XII” : Benedict XVI addresses general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address to the participants at the 57th general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference at midday on 24 May in the Synod Hall in the Vatican the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI tol ...
25 May 2007
VATICAN - On a pastoral visit Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino takes the Holy Father's solidarity to Cote d'Ivoire and presents the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the 15 to 20 May, at the request of Pope Benedict XVI and at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Cote d'Ivoire, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical C ...
25 May 2007
EUROPE/ITALY Fr. Gian Battista Zanchi re-elected Superior General of PIME
Rome (Fides Service) - On May 24 Fr Gianbattista Zanchi, aged 64 was re-elected Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) by the 44 members of the PIME general assembly meeting in Ariccia, ...
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