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10 May 2007
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Ramos-Horta will be the new President of East Timor, official elections results still to be announced
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing Prime Minister, Nobel peace prize winner José Ramos-Horta, will be the new president of the Republic of East Timor. Temporary results of the 8 May election announced with 90% of the votes ...
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9 May 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - God's glory is resplendent in Mary , Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the month of May the Church is especially attentive to the words of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2, 5). These were the last of the few words of Mary reco ...
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9 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (7)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tuesday 23 February 1858: secret, 7th Apparition. “Despite disappointment that there had been no apparition on the 22 February, between 150 and 200 people went to the Grotto at six o-cloc ...
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9 May 2007
VATICAN - Annual General Assembly Pontifical Mission Societies - “In a fraternal atmosphere we have assigned subsidies to the many local Churches for numerous pastoral educational and charitable projects some in remote almost forgotten areas” Archbishop Hoser said at the end of the Assembly
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday 8 May marked the closing of the General Assembly Pontifical Mission Societies held at the Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano, just outside Rome. Instead of the customary Pastoral Session of the ...
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9 May 2007
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “No to abortion, yes to government development plan. We are ready to co-operate with the authorities to educate the people to denounce crime and violence” say Catholic Bishops at the end of Plenary Assembly
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- A proposed bill on abortion; the challenges of Mozambican society today; the government programme to fight poverty; criminality, were some of the issues examined by the Catholic Bishops of Mozambi ...
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9 May 2007
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - “The phenomenon of immigration in fact poses forcefully the moral necessity to work for a new international economic order” Bishop Marchetto says at Colloquium on Pastoral Care of Migration in Africa
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church “mother and teacher” with special concern for people in difficulty, shares the path of those who leave Africa often risking their lives to emigrate to Europe in search of ...
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9 May 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel Delly says “Iraqi Christians must be guaranteed full rights of citizenship ”
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal in favour of Iraqi Christians was addressed to political and religious authorities in Iraq and the rest of the world by Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly during ...
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9 May 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Young Catholics in Immaculate Heart of Mary parish call peers to mission: “Come let's proclaim the Gospel!”
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “ Come let's proclaim the Gospel ” is the call launched by young Catholics of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish, in the 7th deanery of Tai Pei archdiocese to their peers during a recent meetin ...
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9 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops of Brazil express affection, communion, loyalty and gratitude to Pope Benedict XVI for choosing their country to host the 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean and urge contemplative religious to accompany the event with prayer
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - All America is preparing to live the great ecclesial event of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean. Final preparations are being made at the Na ...
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9 May 2007
AMERICA/PERU - “5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean is called to give new impulse to evangelisation in this vast eminently Catholic region of the world”: message from president of Peruvian Bishops' Conference
Lima (Fides Service) - Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, OFM, of Trujillo pesident of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference said a press conference in view of the imminent opening of CELAM 5 "in continuity with the ...
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9 May 2007
AFRICA/NAMIBIA - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 4 May 2007 confirmed Rev. Fr. Winfried Deing OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies f ...
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8 May 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Superiors General: “ in you I thank the immense army of witnesses to Christ's love who operate on the frontiers of evangelisation, education and social charity”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing Superiors General, representing 794 families of women religious operating in 85 different countries all over the world Pope Benedict XVI whom he received in audience on Monday 7 ...
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8 May 2007
VATICAN - PMS Annual General Assembly: Pontifical Mission Society of Holy Childhood receives more offerings to help children in need
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After a day's rest on Sunday, the work of the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies at the Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano just outside Rome, resumed on Monday 7 May with a repor ...
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8 May 2007
VATICAN - PMS Annual General Assembly: new impulse for Pontifical Missionary Union called to be the "soul of the PMS ”
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union, Fr. Vito del Prete, PIME, was the last to give his annual report on the past year's activity which included to important events: the 50º ...
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8 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (6)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 21 February 1858: 6th Apparition. “The Lady appears early in the morning to Bernadette who is accompanied by about a hundred people. The local doctor tells the story: «Bernadette ...
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