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3 March 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Conversion means turning our hearts to God: Lenten Message from Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, Archbishop of Seoul
Seoul (Fides Service) - ‘Convert your hearts and believe in the Gospel’ is the title of a Lenten Letter issued by the Archbishop of Seoul Cardinal Nicholas Cheong focussed on conversion, repentance, prayer, works of ...
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3 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - 500 Days to World Youth Day, group registration now open. Carpenters busy making 500,000 little copies of WYD Cross for distribution to participants
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - March 2007: With 500 days to go until the start of World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia 2008 (WYD08), organisers have announced a package of measures for international pilgrims.The measures inclu ...
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3 March 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pope Benedict XVI proposes Prayer for 5th General Conference of the Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM scheduled for May
Aparecida (Fides Service) - In just over two months time the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conference CELAM will be held at the Marian Shrine of Aparecida (Brazil), 13 to 31 May on th ...
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3 March 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - Pressure increases to bring government and rebels back to the negotiating table
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- There is increasing pressure to convince the Ugandan government and the Lord’s resistance Army rebels LRA to resume peace talks since the recent expiry of a cease fire agreed in August 2006 (s ...
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3 March 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics end celebrations for Lunar New Year in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation
Beijing (Fides Service) -Lunar New Year festivities lived by Catholics in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation in communion with Chinese Catholics all over the world close tomorrow Sunday 4 January with Yuan ...
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2 March 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
8th Station: JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM WHO WEEP FOR HIM
Rome (Fides News Service) - 8th Station: JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM WHO WEEP FOR HIM
V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
From the Gospel according ...
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2 March 2007
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA -Passionist missionary who volunteered in 2003 to test AIDS vaccine, seriously wounded in robbery at his home yesterday
Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- Passionist Father Kieran Creagh, for years involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS was seriously wounded yesterday at his home in Pretoria in South Africa. “The conditions of Fr. Kieran Creagh ...
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2 March 2007
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Abdoulaye Wade wins presidential elections in first round
Dakar (Agenzia Fides)- It is official, outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade was re-elected in the first round of presidential elections in Senegal on 25 February (see Fides 23 and 28 February 2007).
Yesterday aftern ...
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2 March 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young Catholics from South Korea pray with World Youth Day Cross at frontier with North Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics of South Korea lived an intense and significant moment of prayer and recollection recently when they carried the visiting Youth Day Cross as far as Freedom Bridge which marks the ...
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2 March 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - Family Day Sunday March 4 foster awareness and support for the unity and value of the family in society, in the Church and among its own members
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 4th March Catholics in Mexico will celebrate Family Day with various initiatives underline the importance and value of the family. The main aims of the Day include: present, promote a ...
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2 March 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - New Ley Organica de la Educacion fails to respect fundamental rights and introduces young consciences to moral relativism and gender ideology
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Ley Organica de la Educacion and respective Royal Decrees and the fundamental rights of Parents and Schools” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Council of the Conference of S ...
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2 March 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Spiritual books best sellers at International Book Fair in Tai Pei where twelve Catholic communications groups were present
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - For the past eight years the Catholic community in Taiwan has been a regular participant at Tei Pei’s traditional International Book Fair. At this 15th edition of the Fair 12 Catholic communic ...
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1 March 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Fundamental elements of the Roman Liturgy (3)
Gregorian Chant, silence and … the Altar Bell
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gregorian Chant, also because of the fact that the cantors are not the centre of attention, is in keeping with the spirit of the Roman Liturgy, as Icons are for Byzantine Liturgy. Father Ja ...
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1 March 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
7th Station: JESUS FALLS FOR THE SECOND TIME
Rome (Fides News Service)
7th Station: JESUS FALLS FOR THE SECOND TIME
V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
From the Book of Lamentations. 3:1-2,9,16
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1 March 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - “Assassinated missionaries: hope for the world”: 24th March Youth Movement Day commemorates martyred missionaries with prayer and fasting
Rome (Fides Service) - For the last 15 years for Catholics in Italy and other countries March 24th, the date of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, of San Salvador in 1980, has been a day to commemorate miss ...
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