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12 February 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Catholic Friends of the Sick Association, marks ten years of loving care for the sick
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Friends of the Sick Association combined the World Day of the Sick with celebrations for its 10 years of service on 2 and 3 February in the diocese of Chia Yi. According to the bull ...
12 February 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Military Junta and Karen people reach agreement
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Military Junta says it has reached an agreement with Karen rebels fighting for over fifty years for more autonomy, justice and respect for human rights. Yangon said the agreement was signed i ...
10 February 2007
Instrumentum mensis Januarii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
One major appointment for the Holy Father in the month of January was the annual Audience granted to the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for an exchange of New Year good wishes. In his address ...
9 February 2007
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Pontifical Mission Societies in Zambia opens new website for formation and mission animation
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- The Pontifical Mission Societies Office in Zambia has launched its new website. www.pmszambia.org . The site has interesting information classified in the following topics: Home Mission Appeal; Ma ...
9 February 2007
VATICAN - The Pope receives Bishops, Friends of the Focolari Movement and the Community S. Egidio: “The original brotherhood which exists between you and the Movements of which you are friends, leads you to carry ‘one another’s burdens (Gal 6,2), as the Apostle says, above all with regard to evangelisation, love for the poor and the cause for peace”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 February Pope Benedict XVI received participants in the annual meeting of bishops, Friends of the "Focolare" movement, who are considering the theme: "Christ crucified and abandoned, ...
9 February 2007
VATICAN - Peace, violence and religions at the centre of a visit to Malta by Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The need for more solidarity in a world increasingly intolerant and violent will be the theme of a visit 16 to 18 February which the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peac ...
9 February 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: traditional prayers at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, celebrated every year on February 11 the date of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette in 1858, in spiritual com ...
9 February 2007
AFRICA - Severe flooding in southern Africa: critical situation in Mozambique
Rome (Fides Service)- Torrential rains continue to lash Southern Africa. Besides Angola (see Fides 8 February 2007) serious floods are reported in Mozambique and Madagascar.
In Mozambique at least thirty people are sai ...
9 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - ‘Catholic Outlook’ Parramatta’s diocesan tabloid newspaper celebrates 100th edition with new graphics and more contents
Parramatta (Fides Service) - Catholic Outlook the official publication of the Diocese of Parramatta is a point of reference for the local Catholic community. The tabloid recently celebrated its 100th edition with an ove ...
9 February 2007
AMERICA/PANAMA - “We refuse to be simply spectators while minority groups impose on society legal patterns foreign to our culture and heritage": Pro Life Manifesto at the end of a Pro-Life March in Chitré
Chitré (Agenzia Fides) - Families and educators of Panama’s Azuero region diocese of Chitré, concerned by a loss of values in society especially the greatest of all values, human life a gift of God, organised a Pro-L ...
9 February 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Special Seminar: Catechists in Beijing share with catechists from Tian Jin and establish “evangelisation twinning”
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “Fill with Water and Draw Wine” was the theme of a three day Seminar for local Catechists organised by the parish at Beijing’s Catholic Cathedral Bei Tang from the 29th to the 31st Janua ...
9 February 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cheju diocese to host first Korean Youth Day in August: Youth Day Cross arrives on 18 February
Seoul (Fides Service) - A sort of all Korean World Youth Day, the dream of thousands of young Catholics in the peninsula of Korea is coming true. The Catholic Bishops’ Commission for Youth Pastoral is organising the F ...
9 February 2007
AFRICA - Is Africa the new battle field in the war on terrorism?
Rome (Fides Service)- Could Africa be the new battle field in the war waged by the United States and its allies against terrorism inspired by the figure of Bin Laden? This is the question which emerges when reading event ...
9 February 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - St John of God Hospital in Rome has first lay manager in five centuries
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - This morning at the General House of the St John God Brothers in Rome there was the presentation of a new general director of the Order’s centuries old San Giovanni Calibita Hospital situated in ...
8 February 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE
The Fundamental Elements of the Roman Liturgy (2) Christian Worship
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello -
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Constitution on the Liturgy issued by the Second Vatican Council after describing the presence of Jesus Christ in the Church and in various ways in the Liturgy, above all the Eucharist ...
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