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6 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Institute of Sydney offers Missiology Units 2007 Masters
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - An introduction to contemporary understandings of mission, the educational significance of evangelisation, Catholic Social Teaching and justice issues, dynamic intervention between the faith of t ...
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6 February 2007
“Editions of the Bible in the context of Propaganda Fide”: 14 February presentation of a study on editions of the Bible at the Pontifical Urbaniana University
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Promoted by Urbaniana University Press, Wednesday 14 February at 5pm at the Aula Newman della Pontificia Università Urbaniana (Via Urbano VIII, 16 00165 Roma) there will be the presentation of ...
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6 February 2007
ASIA/THAILAND - The drama of refugees from Laos and Myanmar, North Korea, Bangladesh: simply “illegal migrants”
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Masses of people face enormous sacrifices and great dangers to flee their home countries and seek refuge in nearby Thailand. In recent years hundreds of thousands of refugees from Laos and Myanm ...
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6 February 2007
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We ask for more missionary commitment, first of all from ourselves ... we wish to hear the missionary mandate resound with all its demands”: in plenary assembly bishops discuss missionary activity
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - " We ask for more missionary commitment, first of all from ourselves ... we wish to hear the missionary mandate resound with all its demands, struggle for its goals and realise all this as Church ...
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6 February 2007
AFRICA/BENIN - Final statement of CERAO held in Cotonou for Golden Jubilee of first CERAO president Cardinal Gantin
Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The members of the Regional Bishops’ Conference of French Speaking African Countries CERAO met from 30 January to 4 February at the Le Chant d'Oiseau Formation House in Cotonou, in Benin, on t ...
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6 February 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Family Policy Institute demands European political priority for the family, a White Paper on the Family in Europe, a European Family Watchdog and a European Family Alliance
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the International Alliance of Family Policy Institutes (IPF) from 8 countries of Europe and Latin America and IPF delegates to the EU and the UNO met in Madrid 2, 3 and 4 Febr ...
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5 February 2007
VATICAN - “Life, a work of God, cannot be denied to anyone, not even the smallest and most helpless unborn child, not even in the case of some serious disability” said Benedict XVI at the Angelus, urging people not to be misled into “thinking that man can dispose of life to the point of legalising its interruption with euthanasia, perhaps under the guise of human pity"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration in Italy of the Day for Life promoted by the Italian Bishops’ Conference which starts for the diocese of Rome an annual ‘Week for Life and the Family’ offered the Holy ...
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5 February 2007
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Open Letter on The Family and Life addressed the Catholics in the diocese of Beja as part of three year Pastoral Plan focussed on the family
Beja (Agenzia Fides) - The Family and Life is the title of an open letter addressed by the Council of Priests of the diocese of Beja in Portugal to all the faithful on the eve of a national Referendum an Abortion on 11 ...
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5 February 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - National Renewal in the Spirit movement elects new committee: continue efforts for new evangelisation
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian National branch of the Church movement Renewal in the Spirit elected new committee of leaders for a four year term 2007-10, during a meeting held last weekend in Frascati (Rome). About ...
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5 February 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - More than 1.500 children still in the ranks of the Ugandan LRA rebels report presented at "Free children from war" Forum in Paris
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)-. At least 1,500 child soldiers are still in the ranks of the notorious Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army LRA which has led a bloody war in northern Uganda since the 1980s. Another 10,0 ...
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5 February 2007
AFRICA/SOMALIA - At least 70,000 children recruited to fight civil war in Somalia where the situation is far from stable
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- The situation is still explosive in Somalia especially in the capital Mogadishu where early this morning 5 February rockets fell into the water in the city port but caused no damage to persons ...
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5 February 2007
ASIA/TURKEY - Cardinal Ruini in Trabzon commemorates Fr Andrea Santoro on the first
anniversary of his death: “We have come in the same spirit with which Rev Andrea came to be with you… We have come to help promote peace among peoples and religions, respect for the beliefs of each person and love for the brother or sister present in every human person created in the image and likeness of God”
Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - “We have come to Trabzon to celebrate Holy Mass for Rev Andrea on the anniversary of his death here in this church of Santa Maria where he was killed while praying … we have come to render ...
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5 February 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “He called those he wished to be with Him”: Mar del Plata diocesan Vocation Week to intensify commitment to pray for vocations and announce that “the Lord continues to call”
Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - ‘He called those he wished to be with Him’ is the theme of a special week for vocations in the Argentinean diocese of Mar del Plata. The week opened on February 4 with a solemn Mass pr ...
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5 February 2007
AFRICA/BENIN - Solemn celebrations for Cardinal Gantin’s Golden Jubilee. Cardinal Dias: “an African on mission to Rome traced a missionary furrow from Africa to the heart of Catholicity”
Ouidah (Agenzia Fides) - On 3 February in Ouidah, in the Basilica dedicated to the Immaculate Conception Benin born Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, emeritus Dean of the College of Cardinals in Rome, celebrated the 50th annive ...
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5 February 2007
VATICAN - The Pope addresses representatives of the World Conference of Secular Institutes: “The Church needs you in order to complete her mission. Be seeds of holiness thrown generously in the furrows of history … may your bear fruits of genuine faith, writing with your life and you witness parables of hope”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “As leaven which makes the flour rise, so too your lives, at times silent and hidden, but always propositional and encouraging, are capable of spreading hope. The place of your apostolate ...
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