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21 December 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - Maryknoll Missionaries assigns Keller Award to Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Mexico for outstanding support for the missions: award given to people outside the United States for first time
Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, also known as Maryknoll Missionaries, has selected the Conference of Mexican Bishops as recipient of the Keller Award, marking the centenary ...
21 December 2006
AMERICA/PERU - “Christmas is giving without expecting anything in return, being able to forgive and be forgiven” Bishops’ Conference Christmas Message
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is a new opportunity to meditate and enjoy God’s love for us revealed in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, president of the Catho ...
21 December 2006
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Don’t forget the children of Bethlehem say Italian Franciscan Sisters of Saint Elizabeth at Caritas Baby Hospital
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - People in Bethlehem prepare to celebrate Christmas despite difficult economic and social conditions, restricted freedom and little hope for the future, according to the local community of Ital ...
21 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (11)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - God’s Temple. The Prophet of Ezekiel has a vision of the Messianic Temple (Ezekiel, chapter 47): “He brought me back to the door of the temple; and, behold, waters issued out from unde ...
20 December 2006
VATICAN - LANGUAGE IN THE ROMAN RITE LITURGY: LATIN AND VERNACULAR - Keynote Address at Gateway Liturgical Conference, St Louis, Missouri, 11 November, 2006
Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below an address given by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, at Gateway Liturgical Conference, St Louis, M ...
20 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (10)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Son of Man. The prophet Daniel, deported to Babylon by King Nabucodonosor around 597 BC had this vision: “behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he c ...
20 December 2006
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Children For Creation - Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra” 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign to protect the environment and the future of Malagasy children
Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - “Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra: “Children for Creation” is the title of the 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign. In Bamberg, Baviera, on Friday 29 December about 1,500 children representative ...
20 December 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The embrace of Mary” by Rev Luciano Alimandi -
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the heart of Advent we find Mary! Two thousand years ago, at the fullness of time, the Word of God became a Child in the womb of the Virgin Mary, who “ab eterno” was known and loved ...
20 December 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Advent with the World Youth Day Cross
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “The cross and icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary which Pope John Paul II consigned to young people of the world at the end of the first World Youth Day in 1984 has arrived in Malawi” said Monf ...
20 December 2006
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “39,000 former guerrillas still waiting to be integrated in civil society” says UN report
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Until it has its own national security policy Liberia will have to rely on UN troops to guarantee protection for its citizens. This is the sense of a report recently presented to the UN Securit ...
20 December 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - ““I can only be holy if I am a missionary. I can only be a missionary if I am holy”.”: theme of 4th National Pontifical Mission Societies Mission Congress
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “I can only be holy if I am missionary. I can only be missionary if I am holy”. This was the theme of the 4th Pontifical Mission Societies Kenya National Mission Congress held in Nairobi fro ...
20 December 2006
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem in Christmas Message thanks friends and partners for support and solidarity in 39 years of serving and helping the needy
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - “Thank you for helping us to keep hope and our faith for a better tomorrow for the Holy Land” Caritas Jerusalem says in a message addressed to “Dear Friends” at the end of the 39th yea ...
20 December 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Speaking out the Truth, working against evil and injustice and replacing the sin in the world with love, justice and social equality is what Christmas is about”, says missionary Fr Shay Cullen involved in social assistance
Manila (Fides Service) - “The Kingdom of God is where justice is done, the poor have an equal share and no one suffers discrimination. This is the path Jesus walked, the one we strive to follow and it began in a stable ...
20 December 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards CAM 3: 3rd American Mission Congress has theme and slogan; continental competition for official poster and hymn
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations continue for the Third American Mission Congress, CAM 3, Fides is informed by CAM 3 Secretary Osvaldo Fierro Terán. The year 2007 will be important in preparation for CAM 3, due to b ...
20 December 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops of Patagonia-Comahue say all life must be protected and all children must be guaranteed adequate human and spiritual development
Patagonia-Comahue (Agenzia Fides) - In a Christmas Message the Catholic Bishops of the Argentinean region of Patagonia-Comahue, dioceses of Alto Valle, Comodoro Rivadavia, Neuquén, Río Gallegos, San Carlos de Bariloche ...
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