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16 December 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives new Patriarch of Alexandria of Copt Catholics: “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News””
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News”: Pope Benedict XVI sa ...
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16 December 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - “A chance to initiate the process of healing, to forgive and reconcile with one another in the interest of peaceful co-existence now and in the future”: the Bishops of AMECEA express satisfaction for Great Lakes Summit
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We, wish to express our appreciation to the Heads of States and Governments, of the Great Lakes Region for their initiative to come together to reflect and discuss matters of common good for ...
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16 December 2006
AFRICA/NIGER - Thanks to record cereal harvest in 2006 Niger overcomes food crisis. Still struggling Angola will boost agriculture
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Good news for Africa's agriculture. This year Niger, affected by a serious food shortage (see Fides 21 September 2005), has a record harvest with a surplus of 457,237 tons. According to the loc ...
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16 December 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Only from peace and with peace is it possible to have respect for human dignity and rights” Catholics Bishops say in Christmas Message
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In a message for Christmas the Catholic Bishops of Colombia make a strong appeal to the people to reject all forms of violence. “Celebrations for the joyful feast of Christmas - the Bishops wri ...
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16 December 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Conception parish in Yi Chang diocese celebrates 100th anniversary: towering church cross now a city symbol
Yi Chang (Agenzia Fides) - The towering cross belonging to Immaculate Conception parish in Yi Chang diocese, Hu Bei province of China has become a city symbol and a point of reference for the whole town. The parish, whic ...
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15 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas
Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (6)
Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. The prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, about 740 BC announces the future glory of Jerusalem at the time humiliated by Sennacherib, and ...
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15 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope addresses Rome’s university students: “The Eucharistic mystery is the privileged point of convergence for the different ambits of Christian life, including that of intellectual research”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for Christmas at the end of a special Mass for students at the many universities in Rome celebrated by Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini in St Peter’s at 5pm on 14 December, Pop ...
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15 December 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, they sign a Common Declaration: “It is our common responsibility to overcome, in love and truth, the many difficulties and sad experience of the past”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his address to His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, received in audience in the Vatican on December 14th, said “Greece and Rome intensifi ...
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15 December 2006
VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD - “The priest: first son and then father of many”
Mgr Massimo Camisasca
Vatican City (Fides Service) - For twenty two years I have been involved in the formation of young men for the priesthood and I have followed in detail the itinerary of over a hundred priestly vocations, authentic or onl ...
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15 December 2006
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Advent of prayer and assistance for the poor and the excluded
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Papua New Guinea have intensified prayer and charitable works in the Season of Advent. In the parishes, often run by missionary congregations, priests, religious and laity gath ...
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15 December 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - “Christmas celebrations are a wonderful opportunity to evangelise on the great values of the family”: Archbishop of Leon sends his people a special Christmas message
Leon (Agenzia Fides) - In a special Christmas Message addressed to the diocese of León, Archbishop José G. Martin Rabago says that Christmas celebrations are a “wonderful opportunity to evangelise on the great values ...
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15 December 2006
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Salesian Cooperator considered authentic witness of honesty and justice killed in ambush
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 December 34 year old Johnny Morales, a Salesian Cooperator in Guatemala was killed in an ambush. Rev Stjepan Bolkovac, SDB, Central Delegate of the Association of Salesian Cooperato ...
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15 December 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Message for 23rd Caritas Sunday: give yourself, reach out to the hungry, the neglected, the sick
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Peace Be With You All in this Land’ is the title of a message issued by the country’s Catholic Bishops on the occasion of South Korea’s 23rd Caritas Sunday 17 December. The president of t ...
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15 December 2006
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - After devastating the west, floods strike in the east, thousands of homes evacuated, people living on pirogues
Bumba (Agenzia Fides)- The consequences of climate change are ever more serious in Africa. After Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea now the eastern regions of Democratic Congo are being devastated by torrential rains a ...
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15 December 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops concerned for treatment of Religious Instruction in schools. New subject “Education to Citizenship” is state interference with the moral education
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain have expressed concern for treatment of Religious Instruction and the new subject of Education to Citizenship introduced by the government. In a statement dated 14 December i ...
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