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6 December 2006
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - President Kabila takes office. What challenges does he face?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Joseph Kabila Democratic Congo’s first democratically elected president sworn in today.
The new head of state will have to tackle difficult problems. He will have to consolidate peace in a c ...
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6 December 2006
AFRICA/R.D. CONGO - Catholic Bishops call for national reconciliation, an act of clemency for political prisoners and an international fund for reconstruction of war torn Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) -“Now the elections are over the most urgent problem is national reconciliation and respect for democratic opposition” the Catholic Bishops of Congo said in an appeal launched today as the ne ...
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5 December 2006
VATICAN - “A well guided visit to a work of art or historical memorial can be natural catechesis”: final document after Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tourism, A Transversal Reality: Pastoral Aspects: With this central theme, the Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe took place with the participation ...
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5 December 2006
VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University celebrates 500 years since the birth of Saint Francis Xavier, patron saint of missions: “Missionary spirit is born and grows only if it is deeply rooted in Christ, who died and rose from the dead for us”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, opened a solemn academic act with which the Pontifical Urban University paid homage to Saint ...
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5 December 2006
VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE” Ecclesiastic Archives (3)
Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archives promote growth of sensus ecclesiae. The use of an ecclesiastic history archive fosters growth of sensus ecclesiae. First place in the life of the Church is given to the Christifide ...
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5 December 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Italian missionary Fr. Eugenio Cucchi 34 years of mission in Malawi moves to new mission in Democratic Congo
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 December the community of Monfort missionaries in Lilongwe said goodbye to Superior Fr. Eugenio Cucchi 34 years of service in Malawi who was leaving for a new mission in the Democratic Re ...
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5 December 2006
AFRICA/BENIN - “Putting Children at the Centre of Advent”: Pastoral Letter from Bishop of Natitingou
Natitingou (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the centre of a reflection on Advent in a Pastoral Letter “Christmas: popular religiosity and the future of our children”, issued by Bishop Pascal N’Koué of the diocese of ...
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5 December 2006
ASIA/INDIA - After recent episodes of violence, normal pastoral activity continues but Catholics demand more state protection
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A lay Catholic killed in Kashmir; a Catholic school sacked in Tamil Nadu: in recent days various attacks on Indian Catholics have caused tension and fear. “However we continue our pastoral a ...
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5 December 2006
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Missionaries of Charity open new professional training centre for girls
Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of Mother Teresa, the Missionaries of Charity have opened a new professional training centre for girls in Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim country. The community, two Indian sisters, one ...
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5 December 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Durian: “God’s messages in natural disasters”, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of Bishops’ Conference
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Typhoon Durian was a message from God “a warning about what happens when natural resources are misused and maltreated by human negligence”. Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of the diocese of Jaro, p ...
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4 December 2006
VATICAN - NOVENA OF PRAYER IN PREPARATION FOR THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
DAY NINE: 7th DECEMBER
Rome (Fides Service) - 7 DECEMBER 2006
DAY NINE: 7th DECEMBER
O Divine Son of Mary Immaculate, O Sweet Redeemer! Just as you granted Mary the grace to be assumed into heaven and be seated beside You, we humbly beg y ...
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4 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus gives thanks for the “unforgettable spiritual and pastoral experience” of his journey to Turkey and urges Christians to live an authentic and fruitful Season of Advent
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his Angelus reflection on Sunday 3 December Pope Benedict XVI said “I wish with you to thank God for my apostolic journey to Turkey in which I felt I accompanied and sustained by t ...
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4 December 2006
VATICAN - The Holy Father presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent: “Awake! Remember God comes! Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today, now! The one true God, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob", is not a God up in heaven with no interest for us and our history, he is a God-who-comes.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “At the beginning of a new Liturgical Year, the Liturgy calls the Church to renew its announcement to the nations, in two words: "God comes"… Not in the past - God came -, or in the fut ...
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4 December 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples presides Mass on the Feast of Saint Francis Xavier at the Church of Gesu
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the First Sunday of Advent December 3, the feast of Saint Francis Xavier patron of the missions, in this 500th year since his birth, (1506-1552), Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation ...
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4 December 2006
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO -Rwandan refugee among first ordinations in the apostolic prefecture of Likouala
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides)- A sign of the unity of the Church in Africa. This was how parishioners saw the ordination as Deacon of Rwandan refugee Celestin Ndagijimana, in Saint-Paul d'Impfondo Church in the apostolic p ...
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