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13 November 2006
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops’ statement on emigration, municipal elections and the nation’s new Constitution
Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Paraguay at the end of their 177th plenary assembly in Asunción, issued a statement in which they analyse some of the country’s principal problems in order "to expre ...
13 November 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Prison Fellowship Week of Prayer for victims and perpetrators of violence
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- Prison inmates all over Malawi offered prayers for the victims of violence during a Week of Prayer in Prisons held 6- 13 November organised by the Malawi Prison Fellowship.
“The Week of Pray ...
13 November 2006
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Attacks on civilians are deplorable, international bodies and local Catholic Church condemn conflict in Sri Lanka
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - “Blatant attacks on civilians, by any of the parties to this conflict, are deplorable. An immediate and solemn resumption of peace talks between the warring parties is the only way to prevent ...
11 November 2006
Instrumentum mensis Octobris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
In the month of October the Church celebrated the 80th World Mission Sunday. «Mission Sunday - Pope Benedict XVI said during the Angelus on Sunday 22 October - was instituted by Pope Pius XI who gave new impulse to mi ...
10 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 October 2006 appointed a new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy for a fiv ...
10 November 2006
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Disciples and Missionaries Evangelisation Campaign 2006 opens on Sunday 26 November at the Shrine of Aparecida
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual Evangelisation Campaign 2006 will start on 26 November Feast of Christ the King, and close on the third Sunday of Advent 17 December with a nation-wide special collection. In line wi ...
10 November 2006
AMERICA/CANADA - “Changing the definition of marriage involves a repudiation of millennia of history and experience”: Declaration on Marriage signed by 40 religious leaders of different faiths
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - About 40 religious leaders of different faiths signed a Declaration on Marriage to be presented to Parliament and society in general in the present national debate on the subject. “We, each fro ...
10 November 2006
VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr Massimo Camisasca: The Priest: a man of God at the service of others
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A vocation to the priesthood is first of all God taking the initiative in our life. This means that more than anything else the priest is a ‘man of God’: a man chosen by God . However ...
10 November 2006
VATICAN - Representatives from Catholic Universities all over the world in Rome for International Conference on University and Catholic Social Doctrine
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The realisation of a new integral humanism open to transcendence which is the essential finality of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, is not foreign, indeed it connatural with the ...
10 November 2006
AFRICA/RWANDA - Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts launch Seeds of Life and Hope programme to teach techniques of farming and animal breeding to promote social and economic insertion of women in difficulty and young deaf people
Kigali (Agenzia Fides)- On 13 November the community of Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts in Nyamata Bugesera district of Rwanda will launch Seeds of Life and Hope, to teach poor people techniques of farming and anim ...
10 November 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops oppose new law to recognise same sex unions: “when the value of the family is undermined by social and economic pressure, the Church reacts and reaffirms that the family formed of the union of a man and a woman is necessary for the private good of the person and for the common good of every society, nation and state”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Mexico have said that a proposed bill on Societies of Co-existence "claims to legalise relations of societies of co-existence and in doing so intends to ...
10 November 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - “Come, feed my sheep!”: vocation testimony at prayer meeting leads parents to make family “first school for vocations”
Tai Nan (Agenzia Fides) - “Come, feed my sheep!” was the theme of a Meeting of Prayer for Vocations held recently in Dong Men parish, diocese of Tai Nan, presided by Bishop Bosco Lin. According to Christian Life Week ...
10 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Final days for SMS to support Comunità Giovanni XXIII Association
Roma (Agenzia Fides)- Until 7 January there is still time to join an important initiative of solidarity with the Comunità Giovanni XXIII run by Rev Oreste Benzi. An SMS sent to number 4858323 gives one Euro in aid of th ...
9 November 2006
VATICAN - “How much need modern humanity has to rediscover the source of its hope in the Sacrament of the Eucharist!” Pope Benedict XVI receives participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, 9 November the Pope Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. In his address to the del ...
9 November 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI continues his teaching on Saint Paul the Apostle: “Christ Jesus is the summit of salvation history and therefore the true distinguishing point in dialogue with other religions”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At his general audience on Wednesday 8 November, Pope Benedict XVI continued his presentation of the traits of St Paul whose whole life, the Pope recalled, was literally revolutionised by ...
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