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26 October 2006
AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of Rector inter-diocesan Seminary in Yopougon
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 1 September 2006, appointed Rev. Jean Dago Belli Rector of the Inter-Diocesan Seminary for Philosophy i ...
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26 October 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Ecclesiastic Celibacy in the present-day secularised context
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The sad case of African Bishop Milingo reopened the controversial question of marriage for priests, perhaps updated as an opportunity or convenience to avoid cases of paedophilia and homose ...
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26 October 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI says Paul of Tarsus is an example to follow: “The important thing is to put Jesus Christ at the centre of our life so that our identity is essentially marked by encounter and communion with Christ and with his word”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his weekly audience on Wednesday 25 October, having concluded his reflections on the twelve Apostles Pope Benedict XVI said he was beginning a new series of meditations on prominent ...
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26 October 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Military Ordinaries: “The Church is by nature missionary and her first task is evangelisation which aims to announce and bear witness to Christ and promote in every environment and culture his Gospel of peace and love”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, the Holy Father received participants in the fifth international congress of Military Ordinaries. The congress marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution "S ...
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26 October 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - One hundred images of Our Lady from all over the Philippines on show in Manila exhibition organised by Radio Veritas
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred images of the Blessed Virgin Mary from all over the Philippines on show in Manila, are a sign of the deep devotion for Mary among the people of this country. The images are part of a ...
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26 October 2006
AMERICA/CANADA - Preparations continue for 49th International Eucharistic Congress in June 2008: deepening knowledge of the significance of the Eucharist for the Christian life
Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - In a meeting of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, 16-20 October in Quebec, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec spoke about preparations for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress i ...
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25 October 2006
VATICAN - “We must learn to listen with the heart to God who speaks” Pope Benedict XVI tells students and teachers of Pontifical Universities in Rome for the opening of the new academic year
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Eucharistic concelebration in St Peter’s Basilica on 23 October presided by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, to mark the beginn ...
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25 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops warn that proposed Bill on biomedical research “fails to guarantee proper protection of life opening the door to legal practice of more abuses against the dignity of the human person”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “The Proposed Law On Bio-Medical Research Fails To Protect Life And Allows Human Cloning” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
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25 October 2006
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “If we demand a state law which defends human life from its conception it is because it is a universal value, of natural ethics, not only a moral religious precept”: Bishops and upcoming referendum on abortion
Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Portugal has called on the country’s Catholics to vote against lifting restrictions on abortion in the upcoming referendum. On 19 ...
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25 October 2006
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “The auspicated renewal of our parishes will come not from opportune pastoral initiatives, or elaborate programmes but from the encounter with Christ, especially in the Eucharist”: Bishop attend on-going formation meeting on parishes
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The parish, community of disciples and missionaries that our countries may have life in Christ” is the subject of a meeting of on-going formation for Bishops taking place at Santa Cruz de l ...
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25 October 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA, Rev Luciano Alimandi -“Mary, New Eve: the path to happiness”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us reflect together on the first chapters of the Book of Genesis: Gen. 3, 1-13 tells of the fall of our first parents, original sin which caused Adam and Eve to fall from heights of gra ...
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25 October 2006
ASIA/SINGAPORE - 3rd Overseas Chinese Catholic Communities Congress on Evangelisation and Pastoral Care 17 - 21 November
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 3rd Overseas Chinese Catholic Community Congress on Evangelisation and Pastoral Care will take place 17 - 21 November in Singapore to reflect on the theme “The descendents of Emperors Yan an ...
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25 October 2006
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: FRENCH - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The profound changes which occur in the spiritual life of a nation are nearly always enveloped in mystery. The disappearance of the Gaulish language replaced by popular Latin is one example ...
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24 October 2006
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Two killed and four injured in clashes outside church in Dili. Priests and religious work to restore social harmony
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 22 October, while East Timor’s prime minister Ramos-Horta was on his way to Europe, for a visit during which he will also meet Pope Benedict XVI, two people were killed outside a church ...
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24 October 2006
VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD”: Inspiring Principles for the building of churches and places for the celebration and the adoration of the Eucharist (2)
by Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The compositive criteria of a church depend on the nature of the cultural habitat. It is a complex and organic, symbolic and iconographic place offered to Christifideles convoked in holy as ...
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