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7 November 2006
VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University for Mission: formation four hundred years old new every year
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 August 1627 Pope Urban VIII with the Bull "Immortalis Dei Filius" created Urban College, first nucleus of the system of education of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide which with pass ...
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7 November 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Martino purchases on behalf Pope Benedict XVI first International Financing Facility for Immunisation bond an initiative guaranteed by various governments to save the life of millions of people
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a project presented by UK chancellor Gordon Brown during a Meeting on “Poverty and globalisation: funding development” organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Pe ...
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7 November 2006
VATICAN - The Church “feels in duty bound to insist that science's ability to predict and control must never be employed against human life and its dignity”: Pope Benedict XVI tells participants at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At midday on Monday November, the Pope received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, headed by the president of that institution, Nicola Cabibbo. They ...
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7 November 2006
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bandits kill Brazilian Jesuit missionary and Portuguese lay volunteer, growing concern for safety of missionaries
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- The Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Portugal has reported that a priest and a lay missionary volunteer were killed and other persons were wounded in an attack on Angone Residence in Tete Pro ...
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7 November 2006
VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD: The Vocation of the Artist (1)
by Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Letter to Artists written on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Pope John Paul II made a bold comparison between the creative activity of God and that of artists. Af ...
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7 November 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Catholics must promote “a new culture of respect for the human person in every dimension": 1st Congress on Evangelisation of Culture
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - In the Conclusions drafted at the end of the 1st Conference of the Evangelisation of Culture the participants declare “We feel called by the Pope and our bishops to live the faith in publ ...
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7 November 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops say new Health Bill must not become law: “it attacks the authority of parents, educators, medical doctors and introduces a culture of death, not life”
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Ecuador continue to express serious concern with reward to a new Bill on Public Health approved by part of the National Congress, which attacks fundamental moral and consti ...
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7 November 2006
AFRICA - Asia courts Africa: South Korea signs 10 billion dollar contract with Nigeria
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Asia and Africa are ever closer. After the Beijing summit between China and 48 African countries (see Fides 6 November 2006) now South Korea is hosting a Korea-Africa Meeting in Seoul on 8 November ...
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7 November 2006
ASIA/INDIA - For mission in a context of globalisation and religious pluralism India’s Jesuits retrace the steps of their fathers, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabre
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In view of more significant and effective missionary activity in the Indian context, the Jesuits of India organised a meeting at the National Catechism Centre in Bangalore to focus on three fo ...
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6 November 2006
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus says there is no need to fear the death of the body “because it is sleep from which one day we will reawaken. Whereas the death to be feared is that of the soul” - Appeal for peace in the West Bank: may bloodshed be stopped, may efforts to provide humanitarian aid be intensified and may negotiations resume immediately
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again on Sunday November 5, following the commemoration of all the dead on All Souls Day, death seen with the eyes of faith was the subject of Pope Benedict’s midday Angelus reflecti ...
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6 November 2006
VATICAN - The Holy Father celebrates Mass for the repose of the souls of the cardinals and bishops who died during the past year: “Each was called in the Church to make his own and put into practice the words of the Apostle Paul “Life to me, of course, is Christ,”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today we have gathered around the Lord’s altar to celebrate Mass for the repose of the souls of the cardinals and bishops whom God called from this life during the past year. As we hea ...
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6 November 2006
VATICAN - “To have meaning in relation to the Kingdom of God, the fatigue of study and teaching, must be sustained by the theological virtues” the Pope recalls during his visit to the Pontifical Gregorian University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the morning of Friday 3 November Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to the Pontifical Gregorian University. After a moment of personal prayer in the university chapel the Holy Father wen ...
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6 November 2006
VATICAN - “How to announce Christ to European tourists, to visitors to Europe, to those in any way connected with the world of Tourism?” -Meeting for European National Directors for Pastoral Care of Tourists
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Tourism, Transversal Reality: Pastoral Aspects” is the theme of a Meeting for European National Directors for Pastoral Care of Tourists organised by the Pontifical Council for the Pasto ...
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6 November 2006
AFRICA/RWANDA -Local Catholic Church holds Jubilee year to mark the 25th anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kibeho
Kibeho (Agenzia Fides)- “The apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Kibeho and the message were without a doubt a source of heavenly blessing for the Church, an opportunity for new evangelisation of society today” ...
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6 November 2006
VATICAN - Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, writes a letter to the president of Social Weeks in Spain for XL edition
Vatican City (Fides) - The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent a letter to Prof. José Tomás Raga Gil, president of Social Weeks in Spain on the occasion of the opening of the XL edition on the t ...
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