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29 September 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Mother, we need to live as brothers and sisters”: this year’s Youth pilgrimage to Our Lady of Luján will be marked by “pro-life gesture”
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Mother we need to live as brothers and sisters” is the slogan of the 32nd Youth Pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan (60 km from the capital Buenos Aires) (30 September - 1 ...
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29 September 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - “We entrust to Mary the Cause for Life”: Chinese Regional Bishops Conference welcomes appeal from Fatima to unite with recitation of Rosary Prayer on Sunday 8 October
Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - “Mary, to You we entrust the cause of Life” is the theme of the next meeting 4 - 8 October in Fatima, Portugal, organised by The World Apostolate of Fatima. The Apostolate has called for a wo ...
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29 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - In tsunami affected Tamil Nadu life returns to normal with new homes and new schools
Pondicherry (Agenzia Fides) - “We are working to help tsunami affected people in Tamil Nadu resume normal life rebuilding and repairing structures but also offering psychological care for traumatised people, mainly chi ...
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28 September 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - “The threat of secularism and Christian missionaries”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “First fill their bellies and then speak about Christ”. This slogan heard in various missionary circles in recent decades has led no few missionary operators to think that funds collect ...
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28 September 2006
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Elections. The Church: “Choose candidates who have the courage of truth, are committed to issues regarding justice and peace and the common good and in particular to meeting the needs of the poor”
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Four million Zambians are voting today 28 September to elect a president, a parliament and local administration.
The Monfort Fathers’ Malawi Newsletter informs Fides about this “important d ...
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28 September 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Some 6,800 first year students at Fu Ren Catholic University attend academic year opening ceremony presided by Grand Chancellor, Archbishop Cheng
Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - The Summer holidays over, some 6,800 first year students gathered at Fu Ren Catholic University on 15 September for the opening ceremony for the new academic year presided by the University’s G ...
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28 September 2006
ASIA/JAPAN - Children's letters and poems dedicated to Francis Xavier on show in Kagoshima to mark the 5th centenary of his birth: an opportunity to rediscover the Saint’s missionary charisma
Kagoshima (Agenzia Fides) - “Dear Fr Francis thank you for looking after us” a little girl at a Catholic primary school in Kagoshima writes in a letter composed as part of thanksgiving celebrations to commemorate th ...
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28 September 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consolata missionary wins UNESCO education to peace award for “course in forgiveness and reconciliation”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian missionary of the Consolata (IMC) Father Leonel Narvaez Gomez received special mention at a ceremony in Paris for the presentation of the UNESCO Education to peace Award 2006. The awa ...
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28 September 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - Continental Pastoral Marian Meeting “discovering the inexhaustible riches of the missionary pastoral of Mary, first disciple and missionary of her Son and teacher of His disciples and missionaries”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “At this time of grace as we are preparing for the Conference at Aparecida, we felt the pastoral necessity to celebrate this Congress to discover the inexhaustible riches of the missionar ...
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28 September 2006
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Courageous witness of tiny Catholic community in Quetta, an impervious region of Pakistan bordering on Iran and Afghanistan
Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - It is not easy, but the small Catholic community in Quetta keeps the flame of faith burning. Catholics in the apostolic prefecture of Quetta, which borders on Iran and Afghanistan, are mainly sub ...
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27 September 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Rev. Luciano Alimandi - “Where there is Jesus, there is also his Mother
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” at paragraph 57 treats with the truth of the presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary at every Mass; a truth which gives joy to the heart and light t ...
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27 September 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “THANK YOU, Holy Father for your words which moved us deeply and once again so clearly indicated the path of the Gospel” : Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries pays homage to Sr. Leonella Sgorbati “she offered her life as a martyrdom of love in the land of Somalia she so dearly loved ”
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Fides asked Sr. Gabriella Bono, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries to comment on Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus reflection on Sunday 24 September, when he remembered the Italian nun Sr Le ...
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27 September 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Wednesday Audience teaching: St Thomas’ words to Jesus “remind us of the full meaning of mature faith and encourage us to go ahead despite the difficulties on our path to follow Him”:
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square this morning Pope Benedict XVI addressed some 30,000 visitors resuming his catechesis on the twelve men Jesus chose to be his Apostles. ...
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27 September 2006
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops’ Conference backs nation wide rubella vaccination campaign
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - A nation wide campaign in Peru to vaccinate the entire population against German measles, rubella, will start in October.
In a meeting with the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
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27 September 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Migration and youth. A chance for society and the Church in Europe”: conclusions of annual meeting for national Directors of the Pastoral care for Migration
Sigüenza (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the national Directors of the Pastoral care for Migration was organised by the Migrations Commission of the Council of bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE). It took pl ...
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