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9 October 2006
VATICAN - “There is a need of families which are not misled by modern cultural currents inspired by hedonism and relativism, and instead are ready to live with generous dedication their mission in the Church and in society” Pope Benedict says at the XVI Angelus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy of the 27th Sunday of the Year, 8 October, proposed Jesus’ teaching on matrimony and on this subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dwelt in this midday reflection before t ...
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9 October 2006
VATICAN - “Witnesses to the joy of being Christians: may this be your choral commitment. Continue, indeed intensify ecclesial communion and be generous protagonists of the evangelising mission which the Lord entrusts to you”: Pope Benedict XVI receives Catholics from the Romagna region of Italy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Receiving thousands of Catholics from various dioceses of the Italian region of Romagna on Saturday 7 October in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, the Pope urged them to “Witness to the j ...
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9 October 2006
VATICAN - Christian Prayer in the World: new titles may be missing in Litany of Our Lady
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With regard to our Dossier of Christian Prayers in the World, we would point out that two new titles added by Pope John Paul II to the Litany of Our Lady are not always present in the vario ...
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9 October 2006
VATICAN - Thursday 12 October Cardinal Ivan Dias will inaugurate academic year 2006/2007 Pontifical Urban University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A special concelebration of the Eucharist to invoke the Holy Spirit, presided on 12 October by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and Grand Ch ...
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9 October 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Electronic Bibles and Talking Bibles on show in Chennai: latest technology at the service of evangelisation
Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - India is known as one of world’s most advanced countries in information technology, with districts of international excellence such as Bangalore. The Church in India is also employing the new ...
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9 October 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - National Meeting for delegates of Communications Pastoral in search of unifying criteria and decisive impulse for New Evangelisation
Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - “Communion, spirit of Communications” is the theme of a National Meeting for delegates of Communications Pastoral organised by the Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Social Communications, 9-1 ...
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9 October 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Indigenous scholarships: Catholic archdiocese Sydney initiative of collaboration
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The development and wellbeing of Aboriginal Australians passes by the delicate work of education, particularly for the future of the new generations: with this conviction the Catholic archdiocese ...
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9 October 2006
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Capital prey to Issakaba Boys gang. People’s self defence groups makes things worse. President Johnson-Sirleaf promises to increase citizen security
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides)- In recent months a gang which has called itself Issakaba Boys, after a Nigerian TV series, has been terrorising the people of Monrovia. Most of the youths are ex combatants dissatisfied with tre ...
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9 October 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - More than 900 students graduate from East African Catholic University: “Be instruments of God’s love to bring about the desired change for a new humanism of peace and wholesome development in Africa and the world at large” Vice Chancellor urges
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- More than 900 students graduated from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa CUEA in a colourful ceremony recently. The 942 candidates were widely spread out within the University's 41 academi ...
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9 October 2006
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - With an appeal to “announce and defend the Gospel of Life and consolidate commitment to making Venezuela a society based on the values of the Kingdom of God” Plenary Council closes
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “Living our Hope” is the title of a Pastoral Letter issued by the Catholic Bishops of Venezuela, gathered in their 34th special assembly to celebrate the closing of the Plenary Council of Ve ...
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9 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Divorce rate has rocketed since new law came into force: Family Policy Institute reports on first year
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the first year of the application of the new law on divorce July 2005-2006 no less 163,444 marriages have been ended. Presenting a study by Spain’s Family Policy Institute IPF, the Institute ...
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9 October 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Church and civil society mobilise for World Day Against Death Penalty 10 October
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October will be celebrated in the Philippines with widespread mobilisation of human rights groups, Catholic associations and movements, civil society ...
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9 October 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Catholic Bishops issue message in view of the 4th National Catholic Church Meeting: being witnesses of hope not only in word “hope which accompanies and sustains evangelisation”
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 4th National Catholic Church Meeting in Verona, 16-20 October which will reflect on the theme “Witnesses to the Risen Jesus, hope of the world” the Italian Bishops have issued a ...
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7 October 2006
Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
In September the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, made an apostolic journey to the Bavarian region of Germany, 9-14, where he visited Munich, Altötting and Regensburg. The visit, his fourth outside Italy, was a pilgri ...
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6 October 2006
ASIA/SRI LANKA - “Tamil children must be guaranteed instruction, gateway to the future”: Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
Jaffna (Agenzia Fides) - Every effort must be made to guarantee instruction for Tamil children and young people despite the present situation of violence and conflict. Both parties, government troops and Tamil separatist ...
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