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14 September 2006
ASIA/VIETNAM - Vietnam cradle for vocations to the religious life has new Salesian Novitiate
Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - In Vietnam vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life continue to flourish and seminaries are filled as an increasing number of young people decide to dedicate their lives to ...
14 September 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Nation-wide tour for World Youth Day team, young people’s enthusiasm reaches the stars
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - A special World Youth Day team is travelling to the different Catholic dioceses of Australia amidst growing enthusiasm among young people. An awareness building campaign has been launched to prep ...
14 September 2006
AMERICA - “Month of the Bible ” in Latin America helps Catholics become more familiar with the Word of God in order to be true witnesses to Christ for the world
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In many countries in Latin America the month of September is dedicated to the Bible to help Catholics become more familiar with the Word of God and so more authentic witnesses to Christ.
Peru is ...
14 September 2006
ASIA/PAKISTAN -Corruption and religious fanaticism must be eradicated: Catholic Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission seminar
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the present situation of crisis what Pakistan needs is national solidarity and unity and respect for the founding values of the nation, justice and peace. This emerged from a recent Seminar or ...
14 September 2006
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Too many weapons still in circulation”: warns International Monitoring Committee
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The President of Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila and vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, candidates in a second round of presidential elections met yesterday 13 September for a two hour ...
14 September 2006
VATICAN Study Seminar for Bishops - “Evangelising cultures is the mission of the Church” says Cardinal Paul Poupard
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The ministry of the Bishop with regard to the evangelisation of cultures was the theme of the conference given by Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Councils for Culture a ...
13 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “If you believe you are never alone. God comes to meet us. Let us too walk towards God and this will help us draw close to one another! Let us do all we can to make sure that no child of God is ever left alone!”
Regensburg (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his apostolic visit to Bavaria, in the evening of Monday 11 September, after visiting Saint Oswald at Marktl am Inn where he was baptised on Easter Sunday 17 April 1927, the day af ...
13 September 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by don Luciano Alimandi -“Most humble Mother”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is always moving to think how the beginning of our Redemption, narrated in the Gospel of Saint Luke, happened quite simply in that extraordinary encounter between the Archangel Gabriel a ...
13 September 2006
ASIA - Asian Bishops at Rome Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples share impressions
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Communion among Bishops, closer relations with the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, insight with regard to the Bishop’s identity and ministry: Asian Bishops at Rome Study S ...
13 September 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - "The great challenge for Catholics in Latin America is witness of life, that is unity of faith and life": Second Congress on the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “Imagine a Continent for all: Christian justice, solidarity and witness to meet social difficulties in Latin American and the Caribbean" is the motto of the Second Congress on the Social D ...
13 September 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - “We feel the moral imperative which cannot be renounced to raise our voices to affirm the dignity of life ": Catholic Bishops’ statement on new National Norms on Birth Control. Friday 15 Catholic Youth pro-life March
Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - " We feel the moral imperative which cannot be renounced to raise our voices to affirm the dignity of life" the Catholic Bishops of Chile say in a statement titled “Where is Chile go ...
13 September 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN -International community alarm for Darfur: massacre of civilians continues
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “I saw Sudanese Antonov preparing for an attack. It reminded me of the situation in 2003. The message is clear: there will be attacks on civilians and civilian zones” said European Union spe ...
13 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Bishops condemn attack on Catholic school in Lucknow; sixteen schools closed
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Another episode of anti-Christian violence has been reported in in India, at Lucknow, in the central northern state of Uttar Pradesh. On 10 September a gang of Hindu nationalist extremists att ...
12 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “Together with the great communion of Saints and at their centre, Mary is still before God to intercede for us, asking her Son to send again His Spirit into the Church and into the world to renew the face of the earth”
Altötting (Agenzia Fides) - Germany’s most popular Marian Shrine Altötting was visited by Pope Benedict XVI on Monday 11 September. After a few moments of prayer in the Chapel of Graces, the Gnadenkapelle (Cappella d ...
12 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “God’s harvest is great and it is waiting for workers: in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia people await heralds carrying the Gospel of peace, the message of God made man. But also in the so-called West, the harvest could be plenty.
Altötting (Agenzia Fides) - In the early evening on Monday 11 September Pope Benedict XVI presided sung Vespers in the Basilica dedicated to St Anne in Altötting together with the men and women Religious and seminaria ...
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