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14 June 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 1st Updating Scripture Seminar for Bishops: refreshing knowledge of Scripture to offer the faithful the immense riches of the Word of God
Guarne (Agenzia Fides) - “Therefore, all the clergy must hold fast to the Sacred Scriptures through diligent sacred reading and careful study, especially the priests of Christ and others, such as deacons and catechists ...
14 June 2006
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - In Lisbon 7th International Symposium on the Rotavirus assesses progress and identifies ways to stop spreading virus which puts over two million people in hospital every year
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The impact of infection by the rotavirus, particularly among children in the first year of life, is enormous. The figures are shocking: 600,000 child victims in poor countries, about 50 children di ...
13 June 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - “From Vatican II to New Evangelisation”: refresher course in theology for priests
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “From Vatican II to New Evangelisation” is the theme of a refresher course in theology for priests to be held 3-7 July in Mexico City. The year 2005 was important for the universal Churc ...
13 June 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - 5th anniversary of Catholic.net web site: Mass of thanksgiving at Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe presided by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Tuesday 20 June Catholic.net web site will mark five years of service to the Church in Spanish. A solemn mass of thanksgiving at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be presided by Car ...
13 June 2006
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Nine new members of the Sisters of Notre Dame du Lac Bam make perpetual profession
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 June the Community of the Sisters of Notre Dame du Lac Bam welcomed 9 new members who made their perpetual vows. The Mass was celebrated at the parish of Bam in the diocese Ou ...
13 June 2006
VATICAN - Programme of Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic journey to Valencia, Spain, for the 5th World Meeting of Families
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today was the itinerary of Benedict XVI's forthcoming apostolic trip to Valencia for the 5th World Meeting of Families, due to be held in that Spanish city on July 8 and 9. The ...
13 June 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - ‘Mission Young People’ launched in Madrid aims to help young practising Catholics to strengthen their faith and draw other young people back to Jesus Christ
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Mission Young People’, a fruit of the 3rd diocesan Synod in Madrid celebrated last year, is the title of an initiative launched by Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Varela Archbishop of Madrid on P ...
13 June 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Legionaries of Christ Semper Altius Foundation builds a school for poor children in Guatemala
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A school being built in a poor district of Guatemala by the Semper Altius Foundation www.altius.org of the Legionaries of Christ should be ready by January 2007. It joins 23 other schools with a to ...
13 June 2006
ASIA/CHINA - New churches opened in various dioceses
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In just over three months from north to the south of mainland China several new churches were opened and a 60mt. high bell tower was inaugurated. In the month of May over 2.000 Catholics were p ...
13 June 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - An Orionino missionary in Korea shares first impressions: “at the side of poor and rich, helping them to discover in Jesus the meaning of life ”
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Piccola Opera della Divina Provvidenza started its presence in South Korea on 21 April with the arrival in Seoul of Argentinean Fr. Luciano Felloni and Korean Fr Bernardo Seo Yong-Tae. A humbl ...
13 June 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - We must help the Church and the people of southern Sudan at this crucial moment in their history: appeal from Major Superiors
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)-. At the request of the local Bishops and to see for themselves the situation of the people and the church and assess needs in view of concrete assistance and in the month of March a delegation o ...
12 June 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: Among the different analogies of the ineffable mystery of God, Three in One, which believers are able to perceive, I would mention that of the family called to be a community of love and life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The whole of the universe, for those who have faith, speaks of God, Three in One. From inter-star space to microscopic particles, everything which exists points to a Being who communicat ...
12 June 2006
VATICAN - Feast of Corpus Christi: Pope Benedict XVI reminds Romans and visitors of the Holy Mass and Blessed Sacrament Procession, the Major Basilica of St Mary organises Forty Hours Adoration
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 15 June, solemnity of the Corpus Christi, at 7pm Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass in front of his Cathedral of St John in the Lateran in Rome. Immediately after Mass the Ho ...
12 June 2006
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Social and pastoral zeal in the young Catholic diocese of Emdeber where people suffer from prolonged food crisis
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides)- “The food crisis is ever more serious and we have to rely on aid from other countries” Bishop Musie Ghebreghiorghis of the diocese of Emdeber in Ethiopia, told a delegation of ‘Aid to t ...
12 June 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Pontifical Mission Societies Taiwan call for full participation in 1st Asian Mission Congress
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The national office for the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan has urged Catholics in Asia to take an active part in the 1st Asian Mission Congress to be held in Chiang Mai diocese in Thaila ...
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