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• 16 January 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Immigrants, human trafficking, justice and peace: issues discussed at 7th Conference of Dominican Family in Asia-Oceania Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - Immigrants, human trafficking, spirituality of justice and peace were among the urgent issues discussed during the 7th Conference of the Dominican Family in Asia-Oceania held at the end of 2 ...
• 16 January 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s Chinese University opens new Centre for Christian Studies Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Growing interest for Christianity, Christian tradition and history promoted the Chinese University of Hong Kong to open a new Centre for Christian Studies. At the inauguration ceremony the dir ...
• 16 January 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Emigration and human trafficking in the Philippines: a pastoral challenge without frontiers”; intervention by Fr. Fabio Baggio, Scalabrini Missionary Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the vast phenomenon of human mobility besides legal migration regulated by international law, a phenomenon of human trafficking which causes great suffering to hundreds of thousands of people ...
• 16 January 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Archdiocese of Yangon reflects on Pope Benedict XVI’s message for World Peace Day and declares 2007 “Year for Children” Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of World Peace Day, January 1st will continue through the year 2007 for the Archdiocese of Yangon in Myanmar with special in-depth reflection on Pope Benedict XVI Message for the ...
• 16 January 2007
  EUROPA/PORTUGAL - “Life is in your hands” Schoenstatt movement launches campaign of prayer and awareness building on the theme of life; Sunday 28 January March Pro Life March promoted by the Portuguese Large Families Association Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Portugal is mobilising Catholics in view of a February 11 referendum on the legalisation of abortion (see Fides 14/12/2006). To increase awareness of the seriousness of the ...
• 16 January 2007
  AFRICA/CONGO -Final act of homage for Cardinal Etsou. “A tireless shepherd, a man of simplicity who united his sufferings with those of Christ” says President of Bishops Conference Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 80,000 people attended the funeral in Martyrs Stadium Kinshasa on Sunday 14 January of Cardinal Frédérick Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Congo, who die ...
• 16 January 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA -Week of Prayer for Peace in Northern Uganda, Catholics continue to promote reconciliation Gulu (Agenzia Fides)- “Enough with war, peace is a gift of God which we are called to build day by day with prayer, dialogue and by accepting and forgiving our brothers and sisters ” said Archbishop Pierre Christophe ...
• 16 January 2007
  AFRICA - Africans interested in application of nuclear energy Roma (Agenzia Fides)- African countries are showing growing interest for nuclear technology as a means for meeting their needs for energy and development. This emerged from a Conference on Nuclear Energy in Africa in Alg ...
• 16 January 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Record number of 273,021 Bibles distributed throughout Peru in 2006 compared to 253,916 in 2005 Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Once again in 2006 the Peruvian Bible Society distributed a record number of 273.021 Bibles even more than the high number of 253.916 copies given out in 2005. The Bible is the world’s the most ...
• 16 January 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Much remains to be done to proclaim Jesus in every home and to let the Gospel transform the country”: 3rd national Lenten Campaign to support the Church in her evangelising mission Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Argentina have urged Catholics to take part in the 3rd National Church Support Campaign. In a Pastoral letter the Bishops write “We as the Church achieve much. We ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The reality of migration must never be seen only as a problem, but also and above all as a great resource for humanity’s progress” Pope Benedict XVI said at the Angelus on the Day for Migrants and Refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before leading the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday 14 December, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the situation of Migrants and Refugees since it was the Day the Catholic Church dedicates ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - Abbey of St Paul’s outside the Walls organises Celebrations for annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, major closing event Ecumenical Vespers presided by Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The service to further Christian unity offered by the Benedictines monks at the Abbey of St Paul’s outside the Walls in Rome is a response to the special ecumenical mandate entrusted to t ...
• 15 January 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Porto Novo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 3 January 2007 appointed Bishop of Porto Novo (Benin) Bishop René-Marie Ehuzu, C.I.M., until now Bishop of Abomey (Benin). (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 15/1/2 ...
• 15 January 2007
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Vicar apostolic of Soddo-Hosanna appointing a successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 5 January 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate in Ethiopia presented by the Apostolic Vicar Bishop Domen ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - The people of Asia and new challenges in the light of Catholic Social Teaching: Continental Conference in Bangkok present the Compendium of the Church’s Social Doctrine 25 to 27 January Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Amidst old and new forms of dehumanising poverty and senseless violence, as well as materialist and hedonist individualism, and in the framework of an extraordinary emerging economic growt ...