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20 January 2006
EUROPE/FRANCE - 30 ans ça suffit! 30 years of legalised abortion is enough! Pro-life demonstration in Paris solidarity from Spain
Paris (Fides Service) - A pro-life demonstration on Sunday 22 January to demand protection for life from the moment of conception and the abrogation of anti-life laws has been organised by forum 30 ans ça suffit! - whic ...
20 January 2006
AMERICA/PERU - Official celebrations for 4th centenary of the death of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Patron of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Peru will open celebrations for the 4th centenary of the death of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Patron of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences on Sunday 22 January with a solemn Mass ...
20 January 2006
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Young people are the hope of the Church” says Cardinal Etsou, archbishop of Kinshasa, concerned for a growing phenomenon of “street minors” and for the negative influence exerted by certain media
Rome (Fides Service)- “I said this also to the Holy Father: I will never tire of being with young people, listening to them and helping them achieve their aspirations” said Cardinal Bamungwabi Nzabi Etsou archbishop ...
20 January 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic school curriculum will soon include education to critical use of the media
Bangalore (Fides Service) - Catholic education institutes are getting ready to include Education to Critical Media Use as a regular subject in the school curriculum. For some time religious and secular bodies involved in ...
20 January 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Xian Xian diocese marks 150th anniversary “Now it is our turn to write a new page in the history of the Church in a new century”
Beijing (Fides Service) - In 2006 Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou)in Hebei Province cradle of the Catholic community in China will celebrate its 150th anniversary. For the occasion the Bishop Li Lian Hui addressed a pastoral ...
20 January 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Hear the Gospel on-line: Church in Australia provides daily Mass Readings MP3
Sydney (Fides Service) - To offer Web users the opportunity not only to read Holy Scripture but also to hear it on-line, the Church Resources office of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has launched Dailyrea ...
20 January 2006
AMERICA/PERU - First Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru 100 years ago, Japanese Cardinal Fumio Hamao, President of Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, presides Centenary Celebrations in Lima
Lima (Fides Service) - The first Japanese immigrants landed in Peru a hundred years ago on 21 November 1906. A group of 774 farm workers arrived with a contract to work at the Hacienda Santa Clara, 36 of them had left th ...
20 January 2006
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Democratic Republic of Congo - info
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The Democratic Republic of Congo with its area of 2,345,410 sq. km., is the third largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria. It has borders with the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville ...
19 January 2006
Book Review - Helmut Moll at the request of the German Bishops’ Conference: ZEUGEN FÜR CHRISTUS - DAS DEUTSCHE MARTYROLOGIUM DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. WITNESSES FOR CHRIST - MARTYROLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY PADERBORN 1999 (SCHÖNINGH VERLAG)
Rome (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II who in his youth lived not far from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, called in 1994 for the Martyrology of the Church to be updated to include th ...
19 January 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Feel mission in your heart”: Sunday 22 January Holy Childhood Day in Spain: concern for millions of children ill, exploited, deprived of rights, many have never heard about Jesus Christ
Madrid (Fides Service) - “We must feel mission in our heart because if it is something cold and lacks the warmth of love and charity our experience would be absurd and useless” says Archbishop Francisco Pérez Gonzá ...
19 January 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian women religious committed to fighting human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and girls
Sydney (Fides Service) - The phenomenon of human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and children is an attack on human dignity and a crime against humanity and against God. It must be fought with the involvement of pu ...
19 January 2006
ASIA/JAPAN - A communion of communities diocese of Yokohama largest in Japan exemplary welcome for immigrants
Yokohama (Fides Service) - The diocese of Yokohama, the largest by area of Japan’s 16 Catholic diocese, has a population of 172,000 Catholics, but 70% are non Japanese, they are immigrants come from various different c ...
19 January 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Jesuit Provinces in China launch celebrations for St Francis Xavier Jubilee
Taipei (Fides Service) - In this Jesuit Jubilee year - to mark the 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506), and 450 years since the death of 450 St Ignatius of Loyola (1556) - the ...
19 January 2006
AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Disorder continues in Abidjan whereas in rebel controlled areas all is quiet
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “It’s like living in a completely different country from the psychological point of view as well” says a local source in Bouaké, main town of northern Côte d'Ivoire since September 2002 i ...
19 January 2006
AFRICA/GABON - “Dialogue has always been the basis for resolving conflict” say Catholic Bishops of Gabon after recent incidents of violence
Libreville (Fides Service)- “In our traditional society dialogue has always been the basis for resolving conflict. This is true also in modern society” the Catholic Bishops of Gabon affirm in a message addressed to ...
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