Oceania

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  18 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission: One heart Many voices, Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission: Mission: One heart Many voices" is the title of the missionary conference to be held in Sydney from 13 to 15 May 2019, organized by "Catholic Mission", the National Directorate of the P ...
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  15 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne: “our mission is to minister to Australians who never come to church ” Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - “One of the main and most urgent challenges we face in Australia, and it is an urgent mission, is to reach those who claim to be Catholic but do not come to Church ”. Fides was talki ...
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  11 December 2018
  OCEANIA/ PAPUA NEW GUINEA - “Called to fullness of life and love”: Young people follow Blessed ToRot Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) – “Called to fullness of life and love”: is the theme of a National Youth Congress taking place in Vunapope, a province of New Britannia, in Papua New Guinea, with the participation of 260 y ...
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  19 November 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Let us bring them to safety": the Church next to Nauru refugee children Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 40 refugee children detained by the Australian government on the island of Nauru in inhumane conditions: to draw the attention of Australian politicians and public opinion on this ...
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  22 October 2018
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Historic event for the diocese of Auki: the first native bishop of the Solomon Islands Auki (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Peter Houhou is the first native Solomon Islander to be appointed as Bishop in the Solomon Islands. As Agenzia Fides learns, the diocese of Auki, Malaita province, has in fact been the protago ...
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  18 October 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission supports the construction of a professional training center for women in Myanmar Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God because the construction of the training center for girls continues and is about to end". We hope that we can soon start decorating the interior spaces. We also thank you for the pr ...
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  16 October 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Church at the forefront of the anti-poverty week Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Catholic Church is actively involved in the "Anti-poverty Week", until 20 October 2018. The initiative, which aims to raise awareness on issues related to poverty, was conceived as ...
• 10 October 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation of the Bishop of Lae and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Lae (Papua New Guinea), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Christian Blouin, C.M.M. The Holy Father app ...
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  6 October 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Where the Love of Christ triumphs, hope arrives, says a teacher at the Caritas Technical School Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Esther Mwayemwana comes from the Trobriand Islands (MBP), and has taught at Caritas over the past 10 years. "My career as a teacher took me to the Caritas Technical Secondary School in 200 ...
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  28 September 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Youth gathering, in communion with the Synod Assembly: "Christ at the center of life" Kundiawa (Agenzia Fides) - The youth of the diocese of Kundiawa, a town of Papua New Guinea and the capital of the province of Chimbu, express their closeness and trust in the Pope and in the whole Assembly of Bishops th ...
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  25 September 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Day for Social Justice: the Church's attention towards the homeless Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The lack of housing is an emergency in Australia, where the number of people who cannot cope with the challenges of a skyrocketing, ruthless real estate market: the latest Census figures show tha ...
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  22 September 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission's commitment to health development in Uganda Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, women, men and children in the Bujuni community can access an ever-increasing number of effective health and education services, in an environment that also takes into account religious n ...
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  14 September 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops for Independence Day: "Proud to be a people and a nation" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "During this day let us reflect on the blessings we have received as a Country. We must thank God for the journey undertaken. We are proud of being a people, a nation and a country": said F ...
• 3 July 2018
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Appointment of the Bishop of Auki Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has appointed, Rev. Peter Houhou, currently Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Honiara as Bishop of the diocese of Auki (Solomon Islands). The new Bishop was born ...
• 22 June 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - Resignation of the Bishop of Kavieng and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kavieng (Papua New Guinea), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Ambrose Kiapseni, M.S.C. The Holy Father ...