Oceania

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  30 March 2019
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - The Guanellians: "Mission on the Ocean, combining evangelization and human promotion" Gizo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are islanders with the islanders". Don Luigi de Giambattista, a Guanellian missionary, describes to Agenzia Fidesthe reality of his evangelical commitment in the Solomon Islands, in Oceania. In ...
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  29 March 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops mobilize for minimum wages for families Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - With a request sent to the Fair Work Commission, the Australian governmental institution that regulates labor relations, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) expressed the need to in ...
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  27 March 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Climate change and displacement: the alarm of Caritas Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The time has come for us to work side by side with the people of Manam, with the authorities of Bogia and Madang and with the national government, to bring tangible changes to the well-bei ...
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  21 March 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church towards the Plenary Council of 2020: the challenges of evangelization are at the center Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The conference "Mission: one heart, many voices" scheduled for May 13-15 in Sydney will offer participants "an opportunity for listening and discernment, in preparation for the Plenary Council of ...
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  15 March 2019
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Massacre in the mosques, the local Church: "Horrible act. In society there is peaceful coexistence" Christchurch (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a horrible act, to be strongly condemned. It is something really unexpected for our quiet community in Christchurch. We are shocked, like the whole nation. We express all our solidar ...
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  14 March 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The "Project Compassion" of Caritas for world water emergency Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The spirit of Caritas is to help marginalized communities and accompany them to become architects of their future. Our 'Project Compassion' has allowed us to achieve important changes over these ...
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  27 February 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Lasallian Community relaunches the mission on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Founder Bomana (Agenzia Fides) - A conference to revive the mission and take stock of the transformation of the educational communities promoted within the initiatives for the celebrations of the three hundredth anniversary of t ...
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  19 February 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "One heart, many voices": conference in preparation for the extraordinary missionary Month Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The intention behind the extraordinary missionary Month announced by Pope Francis is to cultivate a spirit of missionary conversion in each of us, as well as in the life and pastoral activity of ...
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  8 February 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic women "responding to the Spirit": the commitment to the life of the Church Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Shaking the waters: Catholic women responding to the Spirit": is the title of the congress organized from 22nd to 24th February by the Council for Australian Catholic Women, an advisory body in ...
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  7 February 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Flood in Townsville, the Bishop: "Do not give up: there is new life after death" Townsville (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to remember that we may have lost clothes and personal belongings, but we have our lives. When we can all return to our homes, we can put everything back in its place. It i ...
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  1 February 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Bishops: "May the most vulnerable be the priority of electoral programs" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent years, in view of some of the federal elections, the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has prepared some leaflets addressing key social justice issues and containing questions ...
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  31 January 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Catholic aborigines: "Postpone Australian Day to May 27" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "January 26, 1788 was not a day of celebration for the aborigines and the inhabitants of Torres Strait Islands, nor for the passengers of the 'first fleet', a mixture of prisoners and military pe ...
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  30 January 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops’ appeal: The mental health of refugees and asylum seekers in Manus is exacerbated Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Despair, precarious state of health, self-harm: this is the context in which I found myself in Lorengau, on the island of Manus, and at the Pacific International Hospital (PIH) of Port Mor ...
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  23 January 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Laudato Sì Generation", from Papua to Panama Panama (Agenzia Fides) - An "ecological conversion" is urgent, that derives from a change of lifestyle, in Papua New Guinea and in the whole world. "Deforestation with the consequent climate change, mining without protec ...
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  3 January 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Church appeal: "Manus refugees await freedom" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The current situation of the almost 500 refugees on Manus island - which hosts the asylum seekers rejected by Australia - causes us great suffering. The refugees were brought back to Manus ...