OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church is a community of mercy, also on the web
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - The "e-conference" mainly discussed the global phenomenon of migration recently organized by the Broken Bay Institute, in the eponymous Australian dioceses, an institute specialized in online c ...
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mercy travels in eConference
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Mercy: a way of being in the world" is the title of the new eConference (web conference) organized for September 20 by Broken Bay Institute, in the eponymous Australian dioceses, specialized in ...
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Former Vietnamese refugee new Bishop of Parramatta
Parramatta (Agenzia Fides) - "I have made many leaps of faith in my life" said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Long Van Nguyen, who fled Vietnam in 1975 among the "boat people" who fled the country on makeshift boats to Australia. ...
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OCEANIA/MARIANA ISLANDS - Appointment of the Bishop of Chalan Kanoa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Ryan Jimenez as Bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa (Saipan), in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The newly-elected Bishop was born on 18 ...
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Birth of a new National Center for Evangelization
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Bishops have set up a new "National Center for Evangelization". As Fides learns by the Communications Office of the Bishops Conference, the announcement was given on June 2 by the ...