Oceania
30 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Palm Sunday in 13 Australian cities with the banner of peace, non violence and disarmament
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer and watching, colourful parades, words and songs for peace and non-violence and universal brotherhood: all over Australia Palm Sunday will be a great day for peace. The country’s 13 prin ...
27 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Local Church talks with Federal Government about opening Catholic schools to ensure high-school education for Aboriginal youth
Sydney (Fides Service) - With criticism mounting over the number of Indigenous students missing out on high school education, the Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell, said that the local Church is negotiating with ...
26 March 2007
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Catholics ready to welcome World Youth Day Symbols, the Cross and the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholic Church in Solomon Islands is preparing to welcome the symbols of World Youth Day. The World Youth Day Cross accompanied by the Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary which started a ...
16 March 2007
OCEANIA/REPUBLIC OF FIJI - Fiji’s civil society and 15 other Pacific Forum member countries call for elections to restore peace and harmony after the military coup last December
Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The country needs elections to restore harmony, peace and respect for human rights. Foreign ministers of the 16-member Pacific Island Forum have called on Fiji’s military regime to return the nat ...
15 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne condemns introduction of law to allow “therapeutic” cloning of human embryos
Melbourne (Fides Service) -The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Archbishop Dennis Hart has condemned an announcement by the first minister of Victoria that the state government will introduce a law modelled on a recent f ...
13 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Muslim and non Muslim Australians in dialogue at Old Parliament House, Cardinal George Pell Archbishop of Sydney was there
Canberra (Fides Service) - To discuss the place of Muslims in Australia some 340 non Muslim and 40 Muslim Australians were chosen from a representative sample of 1,400 Australians to take part in a 2 day meeting at Old P ...
12 March 2007
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Catholics mourn Marist missionary Bishop Gerard Francis Loft who died a month ago in his native New Zealand
Honiara (Fides Service) - “Jesus said to Simon Peter: do not be afraid from now on you will be fishers of men” (Lk 5, 11). This promise made by Jesus after the “miraculous catch of fish”, was fulfilled in the lif ...
7 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “We are One and we are Many”: archdiocese of Adelaide focuses Lenten Programme on Multi-Cultural richness
Adelaide (Fides Service) - The society of Adelaide, the principal city of South Australia, is markedly multi-cultural with various generations of emigrants from many different European and Asian countries, and the local ...
6 March 2007
OCEANIA/TAHITI - Many young Polynesians need to know more about Jesus and his message of happiness and hope.: mission during Lent, dedicated this year to evangelising young people and helping the poor
Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - “Too many Christians live Lent absentmindedly…their minds are more concerned with other things” Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath of Papeete, Tahiti, writes in a local Catholic periodical La Se ...
3 March 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - 500 Days to World Youth Day, group registration now open. Carpenters busy making 500,000 little copies of WYD Cross for distribution to participants
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - March 2007: With 500 days to go until the start of World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia 2008 (WYD08), organisers have announced a package of measures for international pilgrims.The measures inclu ...
23 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Directors Pontifical Mission Societies in Oceania aim to increase mission awareness among young people in view of WYD 2008 and consider a 1st Mission Congress hosted by Oceania
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To share experience, impressions and ideas, intensify contact: in this spirit Father Terry Bell, National Director of Catholic Mission Australia, Father Paul Shannahan (New Zealand), Father Nick ...
19 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Every Day with Jesus”: Brisbane archdiocese proposes multi media resource Lent preparation programme for all age groups
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - Every Day with Jesus is the title of a 2007 Lent to Pentecost programme made available by the Catholic archdiocese of Brisbane to encourage the faithful to spend a little time every day with Je ...
17 February 2007
OCEANIA - The role of Catholic media in the Pacific area
Melbourne (Fides Service) - Catholic media can play an important role to help alleviate social economic and political crisis in various part of the Pacific. This emerged from a Seminar in Melbourne for Church representat ...
16 February 2007
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Sisters of Mary Help of Christians open first community to help in the field of youth pastoral for girls
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholic women religious in Solomon Islands recently increased with the arrival of three Sisters of Mary Help of Christians called to open a new local community. Sr. Sialei Taofino ...
15 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cardinal George Pell present at the opening of Australia’s first Catholic Crematorium
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Australia’s first Catholic crematorium was opened in Sydney with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney. The project includes a Catholic chapel and crematorium, condole ...
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