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5 November 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Like a drop of water as it falls into the ocean
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The month of November opens with two Feast Days lived intensely by the Liturgy and by popular piety: All Saints and All Souls. These two feasts give depth to the month traditionally dedica ...
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5 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Amidst war and propaganda, Kivu continues to suffer; Kinshasa sends in the Mai Mai militia to fight rebels
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Nkunda's rebels have taken over Rutshuru (in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), where they are trying to give an impression of normality, allowing humanitarian aid to reach the local peop ...
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5 November 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Work, study, and rights: more space for aborigenes in Australian society
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Australia's society and government are taking important steps in favor of aboriginal minorities. There have been comforting signs in the last few months, which have been applauded by the many c ...
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4 November 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Mass for deceased Cardinals and Bishops: “In the face of death all reasons for human pride fall away, and what is really worthwhile emerges. Everything passes; all of us in this world are passing through. God alone has life in Himself; He is the Life.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The day after the Liturgical Commemoration of all souls, we have come together today, in accord with a beautiful tradition, to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for our brother Ca ...
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4 November 2008
VATICAN - Communique from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue on the First Seminar organized by the Catholic-Muslim Forum
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The First Seminar organized by the Catholic-Muslim Forum will begin this morning in the Vatican. The Forum was established by the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and by Musl ...
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4 November 2008
AFRICA/BENIN - Rector of the Philosophical Interdiocesan Seminary in the Diocese of Abomey appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 19, 2007 appointed Fr. Nicolas Hazoumé, of the clergy of the Diocese of Porto Novo, Rector ...
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4 November 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - PMS Youth Council participates in the Youth Ministry Forum, to analyze the situation over the past 50 years and challenges for the future
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – November 7-9, the Municipal Palace of Congresses in Madrid will host the Youth Ministry Forum, which will be attended by over 2,000 young people from all over Spain. The event is being organize ...
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4 November 2008
ASIA/INDIA - Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of Orissa, offering hope to persecuted Christians
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops from the Indian state of Orissa have written a letter of encouragement to all the faithful, offering hope to Christians there and thanking the international organizations that ...
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4 November 2008
ASIA/TAIWAN - PMS Seminar on “Creative Evangelization,” to renew hope in the Church of Taiwan
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – The living rooms become catechism classroom, the parish church hosts the children's choir, mathematics and literature can become instruments of evangelization as well...This is how Catholics i ...
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4 November 2008
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops launch a Great Continental Mission on November 9, feast of “La Virgen de los Treinta y Tres,” Patroness of Uruguay, while they celebrate their Plenary Assembly
Florida (Agenzia Fides) – The Uruguayan Bishops' Conference (CEU) will celebrate its Second Plenary Assembly on November 5-12, in the “Jesus, the Good Shepherd” Retreat House, in Florida. The central theme of the A ...
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4 November 2008
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Uruguayan Parliament votes on the law on reproductive health, with the partial decriminalization of abortion; Archbishop of Montevideo says “it is not a matter of religious beliefs, but of fundamental human and ethical values.”
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – The House of Representatives of the Uruguayan Parliament will vote today (November 4) on the eventual decriminalization of abortion, now that the bill has been passed by the Senate. In the ...
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4 November 2008
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Lay movement tied to Mother Teresa begins in the Philippines
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The Lay Missionaries of Charity, the lay movement of the spiritual family begun by Mother Teresa of Calcutta has begun in the Philippines. They have been started by the Philippines Province of ...
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4 November 2008
AFRICA/ERITREA - Capuchin Poor Clares are working closely alongside the people of Eritrea, in concrete aid and prayer
Asmara (Agenzia Fides) – In 1973, the Capuchin Fathers who had been present in Eritrea for some time, with a flourishing province, made a petition asking that a contemplative monastery of Capuchin Poor Clares be establ ...
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3 November 2008
VATICAN - On All Saints' Day, the Pope at the Angelus says: “On this day we feel the attraction for heaven rekindle in us...We feel burst into flame in our hearts the desire to unite ourselves forever with the family of the saints, of which already now we have the grace to form a part.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the Solemnity of All Saints, on Saturday November 1, in his address prior to the recitation of the Angelus with faithful gathered in Saint Peter's Square, the Holy Father Benedict XVI ...
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3 November 2008
VATICAN - The Pope tells the students of the Pontifical Universities: “What is harmful is not knowledge in itself but rather the presumption, the “boastfulness” of what we have come to - or believe we have come to - know. It is precisely in this that revolts and discord have come from within the Church and, analogously, in society.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – All that Saint Paul writes on Christian wisdom and “false wisdom,” especially in his First Letter to the Corinthians, addressing the communities where rivalries broke out among the di ...
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