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22 December 2007
DIES NATALIS DOMINI NOSTRI IESU CHRISTI 2007
“Anyone who does not know God, even though he may entertain all kinds of hopes, is ultimately without hope,without the great hope that sustains the whole of life. Man's great, true hope which holds firm in spite of all disappointments can only be God-God who has loved us and who continues to love us 'to the end', until all is accomplished ”.(Spe salvi, 27)
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a Blessed Christmas and a happy New Year ...
21 December 2007
VATICAN - “You heard it said but I say to you…” - intervention by Prof. Michele Loconsole on: the “descendance” of Abraham and the children of the promise
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between Jews and Christians, in the light of Vatican II, and above all after John Paul II's visits to the Synagogue of Rome and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, had taken some signif ...
21 December 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - 22 December: Renewal in the Holy Spirit with the Community Papa Giovanni XXIII parade of prayer and solidarity for the victims of human trafficking and prostitution
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Renewal in the Holy Spirit (RnS) welcomes the parade of parade of prayer and solidarity for the victims of human trafficking and prostitution promoted by the Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XX ...
21 December 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - To be ordained at Christmas forty eight new priests of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ including first members from El Salvador and Singapore
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - After long years of preparation, 48 Legionaries of Christ will be ordained to the priesthood next Saturday, December 22, at 10:00 a.m. in the basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome.
These servants of ...
21 December 2007
OCEANIA/MARSHALL ISLANDS - Apostolic Prefect of Marshall Islands appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 21 December 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic of Marshal Islands, presented by Rev. Fr. James C. Gould, SJ., i ...
21 December 2007
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “It will be a Christmas of hope for peace and witness, a missionary in the north of Ivory Coast tells Fides
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “It will be a Christmas of hope for peace ” Fr Dino Dussin, PIME missionary in Ivory Coast tells Fides.
Fr. Dino, who serves a few villages around Bouaké, in central-northern Ivory Coast ...
21 December 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Great expectation in view of "Pro Christian Family event” on 30 December: "we must witness to what we believe in and what we experience at this crucial time when the family is seriously threatened in Spain and all over Europe” the Bishops say
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing expectancy all over Spain in view of the Pro Christian Family even to be held in Madrid on Sunday 30 December, Feast of the Holy Family. The event will coincide with the 25th ann ...
21 December 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Catholic Church offers a Christmas message of peace for the new year
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - “ Christmas depicts the birth of Jesus Christ and all of us need to receive God in our lives. Each of us should become agents of peace, love and reconciliation. For the people of goodwill, C ...
21 December 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “A Light comes into the world ” Korean Bishops' messages for Christmas 2007
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Light which comes to illuminate the world and God's love for the poorest and humblest people were the themes of Christmas messages issued by the Catholic Bishops of Korea. Jesus Christ comes t ...
21 December 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - For Iraqi Christians Christmas of hope and precariousness with growing numbers of displaced persons in the north
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi government has declared the Christian feast of Christmas December 25 a national holiday. This year, Christmas comes only a days after the Muslim feast of the Sacrifice. Although Iraqi ...
21 December 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops' Christmas Message and wishes to families “intensify the spirit as the cradle of life and love…and reaffirm commitment for peace and justice ”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico have urged to people to “reaffirm at Christmas commitment for peace and justice”, in response to Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Peace Day on 1 January 2008. ...
21 December 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops' Christmas Message: “Only honest and respectful dialogue which is learned in the family, will thwart the temptation to resort to violence and open the way for just solutions ”
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - “May the Child Jesus bless us with his grace, give peace to our hearts and lead us on the path of dialogue so that life in families and in society there may be more respect the dignity of eve ...
20 December 2007
VATICAN Benedict XVI addresses young members of Catholic Action Italy: “ God became man to show us the way, indeed becoming a child, he became himself the 'way' also for you children”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus is the way which leads to true life, life without end. It is a path which is often narrow and uphill but, if we let ourselves be drawn by Him, it is always wonderful like a mountai ...
20 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope's teaching: “We Christians must be the first to reaffirm with profound and genuine conviction the truth of the Nativity of Christ, to witness to all our awareness of an unheard of gift... the source of the duty to evangelise which is proper to the communication of this ‘good news"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his teaching at the general audience on Wednesday 19 December to the mystery of Christmas. “If on the one hand Christmas brings us to commemor ...
20 December 2007
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Sternsinger” Jubilee: for the 50th year running for half a million 50 Missionary Childhood boys and girls Christmas is a time for solidarity with their brothers and sisters around the world
Aachen (Fides Service) - For the 50th time around the 6th of January the feast of the Epiphany, German boys and girls, members of the German branch of the Pontifical Missionary Childhood Society Sternsinger, will take pa ...
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