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20 December 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - During its 35th General Congregation starting 7 January the Society of Jesus will elect a new Superior General and discuss future apostolic challenges
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The General Curia of the Society of Jesus has announced that it will start its General Congregation on Monday 7 January. This will be the 35th General Congregation of the order founded in 1540. Mo ...
20 December 2007
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “I hope a strong populist line imitating Zimbabwe will not prevail ” says a missionary in South Africa
Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- “Corruption is widespread in South Africa and the new accusations against Zuma come as no surprise, except for the timing perhaps …” said a missionary in South Africa, where Mokotedi Mpshe ...
20 December 2007
ASIA/MONGOLIA - “Christmas of prayer and mission for Mongolia's 415 Catholics”, Bishop Wenceslao Padilla Prefect Apostolic, tells Fides
Ulanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Although December 25 is a working day in Mongolia, the small local Catholic community will celebrate Christmas with intense prayer and joy and missionary initiatives. Bishop Wenceslao Padill ...
20 December 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New on-line journal for Australian Catholic students in view of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Catholic Students Association has launched a new on-line edition of its two monthly journal New Springtime. The publication aims to be “a journal of faith, culture and society” ...
20 December 2007
AMERICA/PERU - Christmas message from Bishops' Conference president: “I call the country's governors to work together to guarantee citizens a worthy life and an environment of peace and serenity ”
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “In this season of Christ I wish to send greetings of peace and brotherhood to all who share our faith and to all men and women of goodwill" Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo Presi ...
20 December 2007
AFRICA/ DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rector appointed for Saint Jean-Baptiste Philosophy seminary in Bamanya
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 26 October 2007, appointed as Rector of Saint Jean-Baptiste major provincial theology Seminary in Bamany ...
20 December 2007
AFRICA/ DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - New rector for Saint Augustin Seminary in Kisangani
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 7 September 2007, appointed as Rector of Saint Augustin major inter-diocesan seminary for theology in t ...
19 December 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA: At Christmas you too can be born again! by Mgr Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is almost here and the Gospel urges us to prepare the way for the Lord who comes! What does this mean? Great Saint Augustine tells us that “preparing the way” is about being ...
19 December 2007
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - New Bishop of Aliwal appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2007, appointed as Bishop of Aliwal (South Africa) Rev. Michael Wüstenberg of the clergy of Hildesheim (Germany), fidei donum missionary, ...
19 December 2007
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Young Catholics in Solomons get a taste of World Youth Day
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - A moment of prayer, communion, sharing and celebration. For three days young Catholics in Solomons had a taste of World Youth Day. Some 200 young people from all over the islands took part in W ...
19 December 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - On the occasion of Christmas the Bishops ask to people to make “concrete gestures of reconciliation and dialogue” and to “intensify personal and community prayer ”
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In a Christmas message "Christmas of encounter, peace and hope” the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Venezuela thanks the people for “exemplary electoral day on 2 December…peaceful and happ ...
19 December 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - State of emergency lifted civil society reorganises in view of elections
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Pakistan has improved slightly. Tension has lessened since President Musharraf lifted the state of emergency on 16 December. Civil society is now reorganising in view of legis ...
19 December 2007
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Zuma's election as leader of the party in power marks a political turning point in South Africa, but there is uncertainty with regard to which way the country will go
Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- The ruling African National Congress has changed leadership and South Africa faces an uncertain political turning point. Jacob Zuma defeated head of state Thabo Mbeki, in elections for the party ...
18 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI to the Postulators of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: “The saints, if properly presented in their spiritual dynamism and their historic reality, help render the word of the Gospel and the mission of the Church more credible and inviting ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In recent decades we have seen growing religious and cultural interest for champions of Christian holiness who show the true face of te Church, the bride of Christ 'without spot or wrink ...
18 December 2007
VATICAN - Concrete modalities of mission: evangelisation, inculturation, implantatio of the Church (part two) - by Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - How to speak of God in this world which has led to the loss of values which are fundamental for the Christian? First of all we must take the path of the faith, only in this way can we show ...
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