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4 December 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Associations of French speaking and English speaking Bishops' Conferences of West Africa, about to merge: meeting in Nigeria
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The associations of French speaking and English speaking Bishops conferences of west Africa, up to now two distinct bodies have decided to merge.
During a Meeting 5 to 9 December in Abuja, in Nig ...
4 December 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - St Joseph's Major Seminary in Yangon celebrates 50th Jubilee with ordination of 34 deacons
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - For fifty years it has formed young priests for the local Church: St Joseph's Major Seminary in Yangon recently celebrated its golden Jubilee with a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist preside ...
4 December 2007
ASIA/CHINA - “Renewing knowledge of the Christian life” was the theme of a retreat organised by Yang Jia Pu parish in the diocese of Tai Yuan
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Over 200 Catholics from the parish of Yang Jia Pu, in the diocese of Tai Yuan, took part in a retreat on the theme “ Renewing knowledge of the Christian life ” given by the parish priest R ...
4 December 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New John Paul II Life and Family Centre opened in Brisbane
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - A new John Paul II Centre for the Family and Life was recently opened by Archbishop John Bathersby in Brisbane. The Centre will deal with issues regarding life and the family, research sand stu ...
4 December 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuela rejects constitutional reform: this 'no' means 'no' to hatred, division, clashes and 'yes' to peace and reconciliation
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Contrary to forecasts, in Sunday's referendum in Venezuela 'no' votes won by a small majority: votes against the reform were 2% higher than those in favour. The voting took place in a climate of ...
4 December 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops of Durango province call citizens to "protect life and work with firmness and conviction to ensure every human person has access not only to a better quality of life but a life worthy of the children of God ”
Durango (Agenzia Fides) - In a message issued at the end of their fifth meeting the Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Durango assume the commitment for renewal launched by the 5th General Conference of the Counc ...
4 December 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Service of tele-translation for foreigners at hospitals in the Canary Islands
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Canary Islands health service plans to provide a new tele-translation service in the Island's 8 hospitals and 31 clinics to communicate with patients in 49 languages. This new service offered b ...
3 December 2007
The Pope's missionary prayer intention for December: “That the Incarnation of the Son of God, which the Church celebrates at Christmas, may help the peoples of Asia recognise Jesus as the One sent by God, the only Saviour of the world ” Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Our mission is to re-propose the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God and son of man, to the world, for a future of peace, love and justice. With these words pronounced a year ago Cardi ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Man and the world need God- the true God! - otherwise they cannot hope. Science does much for the good of humanity - undoubtedly - but it cannot save it.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the first Sunday of Advent, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his reflection before the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the significance of the Advent Season wh ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit Hospital San Giovanni Battista: “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will we will experience the power of his love”
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will, we will experience the power of His love. Hospitals and nursing homes, precisely because the inmate ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent “Advent is a favourable time for rediscovering hope, not vague or false, but certain and confident, since it is ‘anchored’ in Christ, God made man, the rock of our salvation”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope. Every year this fundamental attitude of the spirit is rekindled in the hearts of Christians as they prepare to celebrate the great feast of ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs: “What is needed, in fact, is a spirit of solidarity conducive for promoting as a body those ethical principles which, by their very nature and their role as the basis of social life, remain non-negotiable”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To express gratitude and appreciation for what they do collaborating actively with Papal Representatives at Interantional Organisations and render still closer and more effective this share ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - On the feast of St Francis Xavier, Fides is 80 years old
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides News Service of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started its activity in December 1927 immediately after the feast of the Patron Saint of the missions, St Francis Xa ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - “You were told, but I tell you…” -intervention on Christian-Jewish dialogue by Prof. Michele Loconsole
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ You have heard how it was said…but I say to you…”, these famous words of Jesus are recurrent in his earthly preaching, especially with regard to the Jewish religious leaders; and ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Blog by Andrea Tornielli: The Encyclical on Christian Hope - Blog by Luigi Accattoli: Benedict and the self-critique of modern Christianity - Marco Tosatti: In his Encyclical the Pope writes his own divine comedy. - Palazzo apostolico.it: Ratzinger's encyclical, between the hereafter and hope. An Oblate in Thai prisons
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical on Christian Hope: Not elements of the cosmos, the laws of matter which definitively government the world and man, but a personal God who governs the starts, that is the uni ...
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