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12 December 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “For Christmas give World Youth Day to a young person in a poor country ”, WYD voucher campaign
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - A lovely Christmas gift would be to make a contribution to help young people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania with scarce economic resources take part in the 23rd World Youth Day event in ...
12 December 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Water programme in Rwanda: movement to fight world hunger to build aqueduct in Gicumbi district
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the world today 400 million minors, an average of one in five in the south of the world have no access to clean water. The situation is most serious in Sub-Saharan Africa where in countries such ...
11 December 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI 's Message for World Day for Peace 2008: “The human family, a community of peace”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today the Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for World Day for Peace to be celebrated 1 January 2008, of which the theme is “The human family, a community of peace”. ...
11 December 2007
VATICAN - Concrete ways of mission: evangelisation, inculturation, implantatio of the Church (part one) - Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Missionary activity consists essentially in evangelisation, in the light of the principle of inculturation among people and groups who do not yet believe in Christ. Paul VI underlined the p ...
11 December 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops Pro-Life and Family Day message: "Only a Christian family with a strong identity can hand on the faith and be a shining sign of truth, goodness and beauty” 30 December demonstration and Papal TV Message
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Our homeland is in heaven" is the title of a Message issued by the Spanish Bishops' Commission for the Family and Life in view of the Pro-Life and Family Day on 30 December.
The Bishops expl ...
11 December 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops' Conferences of West Africa form New Association at last: first president Cardinal Turkson, Archbishop of Cape Coast
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Cardinal Peter Turkson, Archbishop of Cape Coast, in Ghana, is the first president of the Association of Bishops' Conferences of West Africa, a fusion of the new Association which is an amalgamatio ...
11 December 2007
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - “Formation is the key to democratic stability in Congo” head of Bukavu diocesan Justice and Peace Commission tells Fides
Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)- “Our democracy is still young and fragile, but rich in opportunities for growth. Do not discourage us if we make mistakes, rather, at critical moments help us ” says Fr Justin Nkunzi, head of ...
11 December 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Several churches restructured or newly built reopen for worship
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to information collected by Fides in October and November in mainland China several churches were consecrated and opened for worship. The churches had either been restructured or newly bu ...
11 December 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack Catholic church under construction in Delhi: local Church shocked and saddened
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There is nothing left only ruins. On 5 December about 150 Hindu extremists razed to the ground the Church of Divine Mercy in the Delhi area, still under construction, provoking shock and sadne ...
11 December 2007
ASIA/BANGLADESH - In the wake of cyclone Sidr a Bishop says: “We are making every effort to help the homeless but more international aid is needed
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - “We are doing our best to help the homeless in the wake of cyclone Sidr. We offer help and comfort to all those in need without distinction”, says Bishop Bejoy D’Cruze, OMI, of the diocese o ...
11 December 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - Seven million pilgrims expected for feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mgr Monroy Ponce: "the event offers the sons and daughters of Mexico and all America an opportunity to realise they are brothers and sisters”
Guadalupe (Agenzia Fides) - All is ready for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe patroness of Mexico and all America on 12 December, the date of the first apparition 476 years ago, to Juan Diego, canonised by the Servant ...
11 December 2007
AMERICA/CANADA - Bishops issue pastoral Message for National Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples: “your Amerindian and Inuit traditions permit the development of new ways of expressing the message of salvation"
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Catholic Aboriginal Council for Reconciliation issued a message for the 5th National Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples, in which it r ...
11 December 2007
OCEANIA/TONGA - First Tonga born Salesian priest: seed of evangelisation
Nuku’alofa (Agenzia Fides) - The charisma of don Bosco is spreading in Oceania. After years of evangelisation and vocation promotion, discernment and spiritual counselling, Salesians in Oceania are celebrating the Ord ...
10 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope's Angelus reflection: Saint John the Baptist “ urges us to prepare the way for the Lord who comes to the deserts of today, outward and inward deserts thirsting for Christ, the living water”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of John the Baptist was to “prepare and make even the way for the Messiah, and to call the people of Israel to repent of their sins and set right all iniquity. With demanding ...
10 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope's Angelus on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception: “I think of young people today, growing up in an environment saturated with messages offering false models of happiness…they are in danger of losing hope because they often seem to be orphans of true love”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “On our journey of Advent there shines the star of Immaculate Mary… To reach Jesus, authentic light, the sun who has dissipated the shadows of history, we need lights which are close to ...
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