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29 November 2007
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Professional training schools: boom of applications
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Schools and training schools are channels of charity through which the Catholic community Cambodia promotes socio-cultural of the young people, and therefore the nation, helping to build a so ...
29 November 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Reconciliation with North Korea ever nearer: this is the hope of the Catholic Church
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In South Korea there are growing hopes for national reconciliation and reunification with North Korea. The Catholic community does its part to assist the poverty stricken brothers and sisters in t ...
29 November 2007
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - First meeting of Special Commission for Great Continental Mission called by 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean last May in Aparecida
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Commission set up for the implementation of the Great Continental Mission called by 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean la ...
29 November 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - As tension rises in the country, the local Catholic Church calls national prayer campaign "For life and reconciliation among Bolivians ”
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Bolivia between government and opposition increases as strikes called in six of the country's nine regions continue. On Monday activists started a hunger strike against the President o ...
29 November 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - WYD, a turning point and new impulse to Youth Pastoral Care in Australia
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Australia's network of Catholic diocesan youth pastoral co-ordinators is working intensely in view of the 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney in July next year. The event is expected to have a major i ...
29 November 2007
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New Bishop of Bereina appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 29 November 2007, appointed as Bishop of Bereina (Papua New Guinea), Bishop Rochus Josef Tatamai, M.S.C., until now titular Bishop of Accia and Auxiliar ...
28 November 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - "With Jesus, history will never be the same again" , Mgr. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The personal story of every believer from the first real encounter with Jesus, undergoes a profound change, it will never be the same again: it becomes a story of salvation! It is no longer ...
28 November 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - “Indonesia, a country where interreligious dialogue works and bears fruit ” Interview with Jesuit Fr. Ignazio Ismartono SJ, coordinator Indonesian Bishops' Crisis and Reconciliation Service
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, interreligious dialogue works and bears fruit. Good relations between religious leaders have been consolidated and Christians are esteemed an ...
28 November 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Osservatore Romano interview with president of Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco: “A Church loved by her people in a country in need of systematic re-evangelisation” - Sr Teresa Karottukunnel, FMA and her work to help drug addicts in India: Interview - Cardinal Bertone attends Pontifical Lateran University academic act to mark 70th anniversary of new premises
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In Italia there is a Church which is not interested in the life of political parties or how politics are run, it desires simply to love and serve the people speaking out clearly and firmly, ...
28 November 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Abortion now the main cause of death in Spain
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is now the main cause of death in Spain" says Eduardo Hertfelder - President of the Spanish Family Policy Institute (IPF) - in the presentation of a report "Abortion in Spain: 21 years ...
28 November 2007
AFRICA/RWANDA - Cardinal Dias presides Mass to close Jubilee Year for the 25th anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Kibeho
Kibeho (Agenzia Fides) - Today 28 November, in Kibeho (Rwanda), in the diocese of Gikongoro, there were important celebrations to mark the end of a special Jubilee Year on the occasion of the first apparition of the Bles ...
28 November 2007
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Africa suffers effects of other continents' greenhouse gas emissions: Mozambique responds with solar panels
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialised countries threaten Africa, the continent which contributes less to global warming. This was stated by the United Nations Development Programme in a repor ...
28 November 2007
AFRICA - Temporary trade agreement signed between European Union and Community of East African Countries
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- A temporary trade agreement has been reached between the European Union and the Community of East African Countries which includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The new agreement s ...
28 November 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Musharraf resigns as army chief, country looks towards elections, religious minorities hope for a change in electoral laws
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The political and institutional situation in Pakistan continues to evolve. Today 28 November General Pervez Musharraf handed over his position as Army Chief to Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, until now vic ...
28 November 2007
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops say Budapest Treaty: "must be interpreted according to Costa Rican law so as to respect the dignity of the human person or the inviolable right to life "
San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Costa Rica have expressed concern with regard to the Budapest Treaty and the approval of a Bill entitled "Costa Rica joins the Budapest Treaty on the International Reco ...
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