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15 June 2007
VATICAN - “The Divine Liturgy a channel of Mission”, Chrysostomos II receives honorary Doctorate in Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 14 June, at the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Urban University there was a ceremony to confer an Honorary Doctorate in Missiology to His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Primate of the ...
15 June 2007
VATICAN - “Benedict XVI in Assisi: announce with St Francis the simplicity of the Gospel in a complex world ”. A contribution by Fr. Pietro Messa, OFM
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 June the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the conversion of Saint Francis. Fides gives below an ample co ...
15 June 2007
VATICAN - “Faced with secularisation, the proliferation of sects and the poverty of so many brothers and sisters it is urgent to form communities united in faith, like the Holy Family of Nazareth”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Council of Administration of the Populorum Progressio Foundation
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Since my beloved predecessor John Paul II created the Populorum Progressio Foundation, entrusting the responsibility to the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the latter has devoted itself to ...
15 June 2007
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - St John of God Foundation will promote network of solidarity and healthcare: first campaign in aid of Angolan children victims of anti-personnel land mines and polio
Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Order of Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God on June 12, launched its own St John of God Foundation to raise funds and work in the field of healthcare with other Foundations and NGOs. St J ...
15 June 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spain is the ninth country to allow therapeutic cloning: “Human cloning, whatever the end, is always and from every point of view anti-ethical and deplorable. We stand before an unimaginable path and sadly we do not know where it will lead us ”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish parliament approved on 14 June a Law on bio-medical research which encourages and regulates “therapeutic cloning” in view of the supposed 'benefits' and 'improvement' of public he ...
15 June 2007
AFRICA - The abolition of the death penalty in Africa: scheda
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- In Africa the death penalty has been abolished in 14 countries: Angola, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Tome e Principe, Rwanda, Seyc ...
15 June 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Gaza: dramatic report from Caritas Jerusalem. “ The streets, rooftops, and even the hospitals have been turned into battlefields and most people are too afraid to go out”
Gaza (Agenzia Fides)-“The medical personnel cannot leave home. My children are so afraid. We keep hearing explosions and shooting …there is fighting everywhere”. This is the dramatic testimony from Dr Bandalay El-S ...
15 June 2007
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Preparation for 1st National Mission Congress in May 2008 “Parish, a missionary community"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Salvador will hold its 1st National Mission Congress next year 16 - 18 May on the theme "The Parish, a missionary community" with the slogan "Missionary Parish without Frontie ...
15 June 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Bhopal and appoints successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 15 June 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bhopal (India), presented by Archbishop Paschal Topno, S.J., in ...
14 June 2007
VATICAN - “Still today Eusebius of Cesarea calls believers, calls us, to be speechless, to contemplate the great works of God in history for the salvation of mankind. And just as energetically he calls us to conversion of life”: the Holy Father's Audience teaching
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Eusebius, Bishop of Cesarea in Palestine, where he was born in about the year 260AD, can be considered “the most qualified exponent of Christian culture of his day in many different conte ...
14 June 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The “Missionary world” 50 years since the publication of the Encyclical Fidei donum by Pius XII, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we put God to one side “in the name of things more important ” such as major social questions, “it is precisely these supposedly more important things that come to nothing. It is n ...
14 June 2007
VATICAN - “Benedict XVI goes to Assisi to announce with St Francis the simplicity of the Gospel in a complex world”. Tomorrow Fides will publish an ample contribution by Fr. Pietro Messa
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 June the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the conversion of Saint Francis. Tomorrow Fides will publish a ...
14 June 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Testimony of martyrs who died while forgiving, a great sign of hope: 498 Spaniards martyred in the 1930s to be beatified in Rome on 28 October
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification of 498 Spaniards martyred for love of Jesus Christ during religious persecution in the 1930s will take place in Rome on 28 October this year. The beatification was announced by ...
14 June 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Official report on 50 years of Fidei Donum priests in Italy to be presented at 4th National Meeting for Directors and Collaborators of Diocesan Mission Centres
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “They will go out and preach everywhere on a mission without frontiers. ” is the title of the 4th National Meeting for Directors and Collaborators of Diocesan Mission Centres
To be held in 17 ...
14 June 2007
AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan, UN and AU agree to deploy 19,000 peacekeepers in Darfur
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Sudan has reached an agreement with the African Union and the United Nations Organisation to deploy a 'hybrid' peace-keeping force in the western Darfur region devastated by civil war since 2003 ...
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