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4 June 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - “We urge you all to prepare to undertake the Great Continental Mission, to go out to those most distant from the Church and to take up the challenge to re-evangelise the baptised more deeply ”: Message from Mexican delegation at Aparecida
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A call to "renew the fire of the Holy Spirit to experience a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ and, as disciples follow Him with constancy and dynamism" was launched by the Mex ...
4 June 2007
VATICAN - ASIA/INDONESIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Atambua and appoints Successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Atambua (Indonesia) presented by Bishop Anton Pain Ratu, S.V.D., in c ...
4 June 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope creates diocese of Shendam and appoints first Bishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June 2007 created the diocese of Shendam (Nigeria), with territory taken from the archdiocese of Jos, making it suffragan of the same archdiocese. T ...
4 June 2007
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - World Youth Day Cross and Icon of Our Lady Oceania tour: Tonga and Fiji Islands
Suva (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day Cross accompanied by the Icon of Our Lady Mother of Wisdom continue to tour Oceania. After bringing encouragement and joy to Catholics in Solomon Islands, a country which was hard ...
2 June 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Sunday 2007: "All the Churches for all the World"
Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below the text of the Message of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for the 81st World Mission Sunday celebrated on the penultimate Sunday in the month of October, this year Sunday ...
1 June 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI closes the month of May: “We pray for all Christians that with St Paul they may say: ‘the love of Christ urges us on', and with Mary's help may they spread the dynamism of charity throughout the world ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Vatican Gardens in the evening of 31 May, the Feast of the Visitation, the traditional procession with the recitation of the Rosary made its way from the little ancient church of St ...
1 June 2007
VATICAN - June, the Month of the Sacred Heart: Saint Margherita Maria Alacoque
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque or Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (22 July 1647-17 October 1690) was a French Catholic nun and mystic, who originated the Catholic devotion of the Sacred Hear ...
1 June 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Madrid with its Missionaries”: 22 missionaries will receive mission cross and mission mandate from the hands of Cardinal Rouco Varela
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Trinity Sunday, 3 June, in Spain is the day of 'Madrid with its Missionaries' . This year's theme "Diocesan Church…leave your land" intends to express the nature of the Church and her mystery a ...
1 June 2007
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Catholic Bishop receives award for commitment in the field of health care and the struggle to eradicate illegal sale of medicines
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- A Catholic Bishop in Congo has received an important award in teh field of healthcare. Bishop Fidèle Nsielele of the diocese of Kisantu, was awarded the “Galien d'honneur” by Congolese phar ...
1 June 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishops Message for Environment Day 2007
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Safeguard and respect Creation a gift of God: in this spirit the Korean Bishops' Commission of Justice and Peace issued a message for national Environment Day 2007 June 5.
The Message invites al ...
1 June 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Praying for Peace at “Harmony Centres”: dialogue for peace in the Philippines and in the world
Zamboanga City (Fides Service) - Every Sunday in the poor Pitogo district of Zamboanga, in Mindanao, a group of mothers gather with the children for a special prayer meeting based on a passage of the Holy Scriptures and ...
1 June 2007
ASIA/INDIA - New Youth Formation Centre in diocese of Mangalore
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The local Catholic community in India continues to provide education and professional training all over the country. A new Youth Formation Centre was recently opened by Bishop Aloysius D’Sou ...
1 June 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Christian values promote happy marriages and happy family life: Feng Xi parish in diocese of Tai Yuan hosts Meeting for Faith and Life Sharing
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus teaching, Christian values help us to life a happy family life and be witnesses of a lived Gospel”. This emerged from a three day Meeting for Faith and Life Sharing organised by Feng ...
1 June 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We convoke our brothers and sisters to unite with enthusiasm to take part in the Great Continental Mission which must reach everyone and be permanent and profound ”: Final Message to the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of the Conference in Aparecida, with the power of the Holy Spirit we convoke all our brothers and sisters to unite with enthusiasm to take part in the Great Continental Mission. It ...
1 June 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We leave this holy place charged with a great missionary task: Go and announce the Gospel to all peoples, every ambit of society and all cultures "
Aparecida (Fides Service) - 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida closed on 31 May with the approval of the Final Document with 127 votes in favour, ...
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