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29 May 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics live month of May with special prayers, pilgrimages, witness of faith and charity work
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Month of May for Chinese Catholics, deeply devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, is always a deeply spiritual time. Favourite feast days include Our Lady Of Fatima, May 13, Our Lady of China o ...
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29 May 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Civil war is having disastrous effect on children humanitarian organisations warn
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Non declared but real civil war in Sri Lanka - with vast military operations on both sides - is having a disastrous effect on children according to local NGOs and UNICEF. The humanitarian o ...
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29 May 2007
ASIA - Global warming and scarcity of water intensify migration and refugee crisis Christian Aid Report
London (Agenzia Fides) - At least 1 billion people will be forced from their homes between now and 2050 as the effects of climate change deepen an already burgeoning global migration crisis, according to new report "Huma ...
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29 May 2007
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - President Josè Ramos Horta installed: the nation hopes for a new start
Dili (Fides Service) - East Timor's civil society, the Catholic community as well as international bodes hope the installation of the new president and approaching general elections will mark a new start and a future of ...
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29 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - Final week, 31 May official Message. International Eucharistic Congress next year wonderful impulse for Great Continental Mission
Aparecida (Fides Service) - The 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI in Aparecida, Brazil on 13 May is in its last stages this week: the f ...
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29 May 2007
AMERICA - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - The most important thing is for Aparecida to be an evangelising event to give new impulse to evangelisation…to make the light of the Gospel penetrate the hearts, structures and lives of Latin Americans”: interview with Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo, emeritus vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since he was young priest Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo has always been fascinated by the Catholic vitality and pastoral potential of the Churches in Latin America. Through the years he ha ...
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28 May 2007
VATICAN - “The Church is by nature missionary and since the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit never ceases to guide her along the roads of the world, to the ends of the earth, until the end of time” Pope Benedict XVI says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer on Pentecost Sunday
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The essential and qualifying traits of the Church" was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI's reflection at midday on Sunday 27 May the “great feast of Pentecost”, fifty days after Easte ...
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28 May 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Mozambique: “Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task”, Pope Ben ...
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28 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (4) : Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt
Vatican City (Fides Service) - CAMEROON: Shrine of Our Lady of the Apostles in Mvolye Hill in Yaoundé.
REPUBLIC OF CONGO. At Linzolo, at one of the first missions opened in 1883 by Spiritan Missionaries a few km from ...
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28 May 2007
AFRICA/ COTE D'IVOIRE - Orionini Fathers lay foundation stone for new Seminary at Anyama
Abidjan (Fides Service) - Saturday 26 May will be a day to remember for the Orionini family in Africa. In Cote D'Ivoire in Anyama the foundation stone was laid for a new Orionini seminary. The Congregation of Saint Luigi ...
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28 May 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Newly baptised Christians play major role at Pentecost; Pentecost charity party in Tai Pei park
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics received into the Church at Easter played a major part in liturgies on Pentecost Sunday in China, especially in Beijing. During a solemn Mass on Sunday 27 May the newly baptised receiv ...
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28 May 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Process of beatification for 36 servants of God missionaries in labour camps during the Korean War
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Order of St Benedict of Wagwan has announced the opening of a process of Beatification for 36 Servants of God who died in labour camps and prison camps in the years of the Korean War 1949 to 1 ...
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28 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We face the great challenge to rediscover marriage as a vocation of love and the sacrament of matrimony as the summit which elevates this calling of a man and a women ”: interview with the only married couple at the Conference
Aparecida (Fides Service) - Dr Luis Jensen and his wife Pilar Escudero de Jensen, are representing married couples at 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida. Th ...
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28 May 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Reconciliation Week: 40 years since referendum gave citizenship to indigenous Australians, full integration still long way off
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Some progress has been made in forty years but much remains to be done for full integration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians say indigenous leaders, heads of civil organisations, ...
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26 May 2007
VATICAN - A “short cut” to holiness for the priests of the third millennium: “Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort show us how to know, love and serve Our Lord with Mary as our Mother, Model and Guide ” - Testimony by Cardinal Ivan Dias
Dublin (Fides Service) - The “Treaty on true devotion to Mary”, written by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) at the beginning of 1700, although addressed to all Christians in general can be especially appl ...
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