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26 April 2007
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Liturgy is essentially adoration,
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis recalls that there exists an intrinsic relationship between eucharistic celebration and eucharistic adoration, which, immediat ...
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26 April 2007
VATICAN - The Pope's catechesis at the general audience: Origen reminds us “through prayerful reading of Scripture and consistent commitment in life, the Church is ever new, ever young ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Origen of Alexandria, “a personage who was determinant for the development of all Christian thought ”, was the subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose for his catechesis during ...
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26 April 2007
AFRICA/GHANA - “We continue to preach the Gospel following the example of the first missionaries” at the end of Evangelisation Centenary celebrations Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga speaks to Fides
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of celebrations for the Centenary of Evangelisation in northern Ghana (see Fides 21 and 23 April 2007), Fides spoke with the local Catholic Bishop Lucas Abadamloora who is in charge of ...
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26 April 2007
ASIA/ EAST TIMOR - The country needs peace and harmony in the context of important elections: Catholic Church launches programme of education to reconciliation for young people
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The urgency is reconciliation at home in East Timor and abroad in relations with West Timor still a province of Indonesia. With this awareness the local Church in East Timor has launched a new prog ...
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26 April 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Delegation visits North Korea: co-operation for development agreement spells well for future of peace
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Relations north-south in the sector of humanitarian aid and co-operation for development continue along a track of reciprocal collaboration which spells well for national reconciliation among the ...
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26 April 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - Vocations Week 2007 to ask the Lord to increase the numbers of consecrated persons and the energy and perseverance of those who have already responded to the call
Santiago ( Fides Service) - In view of the "World Day of Prayer for Vocations" next Sunday 29 April, 4th Sunday of Easter, on Monday 23 April the Church in Chile began its annual Vocation Week. To mark the occasion Bi ...
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26 April 2007
VATICAN - Stronger partnership on Climate Change between the United Kingdom and the Vatican
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his address at the international Conference on Climate Change and Development (see Fides 24/4/2007) organised by the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Cardinal Re ...
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26 April 2007
EUROPE/GEORGIA - Camillian Fathers organise Centre for psychic and physical rehabilitation of persons with disability
Tbilisi (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the extreme poverty of most families in Georgia, persons with a physical or psychic disability are completely abandoned and seen as a burden.
To alleviate the suffering of these persons ...
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26 April 2007
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Education to Life Seminar for young people and families
Honiara (Fides Service) - Recently young people and families in Honiara were invited to take part in an Education to Life Seminar organised by the Honiara Diocesan Association for Life and the Family. Besides many young ...
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25 April 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives in audience the president of the Palestinian Authority.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 24 April the Holy See Press Office published the following communiqué on the Pope's audience with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), president of the Palestinian Authority. "This morning, the H ...
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25 April 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Norwegian (2)
THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In two centuries Christianity spread throughout Norway thanks to contact and trading with Christian Europe and missionaries who came from England, Germany and Denmark.
At the beginning of ...
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25 April 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Cast your nets on the side of mercy ” by Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “3Simon Peter said, 'I'm going fishing.' They replied, 'We'll come with you.' They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night. 4When it was already light, there stood Je ...
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25 April 2007
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa, rivalry, extremism and disputed oil, an explosive mixture
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tension rises in the Horn of Africa where regional rivalry, fundamentalism and interests in real or presumed local oil resources on the part of major world powers, have produced and explosive cockt ...
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25 April 2007
AFRICA - Another 2.4 million jobs a year are needed to halve poverty by 2015
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Another 2.4 million new jobs must be created every year in Africa to reach one of the UN's Millennial Development Goals by 2015. This was affirmed in a report by the International Labour Organisatio ...
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25 April 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Baptised at the venerable age of 114: great rejoicing in Hsing Chu diocese
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - When Bishop Luke Liu Hsien-Tang Bishop emeritus of the diocese of Hsing Chu, poured the blessed water on the head of Miss Xu Song Re Ai who is 114 years old the people present burst into warm ap ...
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