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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, ...
31 May 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict at the general Audience: in the writings of Tertullian “we find numerous themes which still today we are called to face. They involve us in a rich interior quest to which I exhort all the faithful ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing along the gallery of great figures of the early Church Pope Benedict XVI devoted his teaching at the Wednesday general audience on 30 May to Tertullian, known as the African, ...
31 May 2007
VATICAN - The Holy See and the United Arab Emirates establish Diplomatic Relations
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A communique made public today announced that the Holy See and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), "being desirous of promoting bonds of mutual friendship and of strengthening international coo ...
31 May 2007
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Authentic participation in the Liturgy
Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - So far we have reflected on the sense of authentic participation in the Liturgy. The Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis dedicates a conspicuous part to the subject because it has b ...
31 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary- «Meryemana»: the House of Mary at Ephesus
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Gospels we read that shortly before he died on the cross Jesus entrusted his Mother Mary to the care of St John the evangelist. John is said to have taken the Blessed Virgin Mother w ...
31 May 2007
AFRICA/GABON - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal della Ivan Dias is visiting Gabon on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of a pastoral visit to the country by Pope John Paul II
Libreville (Fides Service)- Today Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples arrives in Gabon where he will take part in celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of a pastoral visi ...
31 May 2007
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Bishop of Bukavu fears new outbreak of war in east Congo
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “A psychosis of war pervades our villages”. This alarm was launched by the Catholic Archbishop of Bukavu in the east of Democratic Congo, Archbishop François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo, in a letter ...
31 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL -5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “This Conference must give powerful impulse for renewal in Church all over Latin America, centred on Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life ": conversation with Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela
Aparecida (Fides Service) - After twenty intense days work at the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Archbi ...
31 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida: The principal purpose of the Conference is to make the Church community more missionary, with a renewal of pastoral and missionary impulse in the particular Churches: summary of Final Document
Aparecida (Fides Service) - "The Bishops gathered for the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean here at the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in the spirit of a ' ...
31 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - Message to the Peoples of Latin America and Mass of thanksgiving bring to conclusion 20 intense days of reflection
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - On May 31st the reading of a Message to the Peoples of Latin America and a solemn Mass of thanksgiving marked the conclusion of the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conference ...
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