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20 December 2006
VATICAN - LANGUAGE IN THE ROMAN RITE LITURGY: LATIN AND VERNACULAR - Keynote Address at Gateway Liturgical Conference, St Louis, Missouri, 11 November, 2006
Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below an address given by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, at Gateway Liturgical Conference, St Louis, M ...
20 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (10)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Son of Man. The prophet Daniel, deported to Babylon by King Nabucodonosor around 597 BC had this vision: “behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he c ...
20 December 2006
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Children For Creation - Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra” 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign to protect the environment and the future of Malagasy children
Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - “Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra: “Children for Creation” is the title of the 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign. In Bamberg, Baviera, on Friday 29 December about 1,500 children representative ...
20 December 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The embrace of Mary” by Rev Luciano Alimandi -
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the heart of Advent we find Mary! Two thousand years ago, at the fullness of time, the Word of God became a Child in the womb of the Virgin Mary, who “ab eterno” was known and loved ...
20 December 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Advent with the World Youth Day Cross
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “The cross and icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary which Pope John Paul II consigned to young people of the world at the end of the first World Youth Day in 1984 has arrived in Malawi” said Monf ...
20 December 2006
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “39,000 former guerrillas still waiting to be integrated in civil society” says UN report
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Until it has its own national security policy Liberia will have to rely on UN troops to guarantee protection for its citizens. This is the sense of a report recently presented to the UN Securit ...
20 December 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - ““I can only be holy if I am a missionary. I can only be a missionary if I am holy”.”: theme of 4th National Pontifical Mission Societies Mission Congress
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “I can only be holy if I am missionary. I can only be missionary if I am holy”. This was the theme of the 4th Pontifical Mission Societies Kenya National Mission Congress held in Nairobi fro ...
20 December 2006
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem in Christmas Message thanks friends and partners for support and solidarity in 39 years of serving and helping the needy
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - “Thank you for helping us to keep hope and our faith for a better tomorrow for the Holy Land” Caritas Jerusalem says in a message addressed to “Dear Friends” at the end of the 39th yea ...
20 December 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Speaking out the Truth, working against evil and injustice and replacing the sin in the world with love, justice and social equality is what Christmas is about”, says missionary Fr Shay Cullen involved in social assistance
Manila (Fides Service) - “The Kingdom of God is where justice is done, the poor have an equal share and no one suffers discrimination. This is the path Jesus walked, the one we strive to follow and it began in a stable ...
20 December 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards CAM 3: 3rd American Mission Congress has theme and slogan; continental competition for official poster and hymn
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations continue for the Third American Mission Congress, CAM 3, Fides is informed by CAM 3 Secretary Osvaldo Fierro Terán. The year 2007 will be important in preparation for CAM 3, due to b ...
20 December 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops of Patagonia-Comahue say all life must be protected and all children must be guaranteed adequate human and spiritual development
Patagonia-Comahue (Agenzia Fides) - In a Christmas Message the Catholic Bishops of the Argentinean region of Patagonia-Comahue, dioceses of Alto Valle, Comodoro Rivadavia, Neuquén, Río Gallegos, San Carlos de Bariloche ...
19 December 2006
VATICAN - At the Service of the Mysteries of Christ - Cardinal Francis Arinze gives Opening Address at a Colloquium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Institut Supérieur de Liturgie of the Institut Catholique de Paris, 26 October 2006
Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below an address given by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments at a Colloquium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of ...
19 December 2006
VATICAN - Saint Joseph: “Privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world” (2)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Joseph was about thirty years old when he took his cousin Mary aged 15, daughter of Anna and Joachim as his betrothed spouse. Both descendents of David, their marriage was probably arranged ...
19 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (9)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Good Shepherd. The Word of God is addressed to the prophet Ezekiel (chapter 34) against the shepherds of Israel who did not care for the flock which was prey to wild beasts. “Behold ...
19 December 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - It is more than ever necessary to rediscover the authentic sense of Christmas to calm the pain of the wounds and rebuild social tissue: Christmas Message from Archbishop of Oaxaca
Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - “Is it worth celebrating Christmas in the present situation?" Archbishop José Luis Chávez Botello of Antequera-Oaxaca (Mexico), and his auxiliary Bishop Oscar Campos Contreras, ask in a Chris ...
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