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13 November 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Over 60,000 Catholics took part in the Eucharistic procession at Shillong, in Meghalaya state, Northeast India: “We come to worship You Jesus”
Shillong (Agenzia Fides) - Over 60,000 Catholics took part in the Eucharistic procession at Shillong, the State Capital of Meghalaya, in Northeast India on Sunday, November 12, 2006. " Ngi wan ban mane ia Me Jisu" ('We c ...
13 November 2006
VATICAN - The Pope in his midday Angelus reflection recalls that Jesus wishes everyone to feel responsible for others so that each and all have the necessary for life. The fruits of the earth are God’s gift to the whole human family… Thanksgiving Day in Italy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Sunday 12 November was Thanksgiving Sunday in Italy and in his Angelus address the Pope Benedict XVI said this recurrence was an opportunity “thank God for the fruits of work in the field ...
13 November 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Journey to Turkey at the end of the month: Holy See issues programme
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See’s Press Office has issued the programme for Pope Benedict XVI apostolic journey to Turkey 28 November to 1 December.
On Tuesday 28 November the Pope will depart at 9am fro ...
13 November 2006
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Oil is non renewable, it must serve for the common good with an eye on the future for the coming generations says Catholic Archbishop of Abuja
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church in Nigerian has sided with transparency and honesty in the management of oil and demands that it be used for the authentic development of the country. Archbishop John Onaiyekan ...
13 November 2006
ASIA/HOLY LAND - As in the Middle Ages on the road to Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago: “Holy Cities” Mediterranean pilgrimage to revive Christian faith
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Santiago de Compostela, Rome and Jerusalem have always been connected by Christian pilgrims. In the Middle Ages Christians set out to walk the length and breadth of the continent along the per ...
13 November 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops say frank and honest dialogue and a spirit of reconciliation is needed to overcome present fragmentation. They also say new education law must cater for transcendent dimension of the human person and respect parent’s right to decide how children are educated
Pilar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Argentina have called for “frank dialogue involving all society in order to end excessive present fragmentation”. In a statement “Common Good and Dialogue", issued b ...
13 November 2006
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops’ statement on emigration, municipal elections and the nation’s new Constitution
Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Paraguay at the end of their 177th plenary assembly in Asunción, issued a statement in which they analyse some of the country’s principal problems in order "to expre ...
13 November 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Prison Fellowship Week of Prayer for victims and perpetrators of violence
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- Prison inmates all over Malawi offered prayers for the victims of violence during a Week of Prayer in Prisons held 6- 13 November organised by the Malawi Prison Fellowship.
“The Week of Pray ...
13 November 2006
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Attacks on civilians are deplorable, international bodies and local Catholic Church condemn conflict in Sri Lanka
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - “Blatant attacks on civilians, by any of the parties to this conflict, are deplorable. An immediate and solemn resumption of peace talks between the warring parties is the only way to prevent ...
11 November 2006
Instrumentum mensis Octobris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
In the month of October the Church celebrated the 80th World Mission Sunday. «Mission Sunday - Pope Benedict XVI said during the Angelus on Sunday 22 October - was instituted by Pope Pius XI who gave new impulse to mi ...
10 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 October 2006 appointed a new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy for a fiv ...
10 November 2006
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Disciples and Missionaries Evangelisation Campaign 2006 opens on Sunday 26 November at the Shrine of Aparecida
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual Evangelisation Campaign 2006 will start on 26 November Feast of Christ the King, and close on the third Sunday of Advent 17 December with a nation-wide special collection. In line wi ...
10 November 2006
AMERICA/CANADA - “Changing the definition of marriage involves a repudiation of millennia of history and experience”: Declaration on Marriage signed by 40 religious leaders of different faiths
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - About 40 religious leaders of different faiths signed a Declaration on Marriage to be presented to Parliament and society in general in the present national debate on the subject. “We, each fro ...
10 November 2006
VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr Massimo Camisasca: The Priest: a man of God at the service of others
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A vocation to the priesthood is first of all God taking the initiative in our life. This means that more than anything else the priest is a ‘man of God’: a man chosen by God . However ...
10 November 2006
VATICAN - Representatives from Catholic Universities all over the world in Rome for International Conference on University and Catholic Social Doctrine
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The realisation of a new integral humanism open to transcendence which is the essential finality of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, is not foreign, indeed it connatural with the ...
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