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9 November 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Acceptance of the Magisterium
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Acts of the Apostles describe the extraordinary beauty of the early Christian communities, Chapter 2 verse 42: “These remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brother ...
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8 November 2006
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - 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 30 August 2006, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in New Zealand, for a f ...
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8 November 2006
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: ITALIAN - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus Christ was crucified and died on a cross on Friday 7 April in the year 30 and on the third day, Sunday 9 April, He rose again. Fifty days later the descent of His Holy Spirit began th ...
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8 November 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Rev. Luciano Alimandi - “Mary chooses the better part”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - I invite you to contemplate a while with me with the eyes of the heart the famous episode in Luke’s Gospel, of Jesus in the house of his friend Lazarus, where he converses with the sister ...
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8 November 2006
VATICAN - “Pontifical Mission Societies enter a new stage ... it is time to dedicate ourselves with greater effort to the consolidation of the PMS at the level of local Churches and the level of the respective countries”: PMS President Archbishop Hoser opens Special November Meeting
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The special November Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies opened this morning in Rome with a welcoming address by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisat ...
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8 November 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - “Curbing global warming is a question of justice because the most affected people are the poor” Christian leaders say in a statement to 12th UN Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - ““We pray that the world’s environment ministers meeting from November 6-17 in Nairobi, Kenya - a country currently in the grip of climate change - will find the courage to act with the ur ...
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8 November 2006
AFRICA/MALI - New info and communications technology catalyst for development in Africa: international meeting in Mali
Bamako (Agenzia Fides)- Bamako, in Mali, is hosting an international meeting Novatech 2006, an industry forum bringing together all actors in ICT and e-commerce as part of a truly innovative ongoing process. Through thei ...
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8 November 2006
ASIA/NEPAL - Agreement between government and rebels “but there is still no stability or reconciliation. We must build a culture of peace”, Pro-Prefect Apostolic tells Fides News Service
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - A peace agreement was signed on 7 November by Nepal’s interim government and Maoist rebel groups which control impervious parts of the country. According to the agreement signed under the a ...
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8 November 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “With Jesus Christ”: diocese of Masan celebrates 40th anniversary with a campaign of evangelisation
Masan (Agenzia Fides) - With a new capillary campaign “With Jesus Christ” to announce the Gospel with door to door mission, Masan diocese is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Festivities opened with a special Mass pr ...
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8 November 2006
AMERICA/URUGUAY - On the feast of the Patroness of Uruguay the President of the Bishops’ Conference urges the people to pray for the country, the governors and those responsible for managing public affairs
Florida (Agenzia Fides) - "The hour has come for Uruguayans to recognise one another as brothers and sisters. Our people need to look at one another in a different light" said Bishop Pablo Galimberti, president of the Ur ...
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8 November 2006
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Government vows to preserve religious harmony and public order and suppress attempts to cause inter-religious violence
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said his government intends to keep religious harmony and public order and that it will show no indulgence with fundamentalist groups which want to star ...
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7 November 2006
VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University for Mission: formation four hundred years old new every year
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 August 1627 Pope Urban VIII with the Bull "Immortalis Dei Filius" created Urban College, first nucleus of the system of education of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide which with pass ...
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7 November 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Martino purchases on behalf Pope Benedict XVI first International Financing Facility for Immunisation bond an initiative guaranteed by various governments to save the life of millions of people
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a project presented by UK chancellor Gordon Brown during a Meeting on “Poverty and globalisation: funding development” organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Pe ...
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7 November 2006
VATICAN - The Church “feels in duty bound to insist that science's ability to predict and control must never be employed against human life and its dignity”: Pope Benedict XVI tells participants at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At midday on Monday November, the Pope received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, headed by the president of that institution, Nicola Cabibbo. They ...
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7 November 2006
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bandits kill Brazilian Jesuit missionary and Portuguese lay volunteer, growing concern for safety of missionaries
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- The Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Portugal has reported that a priest and a lay missionary volunteer were killed and other persons were wounded in an attack on Angone Residence in Tete Pro ...
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