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9 September 2006
Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the Albanian hills outside Rome. Here, after three weeks rest at Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta, he resumed his o ...
8 September 2006
VATICAN - Study Seminar in Rome for 99 recently appointed Bishops in mission territories for which the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples is responsible
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - About 99 Bishops are expected to arrive in Rome to take part in a Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples which will open with Vespers on 10 September ...
8 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI starts his apostolic visit to Bavaria where he was born, grew up, and ministered before being called to Rome
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict entrusted his imminent 6 day visit to southern Germany to the Blessed Virgin Mary when he addressed thousands people at the Wednesday audience in St Peter’s square on Septem ...
8 September 2006
EUROPE/HUNGARY - “Many challenges, one proposal: Brotherhood” - international Brotherhood Day organised by the Focolari Movement to commemorate tragedy 50 years ago
Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 16 September at least 11,000 people from 64 different countries are expected to gather in Budapest SportArena for an International Brotherhood Day organised by the Focolari Movement to ...
8 September 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - 5th edition of Mediterranean Youth Agora on the 7th Beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew “Blessed are the Merciful for they will receive mercy"
Loreto (Agenzia Fides) - The 5th edition of Mediterranean Youth Agora organised jointly by the Italian Bishops’ national youth pastoral service and the national Office for cooperation among Churches, taking place in Lo ...
8 September 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - 120 Benedictine nuns from all over the world are taking part in an international symposium on “Guiding with Wisdom”: the Benedictine rule in the light of the Beatitudes
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The S. Anselmo Pontifical Liturgical Institute is hosting the 5th international symposium of the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum CIB on the theme “Guiding with wisdom... so that the stro ...
8 September 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - Local Church drafts plan to stop violent cattle raids
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Only sustained mediation and development - not the use of force by State security personnel - can restore peace among traditionally hostile herding communities in Kenya’s Rift Valley Provinc ...
8 September 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Popular national singer caught in political crisis
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- The political crisis in Malawi has hit even one of the country’s most popular singers Lucius Banda, now an Oppostion MP. “It was meant to be a joke he could have taken an English language te ...
8 September 2006
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Alarm for high mortality rate in one of the richest countries of Africa
Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Angola has the highest infant mortality rate in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. According to the annual report of the United Nations Population Fund the infant death rate in Angola is 133 ...
7 September 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “The art of celebrating the mystery of Christ”: Spanish Association of Professors of Liturgy concludes annual Meeting with homage to Francis Xavier
Pamplona (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Association of Professors of Liturgy (AEPL) held its 31st annual meeting in Pamplona, 30 August to 1 September on the theme “Ars celebrandi. The art of celebrating the mystery of ...
7 September 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - United Nations fears diseases could spread with flood waters
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Following floods caused by overflowing of rivers whose source is in Ethiopia, the UN World Health Organisation has warned disease could spread also in Sudan.
A report from the Office for Coordin ...
7 September 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s catechesis at the general audience: “The goal to which our life must tend: to meet Jesus, as Philip met him, striving to see in Him, God, our heavenly Father”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 6 September at the general audience held in St Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on the Apostles reflecting this time on the figure of Saint Philip. ...
7 September 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux amd don Salvatore Vitiello - “Authentic peace”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - These times of ‘war and peace’, as Tolstoj wrote, call to mind Father Aleksandr Men’on Orthodox priest who lived his whole life sustained by the certainty that the greatness of human ...
7 September 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Schools for all children, especially poor children: legacy of Mother Mary Mac Killop, first Australian to be beatified, now on the way to canonisation
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Building a system of free education for poor children was the life mission of Mother Mary Mac Killop, first Australian to be beatified and now on the way to canonisation. The spiritual legacy of ...
7 September 2006
AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Building history at the Heart of the world”: 30th National Laity Meeting to strengthen bonds, identity and mission
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 350 lay Catholics will come together on 17 September for the 30th National Laity Meeting organised by the Uruguay Bishops’ commission for the laity. Representatives of the countr ...
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