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17 July 2006
VATICAN - Benedict XVI leads the Angelus prayer at his mountain holiday retreat in Val d’Aosta: “I entrust to the Queen of Mount Carmel communities of contemplative life all over the world”. New appeal for the Holy Land: “I ask local Churches to offer special prayers for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East”
Les Combes (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 16 July Pope Benedict XVI led the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer from a field next to the little house put a his disposal by the local Salesian community in Les Combes, Val ...
17 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - "Saint Francis Xavier and Mission in the 21st Century": 59th Missiology Week starts in Burgos as part of celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the birth of the patron saint of the missions
Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Saint Francis Xavier and Mission in the 21st Century’ is the theme of the 59th Missiology Week which starts today 17 July in Burgos, Spain. The 5 day event, part of celebrations for the 500t ...
17 July 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Summer formation time for young people with Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The MGC Youth Building Movement of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate OMI has planned numerous formation initiatives for this Summer 2006. To start with, National Courses 17 -22 July at the ...
17 July 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Sisters of the Precious Blood SPB celebrate 25 and 50 years of religious profession with renewed mission commitment
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Recently the Sisters of the Precious Blood SPB, a Hong Kong diocesan community, celebrated 25 and 50 years of religious profession and also lay membership of the Association of the Friends of ...
17 July 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops issue message for 11th Farmers’ Sunday
Seoul (Fides Service) - Bishop Boniface Choi Ki-san, President of the CBCK Committee for Justice and Peace, issued the Message for the 11th Farmers' Sunday on July 16, 2006 and urged the Government to establish a system ...
17 July 2006
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - For the moment Religious Instruction in schools will continue: agreement signed by government and Church
Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - After days of uncertainty and contradictory statements with regard to the government’s position concerning religious instruction in schools, the Catholic Church in Bolivia has convinced the go ...
17 July 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Santa Rosa reminds lay Catholics of their role to spread the Christian message in all areas of society and to protect human life and the family
Santa Rosa (Agenzia Fides) - In a pastoral letter with the title The Role of the Laity to protect Life and the Family, Bishop Rinaldo Fidel Brédice, of Santa Rosa (Argentina) said “The Future of Argentina is forged in ...
17 July 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Migration “space for celebrating diversity”: theologians, pastoral workers, academics at international meeting organised by the Scalabrini Missionaries
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Migration is a theological “place” in which to discover the Church’s itinerant and missionary dimension and promote inter-personal relations inspired by the model of the Trinity and hence ...
14 July 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Presentation of “Report 2006 on Religious Freedom in the World” produced by the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The eighth edition of the annual “Report on Religious Freedom in the World” produced by the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need was presented today at the Foreign Press Association in R ...
14 July 2006
VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr. Massimo Camisasca - “Education to silence”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is impossible to be in His Presence, in the presence of Christ in person, now, unless we are educated to silence. Laurentius the Hermit used to say: «It was then that I understood I w ...
14 July 2006
EUROPE - Seminar launches research on the teaching of the Catholic religion in schools in the countries of Europe
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The “task” awaiting the 34 delegates of the bishops’ Conferences of Europe is the development of a paper on the situation of the teaching of Catholic religion in the schools of their countrie ...
14 July 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “Outside interventions can be counter productive unless there is precise knowledge of the situation” says Bishop Bertin Apostolic Administrator di Mogadishu
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “For about a century the Catholic Church has dedicated her service-witness to the poor in Somalia. She did this under colonialism, then with the first Republic, the regime of Siad Barre and i ...
14 July 2006
AFRICA/EGYPT - Children from Mansheya garbage collectors district in Cairo make progress at school run by Italian Comboni missionary
Cairo (Agenzia Fides)- “In June last year our work had been in a situation of stall for several months. We wanted to start a course of adult primary education but the prospects were not very hopeful” says Italian Com ...
14 July 2006
ASIA/VIETNAM - Totally dedicated to announcing the Gospel: Catholics in Huê remember zealous missionary Bishop Allys Ly on the 70th anniversary of his death
Huê (Agenzia Fides) - On June 28 at least a thousand people gathered in Phu Cam parish to watch a documentary film on the life of Bishop Allys Ly, who was their parish priest for 23 years before being appointed Bishop o ...
14 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops thank Pope Benedict XVI for his visit to Valencia which “confirmed Catholics in the faith and filled them with joy”.
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Bishops wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI to thank him for travelling to Spain to close the 5th World Meeting of Families. They said his visit “confirmed Catholics in the faith an ...
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