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15 May 2006
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Almost half a century of Christian formation and information ‘Vida Nova’ most widely read by Catholics and non
Nampula (Fides Service) - “Vida Nova”, the magazine of Christian formation and information most read by Catholics and non was published for the first time in 1960 as the monthly bulletin of the diocese of Nampula, m ...
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15 May 2006
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - New Premier, new hope for peace and social harmony
Honiara (Fides Service) - People in Solomon Islands long for peace and the situation is at last returning to normal now that Parliament at last elected a new prime minister on 4 May following the uprising which forced hi ...
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15 May 2006
AMERICA - 5th General CELAM Conference count down: "this event will give new impulse to the faith on our Continent"
Bogota (Fides Service) - “To take up the challenges of the third millennium in personal, family, pastoral and social life in our Latin American countries and take a step towards the encounter with the Living Jesus, we ...
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15 May 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Sports event to collect money to enable young people from less developed countries take part in Asian Youth Day
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Twenty four Hong Kong parish sports teams took part in a sports event Sports Charity Day at Wan Zai sports ground organised by the Preparatory Committee for the 4th Asian Youth Day. According ...
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15 May 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - Missionary animation in Indonesia, in a context of ethnic, cultural and religious pluralism: national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Jakarta (Fides Service) - In Indonesia a mainly Muslim country with a territory of 17,000 Islands marked by ethnic, cultural and religious pluralism Missionary animation calls for qualified animators able to proclaim the ...
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13 May 2006
INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS APRILIS PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM
The month of April for the Holy Father Benedict XVI was marked by the last days of Lent and Holy Week and then Easter, days of intense prayer. Pope Benedict XVI presided the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum, the same Vi ...
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12 May 2006
ASIA/INDIA - New Rector for St John’s Regional Seminary archdiocese of Hyderabad
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 March 2006 appointed rector of St John’s regional Seminary for Theology in the archdiocese ...
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12 May 2006
AMERICA/CAMEROON - New national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 14 March 2006 appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Cameroon for a f ...
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12 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Bishops restructure Conference, greater involvement of clergy, religious and laity
Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic bishops of Australia have decided to reorganise the structure of their Bishops’ Conference announcing in a Pastoral Letter the new composition of the offices and commissions which ...
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12 May 2006
AFRICA/ALGERIA - Le Figuier Centre for Research and Encounter inaugurated at Tizi Ouzu capital of Algeria’s Berber region
Tizi Ouzu (Fides Service) - The inauguration of the new Le Figuier Catholic Centre for Research and Encounter at Tizi Ouzu capital of Algeria’s Cabilia Berbar region drew a good number of people. According to the bulle ...
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12 May 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - Missiology Today: a series of meetings to reflect on various aspects of missionary activity today and identify adequate responses to most urgent challenges
Santiago (Fides Service) - Missiology Today is the title of a series of meetings starting on Saturday 13 May organised by the national office for the Pontifical Missionary Union in Chile and the Society of the Missionari ...
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12 May 2006
VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: vocations flourish in young Churches, more than 80,000 seminarians and almost 10,000 novices sustained by the Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle
Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle which has the charisma to promote and support the formation of local clergy, during 2005 assigned subsidies for the upkeep of 81.200 seminarians studying at ...
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12 May 2006
VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: Africa, the continent which will receive most help from the World Mission Sunday collection 2005
Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributed during the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS which today closes its annual meeting at Ciampino (Rome), the ...
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12 May 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at a Congress promoted by the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and the Family: “Only the rock of total and irrevocable love between a man and a woman can found the construction of a society which is a home for all men and women”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on 11 May received participants in an international congress promoted by the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family of the Pontifical Lateran University. ...
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12 May 2006
EUROPA/SPAIN - 22nd Congress of Catholic Doctors: “Wherever medicine is non profit there the Church cares for the sick and the needy”. First ever exhibition on Missionary Medical Care
Barcelona (Fides Service) - The 22nd Congress of Catholic Doctors organised by the International Federation of Medical Associations FIAMC which has over 50,000 members, opened on 11 May. The theme of the Congress “Cat ...
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