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18 November 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - 40th anniversary of ELIS Centre: beating unemployment with good quality formation
Rome (Fides Service) - On Sunday 20 November in Rome in Via Sandro Sandri the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría will celebrate a Mass for the 40th anniversary of ELIS Centre (Education, Work, Instruction, S ...
17 November 2005
VATICAN - “With this new Master’s Degree in Management of Development we accept the challenge to make Africa the continent of hope moving from a concept of mere assistance to one of education, valorising the gifts and resources of young Africans ” says Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This project aimed at offering these young men an opportunity to follow a special spiritual, human and cultural itinerary so they may be put at the service of their respective countries ...
17 November 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese priests and nuns from Beijing make ecumenical journey in northern Europe
Beijing (Fides Service) - Ever more frequently Chinese priests and nuns travel abroad to meet other members of the universal Church. Recently two Beijing priests and a Sister visited three cities in northern Europe: Hels ...
17 November 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - New impulse in evangelisation following missionary month in Pakistan
Lahore (Fides Service) - Despite difficulties and fears after recent episodes of anti-Christian violence in Pakistan mission continues involving more and more people, children and adults. Fr Mario Rodrigues, national dir ...
17 November 2005
ASIA/HOLY LAND - “We have a message for the world: help us keep Bethlehem, Christians here are ever fewer”, Holy Land Custodian Vicar says on the occasion of Israeli president’s visit to the Vatican
Jerusalem (Fides Service) - Promote good relations with the people of Israel, support Christians in the Holy Land were two questions brought to international attention by Franciscan Fr Artemio Vitores, Order of Friars Mi ...
17 November 2005
VATICAN - Official inauguration of Master’s Degree in Management for Development for young African university graduates promoted by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples in collaboration with the Catholic University Sacro Cuore
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples in Rome a new Master’s Degree in Management for Development for young African university graduates promoted by the Congr ...
17 November 2005
VATICAN - “We realise we are being given responsibility: we want to give a voice to the voiceless:” say young Africans in Rome to study in Management for Development
Vatican City (Fides Service)- The group of young Africans from 17 different countries who have come to Rome to study for a Master’s Degree in Management of Development are enthusiastic and excited. “We want to help b ...
17 November 2005
VATICAN - “Human Genome - biological, medical and human prospects”: 20th International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Some 700 experts from 81 different countries will attend the 20th International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care in the Vatican 17- 19 November. The t ...
17 November 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Union of Superiors Major of women religious in Democratic Congo end their 14th plenary assembly
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - The week long 14th plenary assembly of the Union of Superiors Major of women religious in Democratic Congo ended on 13 November. A total 140 general and provincial superiors of congregations ...
17 November 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - “The Church is called to carry on the great work of discerning and prophetic orientating undertaken so fruitfully by Vatican II”: Message to youth from Italian Bishops to mark the Council’s 40th anniversary
Assisi (Fides Service) - In a special message to mark the 40th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Bishops of Italy entrusted the heritage of the Council to the new generations. “We fe ...
16 November 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Korean ethnic Catholics in Yan Ji active and committed
Yan Ji (Fides Service) - The community of 4,000 Catholics in Yan Ji in the north eastern Ji Ling province of mainland China is 80% Korean ethnic origin. The lively community, clergy and lay people is active in catechism, ...
16 November 2005
VATICAN - Rome’s University students prepare for Christmas with Pope Benedict XVI on 15 December
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Thursday 15 December in St Peter’s Basilica students at Rome’s universities will have their first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. The tradition of meeting university students before ...
16 November 2005
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI weekly Catechesis: “Certainly the Lord is transcendent as creator and arbiter of the being; but he is also close to his creatures and enters space and time, indeed his presence among us reaches its apex in the Incarnation of Christ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At his weekly audience this morning in St Peter’s Square Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the second part of Psalm 135 (verses 10-26, “Thanksgiving for God’s work of salvation”, vesp ...
16 November 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - First Sunday of Advent special prayers for peace in the Great Lakes region
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Catholics all over the world have been asked by Archbishop Laurent Pasinya Monsengwo of Kisangani president of the Bishops’ Conference and vice-president of Pax Christi International to offer ...
16 November 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Gregorian University’s Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Communications marks 15th anniversary: 17 November symposium on Communication and Participation
Rome (Fides Service) - Activity of didactics, formation, research; study for a Christian perspective on the media and information system; instruction of thousands of students, religious and lay working in print media, r ...
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