Oceania
7 June 2006
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISANDS - Communication to “build bridges”: seminar for pastoral workers
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - “You are building that bridge - between a village culture and a cash culture”, said Dr. John Roughan as he addressed the participants at the Media Education Seminar for parish animators, at ...
6 June 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Church Movements: springtime for mission in Oceania
Paramatta (Agenzia Fides) - New Church Movements and Communities are a springtime for mission in Oceania said Bishop Kevin Manning of Paramatta diocese after Pope Benedict XVI June 3 meeting in Rome with Movements and ...
5 June 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Christian magazine on the web features theology, church ministries, culture...
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Oikonomia is the name of a new Christian magazine on line produced in Australia by the Sydney College of Divinity. The title of the magazine “God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time” is taken ...
31 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Families prepare to take part in World Meeting of Families in Spain
Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic families from a number of Australian dioceses are preparing to take part in the 5th World Meeting for Families to be held in Spain in the city of Valencia in July. There is fervid acti ...
30 May 2006
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Announcing the Truth “civilisation of images”: young people in Solomons and media education
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) -Images, cameras and video-cameras can be employed to announce the Truth, to inform people of situations of suffering, or trampling of human dignity. This emerged from a recent Media Education Sem ...
24 May 2006
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Life improves on remote islands thanks to Radio Bosco, channel of information and formation of consciences
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Life for people in Solomons has improved thanks to Radio Bosco which provides information and formation. The Salesian radio station opened a year ago on February 27 2005 provides a competent and ...
23 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - More space and responsibility to women in the pastoral of the Church
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Working together in material and spiritual assistance for the disabled and the marginalised; responsibility in the field of catechesis and religious instruction especially for young people and fa ...
22 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Catholic Church in Australia has called for more assistance for Aboriginal communities particularly victims of abuse
Adelaide (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Australia has again raised its voice in support of Aboriginal Australians. The archdiocese of Adelaide has called on religious groups to do more to help indigenous communities af ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Young people in Australia ever more thirsty for spirituality says AYCW report. Growing commitment to evangelisation in view of World Youth Day in Sydney
Sydney (Fides Service) - There is a growing sense and need of spirituality among young Australians. The complexity of life, alienation of technology, plurality of messages which bombard young people in this era of global ...
9 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Arab-Muslim community in Australia assigns award to Catholic Bishop of Paramatta for contribution to promoting intercultural and interreligious dialogue. “Our common task is to uproot extremism”, the Bishop said
Paramatta (Fides Service) - The Kahlil Gibran Award 2006 promoted by the Arabic Heritage League in Australia, was assigned to Bishop Kevin Manning, Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Paramatta where there is a large Musli ...
3 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Government to fund adult stem cells research: local Church applauds science which “respects ethics”
Sydney (Fides Service) - The Australian government has decided to finance scientific research on the use and curative possibilities of adult stem cells. The decision to give 22 million dollars to Griffith University labo ...
2 May 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “The voice of vulnerable workers in the changing world of work”: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council pastoral letter signed by Bishop Christopher Saunders
Canberra (Fides Service) - “The voice of vulnerable workers in the changing world of work” is the title of a pastoral letter issued to mark the feast of St Joseph the Worker May 1 by the Australian Catholic Social Ju ...
28 April 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Social Services Australia new network
Sydney (Fides Service) - A fusion of names and symbols indicates renewed commitment in the field of social assistance. Various Catholic bodies operating in Australia, have merged to form Catholic Social Services Australi ...
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