Oceania
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4 October 2004
OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Small Catholic community in New Zealand offers highly appreciated quality education: Bishop of Auckland speaks with Fides
Auckland (Fides Service) - The Bishops of New Zealand are grateful to the Pope and his collaborators in the curia for their encouragement and concern. Although the Church in New Zealand is small it is fully committed to ...
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4 October 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - The role of Catholic Encounter Centres for formation of individuals and groups in one of the most remote and beautiful parts of Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Christian spirituality is making headway in Papua New Guinea. People in this area of the Pacific Ocean are increasingly aware of the need for places in which to pray and reflect, draw near ...
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27 September 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Help uproot culture violence among youth: the Church’s contribution
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Recently Archbishop Brian Barnes Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, PNG called for more attention to youth policies and a specific national service to study and fight the widespr ...
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23 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Peace with Indigenous Australians, peace in families, peace among religions: all Australians must cultivate a culture of peace. Australian Bishops issue statement for national Social Justice Sunday 26 September
Sydney (Fides Service) - “Peace be with you: Cultivating a Culture of Peace is the title of an 11 page state issued by the Catholic Bishops of Australia in view of the national Social Justice Sunday on 26 September. A ...
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20 September 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - In Port Moresby, where violence and crime among youth is rampant, Salesian missionaries intend to build a new Marian shrine dedicated to “Our Lady Help of Christians” to be a haven of peace and a place for education to solidarity and non-violence
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Aware that violence and crime among young people can only be combated with positive socialisation and education to the values of mutual respect, love and solidarity Salesian Missionaries in ...
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13 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Building a culture of dialogue, peace and reconciliation in south East Asia: appeal launched by Caritas Australia after the bomb blast in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta
Canberra (Fides Service) - The tragic bombing of the Australian embassy in a Jakarta “reminds us of how close the issue of terror is to our shores and emphasises our need for peace and reconciliation”: according to a ...
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11 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission via the web: Catholics in Brisbane archdiocese promote prayer chain to support evangelisation
Brisbane (Fides Service) - The mission of spreading the Gospel needs the support of silent and constant prayer. With this conviction and to encourage more people to pray for missionary work, Catholics in Brisbane archdio ...
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8 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To help disabled persons take an active part in the life of the Church and express their talents and potential, the Bishops’ Commission for the Family and Life has issued a special Pastoral Doc ...
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8 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To help disabled persons take an active part in the life of the Church and express their talents and potential, the Bishops’ Commission for the Family and Life has issued a special Pastoral Doc ...
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3 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA “We Are Sent”, Archbishop of Melbourne issues Pastoral letter and opens new Office for Evangelisation
Melbourne (Fides Service) - The Archbishop of Melbourne, Mgr Denis Hart sees Evangelisation s a major a pastoral priority and has taken steps to promote the spread of the Good News of Christ. He has started the month of ...
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1 September 2004
OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Mission continues: vocations flourish in the Pacific Islands
Papeete (Fides Service) - Thanks to years of missionary activity in this local Church and the high quality of formation offered at the major seminary Our Lady of Pentecost in Tahiti, there is a steady rise in the number ...
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30 July 2004
OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - After building up a local clergy and Church the Oblates Missionaries of Mary Immaculate take leave of the Pacific Islands which they served for 27 years
Papeete (Fides Service) - After 27 years of mission, undertaken with enthusiasm, apostolic zeal, dedication and docility to the will of God and at the service of the people in French Polynesia, the Oblate Missionaries of ...
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29 July 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Schools register increasing number of non-Catholic pupils
Brisbane (Fides Service) - The quality of Catholic education is convincing more and more families, regardless of their religion, to choose a Catholic school for their children: about one quarter of the pupils at Catholic ...
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28 July 2004
OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Solidarity crosses the ocean: New Zealand Caritas workers assist Sudanese refugees in Darfur
Wellington (Fides Service) - A team of New Zealand Caritas workers is in Sudan to help homeless people in Darfur where there is the world’s worst humanitarian tragedy in recent times. Besides material and economic assi ...
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23 July 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholics called to take active part in politics using discernment: in view of federal elections this Autumn, Justice and Peace Commission of Brisbane archdiocese issues call, following Statement by Catholic Bishops of Australia
Brisbane (Fides Service) - The Justice and Peace Commission of the archdiocese of Brisbane has issued a call to Catholics to take active part in the next elections exercising discernment. A copy of the message was sent t ...
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