Oceania

• 21 January 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Year of the Eucharist: Australian Bishops focus on Sunday Mass Sydney (Fides Service) - The Australian Catholic Bishops yesterday issued a program for the celebration of the Year of the Eucharist, focusing on the importance of celebrating Sunday Mass. In a media release issued yeste ...
• 20 January 2005
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Responding to new challenges in New Zealand: first ever national meeting for men and women religious Wellington (Fides Service) - The first ever National Meeting for Religious in new Zealand opens today 20 January in Kilbirnie, Wellington bringing together members of 43 different religious congregations present in the P ...
• 14 January 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Sunday 16 January national day of prayer for tsunami victims Sydney (Fides) - Australia will stop for one minute silence on Sunday 16 January to remember the tsunami disaster. Prayer vigils will be held all over the country in memory of the victims in the affected countries in sou ...
• 13 January 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Where was God on the day the tsunami struck? Was the disaster a punishment from God? Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, makes his point in the philosophical debate which followed the tragedy in South East Asia Sydney (Fides Service) - Why did the tsunami happen? Why does God allow such devastation? Why is there so much suffering in the world? These are some of the questions to which Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney o ...
• 11 January 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Caritas Australian has already collected unhoped-for sum of 4 million dollars in aid December tsunami victims in south east Asia Sydney (Fides Service) - Caritas Australia has collected more than 4 million dollars in a special collection for victims of the December 26 disaster in south east Asia. “We never expected to collect so much”, said Fi ...
• 4 January 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Church in Australia sends prayers and material aid for tsunami victims. Caritas Australia has already collected 1.4 million dollars Sydney (Fides Service) - The Church in Australia is sending prayers and support to tsunami victims. Archbishop Francis Carrol, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference expressed his prayerful sympathy i ...
• 20 December 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australia’s Christians protest ‘Christ is being left out of Christmas’: pro Nativity youth campaign through Melbourne 21 December Melbourne (Fides Service) - Melbourne’s Catholic Youth Ministry CYM is organising a street protest 21 December to highlight the perceived reality that ‘Christ’ has been left out of ‘Christmas’, and reject cons ...
• 17 December 2004
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - In January Men and women Religious will attend first ever national Conference on the Consecrated Life Wellington (Fides Service) - Men and women Religious of New Zealand will gather in Kilbirnie in January for the first national Conference on the Consecrated Life. Some 300 delegates from different religious congregations ...
• 6 December 2004
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Law and family: open debate in society today. No to homosexual couples and de facto unions: open Letter from New Zealand Bishops Wellington (Fides Service) - ‘Civil rights, such as rights of inheritance, next-of-kin status, benefits and grants, can be ensured by other appropriate legislation, without any need to give same-sex and de facto relati ...
• 29 November 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - Catholics committed to fighting AIDS: Caritas Australia funds three new centres Port Moresby (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church is in front line to fight the scourge of AIDS in Papua New Guinea. There is a spreading epidemic of HIV/AIDS which concerns doctors, scientists and civil and religious a ...
• 23 November 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Season of Advent and Christmas a good time to rediscover mission in the family: call from National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Australia Sydney (Fides Service) - Christmas is a time for giving and “getting involved in charity can be a very rewarding experience for families, especially at Christmas” Father Terence Bell National Director of the Pontific ...
• 11 November 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The local Church cries against abortion which kills 100,000 unborn babies in Australia every year: intervention by Archbishop of Melbourne Melbourne (Fides Service) - “Our youngest and oldest human beings have an equal right to life. The Catholic Church has always championed protection of human life from conception. Abortion is the taking of fragile human ...
• 27 October 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Equal opportunities, struggle against poverty and social exclusion: presence of Australian Catholic community Sydney (Fides Service) - Education, health, social services and development for all. Equal opportunities for all citizens no matter where they live. This is the request launched by Father Peter Norden SJ director of the ...
• 26 October 2004
  OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Bishops joint appeal to government to respect and dialogue with Maori Wellington (Fides Service) - The Catholic and Anglican Bishops of New Zealand have issued a joint statement calling on the government to enter an ‘honest’ dialogue with Maori with regard to a new Bill concerning seab ...
• 14 October 2004
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Workshop on celibacy with 50 young Christians of different confessions confirms importance of celibacy for service in the Church Honiara (Fides Service) - 50 young participants, all called to celibate religious life attended a Seminar cum workshop on Celibacy at Holy Name of Mary Seminary, Tenaru. The programme organised and facilitated by the se ...