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24 October 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day campaign: Canadian Bishop James Wingle arrives to take part in “Activ8”
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop James Wingle has come from Canada to take part in a campaign to promote World Youth Day 2008 to be held in Sydney. Bishop Wingle is Bishop of Saint Catholics diocese a suffragan of Toronto ...
24 October 2006
VATICAN - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with Incurable Pathologies”: theme of 15th World Day for the Sick 2007
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with incurable Pathologies” is the theme of World Day for the Sick 2007 for which the main celebrations on February 11, Feast of Our Lady of Lou ...
24 October 2006
AFRICA/BENIN - New rector appointed for Saint Gall Major Seminary in Cotonou
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 4 August 2006, appointed Rector of the Saint Gall Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in Cotonou (Benin), Re ...
24 October 2006
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - New Rector for Paul VI Major Regional Seminary in Antsiranana
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 28 August 2006, appointed Rev. Abel Celestinus Andriamihaja, of the clergy of Mahajanga Rector of the P ...
24 October 2006
AMERICA/PERU - Huancayo diocese opens modern laboratory at the service of HIV+ persons
Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Huancayo in Peru has opened a modern laboratory to monitor HIV+ patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy. The laboratory, funded with the help of international organisation ...
24 October 2006
ASIA/JAPAN - New parish at Joso, Saitama diocese for community of Catholic immigrants from Brazil, and Shimoigusa Salesian parish marks 50th anniversary
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The large community of Catholics, mainly immigrants from Brazil, living in Joso, in the diocese of Saitama in the prefecture of Ibaraki has a new parish centre. The chapel was blessed by Bishop Da ...
23 October 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus on Mission Sunday: “Mission starts from the heart: when we stop to pray in front of the Crucifx, and we see that pierced side, we cannot fail to be filled with joy at the knowledge that we are loved and with a desire to love and be channels of mercy and reconciliation” - Appeal for Iraq
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Sunday was the focus of Pope Pope Benedict XVI’s address before the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 23 October. Here is what the Pope said.
“Today we are celebrating the ...
23 October 2006
ASIA/THAILAND - Asian Mission Congress - New Hope for Asia
Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - The spacious hall filled with people and colours was the splendid setting for the final act of the Asian Mission Congress. The participation of many Tribals in their costumes at the closing M ...
23 October 2006
VATICAN - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world”: Pope Benedict XVI receives members of the Fondazione Giovanni Paolo II
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world, usin ...
23 October 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Lateran University XVI: “God is the ultimate truth to which all reason naturally tends … God is not empty word or abstract hypothesis, on the contrary, God is the foundation on which to build our life”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am happy to be here at "my" University, because this is the Bishop of Rome’s own University. I am aware that here you seek the truth and so, in ultimate analysis, you search for Chri ...
23 October 2006
ASIA/THAILAND - Asian Mission Congress conclusions: Now it is up to us to write new pages in the Story of Jesus in Asia
Chiang Mai (Fides Service) - The 1st Asian Congress came to a close in an atmosphere of general satisfaction. The final day, Sunday 22 October, Mission Sunday, focused on the last testimonials and the closing Mass presid ...
23 October 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil elected chairman of the FABC Office of Evangelisation
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil has been elected chairman of the Office of Evangelisation of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, FABC, for the third time. Archbishop Menamparampil, ...
23 October 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Eparchy for Catholics of Chaldean Rite in Australia and New Zealand
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict created a Chaldean Eparchy for Oceania, to care for Australian and New Zealand Catholics who follow the Chaldean Rite, with the title of "Saint Thomas Apostle of Sydney of the Chald ...
23 October 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - “Not walls but bridges lead to solutions for the challenges of the new millennium”: a delegation of US Bishops visits Mexico border zone
Mexico City (Fides Service) - A delegation of US Catholic Bishops is making a week long visit the Mexico border region 23 - 29 October to assess the situation and inspect critical points with regard to the crime of human ...
23 October 2006
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops say situation ever more serious, violence must be eradicated, nation wide novena of prayer for peace 13 to 21 November
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - “All together to eradicate violence” is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of El Salvador. The document presents the human person as the centre of the activity of s ...
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