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15 September 2006
AMERICA - Promoting evangelisation and vocations, fighting poverty and corruption: priorities for Bishops from Latin America taking part in Study-Seminar for Bishops in Rome
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops from Latin America are very grateful for the opportunity to take part in the special Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops organised in Rome by the Congregation for the Evangelisation o ...
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15 September 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - “Not only traditional beaches and safaris: tourism in Kenya is evolving, involving local communities
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “"Community-based tourism is opening up a new era," Dr. Dan Kagagi, CEO of Kenya's Tourism Trust Fund, told reporters Tuesday at the TourismAfrica 2006 meeting underway in Geneva Switzerland.
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15 September 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - Muslim religious leaders and intellectuals call for a reprieve for three Indonesian Catholics condemned to death
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Muslim religious leaders and intellectuals who took part in the recent Inter-religious Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi organised by the S. Egidio Community, addressed a letter to the president of ...
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15 September 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - September 24 Social Justice Sunday justice and dignity for Indigenous Australians: how come their life expectancy is 17 years less than for non-Indigenous Australians?
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “The Heart of our Country: dignity and justice for our Indigenous sisters and brothers”: is the theme of Social Justice Sunday on 24 September. The Day was presented with a statement on behal ...
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14 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “The courage to engage the whole breadth of reason, and not the denial of its grandeur - this is the programme with which a theology grounded in Biblical faith enters into the debates of our time.”
Regensburg (Agenzia Fides) - A lengthy reflection on the relation between faith and reason marked the Holy Father’s meeting with representatives of the world of science in the afternoon of 12 September at the Universit ...
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14 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “It is the responsibility of Christians, now, to make visible the standards that indicate a just life, which have been clarified for us in Jesus Christ.”
Regensburg (Agenzia Fides) - After the meeting with representatives of the world of science at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI was driven to Regensburg Cathedral to preside ecumenical Vespers. The Pope w ...
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14 September 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “The priest is a minister of reconciliation not legality”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We are ambassadors for Christ - Saint Paul says - as if God were urging you on through us … As his fellow-workers, we urge you not to let your acceptance of his grace come to nothing ...
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14 September 2006
AFRICA - The Catholic Church present among Muslims: African bishops in Rome for the Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples share experience
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “Our local Catholic community still depends on the solidarity of the universal Church. In the Sahara region and all over Algeria, most Catholics are foreigners. This is why the universal Church ta ...
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14 September 2006
ASIA/VIETNAM - Vietnam cradle for vocations to the religious life has new Salesian Novitiate
Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - In Vietnam vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life continue to flourish and seminaries are filled as an increasing number of young people decide to dedicate their lives to ...
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14 September 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Nation-wide tour for World Youth Day team, young people’s enthusiasm reaches the stars
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - A special World Youth Day team is travelling to the different Catholic dioceses of Australia amidst growing enthusiasm among young people. An awareness building campaign has been launched to prep ...
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14 September 2006
AMERICA - “Month of the Bible ” in Latin America helps Catholics become more familiar with the Word of God in order to be true witnesses to Christ for the world
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In many countries in Latin America the month of September is dedicated to the Bible to help Catholics become more familiar with the Word of God and so more authentic witnesses to Christ.
Peru is ...
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14 September 2006
ASIA/PAKISTAN -Corruption and religious fanaticism must be eradicated: Catholic Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission seminar
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the present situation of crisis what Pakistan needs is national solidarity and unity and respect for the founding values of the nation, justice and peace. This emerged from a recent Seminar or ...
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14 September 2006
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Too many weapons still in circulation”: warns International Monitoring Committee
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The President of Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila and vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, candidates in a second round of presidential elections met yesterday 13 September for a two hour ...
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14 September 2006
VATICAN Study Seminar for Bishops - “Evangelising cultures is the mission of the Church” says Cardinal Paul Poupard
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The ministry of the Bishop with regard to the evangelisation of cultures was the theme of the conference given by Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Councils for Culture a ...
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13 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “If you believe you are never alone. God comes to meet us. Let us too walk towards God and this will help us draw close to one another! Let us do all we can to make sure that no child of God is ever left alone!”
Regensburg (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his apostolic visit to Bavaria, in the evening of Monday 11 September, after visiting Saint Oswald at Marktl am Inn where he was baptised on Easter Sunday 17 April 1927, the day af ...
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