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13 September 2006
ASIA - Asian Bishops at Rome Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples share impressions
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Communion among Bishops, closer relations with the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, insight with regard to the Bishop’s identity and ministry: Asian Bishops at Rome Study S ...
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13 September 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - "The great challenge for Catholics in Latin America is witness of life, that is unity of faith and life": Second Congress on the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “Imagine a Continent for all: Christian justice, solidarity and witness to meet social difficulties in Latin American and the Caribbean" is the motto of the Second Congress on the Social D ...
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13 September 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - “We feel the moral imperative which cannot be renounced to raise our voices to affirm the dignity of life ": Catholic Bishops’ statement on new National Norms on Birth Control. Friday 15 Catholic Youth pro-life March
Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - " We feel the moral imperative which cannot be renounced to raise our voices to affirm the dignity of life" the Catholic Bishops of Chile say in a statement titled “Where is Chile go ...
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13 September 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN -International community alarm for Darfur: massacre of civilians continues
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “I saw Sudanese Antonov preparing for an attack. It reminded me of the situation in 2003. The message is clear: there will be attacks on civilians and civilian zones” said European Union spe ...
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13 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Bishops condemn attack on Catholic school in Lucknow; sixteen schools closed
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Another episode of anti-Christian violence has been reported in in India, at Lucknow, in the central northern state of Uttar Pradesh. On 10 September a gang of Hindu nationalist extremists att ...
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12 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “Together with the great communion of Saints and at their centre, Mary is still before God to intercede for us, asking her Son to send again His Spirit into the Church and into the world to renew the face of the earth”
Altötting (Agenzia Fides) - Germany’s most popular Marian Shrine Altötting was visited by Pope Benedict XVI on Monday 11 September. After a few moments of prayer in the Chapel of Graces, the Gnadenkapelle (Cappella d ...
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12 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “God’s harvest is great and it is waiting for workers: in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia people await heralds carrying the Gospel of peace, the message of God made man. But also in the so-called West, the harvest could be plenty.
Altötting (Agenzia Fides) - In the early evening on Monday 11 September Pope Benedict XVI presided sung Vespers in the Basilica dedicated to St Anne in Altötting together with the men and women Religious and seminaria ...
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12 September 2006
VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - Archbishop Sarah describes the activity of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples to guarantee the best formation and education for clergy and religious and catechists in mission territories
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 11 September at the Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples CEP for Bishops appointed in the past two years, CEP secretary, Archbishop Robert Sarah ...
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12 September 2006
VATICAN - THE STONES, SOUNDS AND COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE by Bishop Mauro Piacenza - The centre of our liturgical space and the heart of human sacrality: the Sanctuary and the Crucifix (I)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - 1. The liturgical space of the church expresses an ecclesiology , it corresponds with the Church’s theological understanding of itself. In fact in the history of the Church the liturgica ...
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12 September 2006
ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Internationalis delegation assesses needs in view of humanitarian aid and rebuilding
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In view of humanitarian intervention in Lebanon after 34 days of war against Israel ended with a cease fire agreement reached on 14 August, Caritas Internationalis sent a team comprising a number ...
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12 September 2006
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Human, psychological, cultural and spiritual formation for Solomons young people and students
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Solomon Islands continue to provide human, cultural, professional and spiritual education for young people. Recently about 90 students took part in a three day retreat guided by a t ...
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12 September 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Disciples and friends of Jesus, making new friends for Him”: fruits of Missionary Youth month of August all over the country
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The month of August for the Pontifical Mission Societies in Argentina is the “Month of missionary childhood and adolescence IAM”. Sunday 27 August was celebrated as IAM National Missio ...
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12 September 2006
AMERICA/PERU - “The Church proclaims the primacy and inviolability of human life … no one is master of his life or that of others”: Bishops' statement against capital punishment
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The growing tendency in the world to abolish the death penalty is in keeping with the dignity of the human person and therefore with God’s plan for humanity and society the Bishops of Peru said i ...
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12 September 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Steps forward have been made: peace is possible” says S. Egidio mediator for northern Uganda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “I think they are at last on the path to peace. It must be said that the southern-Sudan government has made a fundamental contribution to restoring peace in northern Uganda” Fides was told by ...
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11 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “I have come first of all to express my gratitude to all those who helped to form my personality in the different decades of my life. But I am also here as Successor of Peter, to reaffirm and confirm the profound ties that exist between the See of Rome and the Church here in our homeland”
München (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 9 September on his arrival in Munich for a five day stay in his native Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI explained the reason for his visit “I have come first of all to express my grati ...
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