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22 July 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - The Pope appoints auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Gulu
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 July 2006 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Gulu (Uganda) Reverend Sabino Odoki, until now rector of the National Major Seminary in ...
22 July 2006
The Pope’s prayer intention August 2006: “That the Christian faithful may be aware of their special vocation everywhere and at all times”
Comment by Sr Elisabetta Adamiak, superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Peter Claver (SSPC)
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church, in fact, lives in the world, even if she is not of the world (cf. Jn 17:16). She is sent to continue the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, which by its very nature concerns the salvation ...
22 July 2006
AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Prayer is indispensable for fostering in hearts a desire for justice and reconciliation, the condition for finding solutions for conflict": Day of Pope’s Prayer for Peace, a missionary reports
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Tunisia will join Pope’s Benedict XVI initiative for a Day of Prayer and Penance on Sunday 23 July to obtain from God the gift of peace in the Middle East, Fides was informed by Fr ...
22 July 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Spanish born Fr Manuel Cortes elected Superior General of the Society of Mary, Marianists
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 July the delegates of the Society of Mary (Marianists), holding a general Chapter in Rome, elected Fr Manuel Cortés their 15th Superior general. Fr Cortes was born in Valencia, Spain, in 19 ...
22 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Bishops rally Catholics to join the Pope in prayer "Let’s cross the frontier of our passivity and insensitivity to immerse ourselves in the grief and suffering of so many of our brothers and sisters, and join the day of prayer and penance "
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain endorse the Pope’s call for a Day of Prayer and Penance on Sunday 23 July to obtain from God the gift of peace in the Middle East for peace. Cardinal Antonio María Rouco R ...
22 July 2006
AMERICA - Latin America joins the Pope’s initiative for peace in the Middle East "we must pray intensely for peace, a gift of God to be continually invoked":
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Bishops all over Latin America responded readily to the call launched by Pope Benedict XVI for a day, Sunday 23 July, of special prayers and acts of penance to obtain from God the gift of ...
22 July 2006
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholics respond to Nuncio’s call to join Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer on Sunday 23 July for peace in the Middle East
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in the Philippines will join the call to pray on Sunday 23 July for peace in the Middle East launched by Pope Benedict XVI. People in the Philippines are deeply concerned for the tragi ...
22 July 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Hosting families for Asian Youth Day receive mandate to share the God’s love with young guests
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Hong Kong diocese is almost ready to host Asian Youth Day, 30 July to 5 August. Recently at the Hong Kong Caritas Centre 200 local hosting families in 32 different parishes received a special ...
21 July 2006
VATICAN - Kumasi, in Ghana hosts 1st Regional Congress for the Promotion of the Liturgy in Africa Madagascar, organised by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments in collaboration with the Ghanaian Bishops’ Conference.
Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the Congregation, told Fides New Agency: “The Congress was a blessing from the Lord because it gave new impulse to the efforts of those responsible for liturgy on that Continent to nourish the liturgical spirit of the African Church with ever greater commitment.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of a “Congress for the Promotion of the Liturgy in Africa and Madagascar”, held in Ghana at the beginning of this month (5-9 July), Fides spoke with Archbishop Albert Malcol ...
21 July 2006
VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD by Massimo Camisasca - “Education to gratuitousness”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gratuitousness is a fundamental dimension of the life of the priest. To educate to it is even more necessary today, in an epoch in which, according to the current mentality, an untruthful ...
21 July 2006
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - The Pope appoints Bishop of Yamoussoukro
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 21 July 2006, appointed Bishop of Yamoussoukro (Côte d'Ivoire ) Bishop Joseph Aké, until now titular Bishop of Castello di Tratoporto and auxiliary Bishop ...
21 July 2006
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The Pope appoints metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 21 July 2006 appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa (Côte d'Ivoire) Archbishop Barthélémy Djabla, until now Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte-d’Ivo ...
21 July 2006
AFRICA/D. CONGO - Catholic Bishops’ Message: coming elections, at stake, “the life or death of our country”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “May transition end in national harmony” is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Democratic Congo on 20 July. In the document signed by Archbishop Laurent ...
20 July 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - “The truth of the family”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The understanding of the human person, man and woman, and the union of the same which receives a juridical form is no longer univocal. This is deducible once again from the interventions of ...
20 July 2006
VATICAN - “Common points must be found to converge commitment to protect the habitat the Creator has prepared for the human person, on whom He has impressed his image.”: Message from Benedict XVI to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Amazon River, Source of Life" is the title of the 6th Symposium held 13 to 20 July in Brazil as part of the programme "Religion, Science and the Environment" promoted by Ecumenical Pa ...
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