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11 July 2006
AMERICA/PERU - "We are looking for priests willing to come to evangelise and help with Christian formation" says Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - "We have one priest for every 25,000 people and we are looking for priests willing to come to the Amazon region of Peru to help with Christian formation". This call was launched by Bishop Juan ...
11 July 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - Malnutrition pushes up infant mortality rate: Franciscan missionary engaged in courageous fight for children
Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - Growing malnutrition in Indonesia is the cause of a rising infant mortality rate according to a report issued by the UN World Food Programme in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of ...
10 July 2006
ASIA/TURKEY - Expecting Pope Benedict XVI in Turkey Catholics celebrated Saints Peter and Paul intensifying ecumenical and inter-religious relations
Antioch (Agenzia Fides) - In view of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey Catholics are intensifying ecumenical and inter-religious relations. An occasion of this slow but sure movement towards unity- which makes progr ...
10 July 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Divine Word Missionaries conclude general Chapter: Fr. Antonio Pernia confirmed Superior General
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Society of the Divine Word (popularly known as Divine Word Missionaries or SVD) held its 16th General Chapter at Salesianum in Rome from June 4 - July 8, 2006. 140 capitulars and seven observe ...
10 July 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Valencia for the 5th World Meeting of Families: “I wish to propose the central role which the family founded on marriage has for the Church and for society”
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - “The reason for my visit it to take part in the 5th World Meeting of Families on the theme ‘Handing on the faith in the Family. I wish to propose the central role which the family founded ...
10 July 2006
VATICAN - During Family Prayer Vigil, the Pope says : “It is a great responsibility of all to proclaim the integral truth of the family founded on marriage, a domestic church, the shrine of life”
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the evening of Saturday 8 July, at Valencia’s futuristic City of the Arts and Sciences Pope Benedict XVI presided the Family Prayer Vigil which closed the week of events for the 5th World ...
10 July 2006
VATICAN - From Valencia Pope Benedict XVI launches a message of hope to the families of the world and announces that Mexico City will be the venue of the next World Meeting of Families in 2009
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 9 July at 9.30am the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI returned to the City of Arts and Sciences to preside a concelebration of Mass the culminating event of the 5th World Meeting of Fami ...
10 July 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seminarians attend first national Patristics Seminar
Seul (Agenzia Fides) - De gratia et libero arbitrio in Sant’Agostino was the theme of a Seminar on Patristics organised by the Korean Patristics Society to foster deeper reflection on Patristics and on the theology of ...
10 July 2006
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 1st National Hispanic Youth Pastoral Meeting: in 15 years time more than 50% of Catholics in the US will be Hispanic
Indiana (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,300 young people and 20 bishops attended a 1st National Hispanic Youth Pastoral Meeting (PENPJH) at Notre Dame University Indiana, 8-11 June, Fides was informed by Fr Manuel Peláez, Coo ...
10 July 2006
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - ‘Journey Together’ Salesians renew mission in Papua
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The 60 Salesian confreres of the Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands delegation began the final stage of their ‘Journey Together’, as they commenced the Delegation Days and the Assemb ...
10 July 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - More than 10,000 Sudanese refugees in bordering countries repatriated. UNHCR calls the international community to fill the void between stages of assistance and development to make sure the once home repatriates can stay home
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival at the beginning of last week of a convoy from Uganda, the number of refugees repatriated to southern Sudan with the assistance of the UN High Commission for Refugees overtook ...
10 July 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency persists: hundreds of thousands still risk famine in semiarid regions of Kenya. Economic recovery for families must include substantial replenishing of flocks
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The food shortage persists in semiarid regions of Kenya, where millions are threatened by the consequences of another famine. The alarm was raised by Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS NE ...
8 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Meeting of Families- “We are experiencing that the Church is deeply concerned for families and wishes to send all families an encouraging message": testimonial by a young French family
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Timothee and Virginie Berthon, a young married couple from Brittany in France and their children Jeanne aged 7 , Mathilde aged 5 and Marie aged 2 and the fourth on the way, are one of thousands ...
8 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Meeting of Families - " One of the main challenges in recent times is an attempt by the secularised society to change laws which for centuries and even millennia recognised God’s plan for marriage and the family as it is presented in the order of Creation and which is the common heritage of humanity governed by natural law”
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) -On Friday 7 July the work of the Theological-Pastoral Congress opened on the theme "Family and Ecumenism", in the presence of representatives of the Orthodox Churches and Lutheran Churches. In h ...
8 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - 5the World Meeting of Families - "the family that hands on the faith is a guarantee of hope for the future of the Church and humanity” : provisional conclusions of Theological-Pastoral Congress
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - After four days of work the Theological-Pastoral Congress which was part of the 5th World Meeting for Families closed yesterday with the reading of conclusions which could be summarised in the ...
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