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23 June 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Reciprocal recognition between Somali government and Islamic Courts which control most of the country
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- An agreement reached between the Islamic Courts and the transition government of Somalia foresees a treaty and reciprocal recognition.
The agreement - said agreement mediator Arab League gene ...
22 June 2006
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Nicola Bux and Salvatore Vitiello - “Primacy and Protagonism”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Primacy and Protagonism” While certain politicians propose compulsory semesters of civil service in order to educate young people to solidarity or make great efforts to promote initia ...
22 June 2006
VATICAN - Saint James the greater teaches us “to readily heed the Lord’s call, to follow Him with enthusiasm, to be willing to bear witness to Him with courage, if necessary to the supreme sacrifice of our life”: Pope Benedict XVI teaching at general audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his teaching at the general audience on Wednesday 21 June Pope Benedict XVI continued his reflection on the Apostles chosen by Christ during his life on earth. After Saint Peter and his ...
22 June 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic community welcomes two new deacons who share their vocation experience on the eve of ordination
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “Once we answer the Lord’s call with perseverance we will reach our goal, because the Lord has prepared a banquet for those who love Him” said seminarian Ye Bao Lin one of two deacons t ...
22 June 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Religious and musical events and an exhibition on the Legacy of Saint Ignatius of Loyola to mark the 450th anniversary of the death of Saint
Loyola (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 450th anniversary of the death of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, July 31 2006, who founded the Society of Jesus, as part of Jesuit Jubilee Year celebrations all over the year to mark 50 ...
22 June 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Franciscan Youth Mission in August planned by young people for young people
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A mission “young people to young people” is the fruit of an intuition born during the experience of World Youth Day in 2000 when Pope John Paul II asked the young Catholics present to “set th ...
22 June 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Abandoned children, humanitarian emergency: 145 million of the world’s children abandoned
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presented in Rome a cultural project on the Emergency Abandonment from which will be born a Permanent and Multi-Disciplinary Observatory which will collect, examine and compare scientific products ...
21 June 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - New Rector appointed for Taiwan Regional Seminary
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 21 May 2006, appointed Rector of Taiwan Regional Seminary, rev. Joseph Huang, of the diocesan clergy of Taichung.
The new rector is ...
21 June 2006
Sixty years ago, 23 June 1946, the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, arrived in Rome for the first time: commemoration celebrations in various parts of the city
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty years ago, 23 June 1946, the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, arrived in the Eternal City for the first time. Despite a tempestuous sea voyage from Genoa and a difficul ...
21 June 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Luciano Alimandi - “Two inseparable Hearts”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In this month of June love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus is especially visible since this is the month of this special devotion. Looking at the Heart of Jesus we encounter immediately next ...
21 June 2006
VATICAN - Celebrations for the 500th Anniversary of the Vatican Museums continue with the opening of the first sections of the newly arranged Missionary Ethnological Museum. Collections contain about 100,00 artifacts
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Closed for five years for restoration work the newly arranged Missionary Ethnological Museum, part of the Vatican Museum complex was officially reopened on 20 June.
Founded on November 12, ...
21 June 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Catholic cathedral organises prayer Taizé style “Prayer for China and the Church”
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Brother He Jin Tang, a member of the Ecumenical Taizé Community, recently organised a prayer meeting for young Christian workers in Hong Kong to encourage them to find more time for prayer an ...
21 June 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Pope’s visit will encourage the families of the world to be what they are meant to be, the seed of a new society ” says president of the Spanish Family Policy Institute
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Pope will be a great encouragement for families all over the world, subject to repeated and ever more aggressive threats and attacks, according to president of the Spanish ...
21 June 2006
AFRICA/BURUNDI - From child soldiers to child prisoners: the plight of former child soldiers enlisted by National Liberation Forces now in prison
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A recent Human Rights Watch report said that instead of rehabilitating child soldiers the Burundian government lets them languish in prison. These children were forcefully enlisted by the Nati ...
21 June 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - AIDS pandemic focus of two important meetings in Kenya
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A workshop on AIDS 21 - 24 June organised by the Symposium of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opened today in Nairobi, capital of Kenya at Catholic Universit ...
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