Oceania
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30 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Caritas Australia is among the first to help earthquake victims in Nias
Sydney (Fides Service) - Caritas Australia lost no time in arranging assistance for the victims of the 28 March earthquake on the island of Nias. As for the December 26 tsunami, the Catholic aid agency was among the firs ...
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22 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - PMS Mission collections in 2004 a great success: Australian Catholics gave 8 million dollars for education, development, struggle against AIDS and poverty
Sydney (Fides Service) - The missionary awareness of the people of Australia gave a great demonstration of generosity and solidarity in 2004. According to the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia donations were 20% ...
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16 March 2005
OCEANIA/ISOLE SALOMONE - “Young people, build a new community in Solomon Islands”: Radio Don Bosco broadcasts seminar to promote moral and cultural renewal in the Pacific
Honiara (Fides Service) - Radio Don Bosco, a new community radio non commercial started its activity only recently but it is already in full swing working to spread a message of hope and peace across the waters of the so ...
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14 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Vocations flourish in Australia’s Catholic communities: Church commitment in the new millennium
Sydney (Fides Service) - Vocations are flourishing in the ‘newest of the continents’ after a drop in vocations in the mid 1990s. Today the number of students in seminaries continues to rise, the Australian Catholic B ...
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10 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New monthly newsletter on the Internet on Mission and Spirituality, information service for Australian Catholics
Sydney (Fides Service) - Internet is increasingly a field for evangelisation and the Australian Church is making an effort to follow the indications of the Holy Father who has repeatedly said, also recently in his messag ...
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8 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “I am ready for mission in Australia”, says new Papal Nuncio in Canberra
Canberra (Fides Service) - Recently the new Papal Nuncio to Australia Archbishop Ambrose De Paoli, was welcomed by the Catholic Bishops of Australia, staff at the Nunciature in Canberra, many priests and local Catholics ...
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7 March 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - New Catholic radio broadcasts over the Pacific: Salesians fathers launch Radio Bosco to spread Good News
Honiara (Fides) - A new Catholic broadcaster is sending the Word of God across the Pacific. Radio Bosco is the name of a Catholic radio station launched by the Salesian Fathers in Solomon Islands. The radio commenced it ...
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2 March 2005
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Caritas Solomon Islands collaborates to fight AIDS in Papua New Guinea
Honiara (Fides Service) - To intensify cooperation in programmes of healthcare and development in the Pacific, recently Caritas Solomon Islands sent one of its teams on a three week visit to Papua New Guinea. In Madang, ...
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1 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission in Australia past and present: Fides Dossier with documentation from Propaganda Fide mission history archives
Sydney (Fides Service) - It was the year 1676 when Dominican Father Vittorio Riccio wrote from Manila to the “De Propaganda Fide” College in Rome offering to lead a mission of evangelisation in lands still further to ...
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1 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Bishops launch Australian Catholic Church Television
Sydney (Fides Service) - Christians in Australia have a new means of listening to the Word of God, hearing meditations on the Bible or following televised Mass thanks to Aurora Community Television, opened by the Catholi ...
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24 February 2005
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Four congregations of Sisters of Mercy decide to become one to face challenge of new evangelisation more effectively
Wellington (Fides Service) - The four congregations of “Sisters of Mercy” in New Zealand announced that they will merge to form one new order “Sisters of Mercy of New Zealand”. The respective superiors have made ...
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23 February 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Announcing Christ through art and music and computer science: Catholic school in Tenaru adds new subjects to its programme
Tenaru (Fides Service) - Music and art and the Internet can touch the human heart and so they can serve for evangelisation. With this conviction St Joseph’s Catholic School in Tenaru, Solomon Islands, added to its curr ...
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21 February 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Applications to take part in World Youth Day in Germany pour in
Sydney (Fides Service) - In Australia there is growing enthusiasm for the 20th World Youth Day event in Germany in August this year as the number of young Australians applying to participate continues to increase. For th ...
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21 February 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - 70 years of mission, witness and service in the Solomon Islands: new leadership for Daughters of Immaculate Mary DIM
Honiara (Fides Service) - For 70 years they have been present in Solomon Islands, involved in first evangelisation, pastoral work, education, service of the poor: the Daughters of Immaculate Mary recently held an extraor ...
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17 February 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Little Church in the Pacific welcomes new vocations: new members for Dominican sisters and brothers
Honiara (Fides Service) - New vocations in Solomon Islands are a great encouragement for the local Church. In a report sent to Fides Honiara archdiocese says that an increasing number of young men and women are choosing ...
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