Oceania
26 May 2004
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS
“The media and the family - A risk and a richness ”: forum for media and pastoral operators in Solomon Islands reflects on Pope John Paul II’s message for the Church’s World Communications Day marked this year on 23 May.
Honiara (Fides Service) - Pastoral and media operators gathered with priests, laity, families and religious to take part in a forum to reflect on Pope John Paul II’s message for this years Day of Social Communications ...
11 May 2004
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - “Honest and constructive debate to settle differences between Maori and Pakeha (people of European origin) ”: Bishop Peter Cullinane, president of Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Wellington (Fides Service) - “Maori have a deep need to know that the guarantee given them in Article 2 of the Treaty still holds. And Pakeha (people of European origin Fides) need to know that at the end of the day th ...
7 May 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - For 25 years on mission in the South Pacific: Salesians’ contribution to the evangelisation and education of the people of Papua
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Thousands of young people instructed in scholastic and professional knowledge; native tribes and villages in the heart of the forest have heard and welcomed the Gospel of Jesus; great suppo ...
30 April 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholic diocese appeals for help to rebuild mission and school destroyed in accidental fire
Bereina (Fides Service) - The Catholic mission and mission school at Mainohana, in Bereina diocese, Papua New Guinea, has been completely gutted by an accidental fire. To the dismay of the missionary personnel and the sc ...
23 April 2004
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Church of Solomon Island, look to the future!”: says Father Michael Aike, first local Catholic priest ordained 36 years an example for priests and laity
Honiara (Fides Service) - “Rich in my pastoral experience in these 36 years a priest serving the community of Solomon Islands I say to the Church of Solomon Islands: Look to the future!”. This appeal was launched by ...
7 April 2004
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Salesian mission flourishes thanks to work of young Italian volunteers: Youth Centre dream is coming true
Honiara (Fides Service) - Thanks to the work of volunteers the Catholic mission on Tetere , one of the smaller Solomon Islands is flourishing. Italian volunteers came to work here at the invitation of Salesian Father Luc ...
26 February 2004
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Building peace with culture: Catholic school pupils turn ethnic and cultural differences into enriching theatre
Honiara (Fides Service) - Schools and school children are helping to build peace in Solomon Islands with a variety of activities to promote dialogue and reconciliation including theatre. The pupils of St. Joseph’s Cath ...
26 February 2004
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - New National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Reverend Eugenio Scarpellini Mazzoleni
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 13 February 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bolivia Rev ...
20 February 2004
OCEANIA/ TUVALU - Tuvalu submerged by giant tidal wave
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Much of Tuvalu, a small group of coral islands with a population of 11, 500 people in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and Hawaii, was submerged for about one hour by a giant tidal wav ...
19 February 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - After the Olympic Games, World Youth Day: the Church in Australia is a candidate for World Youth Day 2007
Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Australia would like to host the World Youth Day 2007. As preparations for WYD in Germany 2005 go ahead, in a statement issued at the end of a plenary assembly in Sydney t ...
13 February 2004
OCEANIA/FIJI - Making music to announce the Gospel to Youth “We shall not give up”: CD ROM by young Salesian in the South Pacific
Suva (Fides Service) - Music is an excellent channel of evangelisation, particularly among young people: this is the conviction of Isaia Bourne a theology student who has just produced a CD called “We shall not give up ...
23 January 2004
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - LOCAL CHURCH BUSY HEALING WAR TRAUMA AND REBUILDING CONFIDENCE
Honiara (Fides Service) - Solomon Islands is emerging from the recent ethnic tension that has left several persons traumatised by violence, destruction and fear. To heal these psychological wounds and try to re-build con ...
23 December 2003
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS – FIREARM ROUNDUP COMPLETED: ISLANDERS PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS OF PEACE
Honiara (Fides Service) – “At last this will be a Christmas of peace thank God. After five years of violence, death and fear, Solomon Islands today is a safer and more tranquil place than ever before” Salesian Fath ...
23 December 2003
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - PRISON INMATES WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS MASS AND PARTY WITH ARCHBISHOP BARNES: PNG CULTURE GIVES PRIDE OF PLACE TO CHILDREN
Port Moresby (Fides Service) – Archbishop Brian James Barnes of Port Moresby will celebrate Christmas mass at the local prison: “It has become a tradition every year to pay a visit to the prison at Christmas. We cele ...
10 December 2003
OCEANIA/ FIJI ISLANDS - INSTITUTES EXPERIMENT WITH SHARED FORMATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A RELIGIOUS IN THE PACIFIC TODAY?
Suva (Fides Service) – Last weekend in Suva Religious men and women of various congregations and institutes started a formation programme in preparation for their perpetual vows: the programme is first of its kind orga ...
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