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26 June 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: German (4) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Reformation was a movement in Europe that began with Martin Luther's activities in 1517 and concluded with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.[1] The movement began as an attemp ...
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26 June 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI visits Vatican Apostolic Library: “Your task is to safeguard the harmony between culture and faith revealed by the precious documents and treasures in your care”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican Library, which is to undergo a few years of major renovation, “not by chance is called ‘Apostolic’ because as an Institution it has been considered since its foundation, ...
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25 June 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: German (3) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Born Winfrid, a native of England, Benedictine monk, the Apostle of Germany, martyred in 755. His feast day June 5, the date of his martyrdom is celebrated by Catholics ad Orthodox Christi ...
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25 June 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses European University Lecturers: “may universities increasingly become communities committed to the tireless pursuit of truth, "laboratories of culture" where teachers and students join in exploring issues of particular importance for society”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the morning of Saturday June 23 Pope Benedict XVI received in audience participants at the first European Meeting of University Lecturers on the theme "A New Humanism for Europe. The ...
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25 June 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI invokes the intercession of St John the Baptist “that also in our day the Church may remain faithful to Christ and bear witness with courage to His truth and His love for all ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the birth of John the Baptist “means in actual fact, to celebrate Christ, the fulfilment of the promises of all the prophets of whom the greatest was the Baptist called to ...
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23 June 2007
VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: German (2) The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - History of Evangelisation.
678: Wilfrid in Friesland;
690: Willibrord of Northumbria lands in Friesland to evangelise the local people;
695: Willibrord is appointed Bishop of Utrecht in ...
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23 June 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses the Bishops of Togo: “Formation offered to Christians must equip them with the means to deepen their faith, so that they are in a condition to deal with the difficult situations which arise and transmit the contents of the faith through the witness of the life”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday June 22 Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the Bishops of Togo on their ad limina visit. In his address the Holy Father expressed his gratitude “for your perseverance and c ...
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22 June 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World , German (I) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Geography. Germany has a population of 82,532 million and an area of 357,030,32 km² , density 231 inhabitants per km² (source: “Statistiche Ämter des Bundes und der Länder”, 25/2/20 ...
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21 June 2007
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE : The Sacred Heart and the “ mystery of the human ”, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If it is true that the splendid icon of the Heart of Christ has been differently interpreted, oscillating between two extremes of sentimentalistic devotionalism and intellectualistic almost ...
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21 June 2007
VATICAN - Cardinal Martino celebrates 50th anniversary of priestly ordination
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “A long period of ministry, enriched by praiseworthy activity”: this was how Pope Benedict XVI described the 50 years of priesthood of Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino who celebrated hi ...
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21 June 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI dedicates general audience to Saint Athanasius, “one of the most important and venerated Fathers of the early Church, enthusiastic theologian of the incarnation of the Logos” - appeal for World Refugee Day
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The general audience on Wednesday 20 June was held in two parts, first in St Peter's and then in the Paul VI Audience Hall. In his address to the visitors in St Peter's Pope Benedict XVI sa ...
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21 June 2007
VATICAN - The Pope addresses Meeting of Aid Agencies for the Eastern Catholic Churches (ROACO): “The Holy Land, Iraq and Lebanon are present, with urgency and constancy they deserve in the prayer and activity of the Apostolic See and the whole Church ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The presence of the venerable Eastern Bishops allows me to share the pain and concern for the delicate situation in vast areas of the Middle East. Peace, so implored and longed for, is s ...
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20 June 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA “Letting oneself be captured by Christ”, Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - «'You see this woman? I came into your house, and you poured no water over my feet, but she has poured out her tears over my feet and wiped them away with her hair. You gave me no kiss, bu ...
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20 June 2007
VATICAN - “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road”: mobility a characteristic of present day societies all over the world is a new horizon for evangelisation
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The necessity to write a document on “Pastoral Care of the Road ” emerged during the 1st European Meeting for National Directors of Pastoral Care of the Road held in February 2003 at t ...
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20 June 2007
VATICAN - Celebrations at the Papal Basilica of St Paul's outside the Walls for the feast of Saints Peter and Paul: Benedict XVI will call as “Pauline Year” to mark the 2000th anniversary of the birth of the Apostle of the Gentiles
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As every year on the 26, 27, 28 and 29 June the Papal Basilica of St Paul's outside the Walls will hold three days of celebrations in honour of Saints Peter and Paul, the founders of the Church in ...
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