Oceania

• 8 January 2021
  OCEANIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 June 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Sr. Mariana Maramanicava SM as National Director of the Pontifical ...
• 4 January 2021
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Paul Martin of the diocese of Christchurch as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 4/1/ ...
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  22 December 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission: Christmas dedicated to modern slavery and victims of human trafficking Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic Mission", National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia, invited the community of the faithful across the country to approach Christmas by reflecting on the issue ...
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  9 November 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The PMS for Ethiopia: opportunity for education to help break the vicious cycle of poverty Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Support and promote the educational path of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Ethiopia, an African country where interethnic tensions threaten a new civil war: this is the initiative of ...
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  27 October 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Missionary Month, a circle of friendship, closeness and support: "Do not be afraid to say yes to God" Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary world has always attracted me from an early age, I was passionate about browsing through and reading missionary magazines. I remember the Missionary Month lived in the parish and ...
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  23 October 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - More than 360 Catholic schools involved in the special Missionary Childhood Day Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day for children was celebrated by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia (Catholic Mission) with the initiative "Socktober Day": the initiative, which combines the term "soc ...
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  9 October 2020
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - World Mission Sunday 2020: "I was evangelized by the poor" Suva (Agenzia Fides) - "In my missionary life, I discoverd that I was evangelized by the poor", said Sister Torika Wong, a citizen from Fiji, who served as a missionary in the Philippines in the Archdiocese of Davao, Mi ...
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  1 October 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - In Rabaul inauguration mass for the first local Archbishop, descendant of Blessed ToRot Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank God for the years passed and the pastoral experience in the dioceses of Bereina and Kavieng. I return to Rabaul as Jesus returned to Nazareth: here he was judged by the people for what h ...
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  26 September 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church in prayer for Migrant Day: "The pandemic must not distract us from the suffering of those who flee" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The understandable focus on the COVID-19 pandemic must not distract people from another ongoing crisis. Migration is a major challenge for much of today’s world and a priority for the Catholic ...
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  17 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Independence Day: the partnership between State and Church is the cornerstone for the foundation of the nation Boroko (Agenzia Fides) - "While we remember the freedom for which our founding fathers worked to bring our people and our nation where we are today, it is also important to recognize and respect our national Constitution ...
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  16 September 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Towards World Mission Day: a thousand faces for mission Sydney - (Agenzia Fides) - A thousand faces for mission: with this spirit, which expresses the universality of the Church's mission and the call of all the baptized to be "sent" to proclaim and witness the Gospel, "Catho ...
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  5 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholics engaged in prevention campaigns and health services, vital during the pandemic Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea continues its commitment to offer prevention and awareness programs against Covid throughout the Country. Thanks to the support of the Secretariat of ...
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  4 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Celebrating the Time of Creation with the awareness that when our world is sick, we also get sick Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Every year from 1 September to 4 October the Christian family in the world gathers to celebrate the protection of our common home. "We rejoice in this Time of Creation which offers us the o ...
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  3 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "God is always ready to forgive": Day of penance and prayer celebrated Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Symbolic objects to indicate peace and mutual forgiveness, such as banknotes attached to a twig; leaves of a specific tree planted as a sign of recovered trust; Areca nuts exchanged to repa ...
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  8 August 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The bishop of Mendi urges everyone to observe together the first International Day against sorcery accusation violence Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Those who torture and kill women accused of sorcery are clearly guilty of the crime they are reporting", said Mgr. Donald Lippert, Bishop of Mendi, on recent episodes of violence against w ...