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• 20 October 2007
  Dossier Fides - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 Sunday 21 october 2007 - Dossier Fides Dossier Fides - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 "All the Churches for all the world" Index Message of his holiness Benedict XVI for the 81st World Mission Sunday 2007 The ...
• 19 October 2007
  VATICAN - “The daily chronicle reveals that society of our day faces many ethic and social emergencies which can undermine its stability and seriously jeopardise its future” Pope Benedict XVI says in a Message to Italy's 45th Catholic Social Week Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of the theme chosen for the 45th Catholic Social Week being held in Pistoia and Pisa from the 18 to the 21 October - “The common good today: a commitment which comes from a ...
• 19 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Meetings, events and a video illustrate World Mission Sunday contents Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church is missionary because it walks in step with humanity” says Rev Denis Kibangu Malanda in a video “All the Churches for all the World ” produced by Missio - Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 19 October 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We are called to help spread the Gospel”: national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies says in letter for World Mission Sunday Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- “World Mission Sunday is an opportunity to reflect on the urgency and importance of the Church's missionary activity, still today, 50 years since the Fide Donum Encyclical” Mgr Hypolite Adigwe, ...
• 19 October 2007
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - “Formation for young people, support for families and promotion of social justice: these are our priorities” says President of Catholic Bishops of Congo, in Rome for the ad limina visit Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “The formation of young people and support for the family are the main concern of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Congo” Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu of Kinkala and President of the Bisho ...
• 19 October 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Intense preparation in the Chinese world in communion with the universal Church for Mission Sunday Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The whole of the Chinese world is mobilising intensely to celebrate World Mission Sunday with the universal Church. According to reports sent to Fides from the continent, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwa ...
• 19 October 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Salesian world boosts its presence in information and communications from Asia: commitment of ANS news service Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - Boost service of information and communication in order to intensify communion within the Salesian world on one hand, and open ever wider and render visible the charisma of don Bosco in the univers ...
• 19 October 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “God's love knows no frontiers: from the Amazon to the whole world”: theme of World Mission Sunday in Brazil in harmony with Fraternity Campaign 2007 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - “God's love knows no frontiers: from the Amazon to the whole world” is the theme chosen by the Catholic Church in Brazil to celebrate World Mission Sunday on 21 October. The theme also refe ...
• 19 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archbishop of Melbourne issues Mission Sunday message: keep alive passion for mission in Australia Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - 'All the faithful for all the world' is the title of a message for World Mission Sunday in which the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart, calls for more mission awareness an ...
• 19 October 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - An experience of life: young Catholics in Manabì organise “Youth Mission” to evangelise their friends Porto Viejo (Agenzia Fides) - This was the experience in this month of October, dedicated to the missions, of young people in Porto Viejo diocese in the province of Manabí, Ecuador. To stem the invasion of religious sec ...
• 18 October 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI catechesis on St Eusebius of Vercelli: “he governed the diocese with the testimony of his life” - Appeal “to increase efforts to eradicate the causes of poverty and its tragic consequences ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - St Eusebius of Vercelli, the first Bishop of northern Italy of whom we have reliable information, was the theme of the catechesis given by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI during his Wed ...
• 18 October 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE From the “spirit” to the “ghost” of the Council, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If, when the Lord sent his disciples into the world, he had given them an agenda of problems with regard to the relationship they should have with societies and cultures, the poor men woul ...
• 18 October 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - World Mission Sunday: “We want to help all the faithful live the month of mission intensely and make the whole year, a time for mission without frontiers " Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Portugal has distributed a Handbook for October Mission Month 2007 prepared with the help of various missionary institutes in view of th ...
• 18 October 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Government reshuffle to convince the southern leadership to resume its place in the coalition cabinet Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- The President of Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir has approved a cabinet reshuffle, one of the conditions posed by the former Southern Sudan rebels, if they resume their place in the national transit ...
• 18 October 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “We remain united to negotiate a trade system more favourable for poor countries” say India Brazil and South Africa Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- Brazil, India and South Africa have called on developing countries to remain united to form a common front in Doha talks on the future of world. The call was launched by heads of state and gover ...