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• 2 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 50th International Course in Leprology for Medical Personnel Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - The, Fontilles Association to Fight Leprosy, based in Valencia, Spain has organised 50th International Course in Leprology for Medical Personnel to be held at Sanatorio San Francisco de Borja, ...
• 1 October 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Those forgotten by everyone are never forgotten by God; those worth nothing in the eyes of man, are precious in the eyes of the Lord”. A call to pray for Myanmar and Korea Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - During the last of his Summer Angelus reflections at Castel Gandolfo, before returning to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, stressed the importance to make generous use of the gifts of the ...
• 1 October 2007
  October: The Holy Father's missionary prayer intention for October “That World Mission Sunday may be an opportunity to deepen the missionary awareness of all the baptised ”. Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "All the Churches for all the World ”, the theme of World Mission Sunday 2007, is the slogan with which Pope Benedict XVI “calls local Churches in every continent to consciously increa ...
• 1 October 2007
  VATICAN - “Bishops should be men of God, they should live oriented towards God. The Bishop must be a man of prayer, one who intercedes for all men and women” in St Peter's the Holy Father encourages newly ordained Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast day of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, on Saturday 29th September Pope Benedict XVI presided Mass in St Peter's during which he ordained six new bishops: Mgr Miecz ...
• 1 October 2007
  VATICAN - The feast-day of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, named patron saint of the missions 80 years ago, marks the beginning of the missionary month of October; Mass in the chapel of Propaganda Fide presided by Archbishop Sarah: “To evangelise is to carry God's Love to every man and woman” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of the patron saint of the Missions Saint Therese of Lisieux, on October 1st , opens the missionary month which will culminate with the celebration of World Mission Sunday, the la ...
• 1 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Growing conscious objection to 'education to citizenship' school subject: every Catholic institution shares parents' delicate situation of conscience Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The new school year opened in Spain with the introduction of a new school subject 'Education to Citizenship', already in force in some Autonomous Communities. This highly controversial compulsory ...
• 1 October 2007
  AFRICA - Helping Africa join world trade to reduce its poverty: international meeting opens in Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- Help Africa finds its place in international trade system and promote its economic development. This is the goal of a meeting for African ministers of the economy which opens today 1 Octobe ...
• 1 October 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “An attack led by someone not invited to the peace talks” says a local source in Darfur with regard to attack on AU peacekeepers at AMIS base Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “The attack was perpetrated by some faction not invited to the peace talks at the end of the month in Libya ” Fides was told by a local Church source near to where the AU peacekeepers were k ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Local Christian Churches request government permission to hold special week of prayer for the nation Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's Christians, like the rest of the population, are suffering because of the difficult situation in the country and wish to pray to God for the gift of reconciliation and peace. To do this ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Active participation in diocesan Mission Sunday initiatives on 26 September continue to World Mission Sunday and beyond Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The celebration of the diocesan Mission Sunday 26 September is moved by the desire to foster active participation of the faithful”. This was said by Italian PIME missionary Fr Renzo Mila ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith killed on 26 September was a diocesan priest not a Jesuit Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - Fides was informed by the local Church that Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith, killed on 26 September in an attack on the diocese of Mannar, (see Fides 27/9/2006), was not a Jesuit as previously r ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progress in North - South dialogue for North Korea's de-nuclearisation: the Church prays for peace and stability Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean people, civil associations and Christian Churches welcomed the news of an agreement reached in talks between United States, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas with regard to North ...
• 1 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thirty years serving the marginalised, the helpless, the excluded: Jesuit Social Service in Australia Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits Social Service JSS in 2007 is celebrating 30 years of activity in Australia with various initiatives including prayer meetings and special solidarity events. Julie Edwards, head of ...
• 1 October 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week for the Defence and Promotion of Life in view of proposed Bill to legalise abortion in Brazil at any time in pregnancy Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - October 8 in Brazil will be the annual national Day of the Unborn Child established by the Bishops of Brazil in 2005 at the end of their 43rd general assembly. In the statement the Bishops aske ...
• 1 October 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 25th anniversary of the re-opening of the Pontifical University of Mexico: "the University's mission is to generate culture and in the case of a Catholic university to generate culture with the leaven and the values of the Gospel " Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr Guillermo Moreno, vicar general of the archdiocese of Mexico City, on behalf of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, grand chancellor of the Pontifical University of Mexico has called on th ...