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• 3 September 2007
  Tomorrow Fides Dossier on the Marian Shrine of Mariazell, Austria, destination of the Holy Father's next apostolic journey Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From 7 to 9 September the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will make an apostolic visit to Austria on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Marian Shrine of Mariazell. ...
• 3 September 2007
  VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome new clinic-surgery department in Cambodia has already treated 2,400 children Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - Already 2,400 children have been treated at a new clinic-surgery department opened in Takeo Cambogia, by the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital sponsored by the Holy See. Since it was opened in ...
• 3 September 2007
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Thanks to basic instruction, social programmes and prevention, and growing awareness there is optimism for the reduced diffusion of AIDS in the Asia-Pacific zone Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Experts taking part in the 8th International Meeting on AIDS in the Asia-Pacific area, which just ended in capital of Sri Lanka, launched a message of hope in which they say prospects to gain co ...
• 3 September 2007
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - People without doctors or medicines: hundreds from Lempira seek healthcare over the border in El Salvador Tomalá, Lempira (Agenzia Fides) - A strange disease which deforms the legs and can even lead to paralysis is regarded as “normal” in the town of Lempira, in Honduras. The disease has not yet been identified because ...
• 3 September 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope appoints Coadjutor Bishop of Oyo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 14 August 2007, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Oyo (Nigeria), Rev. Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, of the clergy of Osogbo. Bishop elect Emmanuel Adetoyes ...
• 3 September 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Kibungo and appoints successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 28 August 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kibungo (Rwanda), presented by Bishop Frédéric Rubwejanga, in ...
• 1 September 2007
  Dossier - MARY AND EUROPE (Part Two) MARY AND EUROPE (Part Two) by N. Bux and S. Vitiello IRELAND: - OUR LADY OF THE ISLAND - LADY’S ISLAND - OUR LADY QUEEN OF IRELAND- KNOCK LITHUANIA, LATVIA, ESTONIA: - SHRINE OF THE NATIVITY OF MARY- SILUVA ...
• 31 August 2007
  Dossier - MARY AND EUROPE (Part One) MARY AND EUROPE (Part One) by N. Bux and S. Vitiello INTRODUCTION PRINCIPAL MARIAN SHRINES OF EUROPE AUSTRIA: - MARIAZELL - STEIREN BELGIUM: - OUR LADY OF BEAURING - BEAURING - OUR LADY OF THE POOR - BEN ...
• 30 August 2007
  Dossier - TOWARDS THE AGORÀ OF LORETO Interview with monsignor Paolo Giulietti, head of National Service for Youth Pastoral of the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI. Towards the Agorà di Loreto: interview with con monsignor Mauro Parmeggiani, Prelate Secre ...
• 13 August 2007
  Dossier - THE DEATH PENALTY: “Love your enemies” THE DEATH PENALTY: “Love your enemies”. How States take lives. Stones? Big, but not too big Death with a rope around the neck lasts between 8 and 13 minutes. One blow of the sword is not always sufficient t ...
• 6 August 2007
  Instrumentum mensis Iulii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The month of July opened with the publication of an important document: the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum with which the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, granted the faithful who so desire, on the condition that they a ...
• 3 August 2007
  Dossier - Drugs in Africa: a global problem In Africa drugs are a problem and one more obstacle to development. This is the opinion of international bodies charged with fighting international drugs trafficking. “After experience in hashish and heroine smuggling ...
• 1 August 2007
  Dossier - THE MOTU PROPRIO of Benedict XVI THE MOTU PROPRIO of Benedict XVI Summorum Pontificum cura 1. THE ANTECEDENTS The Sacrosanctum Concilium The Constitution Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI (1969) The Indult Quattuor Abhinc Annos of Pope John Paul ...
• 28 July 2007
  Dossier - NEW, SMALL AND GREAT CHURCH REALITIES Dossier - NEW, SMALL AND GREAT CHURCH REALITIES RENEWAL IN THE HOLY SPIRIT Development - Pastoral activity - Ministerial Activity- Organisation - Formation Events - Publications - Missions and Projects - Institutes ...
• 27 July 2007
  The Pope's Missionary Prayer intention for August: “That the Church in China may show ever stronger unity within herself and effective and visible communion with the Successor of Peter ”, Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Never has a Papal Letter aroused so much expectation, interest and curiosity as the recent Letter addressed by Pope Benedict XVI to the members of the Catholic Church living in the Chinese ...