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• 5 May 2007
  VATICAN - Month of Mary, Month of May - «QUÉ SOY ERA IMMACULADA COUNCEPCIOU» 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (4) Vatican City (Fides Service) - 4th Brief and silent Apparition FRIDAY 19th FEBRUARY. After mass about 7 in the morning we saw Bernadette, her mother, her aunt Bernarda Castérot, Mrs Millet and a few other women at the G ...
• 4 May 2007
  VATICAN - “We are here to serve the missionary Church. Your hearts must be large enough to reach out to all regardless of the effort involved”: Cardinal Ivan Dias opens Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and Archbishop Henryk Hoser, CEP secretary adjunct and president of the Pontifical Mission Societies, were both pres ...
• 4 May 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Division among Catholics does not help religious freedom. Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Fides Service) - In Turkey Christians are murdered, in Italy the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference receives threats, in Rome during at a massive May 1 pop music show, a rock star offends the Pop ...
• 4 May 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Peoples of America 7th Meeting at Shrine of Torreciudad to “pray for peace and stability in our countries and for our families on the other side of the Atlantic” Huesca (Fides Service) - 'United For Migration' is the theme of the 7th Meeting of Peoples of America at the Shrine of Torreciudad in Spain on Sunday 6 May during which there will be a twinning with Latin Americans resid ...
• 4 May 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Second protocol signed by Ugandan government and LRA rebels Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Another important step towards peace in northern Uganda was made on 2 May when a second agreement on political and economic solutions necessary to put an end to the conflict, was signed in Juba ...
• 4 May 2007
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Spectre of another crisis hangs over Guinea where the army is in revolt Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Once again tension is rising in Guinea where troops in the country's two main barracks have mutinied demanding higher pay. The soldiers fired gun shots in the air and sacked deposits of weapons ...
• 4 May 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society protests against 'Talebanisation' and spreading religious fundamentalism Lahore (Fides Service) - To affirm civil society's desire to remain secular, democratic and pluralist associations, movements, unions, religious minority groups staged a street demonstration in Lahore demanding that grow ...
• 4 May 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Young people from all over the country reflect on 'Education for Life', discussing AIDS and the Media Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Following the last one organised for young couples and families recently the diocese of Honiara hosted a seminar on Education for Life for young people from Catholic schools, parishes, movements ...
• 4 May 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Situation desperate: more than one third of the people in Mogadishu abandoned the capital in the past two months Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it intends to accelerate food supplies to at least 100,000 of the 365,000 people forced to abandon their homes in Mogadishu because of f ...
• 4 May 2007
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Health authorities keep careful watch on Dengue which has already infected 27,000 people in the country Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty days after announcing a state of emergency the national health authorities in Paraguay have said they will continue to keep close watch to prevent the outbreak of dengue from spreading. ...
• 4 May 2007
  VATICAN - Month of Mary, Month of May - «QUÉ SOY ERA IMMACULADA COUNCEPCIOU» 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (3) Vatican City (Fides Service) - 3rd Apparition THURSDAY 18th FEBRUARY «The third time was the following Thursday: some important people said I should take with me paper and pen and ask the Lady if she had something t ...
• 3 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI continues his general audience teaching on Origen and his ever valid teaching on prayer and the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI chose the teachings of Origen on prayer and the Church as the subject of his weekly teaching during the general audience on Wednesday 2 May in St Peter's Square where des ...
• 3 May 2007
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina open web site a new channel for evangelisation Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina has its own we site since April 30. National Director Rev. Fr. Tomo Knezevic told Fides that it is hoped the web si ...
• 3 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Catholic Church in Brazil has stopped losing members, and the country is still home to the largest Catholic population in the world Río de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report issued by the Getulio Vargas Foundation although in the 1990s Brazil saw a drastic decline in its Catholic population, the soul drain has stopped and the numbers ha ...
• 3 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ There is urgent need for reflection and deeper awareness of who we are and what we offer to the world: and from this depends our qualified manner of exercising the mission of the Church.”: interview with Archbishop Odilo P. Scherer Archbishop of Sao Paulo and secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil. Aparecida (Fides Service) - Ten days before the opening in Brazil of a major Catholic Church event CELAM 5, the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops' Conferences, Fides interviewed CELAM 5 Secr ...