Oceania

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  7 February 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Flood in Townsville, the Bishop: "Do not give up: there is new life after death" Townsville (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to remember that we may have lost clothes and personal belongings, but we have our lives. When we can all return to our homes, we can put everything back in its place. It i ...
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  1 February 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Bishops: "May the most vulnerable be the priority of electoral programs" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent years, in view of some of the federal elections, the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has prepared some leaflets addressing key social justice issues and containing questions ...
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  31 January 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Catholic aborigines: "Postpone Australian Day to May 27" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "January 26, 1788 was not a day of celebration for the aborigines and the inhabitants of Torres Strait Islands, nor for the passengers of the 'first fleet', a mixture of prisoners and military pe ...
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  30 January 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops’ appeal: The mental health of refugees and asylum seekers in Manus is exacerbated Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Despair, precarious state of health, self-harm: this is the context in which I found myself in Lorengau, on the island of Manus, and at the Pacific International Hospital (PIH) of Port Mor ...
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  23 January 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Laudato Sì Generation", from Papua to Panama Panama (Agenzia Fides) - An "ecological conversion" is urgent, that derives from a change of lifestyle, in Papua New Guinea and in the whole world. "Deforestation with the consequent climate change, mining without protec ...
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  3 January 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Church appeal: "Manus refugees await freedom" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The current situation of the almost 500 refugees on Manus island - which hosts the asylum seekers rejected by Australia - causes us great suffering. The refugees were brought back to Manus ...
• 28 December 2018
  OCEANIA/WALLIS ET FUTUNA - Resignation of the Bishop of Wallis et Futuna and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 24, 2018 the Holy Father Francis the resignation from the pastoral care of Wallis et Futuna (Pacific Islands), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Ghislain de Rasilly, SM, and appointed ...
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  19 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops' appeal for Christmas: "Let's find refugees a home" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Enough is enough. It is time to find these people a home and to definitively end the intolerable situation": says the Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, President of the Australian B ...
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  18 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission: One heart Many voices, Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission: Mission: One heart Many voices" is the title of the missionary conference to be held in Sydney from 13 to 15 May 2019, organized by "Catholic Mission", the National Directorate of the P ...
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  15 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne: “our mission is to minister to Australians who never come to church ” Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - “One of the main and most urgent challenges we face in Australia, and it is an urgent mission, is to reach those who claim to be Catholic but do not come to Church ”. Fides was talki ...
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  11 December 2018
  OCEANIA/ PAPUA NEW GUINEA - “Called to fullness of life and love”: Young people follow Blessed ToRot Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) – “Called to fullness of life and love”: is the theme of a National Youth Congress taking place in Vunapope, a province of New Britannia, in Papua New Guinea, with the participation of 260 y ...
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  19 November 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Let us bring them to safety": the Church next to Nauru refugee children Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 40 refugee children detained by the Australian government on the island of Nauru in inhumane conditions: to draw the attention of Australian politicians and public opinion on this ...
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  22 October 2018
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Historic event for the diocese of Auki: the first native bishop of the Solomon Islands Auki (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Peter Houhou is the first native Solomon Islander to be appointed as Bishop in the Solomon Islands. As Agenzia Fides learns, the diocese of Auki, Malaita province, has in fact been the protago ...
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  18 October 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission supports the construction of a professional training center for women in Myanmar Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God because the construction of the training center for girls continues and is about to end". We hope that we can soon start decorating the interior spaces. We also thank you for the pr ...
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  16 October 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Church at the forefront of the anti-poverty week Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Catholic Church is actively involved in the "Anti-poverty Week", until 20 October 2018. The initiative, which aims to raise awareness on issues related to poverty, was conceived as ...