Oceania

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  9 February 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Fifty years of compassion Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Australia, will launch its annual Lenten campaign, "Project Compassion", Australia's largest humanitarian fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns, and will also celebrate its 50 years ...
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  12 January 2016
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Malnutrition emerges silently Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - On top of the interior highlands of Papua New Guinea, the most populous island in the Pacific with 7.3 million inhabitants, rural communities carry out strenuous work in the wilderness, alm ...
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  10 December 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops: May Australia be a promoting force for human rights Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - UN Human Rights Day, which is celebrated on December 10, should generate a reflection on the respect of human rights in Australia, particularly against indigenous peoples such as the Aborigines a ...
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  9 December 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Islamic State Jihadists have hacked a Syriac Catholic parish website Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic State (IS) jihadists have hacked the website of Our Lady of Mercy Syriac Catholic Church, posting videos of Islamic State terrorists beheading, shooting and burning victims alive and thre ...
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  3 December 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Celebrating Joy and Mercy Australian Catholic Youth Festival Adelaide (Agencia Fides) – More than three thousand young people from every diocese in Australia have arrived in Adelaide to take part in the Catholic Youth Festival, a three day gathering organised by the local Cathol ...
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  27 November 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops appeal for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Australia are opposed to death penalty and have asked to abolish it throughout the world, making themselves available to contribute effectively to this goal: as Fides learns, this ...
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  29 October 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission's appeal: "Let us remember the most vulnerable children at Christmas" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - With the festive season nearly upon us again, Catholic Mission Australia is urging its supporters to remember the most vulnerable children around the world this Christmas. In the statement sent t ...
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  29 October 2015
  OCEANIA/FIJI - Hydrological risk: 90,000 people need food and water Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Fiji islands are going through a difficult period because of the hydrological risk that affects 67,000 people, or 13% of the population in the Country. The production of sugar cane has declined ...
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  10 October 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops: "Stop the crime against people accused of black magic" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In Papua New Guinea, the Catholic Church has convened a special meeting at the end of the month to address the issue of crimes and murders against persons suspected of having practiced blac ...
• 1 September 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appeal to release children detained in the center for immigrants in Nauru Yaren (Agenzia Fides) - A Committee of the Australian Senate has just presented a document that defines the "inadequate, inappropriate and unsafe" living conditions of asylum seekers at the detention center in Nauru. On ...
• 1 July 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Twenty years of commitment to the reception of migrants Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – To develop guidelines on the pastoral theme of reception and solidarity towards migrants and asylum seekers: is the mission of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office within the Bish ...
• 5 June 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Episcopal Commission for Migrants: "Take action to help the persecuted Rohingya" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "We must take urgent action to help refugees and the persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar". This is the appeal launched by the Commission for Migrants within the Episcopal Conference of Australia. ...
• 13 May 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Letter of Bishops: "The evil of capital punishment" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "With the many countries that have abolished the death penalty as an extreme act of violence performed in the name of the people and with the teaching of the Catholic Church, we the bishops ...
• 11 May 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops' Letter for the "Pacific Games": Sport, a tool for growth Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church recognises sport to be one of the great institutions of our society that helps individuals realise their human potential and builds up the bonds of the community, foste ...
• 5 May 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Consecrated Life has the responsibility of "waking up a world" asleep in comfortable compromises Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The most significant contribution of consecrated persons to the Church of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands is the witness of their lives: say the Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea ...