Oceania

• 16 April 2015
  OCEANIA/VANUATU - Church's response plan helps residents in aftermath of cyclone Pam Port Vila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Vanuatu, supported by Caritas Oceania agencies, including Caritas Australia and Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, have been distributing tarpaulins and other emergency aid a ...
• 31 March 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Cases of multidrug resistant tuberculosis increase and there is little accessibility to healthcare Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - 85% of the population in Papua New Guinea lives in rural areas where access to health services is very precarious and it is equally difficult to reach hospitals. There is a doctor and five ...
• 27 March 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "WeCare!" Foundation: support to vulnerable women and marginalized children and young people Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Traditionally the primary emphasis in the parishes in Port Moresby is placed on worship, on the sacraments, on devotional practices", said Fr. John M. Glynn, head of the "WeCare!" Foundati ...
• 23 March 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Catholic schools against bullying Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic primary and secondary schools in Sydney have gathered over 1900 schools across Australia to demonstrate against bullying. In the statement sent to Agenzia Fides by the archdiocese sa ...
• 17 March 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appeal for the victims of Cyclone Pam: 54 000 children affected Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Appeals have been launched to help the thousands of people affected by a devastating cyclone that has battered Vanuatu and other parts of the Pacific. Martin Teulan, National Director of Cathol ...
• 13 February 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Free the Children" campaign for the release of immigrant children held in prison Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Commission for Human Rights has just published its conclusions on the detention of immigrant children. In this regard, Catholic Mission, official body of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 6 February 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA – One hundred years of Thomas Merton Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - During Lent the Church in Australia will remember "one of the greatest voices of the Church of modern age, the Trappist monk, mystic and writer, Thomas Merton, for the hundredth anniversary of hi ...
• 3 February 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops: "safe and humane conditions for refugees" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Offer asylum seekers the status of "refugee" and ensure "safe and humane conditions" to those who arrive as immigrants in their countries: is what the Bishops of Papua New Guinea and the So ...
• 19 January 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops' Pastoral Plan: "Go and tell everyone" Madang (Agenzia Fides) - "Go and tell everyone": this is the theme of the five-year pastoral plan launched by the Episcopal Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. As reported in a note sent to Fides by F ...
• 15 January 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Twenty years with Blessed Peter ToRot, an example for every Christian Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "Twenty years ago, in January 1995, Peter ToRot, catechist and martyr was beatified in Port Moresby. This historic event certainly gave a new dimension of enthusiasm for the life and the presenc ...
• 18 December 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishop of Alotau’s appeal for the population Alotau (Agenzia Fides) - "I launch an emergency appeal for the people of the Southeast of my diocese, Alotau. Thousands of people are suffering from a severe shortage of food and are starving because of Ita cyclone, whic ...
• 30 October 2014
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission calls for the support of Australians in order to feed the hungry, malnourished and sick Peruvian children Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of malnutrition continues to spread in some of the poorest and most remote areas of Peru. In view of the upcoming holiday season, Catholic Mission Australia has launched its app ...
• 3 October 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The President of Bishops: "Family in Melanesia is an intense network of relationships" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Family in Melanesia lives weaknesses and particular complexities", said the Bishop of Wabag, His Exc. Mgr. Arnold Orowae, in a meeting in Port Moresby, a few hours before his departure for ...
• 2 October 2014
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Jamaica and children who are detained demand attention: Mission Month is a unique opportunity Sidney (Agenzia Fides) - Among the various initiatives of the Australian Church, this year Catholic Mission Australia focuses its attention on Jamaica, which has the second highest rate in the world regarding deaths due ...
• 1 August 2014
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - 49% of mothers and pregnant women are discriminated in their workplace Sidney (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by the Human Rights Commission, 49% of mothers in Australia suffer from discrimination where they work during pregnancy, when they are on maternity leave or when they ...