Oceania

• 10 May 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archbishop Wilson of Adelaide re-elected President of Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of Australia have re-elected Archbishop Philip Wilson, Archbishop of Adelaide, as the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC). Archbishop Wilson has been the Pr ...
• 5 May 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - PMS Australia prays for Assembly Catholic Bishops' Conferences Oceania: “a fundamental forum for the debates and strategies of the Church's mission in the region” Sidney (Agenzia Fides) – In view of the upcoming meeting of the members of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences Oceania (FCBCO), in Sydney 10 to 14 May, the Pontifical Mission Societies Australia sent best w ...
• 3 May 2010
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Education for girls ensures a better future Honiara (Agenzia Fides) –Don Bosco Technical School in Honiara, Solomon Islands, in keeping with the third UN Millennium Goal to 'promote gender equality and empower women', has just launched a carpentry workshop for g ...
• 27 April 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Mary - First Disciple”: new eConference from Church in Australia Broken Bay (Agenzia Fides) - “Mary, First Disciple" is the theme of next eConference that will simultaneously link the entire Catholic Church in Australia on May 18, 2010, featuring the participation of faithful scatte ...
• 27 April 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Project Compassion,” initiative of Caritas Australia, helping thousands in the world Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Project Compassion, the annual appeal by Caritas, continues to exceed expectations and donations across Australia have already exceeded those for the same period last year. In 2009, the interna ...
• 23 April 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Religious leaders join government in rejecting hypothesis of Human Rights Charter Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Religious leaders from the Catholic Church together with Anglicans, Muslims, Hindus and those from the Jewish faith have welcomed the Federal Government's decision to reject a proposal for a na ...
• 20 April 2010
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand organizes first March for Life, in protest against RU 486 Christchurch (Agenzia Fides) – New Zealand has stood up in defense of life. As reported by local sources, in recent days the city of Christchurch - the third largest city in the country, with 360,000 inhabitants – he ...
• 26 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Aborigines at the Canonization of Sr. Mary MacKillop Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Aboriginal culture and traditions will "color" the canonization of Sister Mary Mackillop, scheduled to take place October 17, 2010 at St. Peter's Basilica. As Fides learns from local Church sou ...
• 25 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “The Catholic Church has a vital role to play.” Interview with the President of the Ambrose Center for Religious Liberty Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Religious freedom and the public role of religion are essential to society and are a thermometer for testing the legal culture of a country. This is the opinion of Rocco Mimmo, a Sydney lawyer, ...
• 22 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archdiocese of Sydney gives grant for adult stem cell research Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Sydney has just awarded a grant to Dr. Carl Walkley to support and foster research on the therapeutic potential of adult stem cells. Dr. Walkley is from the St Vincent's Inst ...
• 12 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Stopping abortion: 40 Days for Life Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, nuns, lay people, and activists, have been holding vigils for 20 days now before a clinic known for the practice of abortions in Sydney. They pray, fast, distribute information materia ...
• 11 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cardinal Pell meets with the youth, in the spirit of WYD Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – A series of events to meet with young people, hear their questions, thoughts, desires...This is the initiative involving Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, who, according to the Austra ...
• 9 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Year for Priests vocation boom, WYD is contributing factor Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Six ordinations this June, an increase in seminarians, and many youth showing interest in the priesthood and religious life, embarking on vocational discernment...there are some of the signs of ...
• 25 February 2010
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - First Salesian foundation in the country, in Auckland suburb Auckland (Agenzia Fides) - Since 7 February the Salesians of Don Bosco have been present in a new country: New Zealand. The house in Auckland belongs to the “Mary Help of Christians” Salesian Province of Australia (A ...
• 22 February 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Forming formators: “It's not enough to have a degree in theology. There's more to it,” Bishop Luc Matthys tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Luc Matthys is the Bishop of the Diocese of Armidale, in New South Wales, Australia and was recently in Rome on behalf of the Catholic hierarchy of Australia to attend the course on "The B ...