Oceania

• 22 May 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops' petition to defend religious education in public schools Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of Australia have invited all dioceses of New South Wales to consider contributing to the petition which opposes the teaching of ethics classes in time set aside for Special Religious ...
• 18 May 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thousands participate in “Mary - First Disciple,” third e-conference held by Australian Bishops' Conference Broken Bay (Agenzia Fides) – The Mary - First Disciple National eConference goes live today to thousands of participants across the country and the globe this morning, with talks from scripture scholars, bishops and re ...
• 14 May 2010
  OCEANIA - Bishops: challenges for Church in Oceania are building communion, sharing resources, responding to secularism Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “We face many challenges in our dioceses and countries including political and economic tensions in some places and the spread of a secularist mentality that seeks to exclude Christianity. Yet, ...
• 12 May 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian PMS show increase in donations to projects worldwide, despite financial crisis Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Despite Australian households being buffeted by the global financial crisis of late 2008, Catholic Mission’s donors defied all expectations with their generosity to our appeals in 2009, increas ...
• 11 May 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Taking the message of Christ forward: Bishops meeting in Sydney address the missions Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Nearly 100 bishops gathered in Sydney for the four-yearly assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO), have been told about the importance of taking the messag ...
• 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 ...