Oceania

• 16 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Blog dedicated to Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop draws more young people to WYD Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - After the interactive Mother Mary MacKillop museum opened near Melbourne, to recall her biography and spirituality (see Fides 12/11/2007), a Blog has been opened in her memory www.mmkmelb.blog ...
• 15 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Aboriginal Australian artist works with World Youth Day 2008 Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The organisers of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney 15 to 20 July, have announced that Australian Aboriginal Richard Campbell will soon be working with them. Several WYD products will bear some of h ...
• 12 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - St Joseph Sisters open museum in honour of Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop, Patron Saint of WYD in Sydney Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in Victoria Province have opened a museum in honour of their foundress Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop in Fitzroy, near Melbourne, where Mary was bor ...
• 9 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Good Shepherd Sisters promote human development among Aboriginal Australians with Scholarship programme Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Australian Good Shepherd Sisters in collaboration with the Mary MacKillop Foundation (Australia's first Blessed, beatified by Pope John Paul II in Sydney in January 1995) have launched the annual ...
• 6 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Help us reach Millennium Goals" Caritas urges political forces in electoral campaign Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The political forces which govern Australia must enable the country to make a greater contribution towards achieving the Millennium Goals one of which was to eradicate extreme poverty in the worl ...
• 31 October 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLAND - Religious life in the Pacific grows: a Dominican Nun makes Solemn Profession Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Recently the Catholic community in Solomons rejoiced for the solemn profession of Sister Loretta Arohikeni, who took her final vows as a Dominican Sister in Honiara Cathedral. Locally born Siste ...
• 29 October 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Technical training Centres and schools needed in rural areas to promote integral development particularly for young people Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Technical training Centres, schools, mission stations, social centres which promote health aggregation are essential in rural areas of Solomons to ensure human, economic, social, cultural and sp ...
• 26 October 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Gizo diocese rejoices for ordination of new Bishop Luciano Capelli, Italian Salesian missionary Gizo (Agenzia Fides) - When a missionary is appointed a Bishop it is a great joy for the local people. Especially when the new Bishop is a priest who has been very close to the life and the problems of the people, is fam ...
• 25 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “World Youth Day, a new Pentecost”, says Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Bishop Julian Porteous Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “World Youth Day is a new Pentecost, desperately needed by Australia” says Bishop Julian Porteous auxiliary Sydney who has encouraged young Australians to reflect on a “new Pentecost” sin ...
• 24 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Caroline Chisholm, active lay woman involved in social apostolate on the way to the honour of the altars Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2008 Australian Catholics will ask permission to open the diocesan stage of a process for the beatification of British born lay woman Caroline Chisholm, who devoted her life to social ...
• 23 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - With Pastoral Letter the Bishop of Ballarat encourages participation in World Youth Day in Sydney next year Ballarat (Agenzia Fides) - "World Youth Day is always a wonderful opportunity for young people from around the world to build bridges of friendship and hope between continents, peoples and cultures, said Bishop Peter Con ...
• 22 October 2007
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - New Constitution and general elections in 2009, local Catholic Church called in to help Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Fiji will participate in the moral and civil reconstruction of the country which is starting a progress of normalisation after travailed years of civil war which caused seri ...
• 19 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archbishop of Melbourne issues Mission Sunday message: keep alive passion for mission in Australia Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - 'All the faithful for all the world' is the title of a message for World Mission Sunday in which the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart, calls for more mission awareness an ...
• 18 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia prepare for Mission Sunday: reflection focuses on young people Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - How can young people play a leading role in missionary work; what are their specific qualities and principal modalities; in what sector must they be oriented to harness all their mission potentia ...
• 12 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - With enthusiasm and spiritual preparation Salesian Youth Movement members prepare for World Youth Day next year Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day 2008 will be a meeting of different charisma in the Church, of young members of different lay associations and diverse spiritual paths. Besides sharing experience and ides with ...