Oceania

• 11 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Anti-poverty Week: Australian Catholics re-launch awareness building and active solidarity Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - Australia will live a national week of anti-poverty mobilisation 14 to 21 October in view of the UN World Anti-Poverty Day on 17 October. The local Catholic Church is fully involved in the init ...
• 10 October 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Pilgrims and Missionaries through the journey of life ”: young Catholics look forward to World Youth Day 2008 in Australia Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics in Solomon Islands continue to prepare for World Youth Day in Sydney Australia in 2008 with prayers, reflection and sharing experience of volunteer work. Recently a special Mass ...
• 9 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Sisters of Loreto work with poor young people in rural areas and on mission ad gentes in Vietnam Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to them young people in rural communities in Australia are able to study and grow in the faith; thanks to them young people of poor families in Vietnam have food, medical care and the ...
• 8 October 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Meeting for Catholic educators to improve education in the Islands and offer society increasingly good service Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Education of children as they grow and develop and young people as they mature is a delicate task. The Catholic Church in Solomon Islands continues to hold study seminaries, refresher courses an ...
• 5 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - With Project Cagliero Salesians in Australia send young people on mission experience Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Project Cagliero run by the Salesians in Australia sends young people aged 20 to 30 on a missionary experience. The project draws inspiration from the experience of Giovanni Cagliero, intrepid yo ...
• 4 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Go beyond Amnesty, explore new paths for defending human rights ” urge Catholic Bishops Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Australia have urged the faithful to find new ways to defend the rights and dignity of the person stepping over the experience of Amnesty International, now incompatible w ...
• 3 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Make your preparation for WYD spiritual ”Cardinal George Pell tells young Catholics: Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day is not a rally or merely an intercultural meeting, or an opportunity to make new friendships, it is primarily a time for conversion, to encounter God and to share the Good News wi ...
• 1 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thirty years serving the marginalised, the helpless, the excluded: Jesuit Social Service in Australia Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits Social Service JSS in 2007 is celebrating 30 years of activity in Australia with various initiatives including prayer meetings and special solidarity events. Julie Edwards, head of ...
• 28 September 2007
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Medical Mission from Lismore diocese Australia helps Papua New Guinea fight AIDS Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - To help the Catholic community in Papua New Guinea in the effort to prevent and fight HIV/AIDS where the virus is a serious social scourge, Lismore diocese in Australia sent a Medical Missi ...
• 25 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Prayers, enthusiasm, mission: young Oblates in Australia on the way to WYD Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - At the lay level young Australians are the ones who follow the spirituality of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, a religious congregation founded by St Eugene de Mazenod. In Australia t ...
• 20 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “World Youth Day has an ecumenical spirit and importance”, says Anglican Archbishop Peter Jansen of Sydney Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen sees the World Youth Day 2008 event as "a great event to promote ecumenism and a wonderful opportunity lead young our people to Christ". ...
• 18 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Who is my Neighbour?”: Catholic Bishops annual Social Justice Sunday Statement Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - A Statement on the themes of justice, development and peace has been issued by the Catholic Bishops of Australia in view of Social Justice Sunday on 30 September which the local Church celebrates ...
• 15 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Salesian students plan to take an active part in World Youth Day Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - To live the event of World Youth Day 2008 to the full, take an active part, share with other young people the news of God's love for all peoples: it was in this spirit that a group of pupils ...
• 14 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Why protect marriage, cradle of life: Catholic Bishops issue booklet on why the Church says “no” to divorce, ever more frequent in Australia Canberra (Fides News Service) - Australia’s Bishops are reaching out to those who have suffered the distress of marital breakdown and divorce with a new easy-to-read booklet which outlines the Church’s teaching in th ...
• 13 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day organisation engine steams ahead: “this is a great opportunity for new evangelisation” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - While the pilgrimage of World Youth Day symbols, the Cross accompanied by the Icon of Our Lady 'Seat of Wisdom', continues across Australia warmly welcomed with prayers and celebration, in Sydney ...