Oceania

• 6 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Internet offers ideas for Lenten reflection and prayer: initiative of Jesuit Fathers at Creighton University Sydney (Fides Service) - For Lent this year the Jesuit Fathers at Creighton University have proposed a daily itinerary of reflection and prayer via the Internet. The initiative is for all Christians but particularly youn ...
• 1 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic youth ministers in Sydney in July for first National Youth Symposium also in view of hosting 2008 World Youth Day, the first in Oceania Sydney (Fides Service) - ‘Builders and Dreamers: Creating Sustainable Ministry with Young People’ is the theme of the first national youth symposium to be held in Sydney in July. The event will give Catholic youth mi ...
• 17 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Go Tell Everyone”: Australian Bishops issue Pastoral Letter on the Church and the Media Sydney (Fides Service) - “Go tell everyone” is the title of a recent Pastoral Letter on the Church and the Media issued by the Catholic Bishops of Australia. In fact the Church in Australia intends to be increasingly ...
• 15 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cardinal Pell intervenes in debate over RU486 pill: “Australians would like to see the rate of abortion drop rather than rise” Sydney (Fides Service) - As debate over RU486 was about to begin in Australia’s House of Representatives, the local Catholic Church publicly declared its opposition to the introduction of the abortion pill and stated t ...
• 14 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archdiocese of Sydney opens new Office for Marriage and Family Sydney (Fides Service) - The Archdiocese of Sydney recently opened a new Marriage and Family Office. The mandate of the office, an initiative promoted by the Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal Gorge Pell, is to promote the tr ...
• 13 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - In Adelaide Cathedral 1.200 people gather for Mass on the World Day of the Sick : “May Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, health of the sick, place all mentally ill people in the world under her maternal protection Adelaide (Agenzia Fides) - “Today we implore Our Mother Mary, health of the sick, to place all mentally ill people in the world under her maternal protection, so that she may console them, enliven them, give them confidence and trust, strength and happiness” Cardinal ...
• 13 February 2006
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Solomon Islands is in Our Hands”: Caritas funds booklet in view of coming elections Honiara (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Church has commenced distribution of an election awareness booklet entitled, ‘Solomon Aelan Hemi Han Blong Iumi’. “The Pijin booklet has been produced to inform people abo ...
• 8 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Adelaide diocese ready to host annual Catholic “World Day of the Sick” 11th February Adelaide (Fides Service) - Everything is ready in Adelaide for the main celebration to mark the 14th World Day of the Sick on 11 February feast of Our Lady of Lourdes with the theme this year of “Mental Health and Huma ...
• 2 February 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Seminar on the Church, the media and announcing the Gospel Port Moresby (Fides Service) - The Church lives her mission also in the media, a world in which lay Catholics are called to render present the message of God. In Papua New Guinea the local Church is determined to intensi ...
• 26 January 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Holy Name of Mary Seminary in Honiara offers human and spiritual formation to young seminarians of three dioceses Honiara (Fides Service) - Holy Name of Mary Seminary in Honiara is a point of reference for human and spiritual formation. It offers the initial integrated three-year philosophy-theology course, Spiritual Year and the ye ...
• 25 January 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic archbishop of Melbourne says ban on abortion pill RU 486 must remain Melbourne (Fides Service) - Archbishop Dennis Hart said the ban on RU 486 abortion pill must remain. The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne said this in a statement issued ahead of the scheduled 9 February parliamentary co ...
• 24 January 2006
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand Catholic newspaper and sister NZ Catholic website Auckland (Fides Service) - On the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, patron of journalists New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper launched its new website. The website www.nzcatholic.org.nz offers local and internat ...
• 23 January 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Experience of Missionary Sisters of the Assumption evangelisers in the Pacific Honiara (Fides Service) - It was founded only 6 years ago but the religious congregation of the Sisters Missionaries of the Assumption is already fully involved in evangelisation in Solomon Islands.” The Society of Apo ...
• 20 January 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Hear the Gospel on-line: Church in Australia provides daily Mass Readings MP3 Sydney (Fides Service) - To offer Web users the opportunity not only to read Holy Scripture but also to hear it on-line, the Church Resources office of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has launched Dailyrea ...
• 19 January 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian women religious committed to fighting human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and girls Sydney (Fides Service) - The phenomenon of human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and children is an attack on human dignity and a crime against humanity and against God. It must be fought with the involvement of pu ...