Oceania

• 14 March 2006
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Wellington archdiocese assigns important role to lay Catholics in pastoral care Wellington (Fides Service) - The Archdiocese of Wellington in New Zealand is harnessing the potential of lay Catholics to help provide adequate and ever better pastoral care. More and more lay people are playing leading ...
• 13 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australia’s Catholics prepare with enthusiasm to host 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney 2008 Sydney (Fides Service) - Australia’s Catholics are preparing with growing enthusiasm to host and live the 23rd World Youth Day in 2008 which Sydney will have the honour of organising. Sydney’s Auxiliary Bishop Anthon ...
• 9 March 2006
  EUROPE/CROATIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 January 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Croatia for a f ...
• 8 March 2006
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - A radio produced by young people for young people: Radio Bosco marks 1st anniversary Honiara (Fides Service) - Young people love Radio Bosco a Catholic radio station launched a year ago by the Salesian Fathers in Solomon Islands. The Radio started broadcasting on 27 February 2005 offering a competent and ...
• 7 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Women and young people for peace, pastoral care for Aborigines, Lenten Message also MP3: upcoming initiatives of the Church in Australia Sydney (Fides Service) - Lent 2006 will be a period of intense missionary vivacity and initiatives in Australia. According to Australia’s Catholic monthly “Mission & Spirituality News”, tomorrow 8 March in Melbourn ...
• 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 ...