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Search for in author OR full textWord matches: africa: 191 1 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule(Subscribers only - please login to view) In 1944 he was captured by the British in Italy and was sent to North Africa where he was ordained a priest by a French bishop at Algiers before being transferred to the French camp for German prisoners-of-war at Ksar-es-Souk Morocco. 2 - Dec 2015 - Has the Messiah come or returned?, Andrew Sholl To my astonishment I even saw the same picture of the rebbe in a frame on the wall of a local caf run by a French-speaking Sephardic Jewish couple from North Africa where I ate dinner twice. 3 - Dec 2015 - Apostolic voyage: Pope Francis supports Catholic church during Africa visit, AD2000 Report The pastoral visit by Pope Francis to three countries in central Africa Kenya Uganda and Central African Republic was an expression of the Holy Fathers deep pastoral concern for Catholics in this fast-growing area of the church. 4 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl In fact even anyone living in darkest Africa who through no fault of his/her own could not believe in Jesus since he/she had not heard of him such a person could still be saved provided he/she repented of serious sins. 5 - Sep 2015 - Preview: Mercy and compassion: focus of Synod of Bishops, Peter Westmore The second book Christs New Homeland Africa a contribution to the Synod on the Family by ten African bishops reaffirms the churchs teaching and also examines some particular African problems including polygamy and the widespread incidence of cohabitation and marital breakdown. 6 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report In the course of the recent migration crisis in Western Europe where hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war in Syria and poverty in central Africa have flooded into Europe by boat and overland the Pope has been at the forefront of calls for Europe to accept and welcome the migrants along with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 7 - Sep 2015 - Refugees: Give priority to Syria’s persecuted Christians: Archbishop Fisher Echoing recent calls of Pope Francis to the Catholic community and to international leaders to respond generously and effectively to the developing refugee crisis in the Middle East North Africa and Europe the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney called upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the number of Syrian Christian refugees being received into Australia. 8 - Aug 2015 - Africa: Nigerian bishops decry “propagation of the homosexual lifestyle” They are nations who undeniably have cultural social and economic influence upon many African nations including Nigeria. 9 - Jul 2015 - Family Synod: African bishops pledge to uphold Church teaching on marriage, AD2000 Report In mid-June the presidents of Africas episcopal conferences met in Accra capital of Ghana and unanimously endorsed a statement for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops which rejects the strategy of the Enemy of the human race on divorce and homosexual unions and upholds the Churchs constant teaching on marriage. 10 - Jul 2015 - Laudato Si: Pope Francis’ call for “dialogue” on environmental challenges, Peter Westmore While this is tragically true in much of the Third World in the Popes homeland Argentina for example in much of Africa Asia and other parts of Latin America the developed world has instituted means of reducing waste and given a high priority to protection of the environment to the benefit of all. 11 - May 2015 - Television: "Jesus: Rise to Power" - flawed account of early Christianity, AD2000 Report At the other extreme Emperor Septimius Severus added to Trajans edict an order that conversion to Christianity was a capital offence leading to the execution of some of the most famous martyrs of the period including Sts Perpetua and Felicity who were killed in North Africa. 12 - Apr 2015 - Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Élisabeth de Baudoüin In this exclusive interview Cardinal Robert Sarah the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments candidly discusses liturgical battles criticism of the Pope same sex marriage Islam and Islamism and how Africa can save the West. 13 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey In the modern seminary there are men whose surnames reflect the traditional mix of Australian life until the post-World War II period but in addition there are seminarians whose surnames reflect more recent immigrants from the Pacific islands from South Asia (India and Sri Lanka) from Vietnam the Philippines and Africa. 14 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah Since the oil boom of the 1970s and 80s Saudi Arabia whose official creed is Wahhabi Islam has exported Wahhabism to parts of Africa Asia and the West through scholarships and the funding of radical mosques preachers and groups. 15 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World Pope Francis disclosed that he is planning a visit to Africa for the end of this year with Uganda and the Central African Republic as the likely objectives. 16 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World The number of Catholics grew most rapidly in Africa and the Americas (which are treated as one continent in Vatican statistics) with Asia following and Europe and Oceania lagging behind. 17 - Feb 2015 - Consistory: Pope Francis names twenty new Cardinals, AD2000 Report Three of the new cardinals-designate come from Asia five from Latin America seven from Western Europe two from Africa and two from Oceania. 18 - Dec 2014 - Dissent: New controversy erupts in Toowoomba, Peter Westmore These statements are both wrong given that Australian society is now made up of many different ethnic communities several of them in the Toowoomba Diocese from India Africa and the Philippines and extremely offensive to priests who have come to serve the people of Australia. 19 - Dec 2014 - News: The Church Around the World Zenit News Agency African families face different problems African prelates speaking at the Synod of Bishops reminded their colleagues that their primary concerns about pastoral care for families do not match those of bishops in affluent Western countries. 20 - Dec 2014 - Editorial: The Coming of Christ, Peter Westmore On the other even at its most deformed it is a recognition by the secular society that something beyond the material has entered our world and that the spirit of peace and goodwill towards men which the angels proclaimed on that first Christmas Day should prevail even as we recall the terrible events in the Middle East Ukraine North Korea and parts of Africa over the past twelve months. 21 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World Zenit News Agency Missionaries risk their lives in Ebola fight Catholic priests and missionaries in western Africa are risking their lives in the battle against the Ebola epidemic a papal representative reported in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). 22 - Sep 2014 - Association of Hebrew Catholics: its role and mission, Andrew Sholl Father Elias born Jack Friedman was a medical doctor in the South African Army whose family originally came from Russian-occupied Lithuania in 1881 following anti-Jewish pogroms. 23 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World Zenit News Agency Key challenges for families in Africa Representatives from the Pontifical Council for the Family gathered in the Republic of the Congo with over 40 bishops to discuss the state of families in Africa highlighting both strengths and challenges they face. 24 - Aug 2014 - News: The Church Around the World Research institutions such as the Pew Research Centre have found that religious hostilities involving religion reached a six-year high in 2012 while government restrictions on religion have increased in Europe the Middle East and North Africa. 25 - Jul 2014 - Reflection: The Pope meets ICEL: a bishop's reflection on Vatican II, Bishop Arthur Serratelli Working with fellow bishops from Canada Ireland England and Wales Scotland South Africa India Pakistan Philippines New Zealand and Australia has widened my own understanding of our sacramental and liturgical prayer tradition. 26 - Jul 2014 - Summorum Pontificum: Growth of Latin Mass parishes and chaplaincies in Australia, Michael E. Daniel For example parishoners at Bl John Henry Newman have been involved in works ranging from fundraising for orphanages in Africa to donating blood at the local blood bank. 27 - Jul 2014 - Pauline Fathers: Opening of Mercy Valley in Mareeba, North Queensland, Garry O'Brien Today the Order has monasteries and shrines in Poland Germany Slovakia Croatia Ukraine Belarus Hungary Italy USA South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as Australia. 28 - Jul 2014 - News: The Church Around the World Unifying the dates of the Easter celebration is felt with particular urgency in North Africa and the Middle East because often churches and Christian communities live together in the same areas but each has a different Easter date depending on whether it follows the Julian or Gregorian calendar. 29 - May 2014 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: progress report, Fr Damonn Sypher, FSSP The FSSP was largely of European foundation but then spread to the USA Canada the UK and then to Africa and South America. 30 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey Of course the ethnic mix of the Australian population has changed over recent decades and this is reflected in the Church and its seminaries with more recent immigrants from the Pacific islands from South Asia (India and Sri Lanka) from Vietnam the Philippines and Africa. 31 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World Archbishop Kaigama added that in Africa whether it is about population control use of condoms homosexuality et cetera sometimes the views of the West are forced down the throats of Africans through financial inducement. 32 - Mar 2014 - Books: TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS, by Sally Ninham, Michael Gilchrist A fabulous introduction to the state of Catholicism in Africa TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS by Sally Ninham (Connor Court Publishing 2013 367pp $29. 33 - Mar 2014 - Pope Francis puts indelible mark on College of Cardinals, Peter Westmore Trends The population report found that if present trends continue by 2050 just 36 years away Europe will have only 16 per cent of the worlds Catholics compared to 22 per cent in Africa and 41 per cent in Latin America. 34 - Feb 2014 - Editorial: In defence of marriage, Peter Westmore These countries along with the overwhelming majority of those in Asia Africa and the Americas still uphold natural marriage between a man and a woman as the foundation of society. 35 - Dec 2013 - Obituary: Cardinal Pell's tribute to Bishop William Brennan, Cardinal George Pell He was sent to study theology at Propaganda Fide College in Rome where he revelled in the international missionary flavour of the College; most students were Africans and Asians. 36 - Nov 2013 - Books: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War, Gabrielle Walsh Many will know the background to the war in the West African nation of Liberia from the Hollywood movie Blood Diamond. 37 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World Poverty in Africa means one thing and poverty in the United States or Europe means another. 38 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Humanae Vitae, Ron Graham It is surely significant that countries in Africa such as Uganda have obtained a far greater reduction in AIDS and other STDs by promoting abstinence rather than the use of contraceptives which actually encourage promiscuity and increase abortions. 39 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore Apart from many visits to North and South America Europe Africa and Asia he visited Australia twice as well as New Zealand Indonesia Singapore Papua New Guinea East Timor and Fiji. 40 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World The Catholic population grew fastest in Africa which saw a 2. 41 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright As a young man newly received into the Catholic Church after World War II one of my greatest pleasures was taking part in the weekly Saturday morning Rosary conducted by the Dominican Sisters at a chapel in Cape Town South Africa with a full chapel. 42 - Jun 2013 - Redefining marriage: what of the rights of children?, Denise Hunnell Same-sex couples can be legally recognised as married in Argentina Belgium Portugal the Netherlands Spain Sweden Norway and South Africa. 43 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC Regarding the Churchs opposition to the use of condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS Kazcor cites research on the situation in Africa that shows reliance on condoms has not been an effective way to combat HIV/AIDS. 44 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World LifeSite News African church leaders reject gay bishops Leading Anglican prelates in Africa have denounced the decision by the Church of England to allow openly homosexual bishops saying that the move could destroy the unity of the worldwide Anglican communion. 45 - Feb 2013 - Books: THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITY, by Thomas J. Heffernan, Peter Westmore Vibia Perpetua was a well-educated woman from a noble Roman family which had settled in north Africa a century earlier. 46 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World In addition the analysis revealed that Christianity has roughly equal numbers in Latin America and the Caribbean Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. 47 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Nigerian scientist warns against birth control push Obianuju Ekeocha a biomedical scientist who is currently working in England has warned Melinda Gates to reconsider her push for birth control in poor countries explaining that African women neither need nor want contraception. 48 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli It was seen as far south as Africa Bermuda and California. 49 - Sep 2012 - Noted UK doctor slams BBC program's anti-Catholic bias, Robert Walley Has she obtained new qualifications and experience on contraception and the suffering and needs of mothers in sub-Saharan Africa? 50 - Aug 2012 - Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools, Br Barry Coldrey Until relatively recently Catholic thinking has focussed on evangelising non-Christians in Asia South America and Africa. 51 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Elsewhere it is legal in Canada Argentina South Africa and some states in the US. 52 - Jul 2012 - The climate alarmist 'religion' and Third World poverty, David Legates Unfortunately some so-called environmentalists wish to keep Africa and other developing nations in perpetual underdevelopment. 53 - Jul 2012 - Religious Freedom: Prague's Cardinal Duka thanks Australians for helping religious prisoners, Peter Westmore He told me When we received letters and postcards - from people we did not know in Australia New Zealand and South Africa - we were astonished and delighted. 54 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World The number of clergy increased by 1695 in Asia and by 765 in Africa. 55 - Apr 2012 - Books: FRANK DUFF: A Life Story, by Finola Kennedy, Donal Anthony Foley The Legion also spread rapidly in Africa and South America following the work of Edel Quinn and Alfie Lambe who were sent as envoys to those continents. 56 - Apr 2012 - Books: LIGHT OF THE WORLD: The Pope, the Church and Signs of the Times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput One of the sensitive issues that Benedict treats in this book is the question of AIDS in Africa and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of infection. 57 - Mar 2012 - The global financial crisis and the West's fertility decline, Babette Francis The plan is focused on Africa but once they run out of Africans they will pick another target. 58 - Feb 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Zenit News Agency Global shift in Christian populations A new report indicates that while the percentage of Christians in Europe and the Americas declined during the 20th century it is growing significantly in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. 59 - Feb 2012 - Curia: Benedict XVI names 22 new cardinals for his fourth consistory, Peter Westmore Only one new cardinal is from Latin America and none from Africa. 60 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World While travelling to Africa the Pope told journalists that AIDS cannot be overcome by the distribution of prophylactics. 61 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World Most French Muslims hail from the countrys former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa. 62 - Oct 2011 - History: Lepanto, history's most decisive naval battle, Bob Denahy With great difficulty he persuaded the leaders of some Catholic states to form a Holy League and contend with the forces of Islam who under the aegis of Sultan Selim II ruled from Constantinople much of the Balkans Hungary Romania North Africa from Algeria to the Nile delta as well as Israel Lebanon Syria Turkey and Greece. 63 - Aug 2011 - Defending the Catholic Church against ill-informed attacks, Fr John Flynn LC Relying on the use of condoms simply hasnt worked in Africa. 64 - Aug 2011 - Britain's anti-Christian brave new world, AD2000 REPORT Phillips most blatant criticism of traditional Christianity in the Telegraph interview came during a discussion of immigrant populations from Africa and the Carribean. 65 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World The archbishop expressed hope that the changes underway in North Africa and the Middle East would lead to greater openness and ensure a more dignified and free life for everyone including the Christians of Pakistan. 66 - Jul 2011 - Books: A MEMORY FOR WONDERS: a true story, by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard PCC, Michael Daniel A Poor Clare abbess who successfully established a monastery in Africa she was the daughter of Marxist parents. 67 - Jun 2011 - Letters: North Africa, Andrew Sholl The troubles in North Africa have been very much in the news in recent months and are likely to be for a considerable time. 68 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey Around 30 were born in Australia 12 in Vietnam two in Africa two in India five in the Philippines and one in Korea. 69 - May 2011 - Books: DAUGHTER OF MAN, MOTHER OF GOD, by Barry M. Coldrey, Michael Gilchrist The focus is on four apparitions supported by relevant authority but not well-known in Australia: LIle Bouchard France; Kibheo Rwanda (Central Africa); Akita Japan; and Betania Venezuela. 70 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World Africa and Asia however brought up the overall figures with a more than 30 percent increase on both continents. 71 - Mar 2011 - Netherlands: Migrants keep Church alive in Holland, Fr Cornelius van der Geest They come from all over: from Africa the West Indies South America and Asia. 72 - Feb 2011 - Pope Benedict honours Catholic Women's League member Brenda Finlayson, AD2000 Report Its international Board is currently made up of 27 members from five regions - Africa Asia Pacific Europe Latin America and the Caribbean and North America - each representing the Catholic womens organisation(s) of her country. 73 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell The Holy Father was responding to an earlier controversy when he visited Africa and claimed that condoms through encouraging promiscuity and exaggerating the safety they provide might be making the situation worse. 74 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World London Daily Telegraph Chinese Christians suffer more harassment As organisers prepared for the opening of the Third Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelization on 16 October in Cape Town South Africa Chinese police threatened or detained some 200 delegates who had hoped to attend. 75 - Oct 2010 - Real Presence: Nigerian priest brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Brisbane parish, Bob Denahy For with the practice of the Faith and number of priestly and religious vocations diminishing dramatically in the West the erstwhile mission countries in Africa and Asia have been reversing the previous order and are themselves sending missionaries to reconvert the West including Australia. 76 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World In July Argentina became the 10th nation to pass a law allowing same-sex marriage preceded by the Netherlands Belgium Spain Canada South Africa Norway Sweden Portugal and Iceland. 77 - Sep 2010 - Books: MEETING JESUS AND FOLLOWING HIM: A Retreat, by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Br Barry Coldrey Francis Arinze who was born in Nigeria in 1930 was ordained a priest in 1958 and four years later was ordained a bishop the youngest in Africa. 78 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Churchs spectacular growth in Africa The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) began its 15th plenary assembly in Accra on 27 July with the theme of Self-Reliance and the Way Forward for the Church in Africa. 79 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs The number of Catholics in Africa rose by 33 percent in the period from 2000 to 2008. 80 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Considering the statistics in detail numbers in Africa grew by 33 percent in Europe they remained generally stable (an increase of 1. 81 - May 2010 - Anglican: Anglicans and Christian unity: progress report, Bishop David Robarts info While the TAC is certainly represented in numbers of countries in Africa along with India and elsewhere I have not heard of any serious interest being shown in the Popes invitation by any of the conservative Anglican provinces in Africa many of which are dynamic and populous such as Nigeria - over 17 million members - and are strongly opposed to homosexual practice. 82 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency African Cardinal laments loss of faith in West In an interview published in the 24 February edition of LOsservatore Romano Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson the new President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace denounced toxic elements of foreign cultures such as relativism and atheistic secularism that are plaguing Africa. 83 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Overpopulation, George Simpson Africa is also often quoted as being overpopulated. 84 - Feb 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Celebrating the Eucharist during the early Christian centuries, Br Barry Coldrey In the sixth century much of the Middle East North Africa and southern Spain was forcibly converted to Islam or conquered by Islamic rulers. 85 - Dec 2009 - Marriage: A Biblical defence of marriage: Africans take the lead, Babette Francis While Western society is being torn apart by homosexual lobbyists and their camp followers aiming to redefine marriage to include homosexual liaisons salutary voices are being heard from Africa. 86 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Synod: Africas cancer of bad governance Cardinal John Njue Archbishop of Nairobi and President of Kenyas episcopal conference speaking at the Synod of African Bishops last October said many African nations struggle under bad governance where unchecked hunger for power has led to impunity corruption manipulation of people and other similar social political evils bled from human hearts in need of conversion. 87 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World Yet When Benedict XVI said that different sexual behaviour should be adopted in Africa because to put trust in condoms does not serve to fight against AIDS the international press was scandalised. 88 - Sep 2009 - USA: Anglicans fragmenting over homosexuality, Babette Francis Apart from members in Britain the Fellowship has attracted parishes in Africa Asia Australia and South America as well as the USA and Canada. 89 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Climate change, Michael Griffiths Finally we have the incredible shrinking Lake Chad in Africa. 90 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy Typical too was the medias reaction to Pope Benedicts remark en route to Africa that using condoms only exacerbates the AIDS pandemic. 91 - May 2009 - Letters: The Pope and AIDS, Arnold Jago Swaziland with Africas highest HIV/AIDS infection rate - over 33 percent - is five percent Catholic. 92 - May 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Crusades: the truth behind the myths, Frank Mobbs The great early centres of Christianity - the Holy Land Byzantium (Greece and Turkey) Syria North Africa most of Spain - were all conquered by Muslims. 93 - May 2009 - Pro-family culture: AIDS in Africa: science vindicates Catholic Church, Babette Francis During his visit to Africa in March Pope Benedict XVI responded to the media assertion that the Catholic Churchs position on combating AIDS is unrealistic and ineffective. 94 - May 2009 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Africans defend Pope against media attacks On 29 March numerous young African students gathered in St Peters Square to thank Benedict XVI for the message of hope he brought to the continent. 95 - Apr 2009 - News: The Church Around the World African bishops: poverty the result of corruption Bishops of the central African region have denounced corruption in their countries as a major cause of poverty. 96 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves He discusses Africa a continent of great hope for the faith but still the object of abuse by great powers and the harmonising of scientific knowledge and faith. 97 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis The petitioners Catholic Orthodox and Protestants from North Africa and the Middle East wanted the meeting to agree to the following points: that Islamic law does not apply to non-Muslims; that dhimmi (or second class) status be abolished; that the right to change religion be recognised as a fundamental right. 98 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan The Churchs teaching on the need for couples to be faithful and to not use contraception has also proved highly effective in combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa where the contraceptive mentality has led to greater sexual promiscuity. 99 - Oct 2008 - Books: WHAT MOTHER TERESA TAUGHT ME, by Maryanne Raphael, Catherine Sheehan A freelance writer who has worked with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta South Africa Mexico Los Angeles Washington DC and the Bronx she shares with readers her own first-hand experiences as well as stories of Mother Teresa related by those who knew her well. 100 - Aug 2008 - News: The Church Around the World Fifteen provinces of the Anglican Communion have voted in favour of female bishops including Australia Brazil Canada Central America Mexico the Philippines South Africa and the United States. 101 - Jul 2008 - News: The Church Around the World 6 percent in Asia they remained fairly stable in line with population growth and in Africa they grew by over 20 percent. 102 - May 2008 - Letters: AIDS Prevention, Dr Arnold Jago Nearby condom-prom- oting South Africa has a high and un-improving infection rate. 103 - May 2008 - News: The Church Around the World While at the Catholic University of East Africa the cardinal delivered a public lecture in which he discussed the importance of following liturgical rubrics and the proper place of inculturation in the liturgy. 104 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: The priesthood: a special relationship with Christ, Fr Pat Stratford Africa and Asia have had the greatest rate of increase in the number of priests - 79 percent and 69 percent respectively. 105 - Dec 2007 - Church History: Interesting aspects of ecumenical councils, Frank Mobbs At Nicea there was only one from north Africa an intensely Christian area with many bishops. 106 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey Every college group stressed their work for the marginalised poor: a food van here assistance to a Homework Club there; Meals on Wheels for the elderly and teaching English to recent refugee arrivals from strife-torn places in Africa. 107 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World The bishops eight-point statement also criticised actions by Anglican bishops from the developing world (mostly from Africa and Latin America) who have agreed to oversee conservative clergy and congregations in the US. 108 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock The MGL is becoming a multicultural brotherhood drawing vocations not only from Australia and New Zealand but also from PNG Indonesia Philippines India and Africa. 109 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane Cardinal Pell then pointed out: The great missionary expansion of Irish Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries which took the faith not only to Australia but to the United States New Zealand Canada and many parts of Asia and Africa too was only a rerun of Irish missionary activity in the sixth to the eighth centuries which saw the conversion of Northern Europe . 110 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Combating AIDS, Franklin J. Wood AIDS in Papua New Guinea is almost as bad as the problem in sub- Saharan Africa. 111 - Apr 2007 - News: The Church Around the World A geographical analysis of these variations shows that over the period 2004-2005 the number of Catholics in Africa grew by 3. 112 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore However in 1974 Portugal decided to abandon its colonial empire which included Mozambique and Angola in Africa and East Timor. 113 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan Fr Finbarr Flanagan OFM is located at the La Verna Franciscan Retreat Centre in Vanderbijlpark South Africa. 114 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte It first came to Australia in 1995 and is now in Ireland Jamaica Uganda Japan South Africa New Zealand and Singapore as well. 115 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists Ive already spoken to nearly all the bishops of Africa and with many of the bishops from Asia. 116 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World In the 1980s the rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Uganda was at 30 percent - in line with most African countries. 117 - Sep 2006 - Letters: African pen-friend, Fr Vincent Kajoba My name is Fr Vincent Kajoba of the diocese of Kiyinda Mityana in Uganda Africa. 118 - Aug 2006 - Books: SEEDS OF LIFE: Early Christian Martyrs, Julia Bakowski Available from Freedom Publishing) The Wellspring of Faith series is sponsored by Aide Inter-Monasteres an international movement whose aim it is to assist young African and Asian monastic communities. 119 - Jul 2006 - Vatican concern at Islamic persecution of Christians, Zenit News Agency The archbishop also expressed concern over Islamic expansion in Africa and to a lesser extent in Europe. 120 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic World News African and Asian vocations increase The Vatican press office has released the newest edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Church covering the years 1978-2004 prepared by the Central Office of Church Statistics and published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 121 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World Uganda in sharp contrast to neighboring countries in sub-Saharan Africa has achieved some success in controlling the spread of AIDS through a government-backed program that advocates sexual abstinence and marital fidelity with the use of condoms as a last resort. 122 - Feb 2006 - Blessed Charles de Foucauld: seeking nothing but God's will, Dr Frank Mobbs Rapidly he became a penetrating observer of the landscape of North Africa and of its Muslim inhabitants. 123 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen Sister Miriam Duggan the Congregational Leader for the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa recently spent some time in Australia spreading the word about her work combating HIV/AIDS in Africa. 124 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic World News UN program rejects abstinence group A Nigerian organisation has been denied admittance to a UN program that solicits volunteers because the organisations leader criticised condoms in the prevention of HIV on the African continent. 125 - Oct 2005 - Priesthood: Christ's call to priestly celibacy, Fr Thaddeus Doyle In the early Church the rule was the same in Western Europe in North Africa in Rome in Palestine and in the East. 126 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego Just as Communism had the Soviet Union and its sponsored insurgents present in Africa and South America however so too radicalised Islam has the Taliban in Afghanistan which in turn supports such globally operational groups as al-Queda. 127 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT The event has been held in Europe Asia North and South America but not in Oceania or Africa. 128 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Papal election, Frank Bellet No-one has picked up on the fact that the critics who savour reporting this pay little attention to the growth of the Church in Africa and Asia. 129 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore Another Cardinal Wilfred Napier from South Africa said: We need another John Paul a peoples Pope one whos especially got an appeal and a challenge for the youth. 130 - Apr 2005 - Australia prepares for World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, AD2000 Report Young people come from Africa North and South America Asia the Pacific and Europe to meet with each other and - at least until now - with the Holy Father in a vibrant Catholic festival-like atmosphere. 131 - Mar 2005 - Letters: AIDS prevention (letter), Dr Arnold Jago Despite having southern Africas lowest per-capita use of condoms Uganda has had the worlds biggest fall in HIV/AIDS infections - from 12 percent incidence in the early 1990s to 4. 132 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World In Africa the controversy has taken on extra importance because of the heavy pressure on governments there to distribute condoms. 133 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World The number of active priests in the world held almost perfectly steady but the ranks of men in the priesthood swelled in the missionary territories and in both Africa and Asia the ratio of priests to laymen improved markedly. 134 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Ghana: help needed (letter), Name and address supplied Obour Isaac PO Box SE 1893 Suame-Kumasi Ghana West Africa tel 233-27-774-9899 email: scantyman2002yahoo. 135 - Oct 2004 - Editorial: Addressing the shortfall of priests, Michael Gilchrist Meanwhile in the US two religious orders have turned to Africa to recruit new priests. 136 - Sep 2004 - Books: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, by Philip Jenkins, John Barich Jenkins quotes the World Christian Encyclopaedias prediction that by 2050 there will be three Christians for every two Muslims and counters Spong by showing that in Africa Asia and Latin America Christianity is growing very fast while his secularist approach is pass. 137 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald Her voice and accent are instantly recognisable to my ears quintessentially English and betraying little of her South African roots. 138 - Mar 2004 - Letters: African Rosary and Prayer Book Appeal (letter), Obour Isaac When replying would any donors please use the following address: PO Box SE 1893 Suame-Kumasi Ghana West-Africa. 139 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan Africa has been the worst affected area where the consequences for families for children left orphaned and for the social and economic well-being of countries at large have been devastating. 140 - Feb 2004 - News: The Church Around the World Vatican Information Service Anglican gay bishop crisis impedes ecumenism Vatican puts ARCIC meeting on hold Following the consecration in November 2003 of an openly homosexual Episcopalian bishop - Eugene Robinson - in the United States a number of Anglican bishops in Africa announced that they would break off ties with the New Hampshire diocese. 141 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Zone warned that the Anglican Communion was now in danger of schism with some Anglican churches - particularly those in Africa - refusing to acknowledge their counterpart churches in North America. 142 - Nov 2003 - Tattoos and body-piercing: the moral dimension, Fr Peter Joseph In one tribe of Africa women wear gigantic and heavy ear-rings which change the shape of the ear-lobes. 143 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 which intends to express particular solicitude for sub- Saharan Africa and to pay special attention to the problems of stigma and discrimination accompanying the disease to access to treatment and care to education on responsible sexual behavior including abstinence and marital fidelity and to the care of HIV/AIDS orphans. 144 - Nov 2003 - Editorial: Anglicanism at the crossroads, Peter Westmore While the reaction of most Anglican leaders in other countries has been restrained criticism those from Africa - where the Church is growing rapidly - have been outspoken in their opposition. 145 - Oct 2003 - Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II, by Michael Davies, Michael Gilchrist The situation in Asia Africa and Latin America - where religious sentiments have been less eroded by secularism or other factors such as nationalism are at work - is often different with some of the liturgical changes having a more positive impact. 146 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 Zenit News Service Sant Egidio Communitys strong African role Young Africans call for spiritual rebirth At an African Union Summit meeting held in Maputo Mozambique in July the Sant Egidio Community presented African leaders with a petition signed by 300000 young Africans calling for spiritual rebirth on the continent. 147 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 Africa: the Churchs growth point Latest Catholic Church statistics According to the latest statistics released by the Vatican the number of Catholics in the world has increased from 757 million in 1978 to 1. 148 - May 2003 - Why priestly vocations are up in Perth Archdiocese, Debra Warrier They are from India Africa and Ecuador. 149 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich The Church is thriving or resurgent in many parts of the globe - Latin America Africa Asia and in parts of the West. 150 - Dec 2002 - Editorial: Christmas 2002: the state of the Church, Peter Westmore His leadership over nearly 25 years has witnessed a significant recovery of Christianity in Eastern Europe and substantial growth in Africa Asia and Latin America. 151 - Nov 2002 - Australian apologist Raymond de Souza's successful overseas lecture tour, AD2000 Report In the past 20 years he has given hundreds of talks and seminars on Catholic apologetics and assisted in religious education in parishes schools and lay organisations in the United States Canada South Africa Brazil New Zealand and Australia. 152 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 Catholic World News African bishops reject homosexual adoption Violently contradicts the African sensibility and scale of values The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar rejected the adoption of minors by homosexual couples a move recently authorised by a judge in South Africa. 153 - Sep 2002 - Vocations: Corpus Christi Seminary enrolments bounce back, Michael Gilchrist Africa Latin America India the Philippines and South Korea has more than compensated for this. 154 - Sep 2002 - Is the self-destruction of Anglicanism to continue?, Nigel Zimmerman Third World In global terms the Anglican Church is only growing in Africa and Asia and only in Western parishes which are staunchly Evangelical or Anglo-Catholic. 155 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service Some of the most vibrant Catholic communities in the world are among the youngest Catholic communities in the world in Africa and Asia. 156 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 In Africa Asia and the Americas numbers of these have grown more or less consistently. 157 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World New Vatican Yearbook Large increase in seminarians under John Paul II The number of seminarians worldwide has grown by 73 percent during Pope John Paul IIs pontificate with the greatest increase in Africa and Asia according to the latest Vatican Yearbook or Annuario which was presented to the Pope in February. 158 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden This is what is meant by the three kings or astrologers traditionally representing the continents of Africa Europe and Asia bearing tribute to the seemingly simple Jewish child who is destined for greatness. 159 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World Vatican Information Service South Africas Bishops reject gay adoption High Court ruling not in interests of child A South African High Court ruling that same-sex couples be allowed to adopt children has been denounced by several religious bodies including the Catholic Church in South Africa. 160 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World Africa and Asia have very low death rates as a result of dramatic increases in new ordinations. 161 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World This local Church has a strong missionary spirit and sends missionaries to the former Soviet republics other Asian countries (including China) Africa and South America. 162 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Good responses (letter), Hyacinth Morel Tapes have also gone to Africa and other places. 163 - Apr 2001 - Tanzania's Father Winfried makes return visit to Australia, Martin Sheehan Father Winfried Ngonyani a priest from East Africa is visiting Australia a second time to thank people for their help in the past and to continue further developing his parish in central Tanzania. 164 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World Nigerian Catholic womens anti-abortion petition Legalisation planned under revised constitution A Catholic womens group in Nigeria has officially registered its opposition to the proposed legalisation of abortion as part of the review of the African countrys constitution. 165 - Mar 2001 - New cardinals to continue John Paul II's agenda, AD2000 Report There may also have been some pressure from countries due for a cardinal that had been left out of the first list notably South Africa and Bolivia. 166 - Nov 2000 - Irish missionary sisters combat AIDS in Africa Two Irish missionaries Srs Kay Lawlor and Miriam Duggan have been credited with reducing the AIDS epidemic in Uganda and other African countries. 167 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee He gave his attention to the Churchs expansion into Asia and Africa. 168 - Jul 2000 - John Bradburne: Zimbabwe martyr and lepers' friend When he was nearly 40 Bradburne wrote to Father Dove - by this time a priest in Rhodesia - and asked him if he knew of a cave in Africa which I can pray in? 169 - Mar 2000 - Reflection: Does Lent retain its spiritual meaning today?, Mary Kenny Helping poor Who could doubt the necessity of helping our poorer brethern in Africa Thailand or Peru? 170 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World He is acting like the leaders of the Afrikaner Church in South Africa during the apartheid regime he told The Times. 171 - Dec 1999 - History: The Crusades: separating myth from reality, Zenit News Service Soon after the Prophets disciples invaded and destroyed the glorious churches of Egypt first and then of North Africa causing the extinction of Christianity in places that had had bishops like St Augustine. 172 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World It is the last phase of a study that began a year and a half ago in the Lateran University as well as in other branches of the Institute in the United States Mexico Spain and in Centres in West Africa Brazil India and Australia. 173 - Oct 1999 - Catholic objections to the 'morning-after' pill, Maria Luisa Di Pietro See for example what was planned in 1996 for the Great Lakes region in Central Africa: at least $500000 was allocated to promote reproductive health. 174 - Sep 1999 - Social Justice: Father Winfried's Tanzanian Water Project appeal, AD2000 Report Tanzania in East Africa with a population of 28 million is one of the worlds poorest nations with an average life expectancy of around 35-40. 175 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World Christianity: Africas spectacular growth rate New findings from British survey Christianity in the African continent is increasing at a far higher rate than any other continent according to a study by a British researcher released on 18 June. 176 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World Seminarians increase worldwide Vatican Statistical Yearbook figures The latest edition of the Vaticans Statistical Yearbook (updated to 31 December 1997) reveals that vocations to the priesthood are increasing in Africa Asia Latin America and parts of Oceania. 177 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput Well we do not have to visit Africa or Asia to do the work of missionaries. 178 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World The new Bishop was born in Drongen Belgium and ordained a priest in 1961 for the Diocese of Johannesburg in South Africa. 179 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World 9 in Africa and 3 percent in Asia. 180 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell But it is equally true that more Christians have died violently for their faith in this century than in any other; mainly under the Communists and the Nazis but also in Southern Africa and in Central and Southern America. 181 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist In technical and journalistic terms the series included revealing interviews with many key participants and historic film footage covering such areas as Vatican II Pope John Paul IIs impact on Eastern Europe the Church in Latin America Africa and Asia and the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. 182 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore In this capacity he travelled extensively throughout the world visiting many countries including Australia North America Africa and Western Europe where he was able to study at length the impact of secular culture on faith and the Church. 183 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist However the increases have been uneven with Africa posting a 400% increase and South America 250%. 184 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell He has set in place much of the intellectual groundwork for this with the new Code of Canon Law the Catechism and his many encyclicals but the fruits in the West unlike Africa some parts of Asia and even South America have been scarce. 185 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons Campaigns against racial discrimination and in favour of local self-government in the Third World are now commonplace but not many were launched over a century ago by wealthy noblemen; and to bring a potentially interminable list of paradoxes to an end the fame of many men is perpetuated in place-names but only one name is attached to waterfalls in Africa to streets in Australia and to Saint Clares convent in Assisi. 186 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist In 1936 a request came to the Legions Dublin headquarters that Edel be sent as the Legions envoy to East Africa. 187 - Mar 1995 - Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible', Max Champion Taylor a missionary in Africa who also acknowledges the challenges which primal religion puts to Western culture and Christianity: Hitherto in this encounter with primal religions Christianity . 188 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull Some of the young priests already ordained are doing parish work in France some have been employed by the Roman Curia while others have gone to Africa to labour in the Institutes mission in the diocese of Mouila Gabon. 189 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist Indeed in the name of justice and peace many of them including Catholics have committed themselves to a precise political agenda on scores of disputed issues: Nicaragua El Salvador South Africa immigration the environment and so forth. 190 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria Additional factors operate in African societies like for instance Zambia which despite the Christianity of its leader Kaunda and generous international aid through its own mistaken economic policies beginning with the disregard of agriculture is a basket case. 191 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Obituary - Fr Patrick Cosgrove, South Africa (letter), Fr E. Lumley-Holmes CSsR
