News

• 25 January 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Opposition leader Odinga meets President Kibaki, but violence continues Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “This was a good sign, but there is still long way to go to reach pacification ” said a local Catholic source in Nairobi after Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga ...
• 25 January 2008
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - This year's floods worse than 2000 for quantity of harvest loss Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- Over 180,000 homeless of whom 57,000 have lost everything. This is the result of floods in Mozambique this year which are worse that those in 2000/2001, according to Françoise Le Goff head of Red ...
• 25 January 2008
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - New priests ordained in Solomons Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Solomon Islands has a new priest Fr John Peter Varea, aged 28, ordained on 20 January by Archbishop Adrian Smith of Honiara. In his homily the Archbishop said “We joyfully announce and testify ...
• 25 January 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Two women a Christian and a Muslim chosen to lead Silsilah Movement for interreligious dialogue in southern Philippines Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - The new leadership of Silsilah Movement for interreligious dialogue, historic presence of cultural awareness building, formation and sharing for Christian-Muslim dialogue in southern Phil ...
• 25 January 2008
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem in front line to organise assistance and medical care in Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Jerusalem is intensifying efforts to assist people in Gaza suffering shortage of food, water, electricity, medial care and basic services since the Israeli authorities closed crossing ...
• 25 January 2008
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops' Assembly examines the Great Mission, law on childhood and unchecked exploitation of minerals San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - During a recent Assembly the Bishops of El Salvador discussed various aspects of the ecclesial and social situation in the country. In a Message issued at the end of the meeting they list t ...
• 25 January 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop of Kiayi appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 24 January 2008, appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Kiayi (Taiwan), Bishop Thomas Chung An-zu, until now titular Bishop of Munaziana and Auxiliary ...
• 25 January 2008
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE Bishop of Quelimane appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 25 January 2008, appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Quelimane (Mozambique), Bishop Hilário Da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M., until now Bishop of the dioce ...
• 25 January 2008
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Sibu appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 25 January 2008, appointed Rev. Joseph Hii Teck Kwong, parish priest at Mary Immaculate Conception parish in Kapit, (Malaysia), auxiliary Bishop of th ...
• 25 January 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - National pilgrimage to Mount Christ the King: 50,000 youths pray for life, family and peace Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year Mexico's 'Witness and Hope Movement' has organised the national pilgrimage to Mount Christ the King in Silao, Guanajuato on Sunday 26 January. Some 50,000 young people are ...
• 25 January 2008
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Malnutrition weakens children's resistance and increases the risk of dying from pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, measles and AIDS London (Agenzia Fides) - A series on maternal and child undernutrition in the current issue of the medical journal, The Lancet, correctly puts the spotlight on nutrition as “a desperately neglected aspect of maternal, ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - At the general audience Pope Benedict XVI recalls “what has vivified and continues to vivify the path towards full communion among all Christians, is first of all prayer” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Christians of different Churches and ecclesial Communities for the past few days have been united in a choral prayer to ask the Lord Jesus to restore full unity among all his disciples � ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addresses a Letter to the diocese and the city of Rome on the urgent task of education: “at the root of the education crisis there is a crisis of confidence in life ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We all have at heart the good of those we love, especially our children, adolescents and young people. We know in fact that it is on them that the future of our city depends. So we canno ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Life is nonnegotiable! Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With rulings in Cagliari and Florence, Italian judges have once again scrapped the famous Law number 40, on fertility treatment. The TAR of Lazio Region sent the norms to the Consulta to be ...
• 24 January 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Election guidelines from Andalusian Bishops: protect life and support family and marriage built on the union of man and woman Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the southern Andalusia region of Spain who met for two days, 22 and 23 January issued pastoral guidelines in view of general and autonomous elections on March the 9th. The Bishop ...