News

• 26 November 2007
  VATICAN - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI meets the College of Cardinals on the occasion of the Consistory: ecumenical dialogue in the light of the Lord's prayer and mandate “Ut unum sint” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The ordinary Public Consistory for the creation of 23 new cardinals was preceded - on November 23 - by a meeting of prayer and reflection of the College of Cardinals, to take place in the V ...
• 26 November 2007
  AFRICA - Africa and Europe unite against drug trafficking: anti-drug police coordination centre Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa and Europe unite to fight drug trafficking. This emerged from a Seminar in Rome for heads of anti-drug services of northern and western Africa countries and G6 countries, France, Germany, Gre ...
• 26 November 2007
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “Do not disappoint the hopes of the people of Sierra Leone” a Catholic missionary pleads Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- Fr Gerardo Caglioni, Xaverian missionary in Sierra Leone for 12 years, ( the author of several books including the History of the Evangelisation of Sierra Leone and writing at present the histor ...
• 26 November 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Official launching of TV Maria in the Philippines, with its own cable channel Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The date of baptism will be 8 December 2007, feast of the Immaculate Conception: with the inauguration by Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, Archbishop of Manila, the Church in the Philippines will offi ...
• 26 November 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Special care for the elderly in Da Zhai parish in the diocese of Han Dan: spiritual and physical care for the elderly open to non Catholics Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - More than one hundred elderly people - including about 20 non Catholics - took part in a course for the elderly organised by the parish of Da Zhai, Cheng An district in the diocese of Han Dan fr ...
• 26 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Labour wins elections and promises to revise government Aboriginal community policies Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - During elections on 24 November after 11 years of Liberal government, Australians voted for the Labour party led by Kevin Rudd. The labour party obtained over 50% majority in parliament and in ...
• 26 November 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - After the serious events in recent days the Bishops call for respect for life and an end to hostilities Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the gravity of clashes in recent days the Bishops' Conference of Bolivia issued statements on the 23 and the 25 November expressing deep concern and calling on the people to put aside v ...
• 26 November 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Dialogue, definitively, is the compulsory path to overcome the present concerning deterioration of day to day co-existence”: Bishops' appeal at the end of plenary assembly Punta di Tralca (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us make room for dialogue" is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Chile at the end of a four day plenary assembly 19 to 22 November of which the main task w ...
• 26 November 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico's national Cathedral reopens after closing for a week following episodes of violence in the church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - After having been closed for a week, the national Cathedral of Mexico opened in the evening of Saturday 24 November for first Vespers of the Solemnity of Christ the King, according to a stat ...
• 26 November 2007
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - University students involved in “door to door” campaign against malaria, dengue and leptospirosis after the deaths of 60 people Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - About 900 medicine students at the Università Autonoma di Santo Domingo (UASD) are involved in a door to door campaign for the prevention of leptospirosis and other killer diseases in the ...
• 26 November 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Bishop of Lwena appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 26 November 2007, appointed as Bishop of Lwena (Angola) Rev. Fr. Jesús Tirso Blanco, S.D.B., Salesian Vice-Inspector in Angola. Fr. Jesús Tirso B ...
• 23 November 2007
  VATICAN - “Peace, prosperity, and respect for human rights are inseparably linked. The time has come to ensure, for the sake of peace, that no man, woman and child will ever be hungry again!”: Benedict XVI addresses FAO Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy See has always maintained a keen interest in every effort made to rid the human family of famine and malnutrition, in the awareness that resolving these problems requires not on ...
• 23 November 2007
  VATICAN - Friday 30 November presentation of Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical "Spe salvi" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The new Encyclical of Benedict XVI, "Spe salvi," will be presented at the Holy See Press Office at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, November 30. The document will be presented by Cardinal Georges Mari ...
• 23 November 2007
  VATICAN - Today, College of Cardinals meets for prayer and reflection on the eve of the Consistory Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 24 November, at 10.30, in St Peter's Square the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will hold a public Consistory for the creation of twenty three new Cardinals (see Agenzia Fides 17/ ...
• 23 November 2007
  VATICAN - Over one billion people in the world regarded as 'homeless' : First International Meeting on the Pastoral Care of the Homeless Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the 26th and 27th of November, the First International Meeting on the Pastoral Care of the Homeless on the theme: “In Christ and with the Church at the service of the homeless (clochar ...