News

• 14 November 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic Seminary in inner Mongolia offers first ever religious formation course for lay people Hu He Hao Te (Agenzia Fides) - The Inner Mongolia regional Catholic seminary has opened its doors to lay men and women. Some 45 lay men and women active in the life of Basic Church Communities in the 5 dioceses of the pr ...
• 14 November 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops call the people to put aside violence, overcome difficulties with sincere dialogue, work together for authentic progress which all desire Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us make Bolivia a house of brothers and sisters, living in harmony and dignity " is the title of a message addressed to the People of God by the Bishops of Boliva at the end of a plenary ...
• 14 November 2007
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Prayers to Our Lady of the Trenta Tre for life, for peace between Argentineans and Uruguayans, and for new pastoral guidelines for the coming years Florida (Agenzia Fides) - About 4,000 Catholics came from all over the country to render homage to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the national Marian shrine of Our Lady of Trenta Tre, taking part in the annual national pilgr ...
• 14 November 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops start plenary with an appeal for disaster victims in Tabasco and Chiapas: “in this tragedy we see a call to unity and solidarity, a call to act as brothers" Lago di Guadalupe (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico are holding their 84th plenary assembly 12 - 16 November to reflect on the Conference in Aparecida in view of encouraging new evangelisation, conversion of pastor ...
• 14 November 2007
  EUROPE/TURKEY - 15 million Turks suffer from TB, pandemic threatens to turn into an epidemic Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Turkey 15 million people suffer from tuberculosis. A much higher number than Europe and the US and the Turkish health ministry is trying to do something. The situation threatens to become an e ...
• 14 November 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Alarm in Maputo as HIV infection doubles and life expectancy plummets Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - In the Maputo province of Mozambique cases of HIV infection doubled in the first six months of 2007 compared with the same period last year. The head of the national HIV/AIDS prevention office sa ...
• 13 November 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI receives new Indonesian Ambassador: “Dialogue, respect for the convictions of others, and collaboration in the service of peace are the surest means of securing social concord” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ Indonesia, as a multi-religious country with the largest Muslim population of any nation in the world, plays an important and positive role in promoting interreligious cooperation, both ...
• 13 November 2007
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The human rights of migrants and refugees must be adequately guaranteed and their human dignity respected: intervention by the Holy See Permanent Observer to the UN Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “We are distressed by the painful conditions of those who flee due to the long-running conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Chad, in Darfur, in Afghanistan and in numerous othe ...
• 13 November 2007
  VATICAN - Mission, the divine mandate , Fr Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The call to mission has its initiative in God himself, who from all eternity decided to call men and women to live his very own life. The implementation of this plan involves various stages ...
• 13 November 2007
  VATICAN - December 8, beginning of Celebrations for 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - December 8, will mark the beginning of Celebrations for 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes. This jubilee year 2008, the third since he Jubilee of 190 ...
• 13 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pilgrimages, “frontier of evangelisation”: Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi holds International Co-ordination Meeting L’Aquila (Agenzia Fides) - Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi ORP is holding an International Co-ordination Meeting at Forte Spagnolo de L’Aquila with about 300 ORP collaborators from Italy and other countries, including Hol ...
• 13 November 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “The people can take no more” Catholic Bishop, Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu tells Fides Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “Dramatic news continues to arrive from Mogadishu. Fighting persists and the people cannot take any more. This is a rebellion to every effect” said Bishop Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti ...
• 13 November 2007
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Fresh fighting in eastern Congo, more civilians move, the region has at least 800,000 internally displaced persons Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Rebel troops of Laurent Nkunda attacked a refugee camp near Goma, the main city in north Kivu in the east of Democratic Congo. Congo army sources say the attack was thwarted and 27 of the assail ...
• 13 November 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “The experience of building a community on the Word of God” theme of 8th Bible Seminar in Macao Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The experience of building a community on the Word of God ” was the theme of the 8th Bible Seminar in the Chinese language held in Macao in the first week of November. According to Hong K ...
• 13 November 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Drug addiction is not only a problem of ‘substances’, it is a matter of culture, values, life style and decision": Bishops denounce drug abuse which is widespread among young people and feeds on the innocence and fragility of children Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Drug abuse, synonym of death " is the title of an pastoral Letter issued by the Catholic Bishops of Argentina at the end of their 94th plenary assembly 5-9 November. In the letter the Bis ...