News

• 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 ...
• 13 November 2007
  AMERICA - CELAM presidency voices solidarity with Venezuelan Bishops: may the Lord “continue to fortify the prophetic role of Bishops at this time” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A letter of solidarity with the Bishops of Venezuela, attacked for expressing their moral opinion on constitutional reforms (see Fides 22/10/2007; 31/10/2007; 12/11/2007)) has been addressed to the ...
• 13 November 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Pro Life Parliamentarians World Assembly: “the wager for Life is not for one country, or a few parliamentarians it is for all humanity” Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - Some fifty parliamentarians and members of government from 17 countries took part in a Pro Life Parliamentarians World Assembly in Santiago del Chile, according to a report by the Euro ...
• 13 November 2007
  AMERICA/PERU- Caritas Peru and Continental Bank agreement to rebuild four schools for the benefit of two thousand pupils affected by earthquake Callao (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas del Peru and the Foundation BBVA Banco Continentale have signed an agreement to collect funds to rebuild schools and provide pedagogical and psychological assistance for children in areas ...
• 13 November 2007
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - State offices for public health and social assistance launch vaccination programme among marginalised communities Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - A campaign to vaccinate children against diphtheria and tetanus has been launched in the town of San José de Oca promoted by state offices for public health and social assistance. The vac ...