News

• 23 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - World's first medical/scientific web page accessible to the visually impaired Messina (Agenzia Fides) - The Operative Unit of Genetics and Paediatric Immunology of the University of Messina has opened the first medical and scientific web page completely accessible to visually impaired, blind, par ...
• 23 October 2007
  ASIA - A healthy diet is vital in the treatment of people with AIDS Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - HIV positive people in Asia will benefit from a campaign to extend public policies to fight the disease and emphasise feeding programmes as part of the treatment. Some countries in southern and ...
• 23 October 2007
  Paolo Gulisano - “COLOMBANO, UN SANTO PER L'EUROPA” COLUMBANUS A SAINT FOR EUROPE - Ed. Ancora Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Columbanus is the patron Saint of those dedicated to the cause of a united Europe". This statement by the illustrious European expert Robert Schuman reveals the importance of the figure of the 6 ...
• 22 October 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “The power, which in silence and without clamour changes the world and transforms it into the Kingdom of God, is faith, and the expression of this faith is prayer … The Church's mission is to nourish continually the faith and hope of the Christian people” Naples (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 21 October the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, made a pastoral visit to Naples. On his arrival at the Stazione Marittima, at the Port of Naples the Pope was welcomed by Cardinal Crescen ...
• 22 October 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “Today we pray in a special way for missionaries. May we never fail to offer spiritual and material help to those working on the frontiers of mission ” Naples (Agenzia Fides) - Before leading the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 21 October at the end of Mass celebrated in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, Pope Benedict XVI thanked those present, “dear ...
• 22 October 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “With respect for the differences of the various religions, we are all called to work for peace and to concrete commitment to promote reconciliation among peoples” Naples (Agenzia Fides) - In Naples on Sunday 21 October after the Mass in Piazza del Plebiscito, Pope Benedict XVI went to the Aula Magna of the Archdiocesan Seminary at Capodimonte, where he greeted the leaders of Dele ...
• 22 October 2007
  VATICAN - “Ethnic and social differences lived in a spirit of reciprocal respect and love, become a common enrichment rather than a motive for division”: Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Congo on ad limina visit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “May our meeting, expression of communion with the Successor of St Peter, be a source of ever more intense communion among yourselves and among your diocesan Churches, filling you with co ...
• 22 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “We are fighting with you to free you from slavery ”: Catholic Women religious confirm commitment to fight trafficking in human persons Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “We wish to say to victims of human trafficking, women and children especially, we are on your side, you are no longer alone. We are fighting to free you from slavery”. This was stated by the pa ...
• 22 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Miguel Esser, from Chile, is the new international director of the Don Orione International Lay Movement MLO Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Miguel Esser, from Chile has been elected the new president of the Don Orione International Lay Movement MLO. The new president was elected in Madrid during an MLO meeting for general coordinat ...
• 22 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Release of two Catholic priest hostages in northern Iraq Mosul (Agenzia Fides)- The two Catholic priests of Syro-Catholic rite taken hostage in Mosul, northern Iraq on 13 October (see Fides 15 and 16 October 2007) were released yesterday Sunday 21 October. The priests, Fr. Piu ...
• 22 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Born to evangelise”: bi-centenary of Saint Antonio Maria Claret, a great apostle who undertook marvellous missionary work in his life Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - Celebrations to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Saint Anthony Maria Claret, were officially opened 20 and 21 October in Sallent, Barcelona (Spain). The Claretian year will close in the S ...
• 22 October 2007
  AFRICA - Africa rejoices for two new African Cardinals: the Archbishops of Dakar and Nairobi Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “I received the news of my appointment as Cardinal, as a call, a duty, to serve the Lord more and better” said Archbishop Théodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar in Senegal and President of the Bishops' ...
• 22 October 2007
  ASIA/NEPAL - Nepalese Christians concerned for the country's future: instability threatens peace and the democratic process Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Nepal is concerned after the Maoists left the government. There is fear of more instability and chaos. The fact that the convocation of another constituent assembly ...
• 22 October 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops consider proposed constitutional reform morally unacceptable because “it violates the fundamental rights of the democratic system and of the person, threatening freedom and social harmony” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “Called to live in Freedom” is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Venezuela in which they analyse a proposed Bill of Constitutional Reform, presented to the nation on ...
• 22 October 2007
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - New Constitution and general elections in 2009, local Catholic Church called in to help Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Fiji will participate in the moral and civil reconstruction of the country which is starting a progress of normalisation after travailed years of civil war which caused seri ...