News

• 17 October 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - No school for children in living in hovels in Bangalore who have to go out with their mothers to fetch water at night Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Because there is no water in the hovels in Bangalore, in southern India, many little girls cannot go to school. Women and children have to walk as far as three to five kilometres to find wate ...
• 16 October 2007
  VATICAN - Programme of Pope Benedict XVI's Pastoral Visit to Naples on Sunday 21 October Vatican City(Agenzia Fides) - The programme of Pope Benedict XVI's Pastoral Visit to Naples on Sunday 21 October was made public today. The Holy Father will travel by helicopter from the heliport in Vatican City to the S ...
• 16 October 2007
  VATICAN - The social and ecclesial situation in the countries of the continent of America in the light of Ecclesia in America: 12th meeting of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops' Special Council for America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The post synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America makes several references to the centrality of the Word of God in the life and mission of the Church. This topical issue in view of ...
• 16 October 2007
  AFRICA/TOGO - “We are waiting confidently for the results” say local Church sources after legislative elections Lomé (Agenzia Fides)- “This time the elections were held correctly, without the violence we saw in previous years” say local Catholic Church sources in Lomé, the capital of Togo where legislative elections on Sunda ...
• 16 October 2007
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “Christians and Muslim must work together for the good of the countries in this region” say Catholic English-speaking Bishops of West Africa Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- “Christians and Muslims share a history of good as well as bitter memories. The Christian-Muslim dialogue is one way of recalling together times when communities lived in peace with each other ...
• 16 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Catholic priests taken hostage in Mosul still detained, Pope Benedict XVI calls for their release Mosul (Agenzia Fides)- Fr. Pius Afas and Fr. Mazen Ishoa, the two Syrian-Catholic priests taken hostage in the Mosul, in northern Iraq, are still in the hands of their captors, but they are alive and in good condition th ...
• 16 October 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Study Day: Priests, religious, deacons and seminarians discuss diocesan Social Communications methods, tools and strategies Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of September Catholic priests, men and women religious, deacons and seminarians attended a Study Day on diocesan social communication strategies. The diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao s ...
• 16 October 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex and Life aims to stop anti-birth organisations from promoting immoral policies throughout Asia Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex and Life (www.edicongress.com) 19 to 21 November 2007 will bring together in Manila (Philippines), over 700 experts in pedagogy, schola ...
• 16 October 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops and lay Catholics call the country to three days of prayer: Children's Rosary for Peace; national Marian shrine of Our Lady of Coromoto raised to the rank of Minor Basilica, National Day of Prayer for the Nation Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Venezuela and the national Catholic Laity Council have called the country to three days of prayer. The announcement was made at a press conference by Bishop Saúl Figu ...
• 16 October 2007
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - World Mission Sunday: “We cannot be content to sit passively inside our churches, we must go out to tell everyone that evil and death never have the last word, love is stronger” Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "I am a disciple who listens and a missionary in action" is the theme chosen by the Catholic Church in Honduras for World Mission Sunday 21 October, national director of the Pontifical Missi ...
• 16 October 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 2nd Congress on Bio-ethics culture, GMO scientific research and food security, poverty, HIV/AIDS, justice, human rights, solidarity and respect of life Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) -Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, hosted the 2nd Congress on Bio-ethics 4-6 October organised jointly by the local Catholic Ethics Committee CECA and the Pontifical Academy for Life. The ...
• 16 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Food Day 850 million people do not get enough food: numerous events Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Food insecurity is still a world problem. Some 850 million people do not have enough food. Studies estimate that by 2020 1.3 billion and one out of every four children aged 0-6, will go hungry, unl ...
• 16 October 2007
  “His voice still resounds”: Pompei hosts day of prayer to commemorate Raoul Follereau on the 30th anniversary of his death Roma (Agenzia Fides) - To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Raoul Follereau, French journalist who dedicated his whole life to “brothers and sisters” suffering from Hansen disease, on Thursday 6 December the ...
• 15 October 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “the real leprosy which disfigures man and society is sin; it is pride and selfishness which generate indifference, hatred and violence in the human heart. This leprosy of the spirit… no one can cure except God, who is love” - Appeal for Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel parable of Jesus who heals the ten lepers and only one- a Samaritan, a foreigner, comes back to thank him, proclaimed during Mass on 14 October, the 28th Sunday in the Liturgical ...
• 15 October 2007
  VATICAN - Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music called by Pope Benedict XVI to contribute to “an ‘aggiornamento’ suited to our times of the precious traditions of which sacred music is rich” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I have come gladly to see the completely renovated didactic see of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music. My visit inaugurates and blesses the major work of restoration undertaken in ...