News

• 12 October 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Precarious situation in north Kivu after rebel general Nkunda announced a cessation of hostilities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- There is a very precarious calm in the east of Democratic del Congo after a unilateral cease fire declaration was made by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. Although clashes between the army and Nkund ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Series of multimedia products for evangelisation in view of Mission Sunday and the 150th anniversary of the evangelisation of southern Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The executive Commission of the Voice of the Catholic Church Association of Taiwan, the Communications office of the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference, asked Kuangchi Program Service and Guan ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Web site in memory of Chaldean Catholic priest Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed recently, and to defend the presence of Iraqi Christians in their homeland Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraq's Chaldean Catholic community has announced the imminent opening of a web site in memory of Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed by insurgents in Mosul. The web site will also defend ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is now “de facto” abolitionist of capital punishment, to the satisfaction of Christians and civil rights associations Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Since there have been no executions in South Korea for ten years the Republic is now an abolitionist “de facto”, although officially the death penalty is still part of the country's juridical ...
• 12 October 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - 1st National Catholic Church Assembly: “let us reawaken missionary ardour in our Church in Latin America … like Juan Diego we must go out to evangelise with in one hand the Bible and in the other a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary " Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Some five hundred people are gathered for the 1st National Assembly of the Catholic Church in Chile which opened on Wednesday 10 October with a Mass presided by Cardinal Francisco Javier Erráz ...
• 12 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - With enthusiasm and spiritual preparation Salesian Youth Movement members prepare for World Youth Day next year Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day 2008 will be a meeting of different charisma in the Church, of young members of different lay associations and diverse spiritual paths. Besides sharing experience and ides with ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Pope appoints Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 12 October 2007, appointed Rev. Joseph Dang Duc Ngan, as Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Viêt Nam). Until now Rev Joseph Dang Duc Ngan was vicar ge ...
• 12 October 2007
  AMERICA/JAMAICA The Pope appoints Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston-in-Jamaica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 12 October 2007, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston-in-Jamaica (Jamaica) Bishop Donald Reece, until now Bishop of the diocese of Saint John’ ...
• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Maternal mortality drops in average income countries, but in low income countries mothers continue to die during pregnancy Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The maternal mortality rate, the number of deaths for every 100,000 babies born alive, is diminishing too slowly to reach the 5th Millennium Goal to reduce by two thirds by 2015 the number of wo ...
• 11 October 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI dedicates his weekly catechesis to the figure of Saint Hilary of Poitiers, who “consecrated his life to defending faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ, Son of God and God as the Father, who generated him from all eternity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “To oppose Aryans who considered the Son of God Jesus a creature, albeit excellent, but only a creature, Hilary consecrated his whole life to defending faith in the divinity of Jesus Chri ...
• 11 October 2007
  VATICAN - How the Pontifical Mission Societies sustain the life of the young Churches, the formation of seminarians and priests, and initiatives for children in need Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of the Pontifical Mission Societies, directed by a Supreme Committee presided by the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, is to foster awarene ...
• 11 October 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Not everyone can understand, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The violent attack on Catholic celibacy which had marked the dominant culture in the West for some years has 'landed' in Italy. Newspapers, television talks shows and various features, are ...
• 11 October 2007
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Two thousand children take part in 3rd Holy Childhood Congress: “You not only listen to the Word of God and announce it, with your presence and example you announce God's love to the world” Brno (Agenzia Fides) - For the third time Holy Childhood children and adolescents in the Czech Republic celebrated their annual Day with a solemnity worthy of the best missionary tradition. About 2,000 children from Cath ...
• 11 October 2007
  AFRICA - Tourism to boost economies of two African getting over dramatic civil wars Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Two Africa countries, devastated by civil war, are hoping tourism will re-launch their economies. One is Rwanda, which after the civil war and genocide of 1994 is determined to take the path of ec ...
• 11 October 2007
  AFRICA -“Stop Kalashnikov ammunition supplies” a report on wars in Africa which 'burned up' at least 300 billion dollars 1990 and 2005 Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 billion dollars were lost because of African wars between 1990 and 2005. Billions were diverted from development in Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democ ...