News

• 13 September 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake in Sumatra, fear of tsunami nightmare returns Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - People on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are still under shock after an earthquake hit the island yesterday 12 September and the national meteorological office announced that the tsunami warn ...
• 13 September 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sunday 16 September national Day for Migrants, Refugees, Displaced Persons concludes “Week for Peace”: almost 4 million mostly children displaced Colombians Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 16 September in Columbia is national Day for Migrants, Refugees, Displaced Persons organised by the Catholic Bishops' National Office of Social Pastoral Care. For some years now in Colombi ...
• 13 September 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In an ethical key Bishops contribute to discussion on fiscal reform and present situation of poverty, insecurity and political polarisation Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Bishops' Commission for Social Pastoral Care issued a statement with which it offers all Mexican men and women of good will in an ethical key a contribution to the public debate ...
• 13 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day organisation engine steams ahead: “this is a great opportunity for new evangelisation” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - While the pilgrimage of World Youth Day symbols, the Cross accompanied by the Icon of Our Lady 'Seat of Wisdom', continues across Australia warmly welcomed with prayers and celebration, in Sydney ...
• 13 September 2007
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The state guarantees only 50% of the medicines the country needs Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In State hospitals in Honduras there is a shortage of basic drugs. The Special Commission for the Purchase of Medicines, through the representative of the local Catholic Church Fr Rafael Alv ...
• 13 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Why is school instruction so fundamental? What are its social repercussions?” National San Vincenzo Literacy Campaign Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 2007 San Vincenzo de Paoli National Campaign will focus this year on Literacy. The aim is to identify the positive social repercussions of instruction for as many people as possible. If illiter ...
• 13 September 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - First ever vaccination campaign against pneumococcus and parasites in Cajabamba Cajabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Ms Pilar Nores de García directress of ‘Sembrando’ programme launched by the national Institute for Labour and Family, has launched a vaccination campaign in the Peruvian Andes mountain a ...
• 13 September 2007
  International Volunteer Service in Africa Awareness Days Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Seguimi non profit lay association is planning International Volunteer Service in Africa Awareness Days 1- 4 November. The purpose is to encourage, orient and concretise a desire to be involved in ...
• 12 September 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Look to the Star of the Sea …invoke Mary!” , Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - God's love is poured into our heart when it finds us open to true love, which consists in loving God for the sake of God and others for the sake of others. In other words authentic love is ...
• 12 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pontifical Missionary Union publishes Acts of the International Congress organised earlier in the year to mark 50th anniversary of Pius XII Encyclical Fidei donum Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ Fidei Donum Missionaries: the Future of Evangelisation” is the title of a special issue of the July-September magazine Omnis Terra containing the Acts of the International Congress or ...
• 12 September 2007
  AFRICA/GABON - Rising prices and “Dutch Disease”: Gabon affected by the “petroleum plague ” Libreville (Agenzia Fides)- The government of Gabon has issued orders for the prices of some prime necessities to be kept under control for the next six months. The products include palm oil, sweetened concentrated milk, ...
• 12 September 2007
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Several thousand flee rebel attacks in north west Burundi Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- About 4,000 people were forced to abandon their homes in Bubanza province in north west Burundi after attacks by the country's last rebel group National Liberation Forces FLN which has not ye ...
• 12 September 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Multimedia Evangelisation: Tej-Prasarini Salesian Communications Centre in Mumbai, most useful for the Church in India ever more present in the new media Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - For some years now the Catholic Church in India has given priority attention to increasing its presence in the media which offer new forums for evangelisation. This intuition led the local Chur ...
• 12 September 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Flores, happy island of Muslim-Christian harmony among families, in schools and in society”: testimony from Sr Daniela Martinello, 13 years on mission in Indonesia Ende (Agenzia Fides) - “The Indonesian island of Flores is a happy example of Muslim Christian harmony among families, in schools and in society. This happens when there is respect and reciprocal trust and joint effort ...
• 12 September 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Archdiocese of Lima inaugurates Family Institute to promote understanding and diffusion of Catholic Church teaching on Marriage and the Family Lima (Agenzia Fides) - As part of celebrations to mark Family Day in the archdiocese of Lima on 9 September, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, announced the commencement of the activity of the Archd ...