News

• 12 September 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “No attempt to protect the victims, only efforts to use these as ‘cases' to impose abortion as a solution ”: say Catholic Lawyers and Family Pastoral commission Parana (Agenzia Fides) - "God alone is Lord of life and death. No one may arbitrarily decide who is to be born live and who is to die. This decision is the greatest act of discrimination": this statement was part of a Me ...
• 12 September 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - PMS Youth without Frontiers not indifferent to plight of earthquake victims; groups of priests provide spiritual assistance until situation is back to normal Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 'Youth without Frontiers' , JSF the Missionary youth pastoral service of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru, has just completed a programme "Looking at the world through the eyes of Christ" i ...
• 12 September 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Aboriginal communities say government health minister must be removed and call for local Church to intervene Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Aboriginal communities in the province of Resistencia recently contested health minister Ricardo Mayol, regarding him responsible for the serious lack of healthcare services in the area. T ...
• 11 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Austria - “In a monastery of Benedictine spirit, the praise of God, which the monks sing as a solemn choral prayer, always has priority.” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in the afternoon of Sunday 9 September, paid a visit to Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the largest Cistercian monastery in Europe, founded in 1135 by Leopold III. After ...
• 11 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Austria - “Volunteer work is a service to human dignity, inasmuch as men and women are created in the image and likeness of God … the volunteer work carried out by children is at times impressive; we need only think of the activity of the Sternsinger at Christmastime” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - “ It is good to meet people who are trying to give a face to the Gospel message in our communities; to see people, young and old, who concretely express in Church and society the love which we, ...
• 11 September 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Pilgrimages and Shrines, paths of peace, places of mercy: 5th European Congress for Pastoral Care of Pilgrimages and Shrines opens in Lourdes on the eve of Jubilee Year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - In Lourdes, France, on Monday 10 September in the presence of about one hundred directors of pilgrimages and rectors of Shrines in 20 European different countries of Europe the 5th European Cong ...
• 11 September 2007
  AFRICA - Small hydro-electric plants, the key to electrifying rural Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa has enormous hydroelectric power still to be exploited. This is affirmed in a recently published study by Wim Jonker Klunne, expert in renewable energy. Only 7% of Africa's hydroelectric pote ...
• 11 September 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “At least 50,000 people flee fighting in east Congo” says Italian Volunteer Service AVSI which has worked in the area for years Goma (Agenzia Fides)- At least 50,000 are fleeing their homes to escape violence in north Kivu in Democratic Congo, caused by fighting between the regular army and rebels led by Laurent Nkunda which started at the end of ...
• 11 September 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea death penalty “abolitionist de facto” if this year ends with no execution having been carried out Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Awareness campaigns promoted by the local Catholic Church, other religious communities, civil associations, and the media with regard to the need to abolish the death penalty, have brought good re ...
• 11 September 2007
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - “Don't forget Sri Lanka!”: Sri Lanka's Christians call on international community to remember the travailed island of the Indian subcontinent. Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Sri Lanka have urged the international community not to forget the travailed Island of the Indian subcontinent, where civil conflict is causing unbearable suffering and the dea ...
• 11 September 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Catholic Bishops concerned about atmosphere of political conflict, demand dialogue the best path to peaceful and democratic social harmony" El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Bolivia, meeting in Trinidad for the ordination of Bishop Francisco Focardi OFM, appointed auxiliary bishop of Beni, issued a pastoral statement, "Dialogue and the Common ...
• 11 September 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The Family and the Future of Humanity”: Family Congress 12 - 15 September La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - " The Family and the Future of Humanity” is the theme of a Family Congress to be held from Wednesday 12 September to Saturday 15 September in La Plata Argentina, organised by the Archdiocese ...
• 11 September 2007
  AMERICA - The social communicator profession and its challenges in Latin America Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - To offer space for reflection on the social communicator profession and the ethical challenges posed by the context of Latin America, a Latin American Congress on the Ethics of Communication is b ...
• 11 September 2007
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Young Tahitians pray and dream of World Youth Day next year in Sydney Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - Dreaming of WYD. Young Tahitians, still edified and enthusiastic after welcoming and hosting the pilgrim youth Day Cross and Marian Icon, in May this year, are praying and working with all their ...
• 11 September 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop of Bulawayo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 11 September 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), presented by Archbishop Pius Alick ...