News

• 27 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Official Comboni Missionary Sisters web site www.comboniane.org, now in English Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “If the world of today travels via the web, mission will carry the Word along the same way”. With these words on March 15 the Comboni Missionary Sisters announced the inauguration of the Congr ...
• 27 July 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “The situation is tense, but it is important to keep calm and not throw fuel on the fire” says local source with regard to situation in east Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “ The situation is tense but it is important not throw fuel on the fire with bellicose declarations or false alarms. It is necessary to work for peace in collaboration with the international c ...
• 27 July 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Work to build Nigeria's first atomic power plant will start in 2011 which will produce 1.000 megawatt of energy by 2017 Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- Work to construct Nigeria's first nuclear power plant will start in 2011. This was announced yesterday 26 July by the chairman of the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission Dr Franklin Erepamo Osaisai w ...
• 27 July 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic school in north India sacked and devastated: local Church calls for justice and protection New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic school run by the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Graces in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand (or Uttaranchal), was devastated by a gang of radical Hindu militants, member ...
• 27 July 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake leaves more homeless, but greatest fear is fresh interreligious violence Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - the recent earthquake in Sulawesi (east Indonesia) is not the greatest concern, although more than 100 people are reported dead or missing and the island was already devastated by recent landsl ...
• 27 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - New Italian aid agency to increase capacity to provide prompt, effective and transparent intervention in the case of a major humanitarian crisis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Agire is the name of a new emergency agency recently presented in Rome, launched by a partnership of six international NGOs: Actionaid, Amref, Save the children Italia, Terre des hommes Italia, Vis ...
• 27 July 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Pontifical Salesian University reaches academic agreements with three universities in China An interesting development in Catholic Church relations with the Peoples Republic of China was reported by the Salesian news agency ANS. During a seven day visit to China, 2-9 July, a delegation of the Pontifical Salesia ...
• 27 July 2007
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Women in west Africa have little choice. Many would be mothers die due to preventable complications Dar Es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - After Sierra Leone, Niger, Malawi and Angola Tanzania is the fifth country in Africa where pregnant women are at risk. According to World Bank statistics in Tanzania in 2000, for every 100 ...
• 26 July 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for 23rd World Youth Day Mission: “you must be holy and you must be missionaries since we can never separate holiness from missio… Be prepared to put your life on the line in order to enlighten the world with the truth of Christ; to respond with love to hatred and disregard for life; to proclaim the hope of the risen Christ in every corner of the earth.” Lorenzago (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia from 15 - 20 July 2008 on the theme: “ You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses” ...
• 26 July 2007
  VATICAN - During Benedict XVI's meeting with the clergy of Belluno-Feltre and Treviso, with regard to the 50th anniversary of the Fidei donum encyclical, the Pope said “Reciprocity is always very important and precisely the experience that we are Church sent to the world and we all know and love one another is most necessary and is also the power behind our proclamation” Auronzo di Cadore (Agenzia Fides) - In the morning of Tuesday 24 July Pope Benedict XVI went to the church of Santa Giustina Martire ad Auronzo in Cadore, to address the clergy of Belluno-Feltre and Treviso, accompanie ...
• 26 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Sinhalese (Sinhala) and Tamil - Sri Lanka (2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Religions, Evangelisation: Buddhism 73%, Hinduism 15%, Christianity 5%, Islam 7%. Chronology of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka 1332: Franciscan Oderico da Pordenone stays for a short w ...
• 26 July 2007
  ASIA/JAPAN - The Catholic Community in Japan takes small steps forward: Bishops’ Conference statistics Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Land of the Rising Sun continues her journey of day to day living in pastoral work and initiatives for evangelisation slowly growing in numbers and in faith. This emerge ...
• 26 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - St John of God Foundation backs young people in East Timor supporting education and professional training Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The St John of God Foundation and the Hospital Mission in East Timor have launched a development programme based on the "human capital", young people especially. In July and August the Foundation ...
• 26 July 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE- Zimbabwe: as the economy collapses operation to discredit people who oppose the government continues Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Inflation, drought, unsuccessful government policies continue to worsen the economic situation of Zimbabwe. After enforcing a 50% cut in prices of prime necessities (see Fides 4 and 13 July 2007) ...
• 26 July 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Good Governance is the priority of my mandate” says new President of the Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa IMBISA Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Lubango in Angola, Bishop Gabriel Mbilingue, has been elected president of the Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa IMBISA taking place in the A ...