News

• 25 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New Chair of Missiology at Madrid's San Dámaso Theology Faculty in entrusted to National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The San Dámaso Theology Faculty in Madrid has instituted a Chair of Missiology to be inaugurated for the coming academic year 2007-2008. The Grand Chancellor of the Faculty, Cardinal Antonio M. ...
• 25 July 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Echoes of the visit to Angola by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- “During Cardinal Ivan Dias' visit to Angola the Angolan people's love for the Church and the Pope was very evident” said a local Church source with regard to the recent visit made by the Prefe ...
• 25 July 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Niger Delta: lethal mix of petroleum, arms and drugs, (en route for Europe) Port Harcourt (Agenzia Fides)- Arms and drugs. This lethal combination, added to the problem of unequal distribution of local oil proceeds, is throwing into chaos and anarchy the Niger Delta region where most of Nigeria' ...
• 25 July 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Special Court to try Red Khmer crimes in 2008 Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Observers, relations of the victims, NGOs., religious communities in Cambodia, the man in the street, welcome the news that the International Cambodia Court instituted to examine war crimes c ...
• 25 July 2007
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Hydroelectric power stations: Bishops say errors of the past must be avoided, people must receive fair retribution for property, and be given homes and land to work San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "For the good of the Family and the development of the country " is the title of a statement issued by the Bishops of El Salvador with regard to a plan to construct new dams and hydroelectr ...
• 25 July 2007
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "A Life Project" National Youth Day 28 July closes Youth Month: some 10,000 young people will take part San José (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 28 July the Catholic Church in Costa Rica will celebrate the annual National Youth Day organised by the local Church. Some 10,000 young people will take part in special prayers, re ...
• 25 July 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Marist Superior General Visits Solomon Islands Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Jan Hulshof sm, Superior General of the Marist Fathers and Brothers made a pastoral visit to Honiara bearing a message of hope for the local people and to find new paths for evangelisation i ...
• 24 July 2007
  VATICAN - Message of deepest sympathy to Archbishop Robert Sarah, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples upon the death of his mother Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To Archbishop Robert Sarah Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples whose mother Mrs Claire Sarah, passed away on Saturday 21 July, Fides expresses deepest sympathy a ...
• 24 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Bodo (Boro) - Diocese of Bongaigaon Assam State, India Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bodo language (pronounced Bo-ro) of Tibetan-Burmese ethnic-linguistic origin, is one of various official languages spoken in India by about 600,000 people: in the state of Assam, on th ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Increasing numbers of young Catholics choose mission holidays: 263 ready to give a hand in Portuguese speaking missions Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - Missions are still on the horizon for young Catholics in Portugal. According to the Foundation for the Evangelisation of Cultures this year again many will be taking part in mission projects. In ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Education to Citizenship: “Every responsible family has the obligation to refuse this school subject. This is a matter of freedom, to defend the basic and highest right to educate our children in keeping with our own principles” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - As from September every school in Spain will include the new Education to Citizenship subject as part of the compulsory curriculum set by the Ministry of Education. The subject involves the forma ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assisi will host young Franciscans from all over the continent for a European Franciscan Meeting Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Assisi is ready to welcome young people to the European Franciscan Meeting organised by the Union of Friars Minor of Europe. The meeting with the slogan “Go Francis, repair my … Europe” wil ...
• 24 July 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Catholic parish in east Congo works to rehabilitate child soldiers Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Congo has numerous former child-soldiers in need of help to find their place in society. In Bunyuka in the east of Democratic Congo where the problem is especially felt, a local Catholic parish ...
• 24 July 2007
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Stigmatine Fathers mark forty years of service in parishes, youth centres, schools, healthcare and radio Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Forty years ago on 22 October 1967, the first two Italian Stigmatine Fathers Fr. Oscar Zamburlini and Fr. Alberto Fontana arrived in Abidjan at the request of Bishop Yago to take over the pastor ...
• 24 July 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples ends visit to Angola. “It was an opportunity to demonstrate the excellent relations which exist between state and Church and to strengthen the local Catholic community's spiritual closeness with the Pope ” said a local Church source Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- “Cardinal Dias' visit to Angola was closely covered by the local press and television: this showed how in Angola the Church is close to the people” a local Church source told Fides from Luanda ...