News

• 16 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CELAM 5 in Aparecida - Bishops' Conference presidents address the assembly: “We cannot wait for the faithful to come to us we must go out to them, on a new mission to call everyone to live the Church as the family of God ” Aparecida (Fides Service) - The agenda of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean which opened in Aparecida, Brazil on May 13 includes reports from the presidents of the resp ...
• 16 May 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Writing an article, planning lay out, title, graphics; producing a Newsletter: Catholic school pupils attend media workshop (Honiara) - The excitement of writing an article, planning a page, the title the graphics and seeing the end product, a publication, was the very significant and instructive recent experience of Catholic school students ...
• 16 May 2007
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Six of the world's poorest nations recognised for their advanced contributions to the “co-financing” of vaccines, and for putting immunisation on the forefront of their development priorities Geneva (Fides Service) - The GAVI Alliance and the World Health Organisation announced today that the governments of Guyana, Ghana, and four of Africa’s poorest nations, Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, have be ...
• 16 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Research for Development: University Campus Bio-Medico inaugurates new research centre and discusses new strategies to intensify scientific research in Italy Rome (Fides Service) - On Friday 18 May at 9.30am in via dei Compositori 130 a Trigoria, University Campus Bio-Medico of Roma, there will be a “Research for Development” Day dedicated to the presentation of the Unive ...
• 16 May 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies and the Pontifical Epiphany Collection for Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 26 March 2007 appointed Rev. Pierre-Yves Pecqueux, of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudist Fathers ...
• 15 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil - the Holy Father inaugurates 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean: “ Church totally enlivened and impelled by the love of Christ …releases an irresistible missionary power which is the power of holiness ” Aparecida (Fides Service) - In his homily during the Mass on Sunday 13 May in the square in front of the national Marian Shrine of Aparecida to open the 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America ...
• 15 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (12) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Monday 1st March 1858: first miracle, 12th apparition. “ Almost fifteen hundred people gathered. An astounding number of conversions were taking place, and the town parish was not cert ...
• 15 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 20th anniversary for GRIS, Social-Religious Information Research Group, at the service of the Church and the world of culture on Alternative Religious Movements Rome (Fides Serice) - GRIS, Social-Religious Information Research Group, is an association juridically established in Bologna 8 February 1987. The Italian Bishops' Conference CEI in the person of Cardinal Ugo Poletti, of ...
• 15 May 2007
  EUROPE - “A New Culture the Culture of Communion ”: prospects for the continent of Europe after the International Ecumenical Gathering in Stuttgart Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - “With your Movements you give a face to united Europe”. These words by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, were one of many messages sent to the organisers of the 2nd International Ecumenical ...
• 15 May 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - “Christian-Muslim relations are good in Burkina Faso” says Catholic Bishops' Commission for Christian Muslim dialogue Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Relations between the local Catholic community and the Muslim community in Burkina Faso are good. This emerged at the end of a meeting of the Catholic Bishops' Commission for Christian-Musli ...
• 15 May 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Expectation for resuming talks between Ugandan government and Lord's Resistance Army for peace northern Uganda Kampala (Fides Service) - Peace talks for northern Uganda between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army LRA being held in Juba in Southern Sudan are expected to resume. Negotiations stalled on various poi ...
• 15 May 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - After elections marred by violence with 126 dead, civil society monitors guarantee transparency and prevent fraud in vote-counting Manila (Fides Service) - Violence was present, despite a non-violence campaign launched by civil society and the local Catholic Church - in elections held 14 May throughout the country. Over 45 million voted to elect par ...
• 15 May 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - High institutional tension and social disorder: harsh repression by the army Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Tension is rising in Pakistan, especially in Karachi with days of disorder and protest against President Musharraf' s decision to dismiss supreme court president Iftikkhar Chaudhry known for his ...
• 15 May 2007
  ASIA/THAILAND - Increase in vocations to the religious life among Karen peoples exposed to suffering and deportation Bangkok (Fides Service) - Vocations to the religious life are increasing among Catholic communities of Karen peoples living in north west Thailand and in Myanmar despite a situation of persistent hardship, poverty and di ...
• 15 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean at Aparecida - “ Let us place Him at the centre of our Conference to be truly his disciples and to carry him to the heart of Latin American countries ": work beings with day of reflection and prayer Aparecida (Fides Service) - "We wish to let ourselves be illuminated by the light of His face, we wish to follow the One who is the ‘light of the nations', the Way, the Truth and the Life. Let us ask in prayer that his ...