News

• 26 April 2007
  ASIA/ EAST TIMOR - The country needs peace and harmony in the context of important elections: Catholic Church launches programme of education to reconciliation for young people Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The urgency is reconciliation at home in East Timor and abroad in relations with West Timor still a province of Indonesia. With this awareness the local Church in East Timor has launched a new prog ...
• 26 April 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Delegation visits North Korea: co-operation for development agreement spells well for future of peace Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Relations north-south in the sector of humanitarian aid and co-operation for development continue along a track of reciprocal collaboration which spells well for national reconciliation among the ...
• 26 April 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Vocations Week 2007 to ask the Lord to increase the numbers of consecrated persons and the energy and perseverance of those who have already responded to the call Santiago ( Fides Service) - In view of the "World Day of Prayer for Vocations" next Sunday 29 April, 4th Sunday of Easter, on Monday 23 April the Church in Chile began its annual Vocation Week. To mark the occasion Bi ...
• 26 April 2007
  VATICAN - Stronger partnership on Climate Change between the United Kingdom and the Vatican Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his address at the international Conference on Climate Change and Development (see Fides 24/4/2007) organised by the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Cardinal Re ...
• 26 April 2007
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - Camillian Fathers organise Centre for psychic and physical rehabilitation of persons with disability Tbilisi (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the extreme poverty of most families in Georgia, persons with a physical or psychic disability are completely abandoned and seen as a burden. To alleviate the suffering of these persons ...
• 26 April 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Education to Life Seminar for young people and families Honiara (Fides Service) - Recently young people and families in Honiara were invited to take part in an Education to Life Seminar organised by the Honiara Diocesan Association for Life and the Family. Besides many young ...
• 25 April 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives in audience the president of the Palestinian Authority. Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 24 April the Holy See Press Office published the following communiqué on the Pope's audience with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), president of the Palestinian Authority. "This morning, the H ...
• 25 April 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Norwegian (2) THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In two centuries Christianity spread throughout Norway thanks to contact and trading with Christian Europe and missionaries who came from England, Germany and Denmark. At the beginning of ...
• 25 April 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Cast your nets on the side of mercy ” by Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “3Simon Peter said, 'I'm going fishing.' They replied, 'We'll come with you.' They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night. 4When it was already light, there stood Je ...
• 25 April 2007
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa, rivalry, extremism and disputed oil, an explosive mixture Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tension rises in the Horn of Africa where regional rivalry, fundamentalism and interests in real or presumed local oil resources on the part of major world powers, have produced and explosive cockt ...
• 25 April 2007
  AFRICA - Another 2.4 million jobs a year are needed to halve poverty by 2015 Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Another 2.4 million new jobs must be created every year in Africa to reach one of the UN's Millennial Development Goals by 2015. This was affirmed in a report by the International Labour Organisatio ...
• 25 April 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Baptised at the venerable age of 114: great rejoicing in Hsing Chu diocese Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - When Bishop Luke Liu Hsien-Tang Bishop emeritus of the diocese of Hsing Chu, poured the blessed water on the head of Miss Xu Song Re Ai who is 114 years old the people present burst into warm ap ...
• 25 April 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even though depenalised by the government, abortion is still an abominable crime against God's commandment, 'You shall not kill’: Bishops of Oaxaza on depenalisation of abortion up to 12th week of pregnancy Mexico City Agenzia Fides) - Ignoring a request for a referendum presented by over 76,000 citizens, on 24 April the Federal District Legislative Assembly approved with 46 votes in favour, 9 against and one abstention the ...
• 25 April 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “A country has no future unless the harmony of its citizens in based on the moral and social values of truth, freedom, justice, honesty, dialogue and solidarity”: Bishops' message at the end of Plenary Assembly Cochabamba (Fides Service) - "The Risen Christ, Our Hope" was the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Bolivia at the end of their 84th plenary assembly in which they treat important aspects of the eccles ...
• 25 April 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Course of Missiology sound formation to enable pastoral workers to tackle challenges of evangelisation at home and abroad Lima (Agenzia Fides) - A Course in Missology organised jointly by CENAMIS National Mission Centre of the Peruvian Bishops' Commission for Missions and the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru, starts today, 25 April and ...