News

• 27 April 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - “Ever Present”, Catholic weekly in Tamil Nadu, point of reference for local culture and literature Pondicherry (Fides Service) - An operation of cultural and spiritual importance is led by the Sarva Vyabi (Ever Present) Catholic weekly circulated in the south east Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The weekly, produced by ...
• 27 April 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - School for poor children run by Catholic sisters, Servants Sisters of the Home of the Mother in Manabí almost had to close. The sisters persevered and now the school offers also secondary education Playa Prieta (Agenzia Fides) - After a battle against corruption and party interests the Servants Sisters of the Home of the Mother succeeded in keeping open a school for poor children in Playa Prieta, rural area of Port ...
• 27 April 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Efforts continue to assist people affected by earthquake and tsunami: Caritas supplies material and spiritual comfort Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - A month since the earthquake and tsunami disaster efforts continue to provide assistance to the affected people even now that the emergency appears to have disappeared from international news. ...
• 27 April 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - In 2006 malaria affected about six million people and killed almost 5.000, mostly pregnant women and children aged 2-9. Government raises alarm Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Mozambique, one of the countries most affected by malaria, said that last year cases of malaria increased by 15% compared with 2005 and that the fight against the disease is eve ...
• 26 April 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Liturgy is essentially adoration, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis recalls that there exists an intrinsic relationship between eucharistic celebration and eucharistic adoration, which, immediat ...
• 26 April 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope's catechesis at the general audience: Origen reminds us “through prayerful reading of Scripture and consistent commitment in life, the Church is ever new, ever young ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Origen of Alexandria, “a personage who was determinant for the development of all Christian thought ”, was the subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose for his catechesis during ...
• 26 April 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - “We continue to preach the Gospel following the example of the first missionaries” at the end of Evangelisation Centenary celebrations Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga speaks to Fides Accra (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of celebrations for the Centenary of Evangelisation in northern Ghana (see Fides 21 and 23 April 2007), Fides spoke with the local Catholic Bishop Lucas Abadamloora who is in charge of ...
• 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 ...