News

• 15 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Religious Superiors call believers to unite 30 March in “a day of prayer and fasting for Peace” to end all the many wars in the world Rome (Fides Service) - Superiors General of religious institutes are calling on Christians and all believers to observe March 30 as a day of prayer and fasting for Peace. The International Union of Superiors General mad ...
• 15 March 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne condemns introduction of law to allow “therapeutic” cloning of human embryos Melbourne (Fides Service) -The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Archbishop Dennis Hart has condemned an announcement by the first minister of Victoria that the state government will introduce a law modelled on a recent f ...
• 15 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Reconciliation and good government”: local Catholic Church adopts education plan to restore authentic peace all over the country Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The local Catholic Church is launching second stage of its programme of education to peace which successfully prepared the people to play their rightful role in the recent elections last year (s ...
• 15 March 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 25 March Day for Life: say yes loud and clear to the gift of life, celebrating life and serving life in the mission entrusted by God Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Manipulation of human embryos, are we faced with a new holocaust?” is the theme of 3rd international Pro Life Conference to be held 23 - 25 March 2007, in Mexico City to give a global re ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity and Sorrow (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - One often sees even very young children at Sunday Mass, in the arms of the mother as she receives communion. From their mother and father children learn to know, love and believe in Jesus, ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives the President of the Russian Federation Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the evening of 13 March the Holy See Press office issued the following statement in Italian with regard to the Papal Audience with the President of the Russian Federation. “At 6pm toda ...
• 14 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sister Eugenia Bonetti elected “Woman of Courage” for outstanding efforts to combat trafficking in persons Rome (Fides Service)- On Friday, March 9, 2007, Consolata Missionary Sister Eugenia Bonetti was presented with a “Woman of Courage” award for her bold and tireless efforts to combat trafficking in persons. The award ...
• 14 March 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Salesian Nazareth House for Aspirants marks 50 years of nurturing new vocations to religious life and priesthood Yangon (Fides Service) - Recently the Salesian Nazareth House for Aspirants in Anisakan, central Myanmar celebrated its 50 years of service nurturing new vocations to the religious life. Present for the occasion Archbish ...
• 14 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Dioceses all over the country prepare for 1st national Pro Life and Family Congress. Expecting mothers will take part in pro-life march on 20 March Guayaquil (Fides Service) - To combat serious and insistent attacks on life and the family here and all over the world, every diocese in Ecuador is making a major effort to prepare and participate in the 1st Pro Life and ...
• 14 March 2007
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Order of St John of God 125 years of mission in Nazareth Nazareth (Fides Service) - Celebrations on March 8 for the 125 years of presence of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers in Nazareth coincided with the founder’s feast day. A special mass for the occasion was presid ...
• 14 March 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Sibolga Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 14 March 2007 appointed Fr Ludovikus Simanullang, O.F.M. Cap., Capuchin Provincial at Sibolga Bishop of Sibolga (Indonesia). Ludovikus Simanullang, ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Itinerary towards prayer of the heart” Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger!I will leave this place and go to my father an ...
• 14 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “A land blessed by God ruined by human greed”: a Congolese miner tells how his country is robbed of its mineral resources Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “When He created the earth, the Lord gave Congo a large quality of different minerals, diamonds, copper, gold, uranium, coltan, cassiterite, as well as others still to be extracted like gas an ...
• 14 March 2007
  AMERICA/HAITI - 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas Meeting aim to strengthen bonds and intensify articulated sharing Port au Prince (Fides Service) - From 19-23 March 16th Port au Prince will host the 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and the 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas Meeting on the theme "Disciples an ...
• 13 March 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - Ghanean White Father killed on mission Nairobi (Fides Service)- A White Father, a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Africa, was shot dead on Saturday 10 March in Nairobi, Kenya. Fr. Martin Addai was in his car on the Mombasa Road in the South ...