News

• 7 February 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Kenya refuses to allow negotiations between Ugandan rebels and Ugandan government to be moved to Nairobi Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Kenya has refused a request from the Lord’s Resistance Army to host peace negotiations between the rebel group and the Ugandan government, hitherto held in Juba, Southern Sudan, in Nairobi. Ken ...
• 7 February 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radical groups oppose anti-terrorism measures proposed by Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s government Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The recent wave of bomb attacks in Pakistan could be a counter-offensive by radical groups and pro-Taliban militants, which disapprove of policies adopted by president Pervez Musharraf conside ...
• 7 February 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES -Ecumenical and Inter-religious Centre in the archdiocese of Davao on the island of Mindanao marks ten years of service to peace Davao (Agenzia Fides) - When it was opened it seemed to be a pioneer initiative destined to encounter many difficulties: ten years on the Ecumenical and Inter-religious Centre in the archdiocese of Davao is an institutio ...
• 7 February 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “I want to Evangelise” is the theme of annual March seminar at Tai Pei Archdiocesan Centre for the Promotion of Catechesis Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “I want to Evangelise” is the theme of annual March seminar organised by the Tai Pei Archdiocesan Centre for the Promotion of Catechesis. According to the diocesan bulletin Christian Life We ...
• 7 February 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pro Vida Spain supports Casa de la Vida in Guayaquil, Ecuador, for young people, pregnant women and people suffering from HIV-AIDS Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - During the 1st Pro Life and Family meeting in Ecuador there will be the consigning of a project ‘Home for Life, a concrete proposal to “spread the Gospel of Life in the darkness of the cultur ...
• 6 February 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - On the horizon Africa and the whole world await your missionary commitment…put out into the deep of the missionary Ocean: Cardinal Dias presides installation of the new Bishop of Porto Novo diocese Porto Novo (Fides News Service) - “After giving thanks yesterday in Ouidah for the Golden Jubilee of Episcopate of our beloved patriarch, Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, today we have gathered here in this beautiful cathedr ...
• 6 February 2007
  VATICAN - Apostolic Penitentiary issues decree on indulgences granted on the occasion of the 15th World Day of the Sick. 11 February 2007 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public yesterday a Decree issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary to rant the faithful special indulgences on the recurrence of the 15th World Day for the Sick, on 11 February 2007. The ...
• 6 February 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Youth Day 2007: three areas of daily life where young people in particular are called to demonstrate the love of God: the Church our spiritual family; preparation for the future that awaits them; daily life with its multiple relationships Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another" (Jn 13:34)” (Jn 13,34) is the Gospel verse Pope Benedict XVI chose as the theme for the Message for World Youth Day 2007, wh ...
• 6 February 2007
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Unions threaten to strike unless a prime minister is appointed by 12 February Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Guinean unions and opposition groups threaten to strike unless President Lansana Conté appoints a new Prime Minister by 12 February. The promise to appoint the premier, pleasing to the opposit ...
• 6 February 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - “Saint Francis Xavier a bridge between East and West Goa (Fides Service) - The figure of Saint Francis Xavier is fundamental in dialogue between East and West, it emerged from an international conference held recently in Goa, as a conclusion to celebrations for the 5th cen ...
• 6 February 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Institute of Sydney offers Missiology Units 2007 Masters Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - An introduction to contemporary understandings of mission, the educational significance of evangelisation, Catholic Social Teaching and justice issues, dynamic intervention between the faith of t ...
• 6 February 2007
  “Editions of the Bible in the context of Propaganda Fide”: 14 February presentation of a study on editions of the Bible at the Pontifical Urbaniana University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Promoted by Urbaniana University Press, Wednesday 14 February at 5pm at the Aula Newman della Pontificia Università Urbaniana (Via Urbano VIII, 16 00165 Roma) there will be the presentation of � ...
• 6 February 2007
  ASIA/THAILAND - The drama of refugees from Laos and Myanmar, North Korea, Bangladesh: simply “illegal migrants” Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Masses of people face enormous sacrifices and great dangers to flee their home countries and seek refuge in nearby Thailand. In recent years hundreds of thousands of refugees from Laos and Myanm ...
• 6 February 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We ask for more missionary commitment, first of all from ourselves ... we wish to hear the missionary mandate resound with all its demands”: in plenary assembly bishops discuss missionary activity Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - " We ask for more missionary commitment, first of all from ourselves ... we wish to hear the missionary mandate resound with all its demands, struggle for its goals and realise all this as Church ...
• 6 February 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - Final statement of CERAO held in Cotonou for Golden Jubilee of first CERAO president Cardinal Gantin Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The members of the Regional Bishops’ Conference of French Speaking African Countries CERAO met from 30 January to 4 February at the Le Chant d'Oiseau Formation House in Cotonou, in Benin, on t ...