News

• 19 January 2007
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Social and political uncertainty, country needs reconciliation and improvements in education: Xaverian missionary reports Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - “This situation of uncertainty is expected to last for several months until the elections, the date of which has yet to be set. The state of emergency and interim government continues, and tensi ...
• 19 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop Oswald Gracias of Mumbai calls for “more participation of lay Christians in politics and society” Kochi (Agenzia Fides) - It is important to help lay Catholics realise that they have great relevance in the pastoral activity of the Church and its mission to carry Christian values to the fields of politics, media, soci ...
• 19 January 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - Africa and its Contradictions: 7th World Social Forum in Nairobi starting tomorrow Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - About 100,000 members of civil society organisations and local bodies are expected to attend the 7th World Social Forum in Nairobi which starts tomorrow 20 January and will conclude on Wednesda ...
• 19 January 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Inspirer of Lord’s Resistance Army dies in exile Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Alice Lakwena, the woman who inspired the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA, has died in a refugee camp at Dadaad, in northern Kenya, close to the Ugandan border where she lived in exile for 18 Years ...
• 18 January 2007
  VATICAN - “I encourage you to live these days in prayerful listening to the Spirit of God, in order to make significant steps on the path towards full and perfect communion among all Christ’s disciples”: the Pope’s general audience and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his Wednesday audience on 17 January, the day before the start of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18 to 25 January involving Christians all over the worldk Pope Benedi ...
• 18 January 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - New national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burkina Faso e Niger Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 6 October 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burkina Faso and Niger ...
• 18 January 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it would not seem out of place to reflect on what should be an acquired fact in every ecclesial sphere: the clear and unequivocal ...
• 18 January 2007
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - International convention of Orionini Brothers: "The unity of the family and fraternal life as guarantee for the announcement of the Kingdom and stimulus for an increase in vocations" Bonoua (Agenzia Fides) - Today, 18 January, was the closing day of an International convention of Orionini Brothers held at Saint Luigi Orione Centre in Bonoua in Cote d’Ivoire which started on January 12 and brought t ...
• 18 January 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Statement from Luanda archdiocese on the question of clearing of illegally occupied land destined for the building of a church Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The Angolan Archdiocese of Luanda issued a statement to clarify its position with regard to a land site in Kilamba Kiaxi, illegally occupied by people who were then expelled. A local humanitarian ...
• 18 January 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - Saint Camillo Association to help the mentally disturbed: unchain them, get them off the streets, care for them, rehabilitate them and reintegrate them in society Roma (Agenzia Fides) - In some parts of African mental illness is regarded as something supernatural, a curse by evil spirits. People with a mental condition, considered dangerous and even contagious, are abandoned by t ...
• 18 January 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Diocesan stage of process for the beatification of lay missionary martyred during the Korean War starts in Incheon Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan stage of the Beatification process of John Song Hae-bung a lay missionary martyred during the Korea War (1950-1953) has been officially opened in the diocese of Incheon. This is the f ...
• 18 January 2007
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Carrying the Gospel to the heart of the rain forest: local Catholic Church celebrates 125 years in Borneo Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in the area of Sarawak, in Malay Borneo, is celebrating the arrival of the first missionaries in this rain forest area 125 years ago. The missionaries were British Mi ...
• 18 January 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - “Flame of Evangelisation” tours dioceses to prompt spiritual renewal carrying the light of Christ to all the dioceses so that each person may feel renewed and become the light of Christ in the family, in the parish, in society. Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The "Flame of Evangelisation", symbol of the light of Christ, continues its pilgrimage across Peru. The initiative is part of Itinerant Olympics organised by the Family Catechesis Movement as a ...
• 18 January 2007
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Catholic Bishops call for new migration laws and national development plan centred on the human person Panama (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement issued at the end of a plenary assembly 8-12 January the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Panama said that with prayer, study and reflection they “sought to discern the paths th ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : “Mary in the Heart of every Christian” Rev Luciano Alimandi - Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of the Mother of God in our lives is closely connected with the plan for sanctification and transformation which the Father, in Christ, has for each of us. Christ’s words “ ...