News

• 20 January 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope Benedict XVI visits Almo Collegio Capranica and stresses the importance of formation, “The quality of the clergy depends on the seriousness of its formation…Serious human, cultural and spiritual formation, open to the needs of the times and places” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the feast on 21 January of Saint Agnes the Patron Saint of Almo Collegio Capranica seminary in Rome Pope Benedict XVI received in audience on Friday 19 January the members of R ...
• 20 January 2007
  EUROPE - Pope Benedict XVI will meet European and Asian university Students on March 10 Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 March 2007 at 4pm in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, European and Asian university students will gather for a prayer meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on the theme “Intellectual Char ...
• 20 January 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Agreement with rebel General Nkunda makes way for humanitarian aid to desperate civilians after years of sacking Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons can now return to their native villages in northern Kivu (east Democratic Congo), after Kinshasa reached an agreement with Ge ...
• 20 January 2007
  AFRICA/GUINEA - National crisis critical, neighbour countries want to find a solution Conakry (Agenzia Fides)- Tension is high in Guinea on the 10th day of a paralysing national strike (see Fides 17 January 2007). Yesterday 19 January two more people, a school boy and a youth were killed by police gun fi ...
• 20 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics mourn Archbishop Major Cyril Baselios, leader of the Syro-Malankar Community New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - He will be remembered and missed by all. His Beatitude Major Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara Catholics died on 18 January at the age of 71. At t ...
• 20 January 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Community of the Missionaries of Jesus, new evangelising reality Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of the Missionaries of Jesus, MJ, is an international and multicultural missionary community founded in the Philippines on 12 June 2002 by a group of forty-one men called and inspir ...
• 20 January 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Towards an America integrated through Education”: Inter-American Catholic Education Congress 5 -10 February Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-American Catholic Education Confederation and CONSUDEC Superior Education Council have organised the 21st Inter-American Catholic Education Congress 5 -10 February together with ...
• 19 January 2007
  VATICAN “In pastoral activity carried out for Gypsies, humanitarian aid and the truth of the Gospel must go together hand in hand, and the elements of justice, brotherly love and equality should be part of them.”: final document following study meeting of National Directors of Pastoral care of Gypsies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 - 12 December 2006, a Study Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, on the “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, Careful Examination of the Docume ...
• 19 January 2007
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Forming Disciples....Building One Church” is the theme for the 2007 Collection for the Church in Latin America to support pastoral care in 22 countries Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “Forming Disciples, Building One Church” is the theme of the 2007 Collection for the Church in Latin America taken in most Catholic parishes in the United States during the last weekend o ...
• 19 January 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “WYD of communion and solidarity among youth from rich and poor countries”, says Bishop Fisher. Sydney 2008 pilgrimages planned all over the world Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - WORLD Youth Day 2008 participants from the poorest countries will pay the lowest registration fees, while participants from industrialised nations such as Australia will pay the most in a solidar ...
• 19 January 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 17 November 2006 appointed Rev. Philip Balikuddembe of the diocese of Hoima, National Director of the Po ...
• 19 January 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops’ go ahead for 3rd National Mission Congress 26 - 30 March 2008: increasing Catholics’ awareness of the call to mission Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Venezuela will hold its 3rd National Mission Congress in 2008. The proposal, advanced by the Pontifical Mission Societies national office and the National Mission Council, was appr ...
• 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 ...