News

• 8 November 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Rev. Luciano Alimandi - “Mary chooses the better part” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - I invite you to contemplate a while with me with the eyes of the heart the famous episode in Luke’s Gospel, of Jesus in the house of his friend Lazarus, where he converses with the sister ...
• 8 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Pontifical Mission Societies enter a new stage ... it is time to dedicate ourselves with greater effort to the consolidation of the PMS at the level of local Churches and the level of the respective countries”: PMS President Archbishop Hoser opens Special November Meeting Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The special November Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies opened this morning in Rome with a welcoming address by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisat ...
• 8 November 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Curbing global warming is a question of justice because the most affected people are the poor” Christian leaders say in a statement to 12th UN Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - ““We pray that the world’s environment ministers meeting from November 6-17 in Nairobi, Kenya - a country currently in the grip of climate change - will find the courage to act with the ur ...
• 8 November 2006
  AFRICA/MALI - New info and communications technology catalyst for development in Africa: international meeting in Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides)- Bamako, in Mali, is hosting an international meeting Novatech 2006, an industry forum bringing together all actors in ICT and e-commerce as part of a truly innovative ongoing process. Through thei ...
• 8 November 2006
  ASIA/NEPAL - Agreement between government and rebels “but there is still no stability or reconciliation. We must build a culture of peace”, Pro-Prefect Apostolic tells Fides News Service Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - A peace agreement was signed on 7 November by Nepal’s interim government and Maoist rebel groups which control impervious parts of the country. According to the agreement signed under the a ...
• 8 November 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “With Jesus Christ”: diocese of Masan celebrates 40th anniversary with a campaign of evangelisation Masan (Agenzia Fides) - With a new capillary campaign “With Jesus Christ” to announce the Gospel with door to door mission, Masan diocese is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Festivities opened with a special Mass pr ...
• 8 November 2006
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - On the feast of the Patroness of Uruguay the President of the Bishops’ Conference urges the people to pray for the country, the governors and those responsible for managing public affairs Florida (Agenzia Fides) - "The hour has come for Uruguayans to recognise one another as brothers and sisters. Our people need to look at one another in a different light" said Bishop Pablo Galimberti, president of the Ur ...
• 8 November 2006
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Government vows to preserve religious harmony and public order and suppress attempts to cause inter-religious violence Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said his government intends to keep religious harmony and public order and that it will show no indulgence with fundamentalist groups which want to star ...
• 7 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University for Mission: formation four hundred years old new every year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 August 1627 Pope Urban VIII with the Bull "Immortalis Dei Filius" created Urban College, first nucleus of the system of education of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide which with pass ...
• 7 November 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Martino purchases on behalf Pope Benedict XVI first International Financing Facility for Immunisation bond an initiative guaranteed by various governments to save the life of millions of people Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a project presented by UK chancellor Gordon Brown during a Meeting on “Poverty and globalisation: funding development” organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Pe ...
• 7 November 2006
  VATICAN - The Church “feels in duty bound to insist that science's ability to predict and control must never be employed against human life and its dignity”: Pope Benedict XVI tells participants at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At midday on Monday November, the Pope received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, headed by the president of that institution, Nicola Cabibbo. They ...
• 7 November 2006
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bandits kill Brazilian Jesuit missionary and Portuguese lay volunteer, growing concern for safety of missionaries Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- The Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Portugal has reported that a priest and a lay missionary volunteer were killed and other persons were wounded in an attack on Angone Residence in Tete Pro ...
• 7 November 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD: The Vocation of the Artist (1) by Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Letter to Artists written on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Pope John Paul II made a bold comparison between the creative activity of God and that of artists. Af ...
• 7 November 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Catholics must promote “a new culture of respect for the human person in every dimension": 1st Congress on Evangelisation of Culture Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - In the Conclusions drafted at the end of the 1st Conference of the Evangelisation of Culture the participants declare “We feel called by the Pope and our bishops to live the faith in publ ...
• 7 November 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops say new Health Bill must not become law: “it attacks the authority of parents, educators, medical doctors and introduces a culture of death, not life” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Ecuador continue to express serious concern with reward to a new Bill on Public Health approved by part of the National Congress, which attacks fundamental moral and consti ...