News

• 27 October 2006
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Between 300 and 400 cases of suicide a year: alarm in Mauritius. A nun says: “People no longer entrust themselves to God. Life is routine, work centred” Port Louis (Agenzia Fides)- In Mauritius in the Indian Ocean there is alarm for the number of cases of suicide, between 300 and 400 a year, according to a local Catholic weekly La Vie Catholique. Considering that every c ...
• 27 October 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Schools in Andra Pradesh form Harmony Clubs for inter-religious dialogue and prayer Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - To build harmony among young Indians of different religious and to promote peace and encourage dialogue and mutual respect, the Commission for Ecumenism and Dialogue of the Catholic Bishops’ ...
• 27 October 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Missionary vitality of the Church in Japan: 361 Japanese Catholic missionaries ad gentes all over the world Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Japanese Missionaries Association the Church in Japan has 361 missionaries ad gentes, priests, religious and lay persons who are helping to spread the Good News in many parts of t ...
• 26 October 2006
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of Rector inter-diocesan Seminary in Yopougon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 1 September 2006, appointed Rev. Jean Dago Belli Rector of the Inter-Diocesan Seminary for Philosophy i ...
• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Ecclesiastic Celibacy in the present-day secularised context Vatican City (Fides Service) - The sad case of African Bishop Milingo reopened the controversial question of marriage for priests, perhaps updated as an opportunity or convenience to avoid cases of paedophilia and homose ...
• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI says Paul of Tarsus is an example to follow: “The important thing is to put Jesus Christ at the centre of our life so that our identity is essentially marked by encounter and communion with Christ and with his word” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his weekly audience on Wednesday 25 October, having concluded his reflections on the twelve Apostles Pope Benedict XVI said he was beginning a new series of meditations on prominent ...
• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Military Ordinaries: “The Church is by nature missionary and her first task is evangelisation which aims to announce and bear witness to Christ and promote in every environment and culture his Gospel of peace and love” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, the Holy Father received participants in the fifth international congress of Military Ordinaries. The congress marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution "S ...
• 26 October 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - One hundred images of Our Lady from all over the Philippines on show in Manila exhibition organised by Radio Veritas Manila (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred images of the Blessed Virgin Mary from all over the Philippines on show in Manila, are a sign of the deep devotion for Mary among the people of this country. The images are part of a ...
• 26 October 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - Preparations continue for 49th International Eucharistic Congress in June 2008: deepening knowledge of the significance of the Eucharist for the Christian life Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - In a meeting of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, 16-20 October in Quebec, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec spoke about preparations for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress i ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - “We must learn to listen with the heart to God who speaks” Pope Benedict XVI tells students and teachers of Pontifical Universities in Rome for the opening of the new academic year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Eucharistic concelebration in St Peter’s Basilica on 23 October presided by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, to mark the beginn ...
• 25 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops warn that proposed Bill on biomedical research “fails to guarantee proper protection of life opening the door to legal practice of more abuses against the dignity of the human person” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “The Proposed Law On Bio-Medical Research Fails To Protect Life And Allows Human Cloning” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
• 25 October 2006
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “If we demand a state law which defends human life from its conception it is because it is a universal value, of natural ethics, not only a moral religious precept”: Bishops and upcoming referendum on abortion Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Portugal has called on the country’s Catholics to vote against lifting restrictions on abortion in the upcoming referendum. On 19 ...
• 25 October 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “The auspicated renewal of our parishes will come not from opportune pastoral initiatives, or elaborate programmes but from the encounter with Christ, especially in the Eucharist”: Bishop attend on-going formation meeting on parishes Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The parish, community of disciples and missionaries that our countries may have life in Christ” is the subject of a meeting of on-going formation for Bishops taking place at Santa Cruz de l ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA, Rev Luciano Alimandi -“Mary, New Eve: the path to happiness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us reflect together on the first chapters of the Book of Genesis: Gen. 3, 1-13 tells of the fall of our first parents, original sin which caused Adam and Eve to fall from heights of gra ...
• 25 October 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - 3rd Overseas Chinese Catholic Communities Congress on Evangelisation and Pastoral Care 17 - 21 November Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 3rd Overseas Chinese Catholic Community Congress on Evangelisation and Pastoral Care will take place 17 - 21 November in Singapore to reflect on the theme “The descendents of Emperors Yan an ...