News

• 10 October 2006
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - “Agreed, the elections are important, but the humanitarian crises afflicting our country must not be forgotten” warns Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga in the Katanga region Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Although attention in Democratic Congo is focussed on elections, there are humanitarian crises which cannot be overlooked” Bishop Fulgence Muteba, Catholic bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, in south ...
• 10 October 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Preparations for Mission Sunday Pontifical Mission Societies to celebrate “80 years of generosity, communion and sharing on every continent” New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in India is preparing to celebrate World Mission Sunday 22 October, with prayers and special collections, and also awareness building initiatives. The national office of t ...
• 10 October 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - “We thank God for Creation and for Health”: latest issue of “Voice Katolika” focuses on harmonious relationship with man, nature and God Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Being aware of the gifts we receive every day from God, health which allows man to live and go about his daily activity, creation, nature, the sun, the sea, the land. This and more is presented ...
• 10 October 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Pro-life Mobilisation: against New Health Code which promotes abortion, bans objection of conscience and imposes sexual education without values and which excludes parents Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - “Azione Pro-Vida” and the network of organisations Pro-Life and Pro-Family have launched a campaign to defend life and to protest against a new Health Code which promotes abortion, the ab ...
• 10 October 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN -Catholic archbishop of Tai Pei issues open letter on the necessity of prayer and imitation of Jesus in social and political life and in times of national crisis Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “Prayer is not passive or impotent! Prayer helps us find the truth. With the country in disorder we Christians must pray and pray above all that the president will repent”: this was part of ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Letter to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Papal Envoy to the imminent Asian Mission Congress in Chang Mai, Thailand Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI has addressed a Letter in Latin to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, metropolitan Archbishop of Naples, his special envoy to the Asian Mission Congress, in Chang Mai Thailand 19 ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - “There is a need of families which are not misled by modern cultural currents inspired by hedonism and relativism, and instead are ready to live with generous dedication their mission in the Church and in society” Pope Benedict says at the XVI Angelus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy of the 27th Sunday of the Year, 8 October, proposed Jesus’ teaching on matrimony and on this subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dwelt in this midday reflection before t ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Witnesses to the joy of being Christians: may this be your choral commitment. Continue, indeed intensify ecclesial communion and be generous protagonists of the evangelising mission which the Lord entrusts to you”: Pope Benedict XVI receives Catholics from the Romagna region of Italy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Receiving thousands of Catholics from various dioceses of the Italian region of Romagna on Saturday 7 October in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, the Pope urged them to “Witness to the j ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - Christian Prayer in the World: new titles may be missing in Litany of Our Lady Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With regard to our Dossier of Christian Prayers in the World, we would point out that two new titles added by Pope John Paul II to the Litany of Our Lady are not always present in the vario ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - Thursday 12 October Cardinal Ivan Dias will inaugurate academic year 2006/2007 Pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A special concelebration of the Eucharist to invoke the Holy Spirit, presided on 12 October by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and Grand Ch ...
• 9 October 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Electronic Bibles and Talking Bibles on show in Chennai: latest technology at the service of evangelisation Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - India is known as one of world’s most advanced countries in information technology, with districts of international excellence such as Bangalore. The Church in India is also employing the new ...
• 9 October 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - National Meeting for delegates of Communications Pastoral in search of unifying criteria and decisive impulse for New Evangelisation Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - “Communion, spirit of Communications” is the theme of a National Meeting for delegates of Communications Pastoral organised by the Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Social Communications, 9-1 ...
• 9 October 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Indigenous scholarships: Catholic archdiocese Sydney initiative of collaboration Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The development and wellbeing of Aboriginal Australians passes by the delicate work of education, particularly for the future of the new generations: with this conviction the Catholic archdiocese ...
• 9 October 2006
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Capital prey to Issakaba Boys gang. People’s self defence groups makes things worse. President Johnson-Sirleaf promises to increase citizen security Monrovia (Agenzia Fides)- In recent months a gang which has called itself Issakaba Boys, after a Nigerian TV series, has been terrorising the people of Monrovia. Most of the youths are ex combatants dissatisfied with tre ...
• 9 October 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - More than 900 students graduate from East African Catholic University: “Be instruments of God’s love to bring about the desired change for a new humanism of peace and wholesome development in Africa and the world at large” Vice Chancellor urges Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- More than 900 students graduated from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa CUEA in a colourful ceremony recently. The 942 candidates were widely spread out within the University's 41 academi ...