News

• 27 September 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Wednesday Audience teaching: St Thomas’ words to Jesus “remind us of the full meaning of mature faith and encourage us to go ahead despite the difficulties on our path to follow Him”: Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square this morning Pope Benedict XVI addressed some 30,000 visitors resuming his catechesis on the twelve men Jesus chose to be his Apostles. ...
• 27 September 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops’ Conference backs nation wide rubella vaccination campaign Lima (Agenzia Fides) - A nation wide campaign in Peru to vaccinate the entire population against German measles, rubella, will start in October. In a meeting with the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
• 27 September 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Migration and youth. A chance for society and the Church in Europe”: conclusions of annual meeting for national Directors of the Pastoral care for Migration Sigüenza (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the national Directors of the Pastoral care for Migration was organised by the Migrations Commission of the Council of bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE). It took pl ...
• 27 September 2006
  AFRICA/CHAD - “We have no choice: it is our precise duty as Christians to intervene to save the lives of our Muslim brothers and sisters” says Catholic Archbishop of N’Djamena with regard to the presence of 200,000 refugees in Darfur in Chad Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “The situation is difficult but we still hope the future will be better” Fides was told by Archbishop Matthias N’Gartéri Mayadi, Catholic archbishop of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. The A ...
• 27 September 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - With optimism and enthusiasm Caritas South Korea prepares to shoulder responsibility for cooperation programmes in north Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “We are very busy at the Caritas South Korea offices in Seoul”, says Stella Koh, head of International Cooperation at Caritas Korea. Religious, laity, volunteers, are preparing to take over co ...
• 27 September 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “The voice of Catholic education!”: National Catholic Education Commission Conference 27 - 29 September in Sydney Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Rethinking the duty and mission of the Catholic school in modern day Australia in a context ever more globalised and marked by many different religions and cultures: this is the theme of Nationa ...
• 27 September 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Catholics Bishops call for participation and transparency in electoral process, they also denounce new Health Code for attacking life and the family Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In view of general elections on 15 October the Bishops of Ecuador have issued a message in which they call the Electoral Commission to ensure “transparency in the process, indispensable to guara ...
• 27 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA -Malaria and dengue in Rajasthan district, 500 cases admitted to hospital in one day Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Hospitals in Rajasthan and other parts of India are tackling a serious outbreak of malaria and dengue. So far 200 cases have been reported by the SMS government hospital and 190 people have been ...
• 27 September 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Hsin Chu prepares 3rd Sacred Scripture Seminar on the “Return to the Word of God, walk with Christ” Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Hsin Chu is preparing for the 3rd Sacred Scripture Seminar on the “Return to the Word of God, walk with Christ” sponsored by the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Teaching of ...
• 26 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic Bishop of Maumere (Flores): “We shouted and campaigned for all human life not only the lives of our three Catholics and we will continue the battle side by side with our Muslim brothers and sisters Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - “The campaign to abolish capital punishment has nothing to do with religion”, said Bishop Vincentius Sensi of Maumere diocese of Flores, the home of Domingus Da Silva, one of the three Indon ...
• 26 September 2006
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Building together “missionary bridge of prayer”: Pontifical Mission Societies initiative for 2006 Prague (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 22 October Catholics all over the world will celebrate the annual World Mission Sunday with prayers and special collections in support of missionaries, missionary work, and poor churche ...
• 26 September 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Drug addiction challenges our pastoral charity”: Bishops’ Message on scourge of drug abuse and urgent need to find solutions Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - “The problem of drug addiction calls for attention from society and from the Church and demands pastoral charity” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Chile Bisho ...
• 26 September 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Josephite Sister says plight of Indigenous Australians is most pressing social issue, united Catholic community must take action Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “The level of Indigenous health is still appalling” Josephite Sr Katrina Brill said in a Social Justice Sunday call to Australian nuns to join forces on Indigenous issues. Sr Brill, a Sister ...
• 26 September 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Council of Catholic priests in Colombo archdiocese warns that widespread violence, kidnapping, killing could cause the country to collapse Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Priests of the Catholic archdiocese of Colombo has voiced great alarm for growing crime rate, including killings, abductions, disappearances and other forms of violence. In a pres ...
• 26 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Local Church calls on government to eliminate poverty and tackle worst ever humanitarian crisis Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Colombia has urged the government to give serious attention to the problem of widespread poverty and to tackle the worst humanitarian crisis the country has ever known. ...