News

• 26 September 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - African Union puts more troops in Darfur. But will they stop the massacre? Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- International pressure increases to convince Khartoum to put an end to violence in Darfur, the tormented western region which borders on Chad. Yesterday 25 September during a meeting in Addis ...
• 26 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - “Serving the Sick means doing God’s Will”: Sisters of the Holy Cross Society celebrate 150th anniversary launching new programme to help children with hearing and speech impediments Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are at least 425,000 people who cannot hear or speak but no structures for specialised assistance. Now the Catholic Sisters of the Holy Cross Society have launched a new Home-Trainin ...
• 26 September 2006
  ASIA - Acting to improve precarious health of children in southern Asia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In southern Asia over one billion people, especially children, have no medical care, they are undernourished and prey to disease due to bad hygiene and sanitation above all no access to clean water ...
• 25 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses members of Muslim communities: “the relations of trust which have developed between Christians and Muslims over several years, will not only continue, but will develop further in a spirit of sincere and respectful dialogue, based on ever more authentic reciprocal knowledge which, with joy, recognises the religious values that we have in common and, with loyalty, respects the differences.” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - This morning at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI received envoys of Muslim countries accredited to the Holy See and leading members of the Muslim communities in ...
• 25 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus recalls the testimony of countless Christians “who dedicate their lives to serving others out of love for the Lord Jesus, operating as servants of love and therefore "artisans" of peace. Some are asked to give the supreme witness of blood, as it happened a few days ago for Sr Leonella Sgorbati” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In his midday reflection on Sunday 24 September before leading the recitation of the Angelus with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Bene ...
• 25 September 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Bishops from Chad: “Following the example of Christ the Good Shepherd you are sent to be missionaries of the Good News. Continue this task with faithfulness and courage! Your holiness of life will render you authentic signs of God’s love” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo the Pope received a group of Bishops from Chad on their ad limina visit. “I am happy to welcome you whom the Lord has chosen to gui ...
• 25 September 2006
  October 2006: The Pope’s missionary prayer intention “May the celebration of World Mission Sunday intensify the spirit of missionary animation and cooperation everywhere” Comment by Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In this month of October 2006 we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the institution of World Mission Sunday. In fact on 14 April 1926 Pope Pius XI gave his approval to a request formulated b ...
• 25 September 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - How to be Catholic on television? How to form a network of Catholic television stations for evangelisation? World Congress of Catholic Televison Channels hopes to find the answers Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - How to be Catholic in television and how to build a network of Catholic television channels and be movement of cooperation for evangelisation are the goals of a World Congress of Catholic Televis ...
• 25 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA -Another child dies of avian flu bringing the death toll in Indonesia to 51 Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Another child, aged nine, died last week of avian flu bringing the total number to 51 since bird flu first struck the country in October 2003. In the first six months of 2006 63 cases were regis ...
• 25 September 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Youth in Papua New Guinea ask auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne to help stop spreading AIDS virus Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries in PNG are deeply concerned for the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus which affects 30% of the more remote areas of the territory and represents a major problem for the local communities. ...
• 25 September 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Our choice, our future”: happy Presentation Day at St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Tenaru Tenaru (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Our choice, our future’ was the theme for St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Tenaru graduation and presentation day. The school hall was filled with students, parents and friends who witnesse ...
• 23 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Bishops at the end of Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: “In your ministry it is your duty to give primary importance to prayer and unceasing striving for holiness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 23 September Pope Benedict XVI received in a special audience recently appointed Bishops from mission territories in Rome to take part in a three week Seminar organised by the C ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Statement by Bishop Ballin, Vicar Apostolic of Kuwait with regard to Pope Benedict XVI’s Lecture at Regensburg Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The following statement was issued in English, Arabic and Italian by the Catholic Bishop Camillo Ballin, Vicar Apostolic in Kuwait, to address certain reactions in the Muslim world to a lecture giv ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA - We come from local churches in remote areas of the world and in these three weeks we have heard the beating heart of the universal Church, say participants at the end of the Study Seminar for recently appointed Bishops organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops from different countries in America, Asia, Africa and Oceania shared their impressions with Fides at the end of a three week Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evan ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Solemn Mass closes Eucharistic Congress 2006 in archdiocese of Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Mass celebrated on 16 September at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul marked the closing of Eucharistic Congress 2006 organised by the archdiocese of Seoul. The Congress, on the th ...