News

• 12 September 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Human, psychological, cultural and spiritual formation for Solomons young people and students Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Solomon Islands continue to provide human, cultural, professional and spiritual education for young people. Recently about 90 students took part in a three day retreat guided by a t ...
• 12 September 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Disciples and friends of Jesus, making new friends for Him”: fruits of Missionary Youth month of August all over the country Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The month of August for the Pontifical Mission Societies in Argentina is the “Month of missionary childhood and adolescence IAM”. Sunday 27 August was celebrated as IAM National Missio ...
• 12 September 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - “The Church proclaims the primacy and inviolability of human life … no one is master of his life or that of others”: Bishops' statement against capital punishment Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The growing tendency in the world to abolish the death penalty is in keeping with the dignity of the human person and therefore with God’s plan for humanity and society the Bishops of Peru said i ...
• 12 September 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Steps forward have been made: peace is possible” says S. Egidio mediator for northern Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “I think they are at last on the path to peace. It must be said that the southern-Sudan government has made a fundamental contribution to restoring peace in northern Uganda” Fides was told by ...
• 11 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Bavaria - “I have come first of all to express my gratitude to all those who helped to form my personality in the different decades of my life. But I am also here as Successor of Peter, to reaffirm and confirm the profound ties that exist between the See of Rome and the Church here in our homeland” München (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 9 September on his arrival in Munich for a five day stay in his native Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI explained the reason for his visit “I have come first of all to express my grati ...
• 11 September 2006
  AFRICA/CHAD - Jesuit Refugee Service resumes operations in Chad to help refugees from Darfur N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - This month Mateo Aguirre SJ, director of JRS West Africa with Joaquín Ciervide SJ, new director of JRS Chad, will reopen the regional office of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in eastern C ...
• 11 September 2006
  AFRICA - “Africa: are we the next target for terrorism?”… African leaders wonder five years since the September 11th attacks Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Five years after the tragic events of that dramatic Tuesday in the skies of the United States, Africa is also beginning to come to terms with international terrorism. Terrorism which chose Africa ...
• 11 September 2006
  VATICAN - Opening ceremony of CEP Study Seminar in Rome for 99 Bishops in mission territories appointed in the past two years: “You bishops are the builders of the Church which has started a new millennium in its history” Card Dias says Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn celebration of Vespers, yesterday Sunday 10 September, opened the Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for 99 Bishops appointed in the pas ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/LEBANON - “Since the fighting stopped hope has returned”: testimony from Father Fadel Sidarouss SJ, Near East Jesuit Provincial Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - “The cries of the poor and the victims of war reach our hearts, but in Lebanon life has resumed since the fighting stopped: refugees have returned home, schools and markets have opened, rebuild ...
• 11 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict in Bavaria- “The world needs God, We need God...We do not fail to show respect for other religions and cultures...when we profess our faith clearly and uncompromisingly in the God who counters violence with His own suffering; who in the face of the power of evil exalts his mercy, in order that evil may be limited and overcome” Munich (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 September 23rd Sunday of Ordinary time, Pope Benedict XVI presided an outdoor Mass at Munich’s new exhibition NeuMesse centre and led the recitation of the Angelus prayer at midday ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - No to terrorism and violence: religious communities and civil society in Maharashtra condemn attacks on Malegaon mosque and vow to promote social and religious harmony Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The people’s response to violence and terrorism is ‘no’. After the recent attack in front of a mosque in Malegaon, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, “people in Maharashtra have ...
• 11 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The Catholic Church will never stop fighting for life, its opinion will never change” says president of Bishops’ Conference in reply to a campaign to discredit the Catholic Church Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In response to criticism from some sectors of society of the local Catholic Church’s opposition to allow an abortion to be practised on a minor a statement was issued by the standing committee ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Church prays and hopes the lives of three Catholics will be saved Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Indonesia fear for the fate of three Catholics from Poso in Sulawesi, Fabianus Tibo, Marinus Riwa and Dominggus da Silva accused of homicide during inter-religious clashes in Poso 2 ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Evangelisation on line allows Catholics to share the faith: 200 students complete first year and start second year Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The final statement issued at the end of Asian Youth Day in Hong Kong called for the Internet to be used for evangelisation particularly for the benefit of young people. A programme for Evange ...
• 9 September 2006
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “The number of people seeking hospital treatment for intoxication symptoms has not diminished” says a missionary in Abidjan: toxic waste nightmare continues Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “The number of people seeking hospital treatment for intoxication symptoms has not diminished”. For the moment street protests have stopped, but people are demanding free medicines to treat t ...