News

• 24 July 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - On line Dictionary of Religious Words: Christian words and terms once so familiar now unknown to many Canary Islands (Agenzia Fides) - The web site of the Spanish diocese of Islas Canarias Canary Islands has an interesting new feature, Vocabulario de las Palabras Religosas, a Religious Dictionary compiled by Salesian Fat ...
• 24 July 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - In Tai Yuan archdiocese young men and women take formation course to consolidate their faith and discern their calling Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Recently in the archdiocese of Tai Yuan over 100 young men and women aged 18 to 25 attended a Course of Christian Formation held at Ge Liao Gou parish. The course was the third in a series orga ...
• 24 July 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - International Stem Cell Symposium: “a significant occasion for the strategic and systematic development of adult cell therapy researches”, says Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, archbishop of Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The 4th Catholic International Stem Cell Symposium was held earlier this month at the Catholic research Institute of Medical Science of the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul. The purpose of th ...
• 24 July 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - During Mass on the Day of Prayer and Penance for Peace for the Middle East Cardinal Cipriani calls for cease fire and urges charitable organisations to show solidarity to the suffering people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 23 July in Lima Cathedral Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, presided a special Mass for Peace in the Middle East in communion with Pope Benedict XVI and Christians a ...
• 24 July 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - First nation wide "trabajopais" programme: “working to build a better Chile” hundreds of Catholic university students put knowledge and experience at the service of the needy Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - At least one thousand students at Catholic Universities all over Chile took part in the first edition of a week long national project "trabajopais" programme: “working to build a better Chile ...
• 24 July 2006
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - World Food Programme needs more money to feed 700,000 Angolan children and repatriated refugees Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that unless more donations arrive before the end of the month it will have to suspend food aid for at least 700,000 Angolans many of them children ...
• 24 July 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 30.2% one out of three of 16,510 South African pregnant mothers are HIV+ Rome (Agenzia Fides) - One out of every three pregnant mothers in South Africa is HIV+. And according to a recent report issued by the South African Health Ministry just under 12% of the population is infected with the ...
• 22 July 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Pope appoints auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Gulu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 July 2006 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Gulu (Uganda) Reverend Sabino Odoki, until now rector of the National Major Seminary in ...
• 22 July 2006
  The Pope’s prayer intention August 2006: “That the Christian faithful may be aware of their special vocation everywhere and at all times” Comment by Sr Elisabetta Adamiak, superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Peter Claver (SSPC) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church, in fact, lives in the world, even if she is not of the world (cf. Jn 17:16). She is sent to continue the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, which by its very nature concerns the salvation ...
• 22 July 2006
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Prayer is indispensable for fostering in hearts a desire for justice and reconciliation, the condition for finding solutions for conflict": Day of Pope’s Prayer for Peace, a missionary reports Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Tunisia will join Pope’s Benedict XVI initiative for a Day of Prayer and Penance on Sunday 23 July to obtain from God the gift of peace in the Middle East, Fides was informed by Fr ...
• 22 July 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Spanish born Fr Manuel Cortes elected Superior General of the Society of Mary, Marianists Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 July the delegates of the Society of Mary (Marianists), holding a general Chapter in Rome, elected Fr Manuel Cortés their 15th Superior general. Fr Cortes was born in Valencia, Spain, in 19 ...
• 22 July 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Bishops rally Catholics to join the Pope in prayer "Let’s cross the frontier of our passivity and insensitivity to immerse ourselves in the grief and suffering of so many of our brothers and sisters, and join the day of prayer and penance " Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain endorse the Pope’s call for a Day of Prayer and Penance on Sunday 23 July to obtain from God the gift of peace in the Middle East for peace. Cardinal Antonio María Rouco R ...
• 22 July 2006
  AMERICA - Latin America joins the Pope’s initiative for peace in the Middle East "we must pray intensely for peace, a gift of God to be continually invoked": Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Bishops all over Latin America responded readily to the call launched by Pope Benedict XVI for a day, Sunday 23 July, of special prayers and acts of penance to obtain from God the gift of ...
• 22 July 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholics respond to Nuncio’s call to join Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer on Sunday 23 July for peace in the Middle East Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in the Philippines will join the call to pray on Sunday 23 July for peace in the Middle East launched by Pope Benedict XVI. People in the Philippines are deeply concerned for the tragi ...
• 22 July 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hosting families for Asian Youth Day receive mandate to share the God’s love with young guests Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Hong Kong diocese is almost ready to host Asian Youth Day, 30 July to 5 August. Recently at the Hong Kong Caritas Centre 200 local hosting families in 32 different parishes received a special ...