News

• 17 July 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Santa Rosa reminds lay Catholics of their role to spread the Christian message in all areas of society and to protect human life and the family Santa Rosa (Agenzia Fides) - In a pastoral letter with the title The Role of the Laity to protect Life and the Family, Bishop Rinaldo Fidel Brédice, of Santa Rosa (Argentina) said “The Future of Argentina is forged in ...
• 17 July 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Migration “space for celebrating diversity”: theologians, pastoral workers, academics at international meeting organised by the Scalabrini Missionaries Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Migration is a theological “place” in which to discover the Church’s itinerant and missionary dimension and promote inter-personal relations inspired by the model of the Trinity and hence � ...
• 14 July 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Presentation of “Report 2006 on Religious Freedom in the World” produced by the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The eighth edition of the annual “Report on Religious Freedom in the World” produced by the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need was presented today at the Foreign Press Association in R ...
• 14 July 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr. Massimo Camisasca - “Education to silence” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is impossible to be in His Presence, in the presence of Christ in person, now, unless we are educated to silence. Laurentius the Hermit used to say: «It was then that I understood I w ...
• 14 July 2006
  EUROPE - Seminar launches research on the teaching of the Catholic religion in schools in the countries of Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The “task” awaiting the 34 delegates of the bishops’ Conferences of Europe is the development of a paper on the situation of the teaching of Catholic religion in the schools of their countrie ...
• 14 July 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “Outside interventions can be counter productive unless there is precise knowledge of the situation” says Bishop Bertin Apostolic Administrator di Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “For about a century the Catholic Church has dedicated her service-witness to the poor in Somalia. She did this under colonialism, then with the first Republic, the regime of Siad Barre and i ...
• 14 July 2006
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Children from Mansheya garbage collectors district in Cairo make progress at school run by Italian Comboni missionary Cairo (Agenzia Fides)- “In June last year our work had been in a situation of stall for several months. We wanted to start a course of adult primary education but the prospects were not very hopeful” says Italian Com ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Totally dedicated to announcing the Gospel: Catholics in Huê remember zealous missionary Bishop Allys Ly on the 70th anniversary of his death Huê (Agenzia Fides) - On June 28 at least a thousand people gathered in Phu Cam parish to watch a documentary film on the life of Bishop Allys Ly, who was their parish priest for 23 years before being appointed Bishop o ...
• 14 July 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops thank Pope Benedict XVI for his visit to Valencia which “confirmed Catholics in the faith and filled them with joy”. Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Bishops wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI to thank him for travelling to Spain to close the 5th World Meeting of Families. They said his visit “confirmed Catholics in the faith an ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Annual retreat for special ministers of the Eucharist of Taipei archdiocese concludes with blessing and mandate Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Recently 132 special ministers of the Eucharist of Tai Pei archdiocese, 12 of them newly appointed, made a retreat organised by the archdiocese and the Pastoral Centre in collaboration with the ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - New prime minister Josè Ramos Horta receives congratulations and encouragement from the nation’s Catholic Bishops and thanks the Church for important role played and contribution to the nation Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of East Timor have congratulated and encouraged the new Premier Josè Ramos Horta who was sworn in on July 10 in the capital Dili. The Bishops urged the prime minister to make ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN- Announcing the Gospel through the media: Hiroshima radio and important channel for evangelisation Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - A weekly 7.45am Sunday Gospel programme produced by the Catholic community Hiroshima and broadcast by the local radio station Yamaguchi Radio is having growing success and proving to be an exc ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Korea holds first National Congress: giving a helping hand to poor brothers and sisters in the North Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A service to man which as the Gospel teaches is a service to Christ. This awareness was the starting point for the work of Korea’s 1st National Caritas Congress held recently in Daejeon. The tit ...
• 14 July 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The best way to celebrate is to "renew our apostolic fervour in order to be in a permanent state of mission" Bishop calls “Year of Intense Evangelisation” to mark 50th anniversary of the diocese Lomas de Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Lomas de Zamora Argentina is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its foundation on 29 June 2007. The diocesan Bishop Agustín Radrizzani has called for a “Ye ...
• 14 July 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The destruction of the family is a strategy which promotes the manipulation of society with consequences not only social, psychic and spiritual, but also economic and political ": Christian Family Movement statement on life and the family Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Family Movement of Argentina has issued a statement on life and the family entitled "Family, strive to proclaim with courage the Gospel of Love". The purpose of the statement ...