News

• 20 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - PMS organises first Holy Childhood Javierada as part of initiatives to mark 500th anniversary of the birth of St Francis Xavier : “Feel Mission in your Heart!” Navarra (Fides Service) - The Spanish office for Holy Childhood and the dioceses of Pamplona, Logroño, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Vitoria, Saragozza, Tarazona, Burgos, Barbastro and Huesca, invited PMS delegations and dio ...
• 20 May 2006
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Promotion and protection of the rights and living conditions of children and adolescents: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children's Rights closes in Ghent Rome (Fides Service) - An International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children's Rights organised by the IAP Inter-University Attraction Poles in Ghent, Belgium has just ended. IAP members are the three most important ...
• 20 May 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - CISRO International Centre for Studies and Research in Venice issues 3rd edition multilingual six-monthly review Oasis which offers space for debate on international terrorism Rome (Fides Service) - The third issue of Oasis review sponsored by the archdiocese of Venice opens with a reflection by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn with the title “Paths of Mission” on the ...
• 20 May 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Eighteen deacons and a priest from six different countries not only African ordained in Makuyu Makuyu (Fides Service) - Great celebrations on 13 May at the Salesian mission in Makuyu for the ordination of 18 deacons and one priest. The solemn Mass with the rite of ordination was presided by Bishop Peter Kihara of ...
• 20 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Catechists: we announce the Living Christ”: Catechists Day because only the announcement of the Living Christ can meet the deepest longings of the human heart and mind Santiago (Fides Service) - On Saturday 27 May Catholics in Chile will celebrate annual Catechists Day organised by the Chilean Bishops’ Commission for Catechesis. The Day is an opportunity to thank the Lord for callin ...
• 20 May 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya and Brazil joint proposal World Health Organisation for greater investment in marginal diseases Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Health Ministers of Kenya and Brazil have united to propose to the next assembly of the World Health Organisation a resolution for greater investment for marginal diseases. Although the latter ...
• 20 May 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Free healthcare offered by Tai Yuan Cathedral shows loving face of God through work of Catholic doctors and volunteers Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Over 700 citizens were visited or treated by a doctor in the first 4 hours of Free Healthcare Day organised by the Cathedral Charity Service diocese of Tai Yuan, in the province of Shan Xi. The ...
• 19 May 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - The Da Vinci Code: Catholics in China recommend objectivity and caution, calling for suitable pastoral care to orient public opinion Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “I send you as sheep among wolves; be prudent like serpents and simple like doves (Mt 10,16)”; “Adore Christ the Lord in your hearts and be ready to reply to anyone who asks the reason for th ...
• 19 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 200th anniversary of the Church in Salta: “celebrating the faithfulness of God in the 200 years of our existence as a diocesan Church” Salta (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Salta is celebrating 200 years since its founding on 28 March 1806 by Pope Pius VII with the Bull Regalium Principum. To mark the event Bishop Mario Antonio Cargnello, declared ...
• 19 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Course for missionaries ad gentes organised by National Mission Centre Bogota (Fides Service) - The National Mission Centre in Bogota has organised a four week Course for Missionaries ad gentes from 30 May to 23 June for priests, religious and lay people who wish to start working in the fie ...
• 19 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New impulse to continue working for the poor, ecumenical statement on life, new Hospital in Kenya, fruits of 22nd International Congress of Catholic Doctors Barcelona (Fides Service) - About 1,000 doctors from 78 different countries took part in the 22nd International Congress of the International Federation of Catholic Doctors FIAMC (see Fides 12/5/2006) held 11 - 14 May in ...
• 19 May 2006
  AFRICA - AIDS kills and disintegrates families. So far 1,300 children out of 25,000 patients protected by Programme Drug Resource Enhancement against Aids and Malnutrition (Dream) Rome (Fides Service) - This morning at the Campidoglio, in Rome, there was the 4th International Conference “We too want to live”, promoted by the S. Egidio Community with regard to its DREAM programme to prevent ch ...
• 18 May 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 15th National Eucharistic Congress "an opportunity to render visible our faith and missionary spirit " Florianopolis (Fides Service) - The Church in Brazil opens today 18 May in Florianopolis its 15th National Eucharistic Congress which will last until Sunday on the theme “He is with us” and the slogan “Come and See ...
• 18 May 2006
  AFRICA - In East Africa nine out of ten girls suffer physical or psychological abuse African Child Policy Forum denounces Rome (Fides Service) - The United Nations information agency IRIN reported findings of the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) with regard to child abuse in East Africa: 9 out of ten girls suffer physical, sexual or psycho ...
• 18 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “The Method of Tradition” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Method of Tradition”. Obedience to Tradition, that is to that form of teaching to which we are committed, is documented in time by means of the dynamics of the encounter which defi ...