News

• 16 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Evangelising university culture, young people points of reference and witnesses to the faith for fellow students: Mar de Plata launches 1st University Mission Mar de Plata (Fides Service) - University pastoral in Mar de Plata has organised its 1st University Mission, we are told by D. Ezequiel E. Kseim, university pastoral advisor and Analía E. Benítez, head of University Pa ...
• 16 May 2006
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Diocesan Synod priority pastoral commitment this year: Archbishop of Gitega says there is work for everyone in the Church to announce the Gospel of life and peace Gitega (Fides Service) - Archbishop Simon Ntanwana of Gitega has said every Catholic in the diocese has a contribution to make to the major pastoral priority this year, the Diocesan Synod. “The year 2006 will be marke ...
• 16 May 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Seminar on protection for religious minorities Faisalabad (Fides Service) - More than 200 people, teachers, catechists, humanitarian workers, human rights activists and students took part in a recent seminar organised at Faisalabad by the Justice and Peace Commission ...
• 15 May 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Pope creates new diocese Moramanga and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 13 May 2006 created the diocese of Moramanga (Madagascar) with territory taken from the diocese of Ambatondrazaka, making it suffragan of the Metropoli ...
• 15 May 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Dà Nang and appoints successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 13 May 2006, has accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Dà Nang (Viêt Nam), presented by Bishop Paul Nguyên Bình Tinh, P ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Christian life is a mystery of communion with Jesus” the Pope says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer. He also recalled the assassination attack 25 years ago on John Paul II and his miraculous escape thanks to the intervention of a ‘maternal hand’ Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 14 May addressing thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square for the midday Marian prayer Pope Benedict XVI reflected on Union with God by means of the sacrament of the Eucharist a ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict addresses participants at plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family: “The family founded on marriage constitutes the "heritage of humanity ", a fundamental social institution, vital nucleus and pillar of society which concerns believers and non” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 13 May, receiving in audience participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Pope Benedict XVI said: “The family founded on marriage constitutes "herita ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The law is not always moral and believers must realise in conscience that abortion is still a crime also in the civil field. The Church punishes it with excommunication" says Cardinal Rubiano Sáenz Bogota (Fides Service) - After Colombia’s Constitutional Court legalised abortion in that country Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz Archbishop of Bogota issued a statement recalling that the Church punishes abortion with � ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops at communication school: formation seminar in the field of communications to foster diffusion of the Gospel message in the present-day context Asuncion (Fides Service) - The Church is not foreign to the world of communications, she is aware of the importance of the media and influence they have on the way individuals and communities think and behave transmittin ...
• 15 May 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Testimony of lay Catholics after mission in Cambodia Tokyo (Fides Service) - Social projects and also support for pastoral work was offered by a group of lay Catholic missionaries from Japan who spent two years in Kompong Luong a village in Cambodia where most of the peop ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: little members of Holy Childhood all over the world collect ever larger funds for less fortunate peers Rome (Fides Service) - The Secretary General of the Pontifical Mission Society Holy Childhood Fr. Patrick Byrne, SVD., was the last of the general secretaries of the four PMS to present to the general assembly which ende ...
• 15 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - After the approval of Ley sobre Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida: “the people who approved the law forget that the only possible progress is ethical and that history is filled with examples of abuse in the name of technological progress” Madrid (Fides Service) - The Spanish Congress approved the Ley sobre Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida which allows therapeutic cloning, genetic selection and production of embryos and the faculty to destroy the ...
• 15 May 2006
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Almost half a century of Christian formation and information ‘Vida Nova’ most widely read by Catholics and non Nampula (Fides Service) - “Vida Nova”, the magazine of Christian formation and information most read by Catholics and non was published for the first time in 1960 as the monthly bulletin of the diocese of Nampula, m ...
• 15 May 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - New Premier, new hope for peace and social harmony Honiara (Fides Service) - People in Solomon Islands long for peace and the situation is at last returning to normal now that Parliament at last elected a new prime minister on 4 May following the uprising which forced hi ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA - 5th General CELAM Conference count down: "this event will give new impulse to the faith on our Continent" Bogota (Fides Service) - “To take up the challenges of the third millennium in personal, family, pastoral and social life in our Latin American countries and take a step towards the encounter with the Living Jesus, we ...