News

• 12 May 2006
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Hope for the poor and the most vulnerable in north Korea: government accepts WFP food aid Seoul (Fides Service) - North Korea has accepted the offer of international food aid to feed 1,9 million people. The government’s decision came after it had said it could manage without said Anthony Banbury, UN direct ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience teaching: Apostolic Succession, “succession in the function of bishops presents itself as continuity in the apostolic ministry, guarantee of perseverance in apostolic Tradition, word and life the Lord has entrusted to us” Vatican City (Fides Service) - After meditating at the past few audiences on the significance of Tradition in the Church- “which is the permanent presence of the word and the life of Jesus among his people”, on Wedn ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Migration and Moving to and from Muslim countries” Complex and topical subject of relations with Muslim world: 17th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - A sign of the times, the phenomenon of human mobility poses no few problems religious and spiritual, and also social, economic and political. What is more the complexity, topicality and im ...
• 11 May 2006
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - World Health Organisation 192 member countries attend 59th General World Health Assembly Rome (Fides Service) - From 22 to 27 May at the Palace of the Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the 59th General World Health Assembly will bring together 192 World Health Organisation member countries. Themes for discus ...
• 11 May 2006
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Gweru Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 11 May 2006 appointed Bishop of Gweru (Zimbabwe) Rev. Martin Munyanyi of the clergy of Masvingo diocese, former rector of Bulawayo Major Seminary for P ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Tradition or Treason” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Tradition or Treason”. To avoid also in our day what Pope Paul VI termed “the Church’s self-demolition”, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose the Church as the subject for his ...
• 11 May 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Six thousand people go down with German measles, alert in schools and factories Rome (Fides Service) - Since the beginning of the year in Vietnam at least 6,000 people have caught German measles in various outbreaks in different places. The viral infection spreads swiftly in schools and factories. ...
• 11 May 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Nuevo Trigo singers compose songs to stir and strengthen mission spirit among children Quito (Fides Service) - For ten years the Nuevo Trigo musical group (New Seed), has composed and distributed religious music for the missionary animation and formation of boys and girls and adolescents all over Latin Ame ...
• 11 May 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Experience of Fr Jean Paul Kabore: from Christ the King parish at Baskouré, Burkina Faso to St. Francis of Assisi parish at Bordj El Kiffan (Algeria) Algiers (Fides Service) - Fr Jean Paul Kabore from Christ the King parish at Baskouré in Burkina Faso, has been on mission for some months in Algeria. In Koupela diocesan ‘Bullettin d’information et de liaison’ he ...
• 11 May 2006
  EUROPE - New Franciscan paths for Europe: “Rediscovering the joy of the missionary vocation” Assisi (Fides Service) - Franciscans will intensify their missionary efforts in Europe. This emerged from a recent Seminar in Assisi organised by the office for evangelisation of the Order of Friars Minor and attended by ...
• 11 May 2006
  ASIA - “Poverty is still the main problem for the continent”, says Asian Development Bank. It is necessary to combine social development with sustainable economic growth New Delhi (Fides Service) - The main problem in Asia is still poverty, and it is time for every country in Asia to face the question seriously with plans and measures to fight poverty and visible disparity at the social ...
• 10 May 2006
  EUROPE - Successful WFP videogame on hunger in the world launched last year attracts almost four million players Rome (Fides Service) - Twelve months after its launch, the world’s first humanitarian video game about hunger is being celebrated as an unprecedented success story. “Food Force” is about clean fun for kids, in an e ...
• 10 May 2006
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - World Food Programme continues distribution of food airdrops to Katanga province but lacks funds necessary to reach other people in need Kinshasa (Fides Service) - United Nations World Food Programme WFP has completed a first food airlift in Katanga province in south east Democratic Congo to about 34,700 refugees but warns that due to shortage of funds it ...
• 10 May 2006
  VATICAN - Beatification of two women Religious 13 and 14 May, Sr Maria Teresa of Saint Joseph and Sr Maria della Passione City (Fides Service) - Two religious will be beatified on May 13 and 14, in separate celebrations due to be held in Holland and Italy respectively. Servant of God Maria Teresa of St Joseph, nee Anna Maria Tauscher van de ...
• 10 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: “The Pontifical Missionary Union must be the driving belt of missionary spirituality ” says Fr Vito del Prete, PMU general secretary Rome (Fides Service) - In his report on the activity of the Pontifical Missionary Union in the past year PMU secretary general Fr Vito del Prete, PIME, told the Superior Council of the Pontifical Mission Societies meetin ...