News

• 26 April 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Caritas mobilised to assist at least 30,000 people trapped by fighting near the Senegal border Bissau (Fides Service) - Caritas Guinea-Bissau is helping at least 30,000 people completely isolated because of fighting around the towns of Varela and Suzana in northern Guinea Bissau near the border with Senegal. I ...
• 26 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Celebrations in Lima and Rome for Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo "who distinguished himself for the spirit of selfless dedication to building and consolidating the ecclesial communities of his time with a great spirit of communion and collaboration” a Papal Message recalls Lima (Fides Service) - To mark the 4th centenary of the death of Saint Toribio di Mogrovejo, 2nd archbishop of Lima and patron saint of Latin American Bishops, an International Academic Congress is taking place in Lima ( ...
• 26 April 2006
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLAND - Religious leaders and Catholic Archbishop of Honiara call for reconciliation. The Church assists victims of disorder last week Honiara (Fides Service) - Religious leaders in Solomon Islands launched an appeal for peace and reconciliation following disorder in recent days. Condemning all forms of violence the religious leaders said the country ne ...
• 26 April 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - After studying Sacred Scripture Catholics in Bao Ji promise with zeal to diffuse it with simple language accessible to all Bao Ji (Fides Service) - Transform a course in Sacred Scripture into an engine to diffuse the Word of God, incarnating it as light for life, power of faith and guidance on the earthly pilgrimage: this is the goal of a ca ...
• 26 April 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Fr Augustine Thevarparampil ‘little priest, apostle of the dalits’ to be beatified on 30 April in Kerala”: special event for Syro-Malabar Catholics Cochin (Fides Service) - Cardinal Varkei Vithayathil Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church will preside the Mass for the beatification of Fr Augustine Thevarparampil on 30 April in Ramapuram, Kerala. Pres ...
• 26 April 2006
  AFRICA - By 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will need 1.6 million teachers says UNESCO Rome (Fides Service)- In sub-Saharan Africa teachers are ever scarcer and the number will drop further in the coming decade. This was said by the United Nations office for education, science and culture UNESCO in a repor ...
• 26 April 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - New fears of more violence and attacks. The nuncio: “the international community must help us build bridges of dialogue” Colombo (Fides Service) - “Like the solidarity without frontiers which helped us rebuild schools and homes after the tsunami, today the international community must help us build bridges of dialogue to brings the sides ...
• 25 April 2006
  ASIA/LEBANON - National director of Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 24 March 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon for a fiv ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children: 50% undernourished, 20% underweight and smaller than average, 70% lives below poverty line Quito (Fides Service) - In the world 150 million children suffer from under-nourishment, 6000 contract HIV/AIDS, more than 120 million cannot go to school and thousands are subject to abuse and violence. In Ecuador, sin ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Statement from Bishops’ Conference on the death of Conferenc under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela issued a statement with regard to the death of the Conference under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, last seen on Friday 21 April and foun ...
• 25 April 2006
  ASIA/NEPAL - “The King called back parliament and the people rejoice in the streets while the Church prays for peace” report from Fr Pius Perumana, pro-Prefect Apostolic of Nepal Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “We are all safe and sound, the Catholic community suffered neither losses nor damages but like everyone else has had enough of violence and destruction. Now the King has announced he is rea ...
• 25 April 2006
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm for increasing domestic violence Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- Sofia Simba Tanzanian minister for Conditions of Women and Children has sounded the alarm over increasing domestic violence on women in the country. Quoting a World Health Organisation re ...
• 25 April 2006
  VATICAN - Presentation of ‘Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine’ at Zaghreb, Budapest and Vienna Rome (Fides Service) - The capitals of Croatia, Hungary and Austria are the next stops for the five day tour undertaken by Cardinal Renato Martino President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 23 to 27 ...
• 25 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples sends condolences through Papal Nuncio in Egypt after terrorist attacks at Dahab Vatican (Fides Service) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, addressed the following telegramme of sympathy to the papal nuncio in Cairo Archbishop M ...
• 25 April 2006
  VATICAN - May missionary zeal continue to fill you and your beloved people, strengthening you in your efforts to spread the Gospel: Pope Benedict XVI tells Catholic Bishops of Ghana on ad limina visit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 April in the apostolic palace Pope Benedict XVI received a group of Catholic Bishops from Ghana on their five year ad limina visit: “My dear Brothers, the Pope told the Bishops, I a ...