News

• 5 May 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The main group of rebels in the Darfur signs the peace agreement presented by the international mediators Khartoum (Fides Agency)- After a series of sudden surprises, a partial agreement was reached at Abuja (Nigeria) to bring back peace to the Darfur, the tormented region of western Sudan, the setting of a tragic civil conf ...
• 5 May 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Draught alert for the “granary of Guinea Bissau" Bissau (Fides Agency) - “A tragic crisis”: were the words the government of Guinea Bissau used to describe the food crisis in the south of the country. The local authorities launched a powerful appeal to the internat ...
• 5 May 2006
  ASIA/NEPAL - “The unrest is over and people again hope for peace in the country. Even the Catholic community is optimistic about the future”, says the Apostolic Pro-Prefect for Nepal Kathmandu (Fides Agency) - “The situation is quiet and hopeful. The new government is ready and it is trying to involve the Maoist rebels in the peace and in running some areas of the country. It would be a way of brin ...
• 5 May 2006
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Appeal of the UN Food Program for the assistance of 3.5 million people who may starve to death Kabul - (Fides Agency) - Hunger alert in Afghanistan, where more than 3.5 million Afghanis depend on the food distributions of the UN World Food Program (WFP), in order to survive. But due to the lack of funds, the Unite ...
• 5 May 2006
  ASIA/ EAST TIMOR - The Bishops call the people to keep calm and demand the riots to end. The split in the Timorese society is still not healed: it is necessary to work for reconciliation. Dili (Fides Agency) - The Church condemns all forms of violence. The Government should intervene to recover the situation, stopping the people responsible for the riots. The people should go back home, without letting th ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - "To be witnesses of the sacred and inalienable value of each human life means to contribute to humanising the Canadian society”: National March for Life on May 11th Ottawa (Fides Agency) - “The greatest treasure of Canada: its people” was the title of the message published by the Catholic Organisation for Life and Family for the National March for Life, to be held in Canada for ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The diocesan delegates of the Missionary Groups in search of common criteria to evangelise the most distant and disadvantaged areas of the country and form lay ad gentes missionaries Buenos Aires (Fides Agency) - Summoned by the National Council of Missions, the Delegates of 21 Argentinean dioceses gathered recently in the national headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies to take part in the ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "For a human network of responses and help”: first meeting of RIIAL-Peru, to help the members of the Church use the computer in their pastoral activity Lima (Fides Agency) - From May 9 to 13, the Computer Network of the Church in Latin-America in Peru (RIIAL-Peru), will hold its first seminar with the slogan “For a human network of responses and help”. The main obje ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “By means of the apostolic ministry Christ himself reaches those called to the faith. The distance of the centuries is overcome and the Risen Lord offers himself living and working for us in the today of the Church and the world. This is our great joy.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the subject of the Church for catechesis at the general weekly audiences. On Wednesday 3 May he dwelt for the second time on the significance and value of Apost ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe opened the PMS General Assembly: “Our main mission, as National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies, is to bend down, like good Samaritans, over our brothers’ necessities, especially over the poor and the needy” Rome (Fides Agency) - “Our missionary activity is the effort we put in our work to make people know that God is love […]. Dear brothers, this is our main mission as National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societ ...
• 4 May 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The fifth CELAM General Conference “will show new routes for the evangelising mission of the Church”: Message of the Bolivian Bishops at the end of their Plenary Assembly Cochabamba (Fides Agency) - At the end of their 82nd Plenary Assembly, the Bishops of Bolivia published a Message addressed to the People of God on the topics they consider of greatest concern in the crucial era their Co ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office with regard to the episcopal ordinations in continetal China Vatican City (Fides Agency) - This morning the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, released the following statement to the journalists: "I can inform you of the position of the Holy See r ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Obedience of Faith” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Obedience of Faith”. Unity as a gift from heaven to recognise and make visible through full adhesion with personal freedom and Belonging, as a fundamental category of understanding ou ...
• 3 May 2006
  AFRICA/ DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - Archbishop of Katanga resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 3 May 2006, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Kananga (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Archbishop ...
• 3 May 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Woman embraces Catholic faith thanks to catechesis “on line” Tai Pei (Fides Service) - According to Christian Life Weekly, the bulletin of Tai Pei archdiocese d di Tai Pei, the Internet is proving an effective help for evangelisation. The experience of Mrs Jiang is an eloquent de ...