News

• 28 March 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Important changes and debates as Malawi struggles to win the fight with famine Lilongwe (Fides Service) - “An important week-long meeting of the Malawi Constitutional Review starts today 28 March” says Italian Monfort missionary Giorgio Gamba in Malawi. “This event will mark the beginning ...
• 28 March 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Aid for drought affected people is coming but more is needed to save 11 million people in east Africa at starvation risk Nairobi (Fides Service)- Kenya has started a cereal import programme to help feed 5 million hungry people in the north east of the country. This was announced by President Mwai Kibaki who said food supplies distributed s ...
• 28 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - At Immaculate Conception parish in Beijing 100 catechumens ready to become members of the Church this Easter Beijing (Fides Service) - There are over 100 catechumens at the Immaculate Conception parish in Beijing opened by the great 17th century Italian missionary Matteo Ricci SJ preparing to receive the Sacraments of Christian ...
• 27 March 2006
  The Pope’s missionary prayer intention April 2006: “That the Church in China may engage in its mission to evangelise with serenity and full freedom” Comment by Rev. Ambrogio Spreafico, rector of Urban University Rome (Fides Service) - “Go out into the world and preach the Gospel to all creatures” Jesus said to his disciples after his Resurrection. This missionary mandate has animated the Church from the very beginning. This ...
• 27 March 2006
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope remembers persecuted Christians and martyr missionaries “the Consistory was an event which made us feel closer than ever to Christians who are persecuted for their faith” Vatican City (Fides Service) - At midday on Sunday 26 March, following his morning visit to the Roman parish of God the Merciful Father, Benedict XVI appeared at the window of his study to pray the Angelus with thousands ...
• 27 March 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI pastoral visit to parish of God the Merciful Father: “despite our unworthiness, we are the objects of the infinite mercy of God. God loves us with a love which we might call “obstinate” and he holds us close in his inexhaustible tenderness Rome (Fides Service) - On the fourth Sunday of Lent, 26 March Pope Benedict, the Bishop of Rome, made a pastoral visit to one of his parishes, the parish of God the Merciful Father built at the request of Pope John Paul ...
• 27 March 2006
  ASIA/IRAQ - Emmanuel III Delly Patriarch of Babylon of Chaldean Catholics invites believers of the world to fast and pray 3 and 4 April for peace in Iraq” Baghdad (Fides Service) - Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and chairman of the council of Catholic Bishops in Iraq has called on believers of all faiths in Iraq and the world over to fast and pra ...
• 27 March 2006
  AFRICA - African Enchiridion the fruit of long labouring to collect African Catholic Church writings: testimony from author Fr. Oseni Ogunu Rome (Fides Service)- “The idea of writing the "African Enchiridion" (AE) was a gradual and difficult process which began in late 1997, in the course of my academic studies and research in Rome, says Oseni Ogunu aut ...
• 27 March 2006
  VATICAN - Final statement of the 12th General Assembly and of the International Congress on: «The Human Embryo before Implantation. Scientific Update and Bio-ethical Considerations» Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of its 12th general assembly the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) organised an international congress on the «The Human Embryo before Implantation. Scientific Update and ...
• 27 March 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “Building a Bolivia for everyone”: Bishops hope path to constitutive assembly will be one of “respect, dialogue and sincere searching for agreement overcoming rivalry and conflict" La Paz (Fides Service) - The Bolivian Bishops’ Conference issued a statement “Building a Bolivia for everyone. Towards a Constituent Assembly”, in which they offer believers and all citizens of good will guidelines ...
• 27 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Meeting for diocesan PMS Directors: “the Church entrusts you with a special mandate which comes from Christ and sets you at the heart of ecclesial life ” Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - Diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies are “called to be the chief agents of missionary animation and cooperation”, a task which “the Church entrusts to you as a spe ...
• 25 March 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Keewatin-Le Pas diocese and appoints Successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 25 March 2006 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Keewatin-Le Pas (Canada), presented by Bishop Pere Alfred Sutton, ...
• 25 March 2006
  ASIA/TAILANDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani and appoints Successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 25 March 2006, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese Ubon Ratchathani (Thailand) presented by Bishop Michael Bunluen Mans ...
• 25 March 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - DVD in Chinese of the Mass for the inauguration of the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI made available to Chinese Catholics Taipei (Fides Service) - A DVD of the solemn Mass for the inauguration of the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI with the Chinese translation of the Pope’s homily was made available to Chinese Catholics by the Taiwan Bi ...
• 25 March 2006
  OCEANIA/REPUBLIC OF FIJI - Sport promotes friendship and solidarity: ‘old boy’ donates new sports equipment for Catholic schools Suva (Fides Service) - Sport taught in schools is a valuable means of educating to values, discipline, friendship and team work. Thanks to a generous donation from an ‘old boy’ pupils at Catholic schools in Fiji will ...