News

• 12 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Thousands of people suffer from Trachoma bacterial disease which can cause blindness Rome (Fides Service) - Trachoma, closely connected with poor hygiene conditions, is an eye infection which affects the conjunctiva and cornea and can lead to blindness if not properly treated. It is also known as granula ...
• 12 April 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - After intense preparation in Lent Catholics look forward to celebrating the Easter Triduum and welcoming newly baptised catechumens Beijing (Fides Service) - Catholics in China are united with Christians the world over as they prepare to celebrate Easter the main solemnity of the whole year. Catholic communities in Beijing lived the forty days of Len ...
• 12 April 2006
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Easter 2006: little Catholic community in Mongolia steadily growing, ready to welcome 70 new Catholics at Easter Ulan Bator (Fides Service) -The little Catholic community in Mongolia is growing slowly but surely and looks forward to welcome 70 new Catholics to be baptised at Easter. “There is tangible joy as final preparations ...
• 12 April 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-conversion law introduced in Rajastahan is a setback for human rights and religious freedom says Christian Solidarity World Wide Jaipur (Fides Service) - The introduction of an anti-conversion law in the north western Indian state of Rajasthan is a setback for respect for human rights and religious freedom says UK based Christian Solidarity Worldw ...
• 12 April 2006
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Nouakchott diocese marks 40th anniversary, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary active presence Nouakchott (Fides Service) - In the diocese of Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, a community of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary is a significant presence in a small Catholic community which bears witness to Christ in a ...
• 12 April 2006
  AFRICA - Africa’s Catholics start Holy Week Services with Palm Sunday Rome (Fides Service) - Millions of African Catholics prepare to take part in Holy Week services. On Palm Sunday Catholics all over Africa went to Mass with the traditional palm for blessing . In Gabon the mass in the c ...
• 12 April 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Church in Kenya recalls “peace builders” killed in Marsabit air crash Nairobi (Fides Service)- “At this time of deep grief we wish to express our sympathy with the families of those killed, to the chairman and members of the national assembly, the Anglican Church of Kenya, the head of st ...
• 11 April 2006
  AFRICA - January 2007 Congress will assess evangelisation in the past ten years Rome (Fides Service)- The Catholic Bishops of Africa have decided to hold an all African Congress to assess evangelisation efforts in the past ten years. The Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar S ...
• 11 April 2006
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “Called to love everyone without distinction and beyond all religious or national barriers” Easter Message from Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Jerusalem (Fides Service) - “Every feast invites us to reflect on the meaning of our faith. The feast of Easter renews our courage and helps us to face the challenges of life, private and public, as well as the difficu ...
• 11 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses young participants at UNIV 2006: “A person who discovers Christ feels impelled to carry Him because a joy so great cannot be hidden it demands to be shared” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Paul VI Hall this morning, addressing participants at the UNIV international congress of university students, accompanied by members of their families Benedict XVI said “Dear young ...
• 11 April 2006
  VATICAN - Planning and building God’s house. Contribution by Bishop Mauro Piacenza, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church. “The Baptistery” Vatican City (Fides Service). “The Baptistery” - Excavations in the oldest Domus Ecclesiae in Doura Europos (Syria), dating to the mid-third century, brought to light a room used for the celebration of the Eucharist ...
• 10 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Poland 25 to 28 May Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 8 April the director of the Holy See press office Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls released the following announcement: “From 25-28 May 2006 the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will ...
• 10 April 2006
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Youth Day Cross and Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary change hands from Cologne Germany to Sydney Australia: “Most Holy Mary was the first ‘believer’ who carried her own cross like her Son and then lived with him the joy of his resurrection” Vatican City (Fides Service) -Palm Sunday Mass presided by Pope Benedict XVI in St Peter’s Square closed with the official hand-over of the Youth Day Cross and icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary from young Catholics of Co ...
• 10 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates first Holy Week Rite: “Palm Sunday tells us that the real important "yes" is the Cross, that precisely the Cross is the true tree of life. We find our life not by living it jealously for ourselves but by living it for others. Love is giving of self, this is why the Cross symbolises the path of true life” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Palm Sunday April 9 Pope Benedict XVI presided Mass in a sun-flooded St Peter’s Square filled with visitors in Rome for Holy Week and Easter many of them young people since the day was ...
• 10 April 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Food Programme and S. Egidio agreement for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa Rome (Fides Service) - On April 11 at 11am at the WPF Rome offices, the United Nations’ World Food Programme and the S. Egidio will sign an agreement to provide food support for an HIV/AIDS prevention programme in Afr ...