News

• 24 March 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - EU military mission for general elections on June 18 Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The European Union has approved the deployment of a small military contingent in Democratic Congo on the occasion of general elections in June this year. A group of 450 men will guarantee secu ...
• 24 March 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - First woman to head government: Ms Han Myung Sook appointed Premier Seoul (Fides Service) - The president of South Korea Roh Moo Hyun has appointed Premier 62 year old Mrs Han Myung Sook, former minister for equal opportunities. Now parliament will be called to give her a vote of confide ...
• 24 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Children must be protected from “Internet Ogres” making web use safe and non violent Canberra (Fides Service) - Yes to new technology, but the use and immense cultural opportunities offered by the Internet must go hand in hand with protection of minors to save them from becoming victims of the web. This ...
• 24 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Present day society: the battle between culture of life and culture of death Sante Fe della Vera Cruz (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the Day of the Unborn Child in Latin America celebrated on March 25 the feast of the Annunciation, the Cursillos de Cristiandad movement in Argentina issued a ...
• 24 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Life of Jesus Musical video in Bengali Calcutta (Fides Service) - Jesus speaks Bengali and the Gospel message comes through music in a brand new video Musical in Bengali on the Life of Jesus being produced with the help of various supporters and benefactors i ...
• 24 March 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - S. Egidio Community appeal to save the lives of Fabianus, Domingus and Marinus, three local Catholics facing execution Poso (Fides Service) - The Rome based S. Egidio Community has launched an appeal for the lives of three Indonesian Catholics condemned to death: “Your excellency I am deeply concerned for the death sentence given by th ...
• 24 March 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Plan to meet food emergency in an area neglected by public structures and other food aid services focuses on children and schools Rome (Fides Service) - Malawi is one of the country’s in Africa most at risk for famine because of its mono-culture, impoverished soil and progressive diminution of farmers. Malawi is now at the centre of a massive int ...
• 23 March 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Pro-Life Week: “entrusted to us from the beginning: life starts before birth” Berlin (Fides Service) - “Entrusted to us from the beginning: life starts before birth”. This is the theme of a Pro-Life Week to be held in Germany from 29 April to 6 May. The initiative organised by the German Bisho ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA - Eucharist: theme of 9th Plenary Assembly of the Federation Asian Bishops’ Conferences Bangkok (Fides Service) - The Eucharist will be the main focus of the 9th plenary assembly of the Federation of the Asian Bishops’ Conference FABC in 2008. The Bishops’ chose the theme to follow up reflection propo ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay Catholic Association issues new pastoral programme Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Spreading the Gospel, formation for the laity, contact with Basic Ecclesial Communities, social services, attention for the Church on the mainland are the principal points of a new programme f ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Seeing the Lord in the world and showing him to others through our life”: Sisters of Sheng Kung 12th hold Provincial Chapter Taipei (Fides Service) - “Seeing the Lord in the world and showing him to others through our life” was the commitment taken by the 12th provincial chapter of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception Sheng Kung ...
• 23 March 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Thousands of Liberian refugees refuse to return home Conakry (Fides Service) - The UN’s Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, a humanitarian news agency covering sub-Saharan Africa, eight countries in central Asia and Iraq, said in its March 1 report that thousa ...
• 23 March 2006
  VATICAN - “Beauty as a way to Evangelization and Dialogue”. Pontifical Council for Culture prepares plenary assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - This year's annual plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, due to be held on March 27 and 28, will be dedicated to the "Via pulchritudinis," in other words, to beauty as a w ...
• 23 March 2006
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “11 million people in Horn of Africa at risk”: warning from Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Eleven million people in the Horn of Africa particularly in the Ethiopian regions of Somali Region and Oromiya are in danger of dying of thirst due to serious prolonged drought in the area ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Muslims stage silent prayerful march for peace Jaipur (Fides Service ) - After the inter-religious march for peace and religious harmony led by Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders leader on 14 March in Benares, another similar peaceful march was held in Ja ...