News

• 23 March 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - British High Commissioner presents award to Don Bosco Technological Institute Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Catholic schools are a valuable resource for the country. As places of great professional competence, didactic ability and morality they are fundamental for the formation of the young gener ...
• 23 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “A society which does not respect the value of life, loses its principal and basic value, humanity”, says Bishop president of Family Pastoral Commission on “Pro Life Day” Mexico City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the national Pro-Life Day 25 March the Mexican Bishops’ Conference through its Commission for Family Pastoral issued a message signed by Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martíne ...
• 23 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops of Perù mark 4th centenary of the death of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo with a solemn mass. Commemoration also in Rome Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Today 23 March with a solemn Mass the Bishops of Peru are commemorating Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo (1538-1606) who died 400 years ago. The saint, the second archbishop of Lima, was proclaimed patro ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - New Centre for street children Nashik, Maharashtra state Rome (Fides Service) - The world has 100 million street children and 18 million of them live in India. Alone, without a home or any adult to care for them they live and work on the streets. Some are abandoned or orphaned ...
• 23 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Monumenta Liturgica Concilii Tridentini collection of six volumes at the service of liturgy Rome (Fides Service) - Six volumes “Monumenta Liturgica Concilii Tridentini” contain the work of research undertaken by the late Rev Achille Triaca and rev. Manlio Sodi who teaches at the Salesian University in Rome. ...
• 23 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - International conference on “Women Theologians: in what Europe?” To promote a fruitful inter-weaving of religious freedom and the secular state Rome (Fides Service) - “Women Theologians: in what Europe?” is the title of an international conference 30 March - 1 April 2006 promoted by Coordinamento Teologhe Italiane CTI and sponsored by the Presidency of the ...
• 22 March 2006
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Plenary meeting of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community: striving to consolidate dialogue between cultures and religions in the European Union Brussels (Fides Service) - A three day Plenary meeting of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community COMECE opens today 23 March in Brussels Belgium. Among the topics for discussion how to consoli ...
• 22 March 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Sicilian town of Linguaglossa and Catholic mission in Madagascar sign twinning project Rome (Fides Service)- “It is difficult to live in a place where there is no water, or electricity, or medical care. Linguaglossa has begun to walk alongside with the mission district of Amborompotsy and on behalf of al ...
• 22 March 2006
  VATICAN - At his general Wednesday audience Pope Benedict XVI makes an appeal for World TB Day and reflects on “the Apostles witnesses and envoys of Christ” Vatican City (Fides Service)- During his Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square on 22 March Pope Benedict XVI made the following appeal: “The day after tomorrow, 24 March, United Nations World TB Day to stop Tubercu ...
• 22 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Society for African Missions convokes general assembly Rome (Fides Service)- “This year will be the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Society for African Missions. The General Assembly to be held a few months after the celebration of the event will be a special mome ...
• 22 March 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - UN High Commission for Refugees suspends repatriation operations to Southern Sudan because of violence Khartoum (Fides Service) - Following armed attacks in southern Sudan the UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has decided to suspend repatriation of refugees from Central African Republic, Uganda and Democratic Congo to ...
• 22 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 300 take part in spring catechesis course in Tian Jin diocese Tianjin (Fides Service) - Over 300 Catholics accompanied by 30 catechists enrolled for a Spring Course in Catechesis at Xi Kai cathedral in the diocese of Tianjin in mainland China. At the opening of the course parish pr ...
• 22 March 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Taipei archdiocese starts formation course for special ministers of the Eucharist Taipei (Fides Service) - Duties and mission of special ministers of the Eucharist and how to improve this service is the theme of a formation course for special ministers of the Eucharist started recently in Taipei. The ...
• 22 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - “Day for the Unborn Child”, Bishops’ message: “Defend life always, everywhere and against all injustice because it is a gift of God” Lima (Fides Service) - “We celebrate the Day of the Unborn Child on the same day as the Mystery of the Incarnation is announced by God who does not leave us at the mercy of evil but protects all men and women, especia ...
• 22 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cyclone Larry, relief aid needed for 7,000 homeless: swift response from St Vincent de Paul Society and Caritas Australia Innisfail (Fides Service) - To assist victims of cyclone Larry Catholics are in front line: as government aid begins to reach people in disaster areas of north east Queensland affected by the 19 March, cyclone, St Vincen ...