News

• 22 March 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - State of emergency extended as administrative elections approach. Civil society and local Church hope for peace Colombo (Fides Service) - The state of emergency continues, but hopes for peace resist while government and Tamil minority leaders negotiate to improve the situation. Civil society and religious organisations hope that ...
• 21 March 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Children’s Bible on line in Arabic, Chinese and Turkish Königstein (Fides Service) - A popular Children’s Bible produced some years ago by Aid to the Church in Need is now available on line in Arabic, Chinese and Turkish and fifteen other languages. Aid to the Church in Ne ...
• 21 March 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - NATO intervention on African soil ever more probable Khartoum (Fides Service)- “I am certain that with the arrival of the United Nations Organisation NATO allies will be ready to do more to deploy UN peacekeepers in Darfur” said secretary general of the North Atlantic ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - New Cardinal Zen tells delegates of Catholic parishes and associations: “parishes must give more attention to the formation of the laity” Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Difficulties and scarcity of funds must not prevent us from restructuring the diocese’s system of formation which must be simplified and made more effective” said Bishop Joseph Zen of H ...
• 21 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission and Spirituality newsletter offers Lenten reflections, update on the fight against AIDS, and new edition of the Bible Sydney (Fides Service) - A Lenten Reflection based on Pope Benedict XVI Message for Lent; anti-AIDS awareness campaign in Australia and Catholic involvement; in memory of Archbishop Oscar Romero, martyred in Salvador in ...
• 21 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cyclone Larry puts Queensland in state of emergency: churches offer shelter to homeless families Townsville (Fides Service) - A violent cyclone Larry struck the eastern coastal regions of Australia on March 19. The category 5 cyclone, the most destructive in thirty years, raged with winds up to 300km per hour along ...
• 21 March 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought consequences in north east Kenya ever more serious: flocks lost, herdsmen clash, refugee food rations cut Nairobi (Fides Service)- Serious prolonged drought in north east Kenya is having serious social consequences. Oxfam International says herdsmen who have lost their animals because of water shortage could take more than 1 ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Moluccas and Sulawesi leaders say the only way to stop violence and prevent conflict is to promote a change of heart and for every member of the community to be committed to building peace and harmony Ambon (Fides Service) - Following a visit by the Indonesian president Susilo Bambanag Yudhoyono to the troubled provinces of Moluccas and Sulawesi the country’s religious, civil and political leaders have said the only ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Three year refresher course for women religious in Han Dan diocese Han Dan (Fides Service) - Women religious in the diocese of Han Dan will be offered a three year updating course to foster spiritual and intellectual growth in view of ever better service in the work of evangelisation a ...
• 21 March 2006
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “It is our duty as pastors and teachers to promote, preserve, and protect marriage as it is willed by God”: US Catholic Bishops’ statement Washington (Fides Service) - “It is our duty as pastors and teachers - a responsibility we share with the Christian faithful and with all persons of good will - to promote, preserve, and protect marriage as it is wille ...
• 21 March 2006
  AFRICA - Africa discusses avian flu threat Libreville (Fides Service)- '”The appearance of avian flu in south east Asia, Europe and more recently in Africa is a cause for serious concern in the international community”, the president of Gabon Omar Bongo Ond ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Local Church opens John Paul II Pro-Life Centre for families with HIV/AIDS Kep City (Fides Service) - In 2003 in Cambodia 20 new cases of HIV-AIDS were registered every day. In 2005 in nine months 10,000 new cases of HIV and 19,811 cases of AIDS were registered, according to the Department of S ...
• 21 March 2006
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Capuchin project provides decent homes for poor people in Cape Verde Praia (Fides Service) - To help some of the many people in Cape Verde, the elderly, the poor, single mothers, large families living in make shift homes or caves the local community Capuchin Fathers, who first arrived her ...
• 20 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 2nd Continental Meeting for National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in America Mexico City (Fides Service) -Some 24 national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies from all over American continent have arrived in Mexico City to take part in the 2nd Continental Meeting for National Directors ...
• 20 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic young people and immigrant foreign workers celebrate St Joseph national patron anxious to learn from him the virtue of humility Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “In a world where so much importance is given in success and getting rich, and fundamental values of the family, faith and humility are undervalued St Joseph can be of great help” a priest i ...