News

• 7 March 2006
  AFRICA - Stories of “Women with Africa” who live, hope and struggle serving the needy day after day Rome (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the annual Women’s Day, March 8, the Italian organisation Doctors with Africa CUAMM presents testimonials of some of its 41 women operators, CUAMM doctors, nurses, physiotherap ...
• 7 March 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. “A place of worship” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The following article is the first in a series on the building of a Christian place of worship, a church,, which may be of help particularly in mission territories. Cardinal Leo Sche ...
• 7 March 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Alleviating the suffering of 300,000 people in Nairobi slums: an Italian mission Nairobi (Fides Service)- “In Nairobi the problem of homeless people is serious. The welcome rain which has come at last is a curse for slum dwellers” says Italian Consolata missionary Fr Eugenio Ferrari, national dir ...
• 6 March 2006
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Inaugurated new Medicine Dispensary and Outpatient’s Clinic at Bikok mission served by Dominican Sisters Daughters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Pompei Bikok (Fides Service) - Mgr Pasquale Mocerino Vicar General of the Shrine dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in the southern Italian town of Pompei is in Cameroon with the Mother General of the Dominican Sisters Daughte ...
• 6 March 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI Sunday Angelus reflection: “May Lent be an opportunity for all Christians for conversion and more courageous striving for holiness” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the first Sunday of Lent, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dwelt again on the significance of the Season of Lent “which helps Christians in their efforts to prepare for Easter”. In ...
• 6 March 2006
  AMERICA/CUBA - Blessed image of Child Jesus travels from home to home and a ceramic of Our Lady of Charity signals next home to host Sunday Mass in a small village which has no church Santa Clara (Fides Service) - “Sunday 26 February was a morning for blessing for Santa Clara diocese ” says Rev. Raul Rodríguez National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Cuba. Some communities in the ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Pope appoints Auxiliary Bishop of Hakha Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 March 2006, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Hakha (Myanmar) Rev. Felix Lian Khen Thang, until now secretary to the Bishop and diocesan ...
• 6 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital opens new Patients’ Family Home Rome (Fides Service) - A new Home for family members of child patients in need of a long period of hospital treatment at Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital will be opened on Thursday 9 March.. The Home, not far from th ...
• 6 March 2006
  AFRICA/BENIN - Presidential elections, polling stations close, second round forecasted Cotonou (Fides Service) - A few hours ago polling stations in the first round of presidential elections in Benin closed after being open yesterday 5 March and some hours this Monday morning because of logistic difficulti ...
• 6 March 2006
  VATICAN - “Disciples and missionaries of Christ today”: 1st Congress for Church Movements and new Communities in Latin America 9 - 12 March 2006 in Bogota, Colombia Vatican City (Fides Service) - In order to define the significance and identify the implications of being disciples of Christ today, especially in the context of Latin America, the Pontifical Council for the Laity and t ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Charity, antidote to individualism and fanaticism: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem issues Lenten Message Jerusalem (Fides Service) - In his Message for Lent 2006 the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah underlined that despite the difficulties and suffering they experience Christians in the Holy Land must realise that ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu fundamentalist ideology: an analysis by Indian Redemptorist Fr. Desmond de Sousa Goa (Fides Service) - Crisis In Hindutva: Growth or Decline? Will Hindu fundamentalism continue to threaten other religious groups? Will its capillary diffusion or political links succeed in influencing the social and po ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Ms Yan Jia Yi a member of Hong Kong Association of Lay Missionaries sent on mission to Cambodia Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “I am grateful to the Lord for calling me to be a channel of his grace and I know that going on mission means giving but also receiving” said Ms Yan Jia Yi, a member of the Catholic Assoc ...
• 6 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Internet offers ideas for Lenten reflection and prayer: initiative of Jesuit Fathers at Creighton University Sydney (Fides Service) - For Lent this year the Jesuit Fathers at Creighton University have proposed a daily itinerary of reflection and prayer via the Internet. The initiative is for all Christians but particularly youn ...
• 6 March 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - International Women’s Day: number of unemployed women in Latin America continues to grow, 6.5 million women in cities without jobs, those who do work are only temporarily employed and receive scarce social benefits Bogota (Fides Service) - Every year in view of international Women’s Day on 8 March the commission for social pastoral of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference organises a campaign to increase awareness of the conditions ...