News

• 9 February 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Improving hygiene in Congo Hospitals: local Higher Institute for Nursing Science trains personnel for 6 pilot clinics Rome (Fides Service) - The Higher Institute for Nursing Science, HINS opened by Opus Dei in Kinshasa the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, trains local men and women to enable them to improve the nation’s he ...
• 9 February 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - St John of God Hospital in Rome enlarges maternity department after record number of 3,604 births in 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The St John of God Catholic Hospital in Rome has had to enlarge its Maternity Department to meet ever growing needs The newly structured department extended after a record number of 3,604 births re ...
• 9 February 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - International mediation in Ivorian crisis continues. South Africa open to position of President Gbagbo Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The important thing is that dialogue continues and that the international community continues its efforts to mediate” say local sources in Abidjan, economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire with re ...
• 8 February 2006
  VATICAN - “God expresses his royalty by caring for the most fragile and helpless of his creatures”: the Pope says in his weekly teaching at the general audience during which he mentioned Fr Andrea Santoro the Italian missionary murdered in Turkey last Sunday Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his general audience this morning in the Paul VI Hall Pope Benedict XVI explained the meaning of the second part of Psalm 144 (verses14-21 - “Your Kingdom is eternal” - vespers F ...
• 8 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - “Turkish Islam should not be demonised” says Italian Capuchin priest a missionary in Turkey for 25 years serving as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies and Caritas Istanbul (Fides Service) - With regard to the assassination of the Italian missionary Fr Andrea Santoro last Sunday in Turkey Fides spoke about Christian Muslim relations in that country on the telephone to Fr. Adriano F ...
• 8 February 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - National PMS Director says : “faith helps us believe the death of Fr Andrea will bear the fruit of more missionary vocations and service”. Archbishop of Trent says: “may inter-religious contact develop in full religious freedom, mutual respect, constructive dialogue and collaboration all over the world” Rome (Fides Service) - “I am still in Brazil where I took part in the meeting of Italian ‘Fidei Donum’ in Latin America who all expressed the unanimous desire to continue their service to other Churches after the s ...
• 8 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Adelaide diocese ready to host annual Catholic “World Day of the Sick” 11th February Adelaide (Fides Service) - Everything is ready in Adelaide for the main celebration to mark the 14th World Day of the Sick on 11 February feast of Our Lady of Lourdes with the theme this year of “Mental Health and Huma ...
• 8 February 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionary Youth ever more committed to service of animation and formation: conclusions of meeting of Pontifical Mission Societies National Directors Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “For the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies this meeting was the realisation of a dream to insert young people in the missionary service of the Pontifical Society of t ...
• 8 February 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - United Nations warn: the number of internally displaced persons in Sudan and Uganda is double that of refugees abroad Nairobi (Fides Service)- According to the news service of the Jesuit Refugees Service-JRS on 26 January Denis McNamara UN special co-ordinator for internally displaced persons IDP criticised the international media for ...
• 8 February 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought in north east Kenya: UN and local government say 230 million dollars needed to save the lives of 3.5 million people Nairobi (Fides Service)-“We appeal to the international community to see this arid land needs immediate help. We call for general political and social mobilisation to guarantee the right of access to water, fundamental ...
• 8 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesians mark hundred years of service on the subcontinent New Delhi (Fides Service) - Salesians in India are marking a hundred years of evangelisation and human promotion in India and fifty years of service in Sri Lanka helping street children and promoting reconciliation amon ...
• 8 February 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - World Day for former Child Soldiers: China Keitesti tells of her sad experience at a meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies München (Fides Service) - On the occasion of World Day for Child Soldiers 12 February the national office for Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany missio München has organised an ecumenical service on Saturday 11 ...
• 6 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Vicar apostolic of Anatolia Bishop Padovese: “Fr. Andrea came here to bear witness and as a witness he died ”. A call to the Catholic community: “We need to feel the support of all Christians ” Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) - “Fr. Andrea was a man of dialogue, he was not a man to argue or to proselytise. His only thought was to dialogue with the local people and in fact this is required of the situation here whe ...
• 6 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Spokesman of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey: civil authorities and leaders of local Orthodox and Muslim communities send messages of sympathy and solidarity to Catholic community in Turkey Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. George Marovitch, Spokesman of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey on the telephone from Istanbul, said the small Catholic community in Turkey was deeply shocked by the murder of Itali ...
• 4 February 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS JANUARII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The principal event in the month of January was the publication of Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical Letter presented at the Holy See Press Office on 25 January. The document takes its title from the first words of ...