News

• 18 February 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Promoting the role of women in the life of the Church: Fei Xiang parish in Hebei organises formation course for women Han Dan (Fides Service) - To help women play their rightful role in the life of the Church and in the Christian family and to be qualified and effective agents of evangelisation Fei Xiang parish in the diocese of Han Dan ...
• 18 February 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe meets seminarians in Khartoum at the start of his pastoral to Sudan: “the Church has much confidence in you, and if you respond with generosity to the vocation of the Lord, you will be the principal authors of the growth of the Church, notwithstanding the great challenges you will have to face” Khartoum (Service Service) - This morning the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe started his pastoral visit to Sudan at Khartoum’s St. Paul’s major seminary where h ...
• 18 February 2006
  VATICAN - Presented to the Holy Father Benedict XVI Pontifical Year Book 2006, the first in his Pontificate Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Annuario Pontificio 2006 (Pontifical Year Book) was presented to Pope Benedict XVI this morning Saturday 18 February by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State and Archb ...
• 18 February 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seoul archdiocese announces Eucharistic Congress in September this year on the day of the martyrdom of Saint Andrew Kim first Korean priest and martyr Seoul (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Seoul has decided to celebrate a diocesan Eucharistic Congress later this year on Saturday 16 September, the date of the martyrdom of Saint Andrew Kim (1821-1846) the first Kore ...
• 18 February 2006
  ASIA/FILIPPINES - Natural disaster in Leyte: Catholic organisations fully involved in relief efforts. The Pope sends a message of sympathy. A local missionary calls for “respect for creation and sustainable development” Manila (Fides Service) - With regard to the recent tragic mudslide in Leyte central Philippines which caused the death a still unknown number of people, Fr . Eliseo Mercado, Oblate Missionary of Immaculate Mary on the te ...
• 18 February 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Serious deadly outbreak of diarrhoea alarm for cholera threat 47 people dead Rome (Fides Service) - A serious outbreak of diarrhoea with 1,500 cases and tens of people dead is devastating the already poverty stricken region of Southern Sudan. The main towns affected are Yei from where the outbr ...
• 17 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Go Tell Everyone”: Australian Bishops issue Pastoral Letter on the Church and the Media Sydney (Fides Service) - “Go tell everyone” is the title of a recent Pastoral Letter on the Church and the Media issued by the Catholic Bishops of Australia. In fact the Church in Australia intends to be increasingly ...
• 17 February 2006
  AFRICA/RWANDA - New rector appointed for St. Charles National Major Seminary in Nyakibanda Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 10 February 2006 appointed Rector of St Charles national major Seminary in Nyakibanda, in the Dio ...
• 17 February 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese priest comments first encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI Deus Caritas Est Beijing (Fides Service) - “If John Paul II led the Church into the third millennium, Benedict XVI is leading her in the modern world with a steady hand and profundity of thought as we see from the Encyclical Deus cari ...
• 17 February 2006
  AFRICA/REUNION - One out of every seven people on the French Island of Reunion infected by virus called chikungunya: 120,000 cases and 52 deaths. This epidemic has appeared in cycles since 1779 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - One out of every seven people living on the French Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean suffers from a tropical disease known as chikungunya which has killed 52 people since the outbreak began in ...
• 17 February 2006
  VATICAN - Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe starts pastoral visit to Sudan Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe has departed for a pastoral visit to Sudan. After a pastoral visit last November to Vietnam, when ...
• 17 February 2006
  AFRICA/DCONGO - “At least 120,000 people displaced in need of everything because of violence” denounce Religious Superiors in Katanga Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Superiors of Religious Communities in the Katanga region in the south of DR Congo say the situation is now desperate. “We see an alarming humanitarian situation which has gone on for years wi ...
• 17 February 2006
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “Over 100 new refugees from Burundi arrive in Tanzania every day”. United Nations High Commission for Refugees concerned Dar es Salaam (Fides Service) - In recent weeks increasing numbers of Burundian citizens have been crossing the border seeking safety in neighbouring Tanzania. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has ex ...
• 17 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops’ Conference assembly closes with new appointments. Bishops demand education for disadvantaged people. Bangalore (Fides Service) - During the assembly in Bangalore of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, which ended 15 February the bishops renewed the charges within their conference whose members of bishops of thr ...
• 16 February 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends Message to Archbishop of San Cristobal de La Habana for 20th anniversary of the Cuban National Ecclesial Encounter: Only through the gaze of God, a loving gaze, will it be possible to arrive at the truth of each individual, of each group and of those who live together in one land” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI sent a Message to Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino, archbishop of San Cristobal de La Habana and president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, for the occasion o ...