News

• 17 December 2005
  VATICAN - With her hidden and humble life Madre Casini had the intuition of sustaining the mission of priests: “even little gestures, signs and stories help to build the history of the Church and the world” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Can an apparently ordinary life such as that of Madre Maria Teresa Casini (Frascati 1864-Grottaferrata 1937), unknown and humble, in a period of great political and social upheaval, be of i ...
• 17 December 2005
  VATICAN - “Light a Christmas star with 5 Euro”: Pontifical Council for Pastoral care of healthcare workers organises collection in aid of poor sick people Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of Christmas Cardinal Javier Lozano Barrágan, President of the Pontifical Council for the pastoral care of healthcare workers launched a proposal for sensitisation of eccle ...
• 17 December 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Voluntary repatriation of refugees from Kenya to South Sudan starts today Khartoum (Fides Service) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR announced that the voluntary repatriation to South Sudan of refugees from Kakuma camp in north west Kenya starts today Saturday 17 Decembe ...
• 16 December 2005
  VATICAN - “Every Christian, according to his specific task and specific responsibility, is called to make his contribution so that the dignity of these brothers and sisters of ours is recognised, respected and promoted.”: Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Day of the Sick 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - In a message for the annual World Day of the Sick organised by the Catholic Church on February 11, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Pope Benedict XVI encourages sick people to offer their cond ...
• 16 December 2005
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI meets Rome’s University students: “We must rediscover the beauty of having Christ as our Master of life and so in freedom and awareness renew our profession of faith in Him.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Continue, dear friends, your reflection with regard to a new humanism taking into consideration the great challenges of the present day and striving to conjugate in harmony faith and cul ...
• 16 December 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Bishops of Arizona, deeply saddened by the death and suffering of Mexican immigrants stress the need to find new ways for communities to welcome and integrate migrants Arizona (Fides Service) - “You Welcomed Me”: was the title of a Pastoral Letter on Migration released on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and developed and approved by the Arizona Catholic Conference and the Byzant ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2 million of the world’s children suffer sexual exploitation ‘perhaps the most invisible of all’ Rome (Fides Service) - In its annual State of the World’s Children Report 2006 ,Excluded and Invisible,, UNICEF the United Nations Fund for Children analyses the situation of children and adolescents living in the most ...
• 16 December 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Mass with the sick in the Catholic Prayer Room at a Tai Pei state hospital Tai Pei (Fides Service) - According to Christian Life Weekly bulletin issued by Tai Pei archdiocese recently a Mass was held in the Catholic Prayer Room at Tai Pei State Hospital attended by Catholic members of hospital ...
• 16 December 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 500 Catholics celebrate 100th anniversary of Immaculate Conception parish in the village of Don Xiao Yang Zhuan, reflecting on the growth of the Catholic community Ji Nan (Fides Service) - Over 500 Catholics attended a solemn Mass to mark the 100th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception Parish in the village of Don Xiao Yang Zhuan, archdiocese of Ji Nan. The Mass was concelebrate ...
• 16 December 2005
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Spreading the word” method chosen by Missionary Sisters of Jesus Christ to explain the importance of the constitutional referendum 18 December Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Initiatives organised by the local Church in DR Congo to spread awareness with regard to the referendum on a draft Constitution on Sunday 18 December include a ‘Spreading the Word’ mission s ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Poland, now present in almost every diocese, dedicates annual Christmas aid campaign to Indonesian children victims of last year’s tsunami Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Polish branch of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood now present in every diocese will send the proceedings of its annual Christmas fund raising campaign Kolednicy Misyjni, to children v ...
• 16 December 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Holy Childhood Children in Kampala on solidarity mission to northern Ugandan children victims of violence and war Gulu (Fides Service )- Catholic children members of Holy Childhood Mission Society from the archdiocese of Kampala, capital of Uganda, recently visited children living in relief camps in northern Uganda displaced and suf ...
• 15 December 2005
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope establishes new diocese of Uromi and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 14 December 2005 established the diocese of Uromi (Nigeria) with territory taken from the archdiocese of Benin City making it suffragan of the same met ...
• 15 December 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 8 December 2005 confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Madagascar ...
• 15 December 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Formation seminar for middle school religious education teachers Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Aim, line and plan of Religious Instruction” was the theme of a seminar for middle school teachers organised by the middle school group of the Commission for Catechesis of Hong Kong Catho ...