News

• 22 November 2005
  VATICAN - “The Church’s teaching is based on the fact that God created man and woman in his own image and likeness and granted them a superior dignity and a shared mission towards the whole of creation” : Pope Benedict XVI visits Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 November Pope Benedict XVI visited the offices of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, located in the Casina Pio IV in the Vatic ...
• 22 November 2005
  ASIA/VIET NAM - The Pope establishes the diocese of Ba Ria and appoints first bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 November 2005 created the diocese of Ba Ria (Viet Nam) with territory taken from the diocese of Xuân Lôc making it suffragan of the metropolitan ...
• 22 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Campus Bio-Medic: opens academic year 2005-2006 with celebrations for new hospital under construction and start of building on research centre Rome (Fides Service) - Wednesday 23 November at 11.30, to mark the opening of the academic year 2005-2006, Campus Bio-Medico University will celebrate only 11 months after the laying of the foundation stone, the closing ...
• 22 November 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops backed by various lay groups call for a public debate on law to make sexual education compulsory in schools Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - In the framework of a national debate on a government campaign to render sexual education compulsory in public and private schools and in the face of a possible rapid approval of a law with ...
• 22 November 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Young people teach young people how to avoid HIV/AIDS which continues to take millions of lives every year Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Prevention is the best way to stop the spread of the HIV virus which causes AIDS and the best people to teach young people how to keep clear of it are young people themselves. This is the convic ...
• 22 November 2005
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Death of emeritus Bishop of Lilongwe Lilongwe (Fides Service)- Bishop Matthias A. Chimole, emeritus Bishop of Lilongwe, capital of Malawi, died of a heart attack on 18 October at Likuni Hospital Lilongwe. Matthias Chimole was born in 1916 at Nakhwala, di ...
• 22 November 2005
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In one of the poorest districts of Cairo 270 children learn to read and write thanks to a Catholic missionary Cairo (Fides Service) - A Centre opened by Italian Comboni missionary Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, who has worked for years among abandoned children in the garbage collectors village in Cairo’s Mansheyit Nasser district cont ...
• 22 November 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From Mindanao to all Asia: Archbishop Orlando Quevedo new General of the Federation of Asia Bishops’ Conferences Cotabato (Fides Service) - Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato in Mindanao, southern Philippines, has been appointed secretary general (head) of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. Archbishop Quevedo who ...
• 22 November 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Tighter security measures in view of Christmas: Christians in Moluccas and Sulawesi fear terrorist attacks Ambon (Fides Service) - In the eastern Indonesian provinces of Moluccas and Sulawesi there is rising tension and people fear civil conflict between Muslim communities and Protestant Christian communities may break out ag ...
• 22 November 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistan is promised more than enough money to rebuild earthquake hit area: donors offer 6 billion more than requested Lahore (Fides Service) - Thanks to international donors Pakistan can start the work of rebuilding after the October 8 earthquake in Kashmir which killed 73,000 and left 3 million people homeless. Donor governments and in ...
• 21 November 2005
  VATICAN - On the solemnity of Christ the King at the Angelus prayer Pope Benedict XVI recalls the Gaudium et Spes constitution : “The Mission of the Church yesterday, today and always is to announce and bear witness to Christ so that every man and woman may live the fullness of his or her vocation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the solemnity of Christ the King, the last Sunday of the Liturgical Year, at the midday Angelus prayer Pope Benedict XVI focused once again on the Second Vatican Council which closed 40 ...
• 21 November 2005
  AFRICA/CONGO - Savage murder of Catholic priest from Manono diocese who tried to convince rebel leader to disarm Manono (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Fr Francois Djikulo has been savagely murdered by rebels in Democratic Congo. The priest, from the diocese of Manono, had gone, without asking permission or even informing his B ...
• 21 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - On 3 December Jesuits start celebrations for 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro and 450 years since the death of St Ignatius Pamplona (Fides Service) - December 3 will mark the beginning of a Jubilee year for the Society of Jesus to commemorate three events: the 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506) and ...
• 21 November 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Eleven million electors vote in constitutional referendum and decide the destiny of the government Nairobi (Fides Service) - Kenya is living today 21 November a crucial day in its political history. Eleven million Kenyans are called to decide with a referendum whether to approve or reject a draft constitution which ha ...
• 21 November 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic School of Social Doctrine, ten years of formation to help Catholics take an active and responsible part in social and economic and political matters Seoul (Fides Service) - Christian witness in society, the economy and politics is essential for promoting values and the centrality of the person. In a decade of activity the Catholic School of Social Doctrine in Seoul, ...