News

• 28 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics offer earthquake victims material and spiritual solidarity Jiu Jiang (Fides Service) - During a 5.7 Richter scale earthquake on 26 November 13 people were killed, 8,000 injured and 600,000 lost their homes, 18,000 buildings were destroyed and 150,000 were seriously damaged in th ...
• 28 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Bandits attack Catholic convent, some nuns seriously injured, arrival of police helps avoid a higher toll, authorities investigating to bring culprits to justice Xi An (Fides Service) - On 23 November in the diocese Xi An in Central China bandits broke into a convent of a diocesan congregation of the Sacred Heart and attacked the nuns injuring some of the Sisters. When the police ...
• 28 November 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - www.wyd2008.org: hosting Sydney archdiocese launches World Youth Day 2008 web site Sydney (Fides Service) - www.wyd2008.org is the address of web site opened by the hosting Catholic Church in Australia for the 23rd World Youth Day scheduled to take place in Sydney 15 - 20 July 2008. There is widespread ...
• 28 November 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA “Indigenous leadership in the Christian inter-cultural perspective” focus of 4th National Meeting for Indigenous and Missionaries in Caracas Caracas (Fides Service) - The 4th National Meeting for Indigenous and Missionaries was held in Caracas from 24 - 26 November. The meeting, held every two years since 1996, is organised by Indigenous Communities and the N ...
• 28 November 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “AIDS is not only a question of health it is a matter of morals”: Peruvian Bishops statement distributed in parishes in view of World AIDS Day 1 December Lima (Fides Service) - In view of World AIDS Day December 1 the Catholic Bishops of Peru issued a statement for distribution to every parish in which they express solidarity with people suffering from HIV/AIDS and their ...
• 28 November 2005
  AFRICA/MALI - Together for Africa: St John of God Brothers and Italian air force back in Mali to “restore the light” to 2 million blind people Rome (Fides Service) - On November 25, a team of doctors of AFMAL (l’Associazione con i Fatebenefratelli per i Malati Lontani) and Italian Air Force left for Gao in Mali to help children young people and adults regain ...
• 26 November 2005
  History of the Catholic Church in Vietnam The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, will visit Vietnam from November 28th to December 6th, upon invitation of the Bishops’ Conference of the Country. During his ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - “A very special day to be remembered in the years to come … a visible sign of continuity with a tradition so dear to the heart of our college: from Benedict XV to John Paul II”, Prof. Ornaghi welcomes Benedict XVI to the Università Cattolica for the inauguration of the academic year Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning Pope Benedict XVI went to the Medicine and Surgery Faculty of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome on the occasion of the inau ...
• 25 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Qi Zuang parishioners in Xian Xian diocese lively evangelisers with 300 baptisms in two years Cang Zhou (Fides Service) -“Our people evangelise with great joy and this attracts many new people to embrace the faith and to want share it with others” said Fr Li Guang Qi, parish priest in Qi Zhuang, in the dioces ...
• 25 November 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Keep away from addictions” Catholic Archbishop of Honiara urges young Confirmation candidates Honiara (Fides Service) - Every young person is called to encounter Jesus in prayer and follow him in service of others, Archbishop Adrian Smith of Honiara said in his homily before he conferred the sacrament of Confirma ...
• 25 November 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - New rector appointed for St Thomas Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in archdiocese of Bamenda Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 16 September 2005 appointed rector of St Thomas Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in the archdiocese o ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - “True progress is that alone which integrally safeguards the dignity of the human being and which enables each people to share its own spiritual and material resources for the benefit of all” the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addresses 33rd UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has voiced “sincere appreciation” for the programmes which the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has carried out in the past sixty years “defe ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI inaugurates academic year at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: “This is the great challenge: to give life to a true Catholic university, one that excels for the quality of its research and teaching and, at the same time, for its faithfulness to the Gospel and to the Church's Magisterium” Rome (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI was present for the ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. “I would like the entire ...
• 25 November 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholics in Brazil start traditional national Advent evangelisation campaign: the time has come for the Church in Brazil to move from receiving to giving and to shoulder responsibility for evangelisation in Brazil with its own resources and energies Brasilia (Fides Service) - “Annuncia Me!” is the slogan of this year’s annual national Advent evangelisation campaign organised by the Church in Brazil. Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, archbishop of Sao Salvador d ...
• 25 November 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Catholic Bishops call for respect for the rules of democracy and confirm their commitment to promoting reconciliation Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- In a message to Catholics and all men and women of good will in the country the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia call for respect for the rules of democracy and confirm their commitment to promot ...