News

• 16 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Korean ethnic Catholics in Yan Ji active and committed Yan Ji (Fides Service) - The community of 4,000 Catholics in Yan Ji in the north eastern Ji Ling province of mainland China is 80% Korean ethnic origin. The lively community, clergy and lay people is active in catechism, ...
• 16 November 2005
  VATICAN - Rome’s University students prepare for Christmas with Pope Benedict XVI on 15 December Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Thursday 15 December in St Peter’s Basilica students at Rome’s universities will have their first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. The tradition of meeting university students before ...
• 16 November 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI weekly Catechesis: “Certainly the Lord is transcendent as creator and arbiter of the being; but he is also close to his creatures and enters space and time, indeed his presence among us reaches its apex in the Incarnation of Christ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - At his weekly audience this morning in St Peter’s Square Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the second part of Psalm 135 (verses 10-26, “Thanksgiving for God’s work of salvation”, vesp ...
• 16 November 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - First Sunday of Advent special prayers for peace in the Great Lakes region Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Catholics all over the world have been asked by Archbishop Laurent Pasinya Monsengwo of Kisangani president of the Bishops’ Conference and vice-president of Pax Christi International to offer ...
• 16 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Gregorian University’s Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Communications marks 15th anniversary: 17 November symposium on Communication and Participation Rome (Fides Service) - Activity of didactics, formation, research; study for a Christian perspective on the media and information system; instruction of thousands of students, religious and lay working in print media, r ...
• 16 November 2005
  AFRICA - “The African world is no longer limited by geographical boundaries and we are ready for apostolic commitments outside Africa, at the service of the African world and we want to be present where important decisions are made for Africa" says new Superior General of the White Sisters Rome (Fides Service) - Spanish born Sr Maria Pilar Benavente Serrano was elected in July the new Superior General of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa, known also as the White Sisters engaged in evangelisation on t ...
• 16 November 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Listen to the people who want a constituent assembly”: Zambia’s Bishops tell government Harare (Agenzia Fides)- “We call on the government to immediately start the process of enacting legislation to set up this constituent assembly”. This appeal was launched by the Catholic Bishops of Zambia in a pastor ...
• 16 November 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The country looks towards presidential elections amidst fears of more conflict with Tamil minority. Local Church calls for national reconciliation Colombo (Fides Service) - Sri Lanka stands at a turning point: in presidential elections on 17 November citizens of what Marco Polo described as “the most beautiful island in the world” (13 million eligible voters) w ...
• 16 November 2005
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Salesians open new Home for orphans and street children near the border with Thailand an area of poverty and criminality Phnom Phen (Fides Service) - To give concrete help and promote education in an area of poverty and marginalisation the Salesians Fathers in Cambodia have opened a new Home for orphans and street children in Poipet, provi ...
• 15 November 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Salesians celebrate 100 years of mission in China Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The great Salesian family of Don Bosco organised a charity evening to celebrate 100 years of mission in China and pay tribute to the many fathers who took part in this past century of Salesia ...
• 15 November 2005
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Cardinal Husar opens first Orionina House in Ukraine Kiev (Fides Service) - On 12 November the Archbishop Major of Lviv of the Ukrainians Cardinal Lubomyr Husar inaugurated the Don Orione Divine Providence House: the first Orionina house to be opened in Ukraine which will ...
• 15 November 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Fear, prayers and public condemnation: life of Christians in Pakistan after the destruction of churches in Sangla Hill Lahore (Fides Service) - Since Muslim fanatics attacked Christian buildings on November 12 “despite shock and trauma Christians in Sangla Hill are showing grate courage and dignity. Numerous Christians from all over th ...
• 15 November 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Significant presence of different aspects of Mission Ad Gentes at International Congress for New Evangelisation in Lisbon Lisbon (Fides Service) - An International Congress on New Evangelisation ICNE with a full agenda held in Lisbon with the theme “The Living Christ” came to an end on Sunday 13 November. “The Congress 6-13 November ...
• 15 November 2005
  VATICAN - Thursday 17 November, presentation of Masters in Management for development, for young African talents promoted by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples in collaboration with the Sacred Heart Catholic University Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Thursday 17 November at 10.30am at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples building in Piazza di Spagna 48 - Via di Propaganda 1c, Rome, there will be a media conference to pr ...
• 15 November 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Women played a decisive part in Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s electoral campaign Monrovia (Fides Service) - “Women played a determinant part in the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf” says Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of Africa Missions in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, where peopl ...