News

• 15 November 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - The Year of the Eucharist has no ending “it continues launching us with renewed ardour into new evangelisation: we must be men and women of the Eucharist, families of the Eucharist, a society of the Eucharist” says Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Lima (Fides Service) - The Year of the Eucharist has no ending “it launches us with renewed ardour into new evangelisation: we must be men and women of the Eucharist, families of the Eucharist, a society of the Euchari ...
• 15 November 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Monkole Medical Centre has a mother/child department and an intensive care unit to treat cases of meningitis, cerebral malaria, anaemia Monkole (Fides Service) - Democratic Congo is one of the world’s poorest countries more than half the population living on less than a dollar a day. To provide health care for poor people in and around Kinshasa in 19 ...
• 15 November 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - “While the great ones of the earth discuss problems of the less great, Holy Childhood quietly gives concrete expression to the Christian dimension of solidarity and its children with prayers and the fruit of their sacrifices reach the whole world”: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe sends message to 5th Holy Childhood Meeting in Corfu Corfu (Fides Service) - The 5th Meeting of Holy Childhood in Mediterranean and eastern European countries is being held from 12 to 17 November in Corfu (Greece) on the theme “Missionary Animation in our countries: cont ...
• 15 November 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Corruption puts the brakes on development” says Archbishop of Lubango during celebrations for 30 years of Angola’s independence Luanda (Fides Service)- “Development is another name for peace” said Archbishop Zacarias Kamwenho of Lubango quoting Pope Paul VI’s famous words. The Archbishop said this in his homily during a Mass of thanksgiving ...
• 15 November 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Orionini Mission in the Far East: prospects for development of “Project Asia” Seoul (Fides Service) - Orionini missionary efforts towards Asia will develop in the next few years said Superior General Rev. Flavio Peloso at the end of a recent visit to South Korea and the Philippines. The Superior ...
• 15 November 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “A law which allows the elimination of the most helpless and vulnerable of human beings is unacceptable”: standing council of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference takes firm position pro-life Brasilia (Fides Service) - The standing council of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference issued a statement with the title “the right to be born” expressing clearly the Catholic position in defence of life. In the shor ...
• 14 November 2005
  VATICAN - The new Blessed Charles De Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio, “in different ways consecrated their existence to Christ and they re-propose to every Christian the sublime ideal of holiness”: Pope Benedict XVI ‘s address at the end of the Beatification Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints presided on Sunday 13 November a Beatification Mass in St Peters and at the request of the Pope read the ...
• 14 November 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus says “all the baptised are called to perfection in the Christian life: priests, religious and lay people, each according to their own specific vocation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The beatification of Charles De Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio confirms once again what was said by the Second Vatican Council that “all the baptised are called ...
• 14 November 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon: “may your beloved country, despite the present difficult situation, not lose heart but continue on the path to reconciliation and peace” Vatican City (Fides Service) - An encouragement to all the citizens of Iraq not to lose hope in the present difficult situation but to continue resolutely “on the path to reconciliation and peace” was addressed by th ...
• 14 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Church imposes nothing, nor does she seek special interests, but wishes only to be at the service of humanity witnessing and proclaiming Jesus Christ light of the nations”: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe addresses participants at 1st University Eucharistic Congress Murcia (Fides Service) - “The Church must reach out to all men and women, call them to the faith and announce to them the Good News of salvation”: this concept was restated on Saturday 12 November in an intervention ...
• 14 November 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - National directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in English speaking Africa meet in Lusaka: “providential moment because it enabled the participants to know each other and various pastoral situations, share experiences in mission, and plan missionary animation and cooperation” Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- The Regional meeting of the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies for the English Speaking Africa for 2005, took place in Lusaka, Zambia from the 24th October to 2nd November. The ...
• 14 November 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Catholic Bishops of Kenya encourage people to take part in the referendum on the Constitution and launch an appeal for non violence Nairobi (Fides Service)- In a pastoral Letter addressed to “Dear brothers and sisters in Christ and all people of good will”, the Catholic Bishops of Kenya have urged people to take part in the referendum on the Cons ...
• 14 November 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Two thousand people attend Mass to close the 1st International University Eucharistic Congress in Murcia. Participants vow to promote “a culture of the Eucharist” which puts God at the centre of life Murcia (Fides Service) - The 1st International University Eucharistic Congress organised by the Cathlic University of Murcia with the theme "the Eucharist heart of Christian life and source of the Church’s evangelising ...
• 14 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Successful demonstration to protest against education reforms: Spain’s new social movement is not afraid or ashamed to take part in public life to defend the rights of thousands of families Madrid (Fides Service) - “The demonstration on Saturday 12 November showed that Spain has a new social movement which produces realistic alternative and coherent proposals. A movement which feels no fear or shame takin ...
• 14 November 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - At the Year of the Eucharist closing Mass Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong said the providential event marked “a new beginning for our diocese” Hong Kong (Fides Service) - During a solemn Mass to close the special Year of the Eucharist, on 6 November in Christ the King parish church, Hong Kong, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Zen said the year had been a ...