News

• 13 October 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Notre Dame and St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney joint nursing degree from 2006 will focus on quality training and medical ethics Sydney (Fides Service) - Sidney’s newest University Notre Dame and St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney have entered a partnership to offer a joint nursing degree from 2006. Notre Dame’s executive director Peter Glasso ...
• 13 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Children must be a priority in care for hurricane victims”. In many centres medical supplies are dwindling; out of reach for humanitarian workers Chichoy villagers have run out of food Guatemala City (Fides Service) - In the latest report on the situation after hurricane Stan Caritas Guatemala said many of the victims were children: “Stan left in its wake grief, death and destruction. Hundreds died, ...
• 13 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - March to commemorate Quiché missionary martyrs: one of many PMS activities for Mission Sunday which finds the country struggling with devastation left by hurricane Stan. Church workers operate in all affected areas Guatemala City (Fides) - For Mission Sunday in this Year of the Eucharist, Guatemala has chosen the same theme that Pope John Paul II chose for his message “Mission: Bread broken for the life of the world”. “This a ...
• 13 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Amici di Raoul Follereau association assists earthquake victims in Pakistan Rome (Fides Service) - The earthquake in Pakistan Kashmir on 8 October involved local NGOs working in partnership with AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau) Rehabilitation and Community Development Progra ...
• 13 October 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Groups of Spanish co-operators set up hospital in remote area of Pakistan not yet reached by aid workers Rome (Fides Service) - Spanish Agency for International Cooperation AECI is opening a camp in Arya a remote interior region of Kashmir affected by the 8 October earthquake and which has not been reached by other aid work ...
• 13 October 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN -Catholic volunteers operate in north east Pakistan: school pupils and students of Catholic schools as well as priests, religious and lay adults bring aid where it is most needed Lahore (Fides Service) - Catholic volunteers from all over Pakistan and other countries are arriving in the city of Islamabad in north east Pakistan to help with rescue work, assistance and resettling. Many of the volunt ...
• 12 October 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s general audience teaching on Psalm 121: “An ideal portrayal of the Holy City and its religious and social functions to demonstrate that biblical religion is neither abstract nor intimist but rather ferment of justice and solidarity” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 121 (Greeting from the Holy City of Jerusalem - 1st vespers Sunday week 4) is one of the “most beautiful and passionate” canticles of ascent, “a lively and participated celebra ...
• 12 October 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Year of the Eucharist was one of the last gifts God gave his Church through John Paul II”: with priestly ordinations on the Feast of Our Lady of Pilar Getafe diocese marks the closing of the Year of the Eucharist Getafe (Fides Service) - Getafe diocese in Spain has organised a series of celebrations to accompany the closing of the special Year of the Eucharist of which the most important is a Mass with priestly ordinations today, ...
• 12 October 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “March for Mission” 16 October in Caracas one of many PMS initiatives for the missionary month of October and World Mission Sunday 2005 on the theme “The Missionary, bread for the life of the world” Caracas (Fides Service) - A “March for Mission” will take place on 16 October in Caracas organised by the diocese to recall the long distances travelled by missionaries who brought the Gospel to Venezuela. The march ...
• 12 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young people and the Eucharist: “It is important to find a way to lead people to Christ. People long to experience the presence of God in the consecrated Bread” Rome (Fides Service) - We give some of the testimonials presented during the recent Meeting of Adoration Groups in Rome and Rome’s city mission, Jesus at the City Centre. “For me the Eucharist has always been impo ...
• 12 October 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops of Brazil appeal for solidarity in aid of victims of natural disasters in Guatemala, El Salvador, Pakistan and India. Brasilia (Fides Service) - “We are faced with a series of major catastrophes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Pakistan and India, with thousands of dead, over four million injured or displaced, and widespread devastation and ...
• 12 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Natural disasters are a time to live faith, hope and charity: “This is the time when the light of our faith should illuminate the darkness of calamity” says Bishop of Escuintla Escuintla (Fides Service) - In the tragic situation following hurricane Stan and the distress of people, especially poor rural communities, Bishop Victor Hugo Palma Paul of Escuintla diocese in Guatemala issued a pastora ...
• 12 October 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Giuseppine Sisters make youth pastoral a priority in view of World Youth Day 2008 to be hosted by Sydney Sydney (Fides Service) - Draw young people to Christ, offering them ways to deepen their faith and personal vocation, spread the values of the Gospel in this generation of play stations and text messages: this is the goa ...
• 12 October 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas network offers international solidarity: Islamabad headquarters for distribution of aid to earthquake victims in Kashmir Islamabad (Fides Service) - “Our volunteers are on the spot to assess needs and make sure help goes where it is most needed. There is a lot to do the disaster has affected the lives of millions of people. Rescue work a ...
• 12 October 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Catholic Bishops say “government has a responsibility to pay teachers a fair salary, but for the good of the pupils, teachers on strike must go back to work” Kinshasa (Fides Service) - In Democratic Congo where the school year is threatened by a teachers strike, the Catholic Bishops have issued an appeal reminding the government of its duty to guarantee teachers a fair wage a ...