News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...