News

• 10 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir earthquake: Catholic community mobilised, Jammu-Srinagar diocese coordinates rescue efforts and aid News Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have expressed sympathy and solidarity with the victims of the October 8 earthquake the disputed region of Kashmir which struck on both sides of the border. On ...
• 10 October 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - The centrality of the Eucharist in the life of Consecrated persons: Day of Reflection for men and women Religious Honiara (Fides Service) - The centrality of the Eucharist in the religious life and the Eucharist as source of all apostolate: these were the main points emerging from a recent meeting of men and women Religious at the M ...
• 10 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The size of tragedy cannot be calculated: thousands are homeless after hurricane Stan swept the country. 1.400 inhabitants of Panabaj village buried alive. Cardinal Quezada Toruño appeals for “Solidarity without frontiers” Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Guatemala, the central American country which hosted CAM 2, the second American Mission Congress in 2003 and which for years has struggled to eliminate violence, now faces the consequence ...
• 10 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Eucharist as a service to the sick: Italian Association for Health Care Pastoral national conference. “Promote health care pastoral which starts from man and reaches the celebration of the Eucharist through the man it represents.” Rome ( Fides Service) - ‘Eucharist bread broken and washing of feet’ is the slogan of a national conference of the Italian Association for Health Care Pastoral opened today 10 October in Perugia and which will close ...
• 8 October 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Although Pope Benedict XVI spent most of September at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, he continued is normal activity of meeting visitors from all over the world on Sundays for the midday Angelus prayer, he rece ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 6,000 lay people involved in Great Mission 2005 in diocese of Chiclayo carry the Good News to families door to door Chiclayo (Fides Service) - Over 6,000 lay Catholics are carrying the Good News of Salvation to families door to door in the first stage of a Great Mission in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo which comprises 4 provinces L ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The role of the laity in the Church, society and politics: 3,000 people from all over the country gather in the capital for Laity Congress 2005 Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “Towards Argentina of the Bi-Centenary” is the title of a Laity Congress organised by the Lay Department and the Commission for the Laity and Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ C ...
• 7 October 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Bible and SMS or text messages : new technology at the service of the Word of God Sydney (Fides Service) - The idea might have seemed curious at first but it soon convinced even the most sceptical: to ‘translate’ Bible verses and spread the World of God via SMS or text messages. The advantage is t ...
• 7 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Formation of the laity and evangelisation of the family: Bishops’ Conference identifies pastoral priorities for 2006 New Delhi (Fides Service) - Chair persons and secretaries of the CCBI Conference of Catholic Bishops of India recently identified pastoral priorities for 122 dioceses of Latin Rite, for the coming year. CCBI president B ...
• 7 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young people and the Eucharist: 2nd international meeting of Adoration Groups draws to a close Rome (Fides Service) - “This year I went to World Youth Day in Cologne and while there I met young members of a Venite Adoremus group and was deeply impressed by their inner joy and peace so I came to Rome to take part ...
• 7 October 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Children Can Do It”: Peru chosen as ‘symbol country’ for ‘Sternsingers’ 48th annual campaign Aachen (Fides Service) - For the 48th year running in Advent and the Christmas Season up to January 6, Holy Childhood missionary children known in Germany as Sternsinger will be knocking on doors all over the country co ...
• 7 October 2005
  EUROPE/BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - Ten years after Dayton Peace Agreement: Caritas Bosnia Herzegovina backed by Caritas Europe organises Meeting on Social Situation Sarajevo (Fides Service) - Although the Dayton Peace Agreement signed on 20 December 1995 left certain matters unsettled it did put an end to the most bloody war in Europe since 1945. Ten years on Catholics, Orthodox Chr ...
• 7 October 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seoul’s new Diocesan Pro-Life Commission keeps watch on bio-ethical progress to protect all life including that of the unborn child Seoul (Fides Service) - The Catholic archdiocese of Seoul has formed its own Pro-Life Commission. The news was announced by the Archbishop Nicholas Cheong who explained that the commission will keep watch on bio-ethical ...
• 7 October 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Archdiocese of Manila closes ‘Marian Year of the Eucharist’ with General Pastoral Assembly Manila (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Manila will hold a General Plenary Assembly 21-22 October to mark the closing of the special Year of the Eucharist (universal) and Marian Year (local) opened in October 2004. ...
• 7 October 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - In the world over 200 million young people (aged 15-24) live in poverty, 130 million are illiterate, 88 million are unemployed and 10 million are affected by HIV/AIDS Rome (Fides Service) - According to the “Report on World Youth 2005: young people today and in 2015”, issued by the UN department for Economic and Social Affairs, 200 million young people (aged 15-24) live in dire p ...