News

• 6 September 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Bishops denounce culture of corruption which uses nation’s structures of power for its own benefit substituting power schemes for the debate of ideas Brasilia (Fides Service) - On the occasion of a national holiday September 7 the Catholic Bishops of Brazil issued a statement expressing concern for widespread suffering caused by serious on-going corruption at all leve ...
• 5 September 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI calls the entire Church to be involved in preparation for the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist “with prayer and reflection, giving value to every opportunity, event and meeting”. He also has a special word for hurrican victims in the United States and people in Iraq Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - In his reflection before the Angelus prayer on Sunday 4 September Pope Benedict XVI called the entire Church to feel involved in preparation for the Synod of Bishops 2-23 October on the ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Local Church promotes courses for secondary school students on prevention of HIV/AIDS Patna (Fides Service) - Illness can be prevented with proper knowledge of self. With this conviction Sewa Kendra the Social Service Centre of Patna archdiocese in the north east Indian state of Bihar on the border with N ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics in Kerala open new Internet site: modern pulpit for evangelisation Kochi (Fides Service) - Catholic Bishops in Kerala state, south west India, have launched a web site on the Internet to improve the Church’s use of this means of communication which offers a valuable channel for evange ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Government signs United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees Kabul (Fides Service) - Afghanistan, a country that used to be one of the world's largest producers of refugees and asylum seekers has joined the United Nations 1951 Convention with regard to the Status of Refugees and r ...
• 5 September 2005
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards the 3rd American Mission Congress CAM 3 scheduled for August 2008 in Quito: web page offers information on preparation and celebration Quito (Fides Service) - In view of the Third American Mission Congress CAM 3 to be held in Quito, Ecuador, 11-16 August 2008, the CAM 3 Central Preparatory Commitee has opened a web site which will be updated regularly. ...
• 5 September 2005
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “To help the entire continent of America adopt a state of mission at the service of new evangelisation and mission ad gentes”: objectives and themes of 3rd American Mission Congress CAM 3 Quito (Fides Service) - In keeping with the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences which will have the theme “Disciples and Missionaries of Jesus Christ that our peoples may have ...
• 5 September 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “We are receiving many prayers and offerings for the hurricane victims. Catholics and members of other confessions are responding with great generosity” says Mgr Kozar national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies New York (Fides Service) - “We are deeply grateful for the many prayers assured and offerings sent to our offices and other Church offices all over the country” Mgr John E. Kozar national director of the Pontifical M ...
• 5 September 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Family pastoral work in Solomon Islands: Church offers formation seminar for married and engaged couples Honiara (Fides Service) - The family as the basic cell of society, the sacrament of marriage as a union of man and woman called by God to share life, the values of faithfulness, sacrifice, love, recipirocal gift of self, ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/NEPAL - Rebels announce truce in a country which longs for peace. Local Catholic Church recalls the need to settle the problem of displaced persons and refugees Kathmandu (Fides Service) - The three month truce announced by Maoist rebels is a shot in the arm for Nepal, but solutions must be found for the serious problems of violence and millions of displaced persons, local Catho ...
• 5 September 2005
  AFRICA - 32,000 people infected, 500 dead, cholera epidemic continues to spread in many countries of Africa Rome (Fides Service) - A serious cholera epidemic continues to afflict a number of west African countries where 32,000 people have been infected and 500 have died. Nigeria’s announcement of the epidemic brings the num ...
• 5 September 2005
  VATICAN “Achieving full communion among Christians must be a goal for all who profess faith in the Church, one, holy, catholic and apostolic” Pope Benedict says in a message to 9th Inter-Christian Symposium Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI sent a message addressed to Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity on the occasion of the 9th Sympos ...
• 5 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The scourge of sexual violence at the centre of a meeting organised by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Bishops’ Conference of Democratic Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Every year in the Democratic Republic of Congo RDC mainly in western regions tens of thousands of women are raped by members of the many different troops fighting in the area: regular army of RD ...
• 5 September 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Marriage source of life, foundation of the family”: slogan for Pro Life Day and National Family Week opened yesterday Lima (Fides Service) - In the face of the many difficulties and dangers encountered by families today which threaten their stability and their nature, aware that it is not easy for married couples to escape negative infl ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Summer oratories schools of faith and places of evangelisation of children Beijing (Fides Service) - Summer oratories organised regularly by many dioceses in China always bring abundant fruits of evangelisation among children. Enriched by a month of work and service at the oratory children retu ...