News

• 13 September 2005
  VATICAN - Tomorrow the Pope will bless a statue of St Josemaría Escrivà placed along with sculptures of Saints and Founders of religious Orders in outside niches of St Peter’s Basilica Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow Wednesday 14 September immediately after the General Audience Pope Benedict XVI will bless a statue of St Josemaría Escrivà placed in one of the outside niches of St Peter’s Ba ...
• 13 September 2005
  AFRICA/CONGO - Profound grief for tragic deaths of Italian missionary Fr Angelo Redaelli and the little villlage girl killed hit by the vehicle he was driving Rome (Fides Service)- “Fr. Angelo had been on mission in Congo only two years but was already part of the community. His death was due to the tragic circumstances: in no way can his murder be taken for an act of hostil ...
• 13 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Night adoration and young people: challenges for the future”: National Meeting for Young Night Adorers of the Eucharist 23 - 25 September León (Fides Service) - ‘Putting Jesus at the centre’ is the theme of a National Meeting for Young Night Adorers of the Eucharist 23 - 25 September to be held in Leon, Spain, organised by the National Council of Nigh ...
• 13 September 2005
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Salesians 25 years at the service of young people where violence among youth is widespread Port Moresby (Fides Service) -Juvenile deliquency in New Guinea is a serious problem, a matter of concern for experts, educators, civil and religious leaders. The Salesians who first came here 25 years ago to work among ...
• 13 September 2005
  ASIA/JAPAN - A Church that transcends nationality: Japanese diocese sends priest on mission to Brazil Yokohama (Agenzia Fides) - “We want to be a Church that transcends nationality” said Bishop Umemura Masahiro of Yokohama who recently assigned a diocesan priest to Brazil in an experiment of ‘reverse missison’ co ...
• 13 September 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Archbishop of New Orleans calls on Catholics the world over to offer prayers and funds for hurrican victims. 90% of the archdiocese’s churches, schools and parishes were flooded New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans has appealed to Catholics the world over for prayers and material aid to support efforts by the archdiocese to meet the many needs victims of Hurri ...
• 13 September 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Health Ministry hopes Marburg virus epidemic is over Rome (Fides Service) - The Angolan health ministry is confident that an outbreak of Marburg which began in October in norther Angola and has taken over 350 lives is now coming to an end. The fact that no new cases have ...
• 13 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Another Catholic priest is murdered: Bishops call for an official investigation New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have urged the National Commission for Minorities to demand an official investigation into the the murder of a Catholic priest yesterday 12 September in the dioce ...
• 13 September 2005
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Vitality in the Church, need for more in-depth formation, education to peace and promotion of respect for human rights in final statement issued by Meeting of Portuguese speaking Bishops’ Conferences Maputo (Fides Service)- Signs of vitality and hope in the local Churches but also a need to improve formation for clergy and laity. This emerged from a meeting of Portuguese speaking Bishops’ Conferences in Maputo, cap ...
• 13 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Trentola Ducenta Seminary: earthly remains of Blessed Paolo Manna founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union moved to a chapel which bears his name Rome (Fides Service) - On Wednesday 14 September at Sacred Heart Seminary, Trentola Ducenta (CE), there will be a special ceremony for the transfer of the earthly remains of Blessed Paolo Manna, founder of the Pontifica ...
• 12 September 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Latin America: 222 million people living in poverty. Chronic hunger in Gutemala ever more serious and tragic Rome (Fides Service) - In the occasion of the “Latin American Conference on Chronic Hunger and Millennium Goals” to be held in Guatemala, a group of experts will disucss plans to fight the scourge of poverty. The g ...
• 12 September 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus reflection : “The Eucharist is a mystery of death and glory, like the Cross which was not accidentali but rather the passage for Christ to enter his glory and reconcile all humanity”. Special mention of victims of terrorism everywhere in the world. Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “Next Wednesday 14 September, we celebrate the feast of the Exhaltation of the Cross. In this Year dedicated to the Eucharist this recurrence acquires special significance and invites ...
• 12 September 2005
  ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - Cardinal Sepe praises Catholics in Azerbaijan for keeping the faith “despite long decades of violent persecution” and “for building constructive interreligious dialogue, peaceful co-existence among Muslims, orthodox Christians, Jews and Catholics” Baku (Agenzia Fides) - “The totalitarian ideology of Communism, now in the past, tried with every imaginable and possibile means to remove every sign of the presence of God from these lands and to eradicate and uproot ...
• 12 September 2005
  ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - The laying of the foundation stone for a new church in Baku “is a dream come true for the local Catholic community” said Cardinal Sepe who also blessed building site for a new Home for the Poor to be entrusted to Mother Teresa’s Sisters Baku (Fides Service) - In the afternoon on Sunday 11 September in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, presided a ceremony for the laying o ...
• 12 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - New hope for peace and development in Kashmir as leaders of India and Pakistan prepare to talk Jammu (Fides Service) - “The situation is quite calm and we are pleased and hopeful at the news that India and Pakistan will soon meet again for talks. We are sure this means relations between the counries are really i ...