News

• 29 July 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Catholic Directory 2005 now available also online Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic Directory 2005 on the Church in Australia has just been published and is also available on line www.catholichdirectory.com.au. The directory lists all Catholic church bodies in the ...
• 29 July 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Seminar for catechists promoted by pastoral office at Fu Ren Catholic University Taipei (Fides Service) - The pastoral office at Fu Ren Catholic University recently oragnised a seminar for catechism teachers attended by 40 priests, religious and lay people. According to Christian Life Weekly, issued ...
• 29 July 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - In the Year of the Eucharist Portugal’s National Mission Days 16-18 September will reflect on “Eucharist and Mission” Lisbon (Fides Service) - In the framework of the Year of the Eucharist and on the threshold of the missionary month of October from 16 - 18 September the Paul VI Centre in Fatima will host National Mission Days on the th ...
• 29 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Final preparations for 2nd National Holy Childhood Congress: 800 local families prepare to welcome 2,000 child participants Trujillo (Fides Service) - With only hours to go to the opening of the 2nd National Holy Childhood Congress organisers are completing last minute preparations for this major church event to be held 1 to 4 August at the C ...
• 29 July 2005
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “Enlaced for life”: thousands lace their boots for August 1 pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Angels to ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to help the nation respect life from the moment of conception to natural end Cartago (Fides Service) - In view of the many attacks on human life in the world today from which Costa Rica is not exempt, in keeping with reflections by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference on the value of human life and ...
• 29 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Local Church prepares to launch new pro-life campaign Seoul (Fides Service) - On 27 August South Korea’s national Pro-Life Movement will launch a new pro-life campaign srarting with a Day to increase awareness on questions connected with bio-ethics, assisted fertility tre ...
• 29 July 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 900 people die in record monsoon rains: telegrammes of sympathy from Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The number of people killed in record monsoon rains in and around the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) has risen to more than 900. The rains affected Maharashtra state and further south also Goa ...
• 29 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - At Porto Recanati holiday resort members of Missionary Youth Movement launch mission on the beach and in the streets Loreto (Fides Service) - About eighty young people who opted for a mission formation experience this Summer organised by the Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies gathered on 25 July in Loreto to ...
• 28 July 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Missionary Youth: 207 young people volunteer to spend two months on mission in Africa, Asia and south America Lisbon (Fides Service) - On July 21, at the start of Summer holidays from school and universities, a group of 207 young men and women representing 24 centres in Portugal for Missionary Youth volunteers set out for Portug ...
• 28 July 2005
  AFRICA/NIGER - Children in Maradi diocese receive aid from children in Germany: ‘Sternsinger’ funds short term and long term aid programmes Maradi/Aachen (Fides Service) - “The situation is very serious” said Bishop Ambroise Ouédraogo of Maradi in Niger with regard to the food shortage in his country. An invasion of locusts followed by severe and prolon ...
• 28 July 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Sha Gou celebrates 300 years of Christian witness Tai Yuan (Fides Service) - A Charity Service Centre, a parish bulletin ‘The Oratory’, catechism classes are some of the activities organised by Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in the village of Sha Gou, Tai Yuan diocese ...
• 28 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - A missionary adventure set to music: Legend of Toumai youth musical performed by young members of EuroMissio will go on stage as part of World Youth Day initiatives Rome (Fides Service) - Toumai was the nickname given to fossils discovered in 2002 in central Africa and said to belong to the earliest known ancestor of modern humans who lived seven million years ago! Today Toumai retu ...
• 28 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Evangelising youth at cyber-cafès Seoul (Fides Service) - How to share the Good news with young people of the third millennium, in this era of new technology? How to make a place of alienation like the Internet become a channel of evangelisation? How to ...
• 28 July 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - Encourage mission service and missionary vocations among young people: aim of 4th Youth Mission Course attended by 60 PMS boys and girls Rancagua (Fides Service) - “We cannot be silent about what we have seen and heard” was the slogan of the 4th Youth Mission Course 14-18 July attended by about 60 young members of JOMIS-OMP the youth section of the Po ...
• 28 July 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Mission gives meaning, openness and strength to all priests. It is important to help Seminarians grow in a spirit of mission”: conclusions of 4th National Mission Meeting for Major Seminarians Tunja (Fides Service) - The aim of the 4th National Mission Meeting for Major Seminarians held at Tunja-Boyaca major seminary 8 - 11 July was to “strengthen the spirit of mission among Seminarians especially by means o ...