News

• 7 July 2005
  VATICAN - “The Eucharist: source and summit of the life and mission of the Church” Working paper for 11th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October presented today Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today at the Holy See Press Office the Instrumentum laboris for the 11th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held in the Vatican 2-23 October next, on the theme ‘The Euchariast ...
• 7 July 2005
  EUROPE/BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - The challenge of a new cultural dialogue in the context of globalisation: International Meeting of Catholic Cultural Centres in the Mediterranean and Balkan regions Rome (Fides Service) - Representatives of at least 25 countries of Europe, Africa and Asia have gathered in Sarajevo for an International Meeting of Catholic Cultural Centres in the Mediterranean and Balkan regions which ...
• 7 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa start 23rd general chapter in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- Today, July 7, the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa also known as White Sisters, start their 23rd general chapter in Rome Until 30th July some 42 chapter members from 15 different countrie ...
• 7 July 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - Next Sunday “Sending Day” for more than 1,000 young pilgrims from Santiago who will travel to Germany for World Youth Day Santiago de Cile (Fides Service) - On Sunday 10 July Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz, Archbishop of Santiago, President of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences (CELAM) will preside a special Mass for ...
• 7 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Growing signs of frustration and discouragement and spreading sense of instability and insecurity”: Catholic Bishops of Peru voice concern for climate of violence and prolonged strikes Lima (Fides Service) - “Faced with growing violence and prolonged strikes in many parts of our country, road blocks, attacks on public and private installations which increase the sense of instability and insecurity fo ...
• 7 July 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Man must stop violence, it can never reach goals or carry a message”, says the head of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Oblate Missionaries of Immaculate Mary in the Philippines after bomb blasts in London Manila (Fides Service) - “The bomb blasts in London make us reflect one again on the subject of violence. Although as yet there is no confirmation that these were terrorist attacks, one’s mind immediately returns to ...
• 7 July 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Church movements and associations a sort of “blood transfusion” for the Church in Australia, meet with an eye on World Youth Day in Germany Melbourne (Fides Service) - Lay movements, assocations and communities born since the Second Vatican Council are a new resource for the Church which give new vitality and strength. They are a bit like a blood transfusion ...
• 7 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Do not be afraid of new tehcnology!”: the Church in Korea ever more committed to using the media. UTV first Korean TV on the Internet Seoul (Fides Service) - “Do not be afraid of new tehcnology!”: said Pope John Paul II in his letter for Communications Day this year “Rapid development”. The Church in Korea intends to respond to this challenge b ...
• 7 July 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The international community has made praiseworthy efforts to restore peace and promote democracy in Burundi, now it must support development Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “New and promising scenes appear after the victory in the elections of the National Council for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD)” said local sources in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi afte ...
• 6 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Thank you John Paul II !” In Cologne photos sent by 10,000 people from 100 different countries form a giant mosaic of photograph pixels producing an enormous portrait of John Paul II in memory of the “father” of World Youth Days Cologne (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne 11-21 August, one major attraction will be a giant portrait of the late Pope John Paul II with Cologne cathedral in the background. The por ...
• 6 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Immaculate Mary leads us to the Eucharist and the Eucharist leads us to Mission”: theme of 2nd national Holy Childhood Congress 4 -7 August Lima (Fides Service) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru has started preparations for the 2nd national Holy Childhood Congress to be held 4 -7 August at Trujillo. “Immaculate Mary leads us ...
• 6 July 2005
  VATICAN - At the general audience the Pope recalled that “predestination” to be children of God “implicates brotherhood with Christ, the Son par excellence and an attitude of intimacy with the heavenly Father whom we may invoke as Abba, “dearest father’ Vatican City (Fides Service) - Canticle “God our Saviour” (cfr Eph 1,3-10), vespers Monday week 3 (reading: Eph 1,3.7-8), was the subject of the teaching given by Pope Benedict XVI during the general audience this mo ...
• 6 July 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - New Rector appointed for Good Shepherd inter-diocesan Seminary, Coimbatore Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 1 April 2005 appointed Rector of Good Shepherd inter-diocesan Seminary, Coimbatore, Rev. Raphaelna ...
• 6 July 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We denunce an international plot against life and against the family” the President of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz said as he opened the Bishops’ 79th plenary assembly Bogota (Fides Service) - Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Archbishop of Bogota and President of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference (CEC), in his address to open the Conference’s 79th plenary assembly taking place in Bog ...
• 6 July 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Over 400 young people from Taiwan prepare to take part in the 20th world Youth Day in Germany Tai Chung (Fides Service) - About 400 young people who will go to the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany 11-21 August, recently took part in a day of preparation for the major Church event. The day focused on vario ...