News

• 20 June 2005
  ASIA/TURKEY - Pontifical Antonianum College and Mustafa Kemal University in Turkey meet for 9th ecumenical symposium “Paul the Apostle, from Tarsus to Antioch: Archaeology, history and religion” Antioch (Fides Service) - “Paul the Apostle, from Tarsus to Antioch: Archaeology, history and religion” is the title of an annual Symposium on St Paul held in Turkey promoted jointly by Catholic bodies and pontifical ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “Compared to 30 years ago the regional and ethnical factor is much more keenly felt” local observer comments first round of presidential elections Bissau (Fides Service)- “Yes the elections was peaceful and this is a positive fact in itself but the important thing will be the results to see if the electorate had the maturity to go beyond traditional ethnic divisi ...
• 20 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence on Christians five attacks in a month: Catholic Bishops call on government to protect religious personnel New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of India have called on civil authorities to guarantee minority groups more protection. After five attacks on Christian structures and individuals, representatives of Chri ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Info: Antananarivo (Fides Service)- Madagascar, called the “big island”, has an area of 617,249sq km and a population of more than 16 million people belonging to various ethnic groups each with different customs and tradit ...
• 18 June 2005
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Resignation of Bishop of Colón-Kuna Yala and appointment of successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 18 June 2005 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala (Panama) presented by Bishop Carlos María Ariz B ...
• 18 June 2005
  VATICAN - New Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic presented this morning to Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City (Fides) - This morning at 10.30 the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church was presented to Pope Benedict XVI by members of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican Publishing House and Saint Paul ...
• 18 June 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “75 years of mission with Him”: Boa Nova Missionaries celebrate 75th anniversary in Fatima Valadares (Fides Service) - The Boa Nova Mission Society (SMBN) is celebrating its 75th anniversary 3 October 2004 - 3 October 2005 with the slogan “75 of Mission with Him”. A major anniversary initiative the Societ ...
• 18 June 2005
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - “We firmly support the pro-family demonstration in Madrid: this is not only a question of religion, it concerns of the whole of humanity because the aim is to legalise what is contrary to the law of nature” Superior of Catholic Mission in Tajikistan told Fides Dushanbe (Fides Service) - The Catholic community in Tajikistan is deeply concerned that the Spanish government is about to pass a law which would give same sex unions the status of marriage and allows homosexual couples ...
• 18 June 2005
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkey’s Christians and Muslims are against homosexual ‘families’, local Church voices support for pro-family demonstration in Spain Istanbul (Fides Service) - “The battle to defend natural law, real marriage and the unborn child unites Christian and Muslims in Turkey and the pro-family demonstration in Spain has the full support of Turkish public o ...
• 18 June 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “We hope the Spanish government will realise that this law undermines the family which is the essential foundation of societies and nations and will reject this move to replace the law of nature with disorder which would threaten peace and justice” say organisers of International Congress on Life and the Family in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - Dr. Roberto Castellano President of the NGO Pro-Vida and Monica del Rio leader of Women’s Civil Movement organisers of an international Congress on Life and the Family taking place 17-19 ...
• 18 June 2005
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “I encourage Spain’s families: may the power of God’s love help them defend the family and life” said Archbishop Pastor Cuquejo of Asunción Asunción (Fides Service) - In a brief note to Fides Archbishop Pastor Cuquejo of Asuncion in Paraguay expressed special “encouragement to Spain’s families, may the power of God’s love help them defend the family a ...
• 18 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Many jurists are convinced that the proposed law is unconstitutional. Assigning a child to grow up with two mothers or two fathers would be a social experiment using a child”: Fides interview with Vice president of the Spanish Family Forum promoter of today’s pro-family demonstration in Madrid Madrid (Fides Service) - Benigno Blanco Vice president of the Spanish Family Forum promoter of today’s pro-family demonstration in Madrid to defend real marriage told Fides that the proposed law to allow homosexual ‘ ...
• 17 June 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Multan Pastoral Institute : united in prayer with the Church in Spain we defend the rights of the family and the unborn child Lahore (Fides Service) - “I hope and pray that the pro-family demonstration tomorrow in Spain will be a great success” Dominican Fr. James Channan director of Pastoral Institute of Multan in Pakistan told Fides. “ ...
• 17 June 2005
  ASIA/NEPAL - Although extremely poor, families in Nepal have a keen sense of family- Nepal’s Catholics support Spain’s struggle for the family Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “The small Catholic Church in Nepal fully supports her sister Church in Spain of age-old Christian traditions. Human life and the human family are the most important and fundamental values w ...
• 17 June 2005
  VATICAN - “The commitment of the Catholic Church to the search for Christian unity is irreversible” the Pope told the Secretary General of the World Council of Churches from Geneva Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s firm commitment to reach unity among Christians when on June 16 he received in a private audience in the Vatican Reverend Samuel Kobia, ...