News
17 October 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - “The best news we can announce is that Jesus Christ is risen and he is here in our midst”: World Mission Sunday is an opportunity to encourage people to seek true and authentic happiness in the faith
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "May we live this Mission Sunday on 21 October for which we have prepared all through the month, looking towards Christ who looks at us as He looked at Thomas so we may experience the happiness o ...
17 October 2007
AFRICA/CHAD - State of emergency announced in three regions in north east of Chad following clashes in last new days
N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides)- Fresh outbreaks of inter-community violence forced the government of Chad to declare a 12 day state of emergency in three north east regions: BET (Borkou, Ennedi, Tibesti) in the north, Ouadd ...
17 October 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - “We need concrete immediate help, we are a forgotten people” says Catholic Archbishop of Kampala from areas devastated by floods
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- An appeal for more humanitarian aid for flood victims has been launched by Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of Kampala, the capital of Uganda, where torrential rains have left thousands homeless ...
17 October 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Good cuisine promotes evangelisation and family unity
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The festival of good evangelising cuisine is the best way to promote harmony in the family and to evangelise the world” said a priest of Kow Loon deanery during Mission Sunday celebrated ...
17 October 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara dies in Caracas
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuelan Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara has died in Caracas. The news was announced by Archbishop Ovidio Perez Morales of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference. Cardinal Castillo Lara, who was 85 ...
17 October 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “You are a disciple and a missionary. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life” Mission Sunday slogan on the way to third National Mission Congress
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan “You are a disciple and a missionary. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela celebrate Mission Sunday on 21 October. In a report ...
17 October 2007
ASIA/INDIA - No school for children in living in hovels in Bangalore who have to go out with their mothers to fetch water at night
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Because there is no water in the hovels in Bangalore, in southern India, many little girls cannot go to school.
Women and children have to walk as far as three to five kilometres to find wate ...
16 October 2007
VATICAN - Programme of Pope Benedict XVI's Pastoral Visit to Naples on Sunday 21 October
Vatican City(Agenzia Fides) - The programme of Pope Benedict XVI's Pastoral Visit to Naples on Sunday 21 October was made public today. The Holy Father will travel by helicopter from the heliport in Vatican City to the S ...
16 October 2007
VATICAN - The social and ecclesial situation in the countries of the continent of America in the light of Ecclesia in America: 12th meeting of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops' Special Council for America
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The post synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America makes several references to the centrality of the Word of God in the life and mission of the Church. This topical issue in view of ...
16 October 2007
AFRICA/TOGO - “We are waiting confidently for the results” say local Church sources after legislative elections
Lomé (Agenzia Fides)- “This time the elections were held correctly, without the violence we saw in previous years” say local Catholic Church sources in Lomé, the capital of Togo where legislative elections on Sunda ...
16 October 2007
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “Christians and Muslim must work together for the good of the countries in this region” say Catholic English-speaking Bishops of West Africa
Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- “Christians and Muslims share a history of good as well as bitter memories. The Christian-Muslim dialogue is one way of recalling together times when communities lived in peace with each other ...
16 October 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Catholic priests taken hostage in Mosul still detained, Pope Benedict XVI calls for their release
Mosul (Agenzia Fides)- Fr. Pius Afas and Fr. Mazen Ishoa, the two Syrian-Catholic priests taken hostage in the Mosul, in northern Iraq, are still in the hands of their captors, but they are alive and in good condition th ...
16 October 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Study Day: Priests, religious, deacons and seminarians discuss diocesan Social Communications methods, tools and strategies
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of September Catholic priests, men and women religious, deacons and seminarians attended a Study Day on diocesan social communication strategies. The diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao s ...
16 October 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex and Life aims to stop anti-birth organisations from promoting immoral policies throughout Asia
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex and Life (www.edicongress.com) 19 to 21 November 2007 will bring together in Manila (Philippines), over 700 experts in pedagogy, schola ...
16 October 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops and lay Catholics call the country to three days of prayer: Children's Rosary for Peace; national Marian shrine of Our Lady of Coromoto raised to the rank of Minor Basilica, National Day of Prayer for the Nation
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Venezuela and the national Catholic Laity Council have called the country to three days of prayer. The announcement was made at a press conference by Bishop Saúl Figu ...
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