News
1 October 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thirty years serving the marginalised, the helpless, the excluded: Jesuit Social Service in Australia
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits Social Service JSS in 2007 is celebrating 30 years of activity in Australia with various initiatives including prayer meetings and special solidarity events. Julie Edwards, head of ...
1 October 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week for the Defence and Promotion of Life in view of proposed Bill to legalise abortion in Brazil at any time in pregnancy
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - October 8 in Brazil will be the annual national Day of the Unborn Child established by the Bishops of Brazil in 2005 at the end of their 43rd general assembly. In the statement the Bishops aske ...
1 October 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - 25th anniversary of the re-opening of the Pontifical University of Mexico: "the University's mission is to generate culture and in the case of a Catholic university to generate culture with the leaven and the values of the Gospel "
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr Guillermo Moreno, vicar general of the archdiocese of Mexico City, on behalf of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, grand chancellor of the Pontifical University of Mexico has called on th ...
1 October 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop of Patna and appoints Successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , on 1 October 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Patna (India), presented by Archbishop Benedict John Ost ...
29 September 2007
Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo. Here, after three weeks in the mountains in northern Italy at Lorenzago di Cadore, for a period of rest, he resumed his ...
28 September 2007
VATICAN - Message for the end of the month of Ramadan - “Christians and Muslims: called to promote a culture of peace"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the troubled times we are passing through, religious believers have, as servants of the Almighty, a duty above all to work in favour of peace, by showing respect for the convictions o ...
28 September 2007
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Publications, meetings with seminarians and girls in formation on the Fidei Donum Encyclical during October mission month and next Easter the sending of first four Fidei Donum priests to Mauritania
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “In my country we are giving great importance to the celebration the 50th anniversary of the Fidei Donum encyclical” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Guinea Bissau, Mg ...
28 September 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Help us stop the violence”: President of Congo asks UN General Assembly
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “United Nations assistance is crucial for the disarmament of foreign armed groups, using force if necessary, and for their repatriation and integration” Joseph Kabila president of Democratic ...
28 September 2007
AFRICA/KENYA - Discovery of local coal seams poses basis for launching Kenya's cement industry
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Kenya has good hopes of becoming a coal producer after prospecting in two districts of East Province obtained encouraging results.
At present Kenya imports coal from South Africa and the disco ...
28 September 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Formation of lay missionaries especially young people in Kerala, key to the future of the Church
Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to form Catholic lay persons, young people especially to enable them to play a more active part in the life of the Church in India and be evangelisers in society: this is a priority ...
28 September 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Caritas Internationalis launches appeal for peace in Myanmar
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Internationalis has called for violence in Myanmar to end, for human rights to be respected and for a peaceful solution to the crisis in that country. In an appeal made yesterday th ...
28 September 2007
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Medical Mission from Lismore diocese Australia helps Papua New Guinea fight AIDS
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - To help the Catholic community in Papua New Guinea in the effort to prevent and fight HIV/AIDS where the virus is a serious social scourge, Lismore diocese in Australia sent a Medical Missi ...
28 September 2007
AMERICA/PERU -Earthquake emergency in Peru: as time passes the quantity of aid diminishes but the needs of the affected persons do not and normality is still a long way off; Sunday 30 September, special collection in Costa Rica
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Six weeks after the earthquake struck in Peru affecting various towns in South Chico (Ica, Chincha, Pisco, Cañete, Yauyos, Huaytara and Castrovirreyna) the emergency continues because, although mo ...
28 September 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - Family Week 2007 on the theme “Family, School of Love, Missionary of Life”: the family, patrimony of humanity, one of Latin America's greatest treasures
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - “Family, School of Love, Missionary of Life” is the theme of Chile's national Family Week to be held from the 30 September to 7 October.
In a letter to present Family Week, Archbishop ...
28 September 2007
Mass to commemorate Pope Luciani, John Paul I, who died 29 years ago
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The magazine “30Giorni” is organising the celebration of a special Mass in commemoration of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of his death. The Mass will ...
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