News
18 October 2007
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Social Friendship Mission serving neighbours without discrimination marks 54th anniversary
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Social Friendship Mission has just celebrated is 54th anniversary in Paraguay with the motto: ‘Building Life, Serving the Lord'.
The organisation was started in the United States by the ...
18 October 2007
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Catholics mobilise against “Bill to defend the right to sexual and reproductive health ” which includes abortion
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Uruguay have mobilised rapidly to prevent the legalisation of abortion in their country. Four days early than expected Parliament announced that on 16 October the plenary assembl ...
18 October 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia prepare for Mission Sunday: reflection focuses on young people
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - How can young people play a leading role in missionary work; what are their specific qualities and principal modalities; in what sector must they be oriented to harness all their mission potentia ...
17 October 2007
VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI announces Consistory for the creation of new Cardinals
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of his general audience this morning the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI announced that there will be a Consistory on 24 November during which he will appoint new cardinals. The Po ...
17 October 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Created for Heaven! , Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I come from Heaven”! These were the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when, appearing in an apparition to the three shepherd children in Fatima, she replied to Lucia who asked where s ...
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 ...
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