News
31 August 2006
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Caritas programme to rehabilitate thousands of former combatants in north east Angola
Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Over a thousand former guerrillas belonging to the disbanded military wing of UNITA (National Union for Total Independence of Angola) are benefiting from an agricultural development programme run ...
31 August 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - 2007 in Hong Kong “Year of the Family’, to remind Christians and all citizens of the absolute value of marriage and the family
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - At the suggestion of the diocesan Commission for family and marriage pastoral care, the diocese of Hong Kong had decided to make 2007 a special Year of the Family, according to the diocesan bu ...
31 August 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Social Justice and Reconciliation: 13th Week for Peace opens on Sunday
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Social Justice and Reconciliation are the main themes for reflection chosen by the Church in Colombia for the 13th Week for Peace which will start on Sunday 3 September and conclude on Sunday 10. ...
31 August 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Discipleship and Mission focus of 1st North West Argentina Mission Meeting to increase mission awareness and mission activity
Tucumán (Agenzia Fides) - The 1st Mission Meeting for the North West region of Argentina will be held 9 and 10 September in Tucuman. The region includes the following ecclesiastical circumscriptions: Jujuy, Humahuaca, ...
31 August 2006
VATICAN - 8th meeting of the Special Council for Oceania of the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops on the implementation of the post synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in Oceania”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The eighth meeting of the Special Council for Oceania of the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops was held in Suva, Fiji Islands 4 and 5 August on the eve of the plenary Assembly of ...
31 August 2006
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Political tensions in Burundi. “A waste of time and resources, the real needs of the country must be addressed” says local Catholic church source
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “It is difficult to establish the truth of events, prudence is necessary. However the situation in our country is not easy” a local Catholic source in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi told Fi ...
30 August 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI reflects on Saint Matthew the Apostle: “in the Gospel we continue to hear, in a way, the persuasive voice of the publican Matthew who, having become an Apostle, continues to announce to us God’s redeeming mercy”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, flew by helicopter from his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo to Rome to give the general Wednesday Audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Va ...
30 August 2006
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Fourth international youth meeting 6 to 10 September in Cochabamba: "We are one in peace, justice and development "
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Come in the spirit of Jesus to live His presence in each of the friends you will find in Cochabamba, creating a new world of authentic fraternity and unity. Come and dream of a united Americ ...
30 August 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics quick to offer aid and solidarity to victims of natural disasters in recent weeks: “It is the responsibility of the Church and the duty of Christians to help the affected people ”
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In the last two months of July and August, as every year, various parts of southern China were affected by floods, typhoons and earthquakes and as usual Catholic communities everywhere offered s ...
30 August 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Patient mediation finally led to agreement between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army militia” says Fabio Riccardi, S. Egidio Community representative on the mediator team
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “The agreement was reached after a series of talks during which the mediator team managed to bring the parties to move to closer positions” Fides was told by Fabio Riccardi, who represented S ...
30 August 2006
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The belief that ancestors are endowed with supernatural powers borders on idolatry” say Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa
Cape Town (Agenzia Fides)- “We notice with a measure of concern, that many African Christians, during difficult moments in their lives, resort to practices of the traditional religion” the Catholic Bishops of Souther ...
29 August 2006
VATICAN - Christian prayers in the languages of the world
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To continue the urgent task of new evangelisation launched by Pope John Paul II, Fides News Service is planning a section on Christian Prayers in as many languages as possible. The French d ...
29 August 2006
September 2006 the Pope’s missionary intention: ““For the People of God in missionary lands: may they consider their own ongoing formation a priority”. Comment by Cardinal Ricardo J. Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu (Philippines)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Missionaries often think of themselves as evangelisers. The missionary zeal focuses them on the need to share the Faith with others in the hope of bringing all men and women to Christ. Yet ...
29 August 2006
VATICAN - “Tourism reveals a universal richness, which does not reject the human person, but rather preserves his footprints, his trace.”: Message issued by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples for World Tourism Day 2006
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Tourism enriches precisely insofar as it helps in rendering the so-called “rich” systems “relative” and opens them up to the perception of other forms of “being rich”. Natur ...
29 August 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Orionini community in Bangalore celebrates religious profession of first three Indian members: after the Philippines and Korea the sons of Don Orione in Asia take another step
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Orinini family in India welcomed its first three local members Sidon, Martin and Praveen, who recently made their profession at Christ the King parish in Bangalore in the presence of the d ...
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