News
2 December 2005
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mission Exhibition shows and analyses Catholic evangelising activity: PMS traces historical path of mission from Jesus Christ to Pope Benedict XVI
Merida Yucatan (Fides Service) - Among the activities of the 13th national mission congress taking place in Mérida Yucatán, was a Mission Exhibition at Yucatán Siglo XXI Centre. The main objective of the exhibition op ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Salesian Novitiate prepares for new Sumba premises to include a youth centre
Sumba (Fides Service) - Salesians, teachers and pupils at Waipengali on the island of Sumba are happy that a first new building for Tigaraksa Novitiate at a new Salesian Centre is almost ready. The building will accommo ...
2 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Pope Benedict XVI and Holy Childhood
Rome (Fides Service) - Children all over Italy are getting thank you letters from Pope Benedict XVI. In recent months the children had written to the new Pope to tell him about their love for the Gospel and deep desire t ...
2 December 2005
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The light of Christ illuminates Europe: theme for 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly
Sangallo (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of European Churches KEK and the Council of European Episcopal Conferences CCEE and announced the winner of a competition for a Logo for the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly AEE3 ...
2 December 2005
VATICAN - New call from Benedict XVI: “the leaders of nations and all people of good will to unite and put a stop to the violence that disfigures humanity and places a heavy mortgage on the development of mankind and the hope of many peoples”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On December 1 Pope Benedict XVI received the Letters of Credence of eleven new ambassadors to the Holy See. After greeting the diplomats, he gave each of them a written message concerning ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/CINA - Catholic web sites blacked-out after reporting news of attack on nuns in Xi An now visible but no trace of news in question
Xi An (Fides Service) - Blacked out for several hours on November 30 for reporting breaking news of attacks on ‘helpless women religious in Xi An’ (to quote the Holy See press office), the most popular Chinese Cathol ...
2 December 2005
VATICAN - “I know the Lord is a Father to the Church in Viêt Nam and very generous in his blessings. The apostolic results we see are fruits of common efforts and sincere and fraternal collaboration”: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples in Huê
Huê (Agenzia Fides) - After the pilgrimage to the national Marian shrine of Our Lady of La Vang and the blessing of the House of the Pilgrim, in the afternoon of Thursday 1 December Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of ...
2 December 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - UNHCR organises “go and see visits” for Sudanese refugees living outside their country in view of repatriation. UNHCR says 21 years of civil war left 4 million internally displaced persons and put 500,000 to flight
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is preparing to help refugees from southern Sudan to repatriate now than peace has been restored after 21 years of civil war. On December 1 UNHCR ...
2 December 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - In memoriam: religious leaders in northern Uganda commemorate 6,000 men, women and children brutally slaughtered three years ago by LRA
Gulu (Agenzia Fides)- The members of Acholi Religious leaders Peace Initiative ARPLI held a service to commemorate some 6,000 men, women and children brutally murdered at Omot in the northern Ugandan district of Pader th ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Tai Nan diocese holds solemn closing of Year of the Eucharist with special attention for young people
Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday November 30, feast of Christ the King and the last Sunday of the Liturgical year the diocese of Tai Nan celebrated the solemn closing of the Year of the Eucharist. According to Chris ...
2 December 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Handbook for Mission Groups in Argentina, “elements and guidelines for better organisation and evangelising activity ”
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “The Bishops’ Commission for Missions and the Pontifical Mission Societies considering that Mission Groups are a complex reality in the Church in Argentina have issued a handbook, fruit ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - Church in Myanmar is giving more attention to youth pastoral with the help of religious congregations
Yangon (Fides Service) - The Church in Myanmar is giving more attention to youth pastoral: thanks to the presence of Salesians spiritual and pastoral activities involving young people, students and seminarians are multi ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle visits Pontifical Mission Societies in Pakistan: “at Sangla Hill. we prayed that from the ashes of the destruction new life would be born”
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - From Newcastle to Pakistan: Bishop Kevin Dunn, Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, recently set out with three priests and a BBC reporter on the same route travelled by many Pakistanis resid ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Kottar diocese in Tamil Nadu builds 2,600 new homes for tsunami survivors
Pondicherry (Fides Service) - Kottar diocese in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has built 2,600 new homes for fisherfolk and other people who lost everything in the tremendous sea quake on 26 December 2004. The w ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Chinese Dominican nuns commemorate founder, Dominican Mgr Theodore Labrador on 25th anniversary of his death.
Kaohsiung (Fides Service) - “Today I would like to thank Mgr Theodore Labrador OP rather than commemorate him. To thank him because through the working of the Holy Spirit he founded a congregation of Chinese Dominican ...
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