News
11 November 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Liberia is the first African country to elect a women President
Monrovia (Fides Service) - Liberia is the first African country to elect a women head of state. The new President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won 59.1 % of the votes in a second round of presidential elections, (see Fides 8 ...
11 November 2005
AFRICA - Although polio outbreaks are still possible the disease has been eradicated in 10 countries in central and west Africa
Rome (Fides Service) - Since 1988, efforts to eradicate polio has reduced the number of cases by over 99%, from 350,000 in 1988 to 1,469 in 2005.
Public health experts confirm that serious outbreaks of polio in 10 Afric ...
11 November 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Build good relations for social harmony: inter-religious Seminar at Griffith University Brisbane
Brisbane (Fides Service) - It is necessary to work harder to improve inter-religious relations in Australia to build better coexistence and increase social harmony : on the basis of this conviction on 19 and 20 November ...
10 November 2005
AFRICA/TOGO - S. Egidio Community hosts meeting of Togo Government and opposition delegates in Rome
Rome (Fides Service)- At the invitation of the Rome based S. Egidio Community and following a meeting on 21 July between the President of Togo Faure Gnassingbe and the national leader of the Union of Forces for Change G ...
10 November 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Chia Yi diocese starts Sunday School for children
Chia Yi (Fides) - Children are the future and Catholic children need sound religious formation with the help of parents, teachers and catechists if they are to fulfil the mission which awaits them. According to Tai Pei d ...
10 November 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Society of Jesus: Situation, problems and initiatives, focus of Superiors Major meeting in Loyola 26 November
Rome (Fides Service) - Major Superiors of the Society of Jesus will meet 26 November to 3 December in Loyola Spain to reflect on situations, problems and initiatives of the Society all over the world and to draft, after ...
10 November 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops in southern Spain denounce educational problems in proposed Organic Education Law: so far parents demands have been completely ignored
Cordova (Fides Service) - Support for the 12 November protest in Madrid against a proposed LOE Organic Education Law has come also from the Catholic Bishops of southern Spain who issued a statement expressing “serious ...
10 November 2005
ASIA/JORDAN - “We are faced with the extension of the attacks perpetrated in Iraq” says Papal Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq
Amman (Fides Service)- “We are faced with the extension of the attacks perpetrated in Iraq which now involve other neighbouring countries threatening to disrupt the peaceful existence of these peoples” Archbishop Fer ...
10 November 2005
VATICAN - Sunday in St Peter’s beatification of Charles de Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, November 13, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican Bas ...
10 November 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angola celebrates 30 years of independence with inauguration of Capanda Power Station which will provide 520 megawatts for development
Luanda (Fides Service)- Angola, at the moment one of the poorest African countries but potentially very rich, stands to benefit enormously from a new hydro electrical power station under construction on the River Cuanza ...
10 November 2005
AMERICA/MEXICO - “Reviving awareness of the mission to proclaim the Gospel to all peoples, starting out from the Eucharist”: 13th National Mission Congress will reflect on “Eucharist, source and centre of Church communion and mission ”
Merida-Yucatan (Fides Service) - ‘Eucharist, source and centre of Church communion and mission’ is the theme of Mexico’s 13th National Mission Congress launched with the slogan ‘In communion with Christ, let us g ...
10 November 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Evangelisation of Youth” central theme of 44th general assembly of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference in May 2006
Brasilia (Fides Service) - “The importance of intense and effective evangelisation of youth is unquestionable. Young people are the future of the Church’s life and mission. Their evangelisation is important first and ...
9 November 2005
AFRICA - 2,50 dollars a month is enough to save a life in southern Africa where 9.7 million people rely on humanitarian agencies for food
Rome (Fides Service) - According to the World Food Programme WFP 2,50 dollars a month is enough to save a life in six of the poorest countries in southern Africa where 9.7 million people rely on humanitarian agencies for ...
9 November 2005
VATICAN - “God does not appear in the Bible as an immovable and implacable sovereign or some obscure and indecipherable being...he reveals himself as a person who loves his creatures, watches over them and follows their progress in history”: Pope Benedict XVI teaches on Psalm 135
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Part one of psalm 135 as it is divided in the liturgy of Vespers is called «the great Hallel», that is the great and solemn praise sung by Judaism during the paschal liturgy. Dwelling in ...
9 November 2005
VATICAN - Sequela Christi: new magazine launched by Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life recently published the first issue of its new magazine Sequela Christi which replaces the bulletin Inform ...
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