News

• 1 September 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Creation, first immense gift of God, expression of his powerful love: Catholics in Italy celebrate first national “Day for Safeguarding Creation” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “From the first pages Scripture speaks of God as Creator, one who made everything out of love … creation is a call to praise God, to bless the Creator, the giver of life … Especially the com ...
• 1 September 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards 3rd American Mission Congress (CAM 3): Quito hosts 1st Missiology Symposium on mission today Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 3rd American Mission Congress (CAM 3) in August 2008, the diocese of Quito in Ecuador hosted in August this year the 1st Missiology Symposium attended by 90 delegates from 14 Latin ...
• 1 September 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Zen and Bishops thank families for hosting young participants at 4th Asian Youth Day in Hong Kong: may young Asians be messengers of hope Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The local families who hosted the young people and all the participants at 4th Asian Youth Day gave a wonderful testimony of hospitality, availability and faith” said Bishop Leo Cornelio ...
• 1 September 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY -4th national week of mission formation and spirituality concludes: participants vow to be “Bearers of Hope” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Italy’s 4th national week of mission formation and spirituality held in Assisi concluded on 30 August. The event, organised by the National Office for Missionary Cooperation among the Churches, ...
• 1 September 2006
  AFRICA But still it moves! Not only Europe and the USA, also Latin America, Russia and Asia in Africa for business Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa for centuries economically tied to Europe and later with North America is spreading its economic connections to other parts of the world. These changes are due to new relations of economic po ...
• 1 September 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudanese government rejects deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur, but local press more accommodating Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “At first I had my doubts about UN troops in Darfur because I knew the government and part of the population were contrary. However the deteriorating humanitarian situation convinced me that a ...
• 31 August 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Faith and Reason: doubt which paralyses” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The election of Cardinal Ratzinger to the Pontificate produced many effects, one specifically from the cultural point of view, above all with regard to dialogue between believers and non be ...
• 31 August 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone to preside inauguration of new Academic Year at Pontifical Salesian University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Salesian University is preparing to begin its activity for the academic year 2006-2007. At present the Faculty of Christian and Classical Letters is offering courses in Italian, Lati ...
• 31 August 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Promoting literacy, instruction, formation: over 1,000 sets of basic books sent to 13 of the world’s poorest countries of Africa and Asia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Parishes, Catholic communities, schools, hospitals, prisons, centres for leprosy patients in 9 African countries and 4 Asian countries received sets of books on learning to read and write, instruct ...
• 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 ...