News

• 31 October 2005
  AMERICA/CANADA - “Love is given to us that our Gift may be Love”: “breath of mission” blows from coast to coast across Canada thanks to Pontifical Mission Societies Quebec (Fides Service ) - World Mission Sunday 2005, October 23 was widely celebrated in Canada, the national Canada/Quebec office of the Pontifical Mission Societies reported. Parishes in French speaking Canada prepare ...
• 31 October 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - At the request of the Bishops of Brazil Pope Benedict XVI prolongs Year of the Eucharist in Brazil until the 15th National Eucharistic Congress in May 2006 Brasilia (Fides Service) - The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil Cardinal Agnelo Geraldo Majella archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia announced that Pope Benedict XVI has granted a request made by ...
• 31 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 3,500 leaders of 1,800 Italian Renewal in the Spirit groups meet in Rimini: “Prevailing de-Christianisation is a challenge to the evangelising mission of the Church” says national co-ordinator Salvatore Martinez, recalling the call launched by Benedict XVI Rimini (Fides Service) - Over 3,500 Renewal in the Spirit group leaders are meeting in Rimini 29 October to 1 November for the 29th Conference for Animators on the theme “We are each given a particular manifestation o ...
• 31 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops’ Conference condemns bomb attacks in Delhi and calls for maintaining peace New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI condemns the serial blast that took place in Delhi on October 20 killing over 60 people and injuring several others. Cardinal Telesphore Topp ...
• 31 October 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The time has come for a united effort of solidarity on the part of the whole Church in Brazil for evangelisation in the region of the Amazon” says Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, Secretary of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference commenting the Fraternity Campaign 2007 Brasilia (Fides Service) - The Amazon region of Brazil presents various challenges to the Church’s mission to evangelise: situation of indigenous peoples, devastation of forests, chaotic growth of urban centres, land d ...
• 31 October 2005
  VATICAN - “For us, these new Blessed are living examples of priestly identity and religious consecration," he concluded. "Let us give thanks to God for the great gift of these heroic witnesses of the faith”, Pope Benedict XVI said in St Peter’s Basilica after the solemn Beatification of Spanish martyrs Rev. Josep Tàpies and Companions and Sr María de los Ángeles Ginard Martí Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the early evening of Saturday 29 October Pope Benedict XVI went down to St Peter’s Basilica to address to those gathered there for the beatification of a group of Spanish martyrs. In h ...
• 31 October 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - “Seen from here in Côte d'Ivoire the situation is much calmer than the media report” says a missionary in Abidjan Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Seen from here the situation in Côte d'Ivoire is much calmer than the local and international media report” said a missionary in Abidjan, economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire, where yesterday ...
• 31 October 2005
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Sr Georgette shares her experience at a Nurses Training College in Rabat Rabat (Fides Service)- Sr. Georgette Makosso a Franciscan Missionary of Mary FMM from Central Africa described for Fides her experience of three years at a Nurses Training College in Rabat, Morocco. “The experienced sh ...
• 31 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA -Educate and communicate, two lines of evangelisation: Salesian Sisters work with youth in India New Delhi (Fides Service) - Instruction and communication are two strategic sectors of the modern world and therefore very important fields for evangelisation: said 30 women religious, Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix co-o ...
• 31 October 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Peace and harmony, not inter community conflict: Catholic Bishops issue open letter in view of presidential elections Colombo (Fides Service) - No to a climate of conflict and intolerance; yes to a process of peace which includes all political and social subjects and guarantees the good of the whole nation: this appeal was launched by t ...
• 31 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Cheaper anti-retroviral therapy in India. Availability of generic drugs increased number of treatments Rome (Fides Service) - Until recently most of the over 5 million people in India affected by HIV virus could not afford anti-retroviral therapy ART. But when generic ART was introduced in 2000 the cost of anti-HIV drugs ...
• 31 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - In the south of the world forgotten diseases have devastating impact on social, economic and political life Rome (Fides Service) - Every day about 35,000 people die of infective diseases such as AIDS, malaria, TB and forgotten diseases like leishmaniosis, morbo of Chagas, sleeping sickness. These diseases affect millions peo ...
• 31 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rediscovering the founding values of the Franciscan family: Friars Minor open celebrations for 8th centenary of foundation Assisi (Fides Service) - On Friday 28 October during a Prayer Vigil in Saint Clare’s Basilica in Assisi for the start of official celebrations to mark the 8th centenary of the foundation of the Order of Friars Minor, F ...
• 29 October 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - United Nations High Commission for Refugees needs more money to repatriate Burundian refugees Bujumbura (Fides Service) - UNHCR the United Nations High Commission for Refugees is running out of funds destined for the greatest operation of voluntary repatriation in the world and the largest in Africa. Unless it re ...
• 29 October 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The local Church continues its programme to promote civic education in view of elections next year Bandundu (Fides Service)- A group of about 50 representatives of Congolese political parties took part in a formation session of election process monitoring held at the multifunction Centre at the Catholic parish of St. ...