News

• 26 October 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at the Wednesday general audience: “The plan of salvation is totally fulfilled in the Son, and the faithful are invited - especially in the liturgy - to proclaim it and to reap its fruits." Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the general audience this morning held in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed a crowd of about 50,000 visitors. In his teaching the Pope speak on the subject ...
• 26 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Over 2,300 children take part in Mission Sunday celebrations: special mention of 90 Holy Childhood children victims of Hurricane Stan Guatemala City (Fides Service) - October 25th Mission Sunday Mass was presided by Bishop Gerardo Flores Reyes, emeritus Bishop of La Verapaz a member of the Guatemalan Bishops’ Commission for Missions in Guatemala City ...
• 26 October 2005
  AMERICA/PANAMA - National Director Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 14 October 2005, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Panama for a ...
• 26 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - When a film tells the story of mission: the story of cinema of immense historical and religious value produced by early missionaries who documented their activity in the early years of the 20th century Rome (Fides Service) - “Film & Mission: for a history of the missionary film”: a book and DVD rediscover photos of mission pioneers in the early 1920s armed only with makeshift equipment who took pictures of extraord ...
• 26 October 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - After three years dedicated to rediscovering and contemplating Jesus present in the Eucharist, on Sunday 30 October parishes in the diocese of Setubal will conclude the Year of the Eucharist with solemn Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Setubal (Fides Service) - On Sunday 30 October the diocese of Setubal in Portugal will conclude the Year of the Eucharist after a three year period 2002-2005 devoted to rediscovering the presence of Jesus in the Eucharis ...
• 26 October 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas warning: “This is a very serious medical emergency”. Caritas volunteers help patients at devastated Leprosy Centre in the earthquake affected area of Kashmir Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - True to its mission the local Catholic aid agency Caritas is helping people most in need after the devastating earthquake in Kashmir. A Caritas Pakistan team led by Dr Andreas Fabricius sent ...
• 26 October 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New President of Korean Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Augustune Cheong Myeng-cho presents plans Seoul (Fides Service) - The Church in Korea will continue to give serious attention to the mission of evangelisation, to promoting the good of the nation, to keeping the Church ‘young and dynamic and working for nation ...
• 26 October 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA Aboriginal Catholics at Other Way Centre celebrate 25th anniversary Adelaide (Fides Service) - For 25 years Other Way Centre in Adelaide has been a reference point of Aboriginal Catholics in and around the city. Its name derives from a desire of the Aboriginal community to find another ...
• 25 October 2005
  EUROPE/ICELAND - Year of the Eucharist brings new impulse to the faith for small Catholic community; Liturgy of the Hours now in Icelandic Hafnarfjörður (Fides Service) - The Sisters Servants of the Lord and Our Lady of Matara arrived in Iceland last October with the Year of the Eucharist. They settled in a parish in Hafnarfjörður about 15 minutes from ...
• 25 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Now that Hurricane Stan has gone leaving in its wake over 2,000 dead, Guatemala seems to be once again a country of little interest for the rest of the world” Bishop Gabriel Peñate, Vicar Apostolic in Izabal said sadly. People in affected areas will need aid for many months to come Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Bishop Gabriel Peñate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal, has expressed concern and disappointment that international media have removed the spotlight from the tragedy in countries affected by t ...
• 25 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Protect life, the family, human values and right: various pro-vida activities in Lima involving adults, children and young people Lima (Fides Service) - In the face of persistent, global and determined attacks on human life and the family (birth control abortion, easy divorce, same sex ‘marriages’, euthanasia, manipulation of human embryos etc. ...
• 25 October 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Proclamation, witness and sharing, young Salesians in Daejeong Daejeong (Fides Service) - Two thousands people contacted, met, evangelised: this was the fruit of activities of festivity and proclamation connected with the Feast of Saint John Bosco, recently by pupils at Salesian sch ...
• 25 October 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - new impulse to missionary animation through the PMS and new National Missions Council. Poland has 2,060 missionaries all over the world Warsaw (Fides Service) - “We draw great encouragement in our missionary activity from the missionary legacy of John Paul II and the words of Pope Benedict XVI on 25 April at St Paul’s Basilica on the importance of mi ...
• 25 October 2005
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Franciscan Missionaries of Mary celebrate 30 years of evangelisation and service to the poor Port Louis (Fides Service)- This year the community of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at St Anne’s parish in Stanley, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is marking thirty years of service. Spiritual daughters of St Fra ...
• 25 October 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Students “silent” victims of three years of lacerating conflict Abidjan (Fides Service)- In the past three years the silent victims of conflict in north of Côte d'Ivoire controlled by rebel groups, have been school pupils. And it would seem that once again they will be denied the op ...