News

• 6 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries “witnesses of hope”: Pontifical Mission Societies material for World Mission Sunday 2005 and mission formation itinerary for 2005/2006 Rome (Fides Service) - Hope is the underlying theme of material distributed by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy for the missionary month of October which culminates with Mission Sunday on 23 October and for the ...
• 6 October 2005
  VATICAN - “Mental and Physical Health all through Life”: 10 October Mental Health Day Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Health is an inestimable heritage and health for all is fundamental to guarantee peace and justice among peoples”, the President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Pastoral, Car ...
• 6 October 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - In profound communion with the universal Church national president of Spain’s Night Adoration Groups assures prayers for fruitful Synod of Bishops in Rome Madrid (Fides Service) - Pedro García Mendoza, President of the National Council of Night Adoration Groups has assured the Bishops of the world gathered for their Synod in the Vatican the prayers of 25,000 active and h ...
• 6 October 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More co-operation, security, solidarity among peoples and cultures to combat terrorism in south east Asia Sydney (Fides Service) - More political co-operation and equal and just laws, more solidarity among peoples and cultures, more intense inter-religious relations are the weapons needed to fight terrorism in south east Asi ...
• 6 October 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Witnesses to the faith in public life, fervent in prayer, tireless evangelisers: lay Catholics in the Philippines play a major role in the Church Manila (Fides Service) -The Church in the Philippines can rely on an involved active laity bold witnesses of the faith, present in public life and promoters of the fundamental values of the family. This emerged from Lait ...
• 6 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Making the Eucharist central in the life of young people: national Jesus Youth International Charismatic Convention Bangalore (Fides Service) - Adoration, liturgical prayer, catechesis, discussion groups, theatre and musical spectacles are included in the programme for national Jesus Youth International Charismatic Convention in Banga ...
• 5 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Muslims work together to build a better soceity: due giorni di riflessione a New Delhi New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - An “exemplary seminar of reciprocal understanding and cooperation among believers of different religions to inspire all men and women of goodwill to overcome cultural barriers and build a be ...
• 5 October 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The elderly are “Guardians of the collective memory, conservers of inter-generational relationships and transmitters of authentic values”: Archbishop Migliore Permanent Holy See Observer addresses Second UN World meeting on Ageing New York (Fides Service) - On October 4 in New York addressing the Second UN World Assembly on Ageing Archbishop Celestino Migliore Apostolic Nuncio Permanent Observer of the Holy See reiterated the Holy See’s descrip ...
• 5 October 2005
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “One bread, one body, one family”: at the close of the Year of the Eucharist Montevideo celebrates “Family Week” Montevideo (Fides Service) - In the context of the Year of the Eucharist, the archdiocese of Montevideo has chosen for its annual Family Week in the first week of October the motto “One Bread, one Body one Family”, ...
• 5 October 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - First meeting of Angolan and Guinean diocesan commissions for education Lisbon (Fides Service)- Reflect on the role of education in the development of Angola and Guinea Bissau and identify what is lacking in the field of Catholic education in these countries. This is the goal of the 1st meet ...
• 5 October 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Year of the Eucharist: Mass Books now available in Karimojong Moroto (Fides Service) - In this Year of the Eucharist Karimojong speaking Catholics in Uganda have received the best of gifts, liturgical books in their own language. The work started in 2002 and was undertaken by Fr Re ...
• 5 October 2005
  VATICAN - Sunday in St Peter’s Beatification of Servant of God Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878-1946), ‘Lion of Münster’ presided by Cardinal Saraiva Martins prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints Vatican City (Fides) - On Sunday 9 October at 9.30am in St Peter’s Basilica Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints will preside Mass for the Beatification of the Servant ...
• 5 October 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “The Lord is not immobile or absent he is a living person who leads his people, is moved to pity for them, sustains them with his power and his love” Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the general audience this morning in St Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI concluded his teaching on Psalm 134 (13-21 - “God alone is great and eternal” - vespers Friday week 3 ...
• 5 October 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Two years of celebration for centenary of evangelisation in Bukavu Bukavu (Fides Service)- “Celebrations for the centenary of our Archdiocese are involving all the parishes” said Regional Superior of the Xaverian Missionaries Fr Gianni Brentegani in Bukavu, main town of South Kivu r ...
• 5 October 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic diocese in Mindanao extends microcredit projects to help 23,000 low-income farmers Davao (Fides Service) - Micro-loan projects launched by the Catholic diocese of Tagum in Mindanao southern Philippines to eliminate poverty and promote development of low-income rural communities are proving highly succe ...