News

• 24 September 2005
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Childhood has a right to a world without arms” slogan for National Day for Children’s Rights 29 September organised by national Youth Pastoral Commission Santo Domingo (Fides Service) - National Day for Children’s Rights in the Dominican Republic 29 September is celebrated to confirm commitments taken in the World Summit for Children, the Convention on Children’s Righ ...
• 24 September 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Theology and service: besides teaching young people Prof. Li also shares his experience after working with the Sisters of Mother Teresa Taipei (Fides Service) - “I hear the song of happiness” is the theme of a course in theology for young people given by Prof. Li who not only teaches but also shares his experience of faith and service at a Home for t ...
• 24 September 2005
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - this year already 400,000 refugees have returned: encouraging sign for the country Kabul (Fides Service) - Recent elections went off peacefully and the country is also dealing with the difficult question of refugees a problem which has lasted for decades. According to the United Nations High Commission ...
• 24 September 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Happy House” new pastoral centre for immigrant workers Incheon (Fides Service) - Happy House pastoral centre for immigrant workers opened a month ago is proving a success. The centre opened on 1 September in the diocese of Incheon is already a point of reference for communi ...
• 23 September 2005
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - In the Year of the Eucharist the country's Catholic Bishops explain authentic inculturation and liturgical renewal in a joint pastoral statement on the Mass Maputo (Fides Service) - “We start this pastoral statement on the Celebration of the Eucharist with the words used by the disciples of Emmaus who urged the Lord to remain with them, the same words used by Pope John Pau ...
• 23 September 2005
  EUROPA/ESTONIA - Ordination in Tallinn of new Bishop Apostolic Administrator of Estonia Tallinn (Fides Service) - Mgr Philippe Jourdan, appointed Apostolic Administrator of Estonia in March this year by Pope John Paul II of venerated memory, was ordained a bishop on 10 September in Tallinn by papal nuncio A ...
• 23 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Prestigious UNESCO award to Catholic priest at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Fr. Michel Lagarde, professor of Arab language and culture, is to receive the Sharjah Award for Arab Culture 2005 assigned by UNESCO and funded by the United Arab Emirates. This i ...
• 23 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Pontifical Mission Societies Office in Spain launches prayer and solidarity campaign for Sahel region of Africa where many of Spain’s missionaries are serving Madrid (Fides Service) - Bishop Francisco Pérez national director of the PMS in Spain has launched a campaign in aid of people in the Sahel region of Africa afflicted by a critical food shortage, more than 5 million men ...
• 23 September 2005
  AFRICA - Feverish work in Malawi and Zambia to complete construction of two new Catholic Universities before the end of next year Lusaka (Fides Service)- Before the end of next year Africa will have two more Catholic Universities one in Zambia and the other Malawi thanks to the respective Catholic Bishops’ Conferences. “The project is careful ...
• 23 September 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Any collaboration of the Church in ‘drugtrafficking’ is not only without foundation it is contrary to its vast work of social assistance”: Bishops- statement Mexico City (Fides Service) - In a statement with regard presumed donations to the Catholic of illegally obtained money the Catholic Bishops of Mexico declared “the Catholic Church is contrary to all immoral conduct... ...
• 23 September 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - To close the Year of the Eucharist Guadalajara organises Great Eucharistic Parish Mission 23 to 30 October Guadalajara (Fides Service) - A year after it hosted the 48th International Eucharistic Congress which officially opened the Year of the Eucharist, Guadalajara archdiocese in Mexico will close this special year given to ...
• 23 September 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Evangelisation in area of Gui Lin visited by tourists from near and far Gui Lin (Fides) - “We focus all our efforts on evangelisation”, Rev Tao Shou Ying, parish priest at Gui Li parish in Guang Xi province told Hebei Catholic bulltin Faith “It is right to make our church as beautiful ...
• 23 September 2005
  AFRICA - Hunger alarm in southern Africa: almost 9 million people risk starvation Rome (Fides Service) - There is a growing food alarm in southern Africa. “The government of Malawi has written to foreign ambassadors asking for international aid because the food shortage is destined to become worse i ...
• 23 September 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential elections announced for 17 November, state of emergency extended, rising social tension Colombo (Fides Service) - For Sri Lanka there is a fluid political season on the horizon with the announced presidential elections on 17 November and increasing political and social conflict. On 21 September parliament ...
• 22 September 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - “As the new school year starts the family finds itself at the epicentre of social and ecclesial upheaval We must lose no time in updating and intensifying pastoral care for families” urges Cardinal archbishop of Madrid Madrid (Fides Service) - “We must lose no time in updating and intensifying pastoral care for families” Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Valera archbishop of Madrid said on September 18 during his weekly Sunday address on ...