News

• 21 September 2005
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Dalat Pastoral Centre, point of reference for Vietnamese young people Hanoi (Fides Service) - Dalat Catholic Pastoral Centre which provides formation for young people, seminarians, missionaries is open to all young people. It has become a centre for spreading the Gospel and promoting educa ...
• 21 September 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Research must respect the supreme value of human life”: Cardinal George Pell appeals to the world of science Sydney (Fides Service) - “Scientific reserach must respect the supreme value of human life” said Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney in his submission to a Government inquiry into laws covering cloning and the ...
• 21 September 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Faced with the variety of ways to happiness proposed by the media, the Church teaches another way through meeting the living Christ: final message from Plenary Assembly of the European Bishops' Media Commission Warsaw (Fides Service) - To analyse the current media culture and to try to understand how young people relate to it, in an attempt to discover possible future priorities in the Church's work with and for young people: t ...
• 21 September 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching on psalm 131: “a celebration of God-Emanuel who is with his creatures, lives with them and blesses them as long as they remain united with him in truth and justice” Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the Wednesday general audience this morning, Pope Benedict XVI continued his reflection begun last week on Psalm 131: “Election of David and Sion” (Vespers Thursday week 3: Ps 131,11 ...
• 21 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Malnourished children, medical care, AIDS, education: commitments for diocesan religious community Sister Servants of the Church of Christ Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Kole diocese in central Congo has an exceptionally high infant death rate over 70%. This led women religious of a local congregation the Sister Servants of the Church of Christ to start a a prog ...
• 20 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Christ is the rock”: celebrations for the Year of the Eucharist in a diocese in southern India New Delhi (Fides Service) - “Our rock is Jesus Christ: we have no other foundation than Jesus Christ who gives us his Body to eat and his Blood to drink as a mother who nourishes the fruit of her womb” Bishop Prakash ...
• 20 September 2005
  The Pope's missionary prayer intention October 2005: “For all Christians: besides praying for the missions may they also support missionary activity with material offerings.” Comment by Archbishop Robert Sarah secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - United with Christ in Baptism Christians become children of God and members of the Body of Christ, that is the Church. They are directly involved in the mandate for mission which the Church ...
• 20 September 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Intense preparations for the inauguration of the new Shrine of Our Lady of China’s Martyr Saints October 1 Taipei (Fides Service) - The committee for the building of the new of Our Lady of China’s Martyr Saints on Shrine is intensifying preparations for the openeing ceremony on October 1, the 5th anniversary of the canonisa ...
• 20 September 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Strengthen communion, nourish missionary spirit in ordinary pastoral , witness to faith in Jesus Christ and respond to his missionary mandate and the challenges of today: the Church in Jujuy prepares for 2nd Mission Congress Jujuy (Fides Service) - From 30 September to 2 October at the Santa Teresita Education Centre the diocese of Jujuy will hold its 2nd diocsean Mision Congress with the slogan “Church of Jujuy, give of your poverty!”. ...
• 20 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Family movements welcome appeal against unconstitutional law to allow same sex ‘marriage’. “we have never seen such a strong and coordinated family movement with this social and political impact” says Eduardo Hertfelder president of Spain’s Family Policy Institute Madrid (Fides Service) - Numerous family institutions and movements have welcomed the announcement that the Spanish Popular Party PP intends to appeal against the law which gives same sex unions the status of marriage an ...
• 20 September 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Parish missions, proposal for evangelisation: 40th Regional Pastoral Meeting of Bishops in north east region 2 of Brazil Igarassu (Fides Service) - Bishops of 20 dioceses in the states of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande which form the north east region 2 of Brazil of the Brazilian Bishops Conference are meeting for their 40th ...
• 20 September 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Following more unjust maltreatment and arrests, Christians in Pakistan say ‘blasphemy law’ must be abrogated Islamabad (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Pakistan through their Justice and Peace Commission have denounced more arrests of citizens on false charges of blasphemy. Recently four men, Yousaf Masih a Christian l ...
• 20 September 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Caritas activity for development in Africa Meeting: 45 African Caritas offices in Kampala 2 to 7 October Rome (Fides Service)- From 2 to 7 October in Kampala, capital Uganda, there will be a 2nd Forum for African Caritas organisations. “This second forum will bring together 45 delegates of national Caritas offices of Car ...
• 20 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - While waiting for electoral process to resume local Catholic Church continues efforts to provide civic education for voters: one example in Kabinda diocese Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Promote awareness of citizens’ rights and prevent a repeat of serious violation of rights in the recent past. This is the goal of an electoral awareness campaign launched in Democratic Congo ...
• 20 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Evangelisation of suffering” focus of 1st meeting of the International Federation of the Apostolate of the Suffering Rome (Fides Service) - CVS Centro Volontari della Sofferenza (Apostolate of the Suffering) is holding the 1st Meeting of International CVS Confederation 15-25 September in Rome and elsewhere in Italy. CVS was founded by ...