News

• 17 September 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Post synodal exhortation“Ecclesia in Africa” ten years on : Bishops from all over Africa attend meeting in Yaounde Yaounde (Fides Service)- A meeting in the capital of Cameroon Yaounde organised by a group of African Bishops Conferences to mark the 10th anniversaryof the post Synodal Ecclesia in Africa issued by Pope John Paul II, cl ...
• 17 September 2005
  VATICAN - “The Church lives not of herself but of the Gospel and from the Gospel she continue sto draw new light for her journeying … only those who listen to the Word can then proclaim it”: the Pope addresses participants at partecipants at a Congress on “Sacred Scripture in the life of the Church” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “I offer heartfelt thanks to all who work at the service of translation and diffusion of the Bible, offering the means to explain, teach and interpret its message. In this sense I than ...
• 17 September 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope welcomes Chief Rabbis of Israel: “your visit is a further step forward in the process of building deeper religious relations between Catholics and Jews” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - “I see your visit as a further step forward in the process of building deeper religious relations between Catholics and Jews, a course which has received new impulse and energy from No ...
• 17 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - China and Europe “different but united”: Cardinal Sepe addresses 5th European Ecumenical Conference on spiritual and cultural relations between China and Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Diversity in unity ” is the theme of the 5th European Ecumenical Conference on China being hosted 16-20 September by the Pontifical Unviersity S. Anselmo, in Rome focussing on spiritual and cu ...
• 17 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 1st World Conference of Benedictine Oblates: representatives of 24,000 Oblates all over the world will reflect on “Communion with God - Communion with the world” Rome (Fides Service) - From 19 to 25 September at the suggestion of Benedictine Abbot Primate Notker Wolf the 1st World Congress of Benedictine Oblates will be held in Rome. Oblates are affiliated with one of the world� ...
• 17 September 2005
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Upswing of Islamic fundamentalism: concerned local Catholic Church urges faithful to be careful Dhaka (Fides Service) - Bishop Moses Costa of Dinajpur diocese in Bangladesh is concerned about the present situation in his country. After a series of bomb explosions in August (434 bombs exploded 63 districts) - a sig ...
• 16 September 2005
  ASIA/GEORGIA - A Camillian brother is the first Catholic religious to make his profession in Georgia in two centuries Tbilisi(Fides) - In Georgia for the first time in two hundred years a Catholic religious has just taken his perpetual vows. Camillan brother Akaki Chelidre made his perpetual vows on 4 September in the Church of Saints P ...
• 16 September 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Marian Day of the Family presided by Cardinal Sepe at the Marian strine of Torreciudad: the family institute is the future of the Church and humanity. Huesca (Fides Service) - On Saturday 17 at the Marian Strine of Torreciudad, Huesca, Spain Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, will preside the 16th Marian Day of the ...
• 16 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Church health structures at the service of all Congolese: Seminar in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Caritas Congo has said it is ready to work together with the national health care system. This emerged from a meeting of diocesan offices of medical services BDOM part of the Congo Bishops’ Co ...
• 16 September 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Schools open and rebuilding projects completed tsunami victims resume life as usual Colombo (Fides Service) - With great difficulty and after overcoming many obstacles, life is returning to normal for villagers in areas of Sri Lanka affected by last year’s 26 December tsunami tragedy. With new homes a ...
• 16 September 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Disciples of the Lord founded by Cardinal Celso Costantini welcome new members Taipei (Fides Service) - Recently the Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord, China’s first community of men religious welcomed new brothers. The congregation was founded by Cardinal Celso Costantini (1876-1958) fi ...
• 16 September 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses second group of Mexican Bishops on ad limina visit to Rome: “As a missionary Church we are called to understand the challenges posed by post-modern culture to new evangelisation” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “Mexico is faced with the challenge of transforming its social structures to render them more corresponding to the dignity and fundamental rights of every human person … and Catholic ...
• 16 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Lucknow removes architectural barriers first city in India to do so Catholic community helps Lucknow (Fides Service) - A society which understands and meets the needs of citizens with a disability is a society of civil culture and solidarity. Realising this the city of Lucknow capital of Uttar Pradesh state has ...
• 16 September 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - South African Cardinal Napier in Australia offers touching testimonial on Wollongong diocese mission month theme ‘Proclaiming Life for All - Witness, Liberate, Teach and Celebrate’ Wollongong (Fides Service)- A celebration of the universality of the Church’s mission and the fact that in the Catholic world north and south do not exist. The event was a ceremony to launch the missionary month of Oct ...
• 16 September 2005
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Celebrate memory, strengthen lay identity, respond to challenges in Uruguay today and plan for the future: tomorrow in Montevideo 30th National Meeting for Catholic Laity Montevideo (Fides Service) - “Building history in the heart of the world” is the theme of the 30th National Laity Meeting to be held tomorrow 17 September at the Maturana School Complex, Montevideo. The meeting is o ...