News

• 15 September 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Health Pastoral Care workers discuss how to tackle and prevent HIV/AIDS Rome (Fides Service) - The 2nd Meeting of Health Pastoral Care organised on 15 September by the Peruvian Bisops’ Commission for Health Pastoral Care will examine a handbook on education about HIV/AIDS with the title � ...
• 15 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome and Mayo Clinic in USA cooperate to guarantee health for children. September 19 and 20 discussion of principal paediatric pathologies Rome (Fides Service) - A new important chapter will start in the already articulated medical-scientific collaboration between two major centres of paediatrics at the world level Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rom ...
• 15 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - September 30 closing date for appeal against the anti-constitutional law approving ‘homosexual marriage’. Unprecedented pro-family world movement with busy agenda Madrid (Fides Service) - September 30 is the closing date for appealing against the anti-constitutional law approving ‘homosexual marriage’ recently passed in Spain. Unless the Popular Party, the only body with the n ...
• 15 September 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Thousands of young people from central American countries prepare for 13th Marian Prayer Vigil with the theme “Eucharist source of peace” in this Year of the Eucharist Guatemala City (Fides Service) -Guatemala City, known as the most violent central American capital, will host the 13th Our Lady Help of Christians Youth Prayer Vigil on Saturday 17 September at La Salle Education Centre ...
• 15 September 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - People of all faiths can live in harmony and mutual respect and work together for a common goal: International Day of Peace celebrations Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) -September 21, is the annual International Day of Peace established by the United Nations in 1981. In the week 16 - 20 running up to the recurrence the Santiago Spiritual Forum for Peac ...
• 15 September 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Pastoral Projects Office opens new website Sydney (Fides Service) -The research and pastoral planning office of the Australian Bishops has just unveiled its new website www.ppo.catholic.org.au offering information on its progects, a FAQ about the Church in Austra ...
• 15 September 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Week of Prayer across bamboo curtain for brother and sister Christians in North Korea Seoul (Fides Service) - Seven days of intense prayer to ask God to grant light and protection to brother and sister Christians in North Korea: this initiative 19-25 September will involve Korean Christians in South Korea ...
• 15 September 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - 3rd Cycle of Courses in Basic Catholic Theology in Beijing: “Young Catholics thirst to know more about the faith but they need expert guidance” Beijing (Fides Service) - The Institute for Studies in Catholic Faith and Culture in Beijing is starting a new three cycle of courses in Basic Catholic Theology. The Course Director Rev. Peter Zhao said “Our young Cath ...
• 15 September 2005
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Great joy in Senegal: 7 new OMI Brothers take perpetual vows Dakar (Fides Service)- Sunday 4 September was a great day for the Catholic parish of Immaculate Mary in the Parcelles Assainies district of Dakar capital of Senegal. Seven Brothers of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immac ...
• 15 September 2005
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - “The journey of Universities in Europe. Prospects for university pastoral”: annual meeting of national directors of university pastoral care European Bishops’ Conferences Budapest (Fides Service) - From 23 to 25 September national directors of university pastoral care and university chaplains will gather in Budapest Hungary at St Gerhard Retreat House for their annual meeting. Fifty six p ...
• 15 September 2005
  AFRICA - Three quarters of Africans surveyed in different countries place more trust in religious leaders. Experienced missionary in Sierra Leone says “this means we must be faithful to our mission” Rome (Fides Service)- “This is good news. It means we religious and Africans understand one another” said Italian Xaverian missionary Fr Giuseppe Berton, with years of experience in Sierra Leone, commenting the findi ...
• 15 September 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Hyderabad Catholic Culture Centre builds interreligious dialogue Hyderabad (Fides Service) - Joty Educational and Cultural Centre for education and intereligious dialogue aims to build good relations with Muslims, marginalise all forms of integralism and violence and promote social ha ...
• 15 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga denounces forgotten tragedy of south Katanga: please help us!” Kinshasa ( Fides Service)- “A human catastrophe” this is how Bishop Fulgence Muteba of Kilwa-Kasenga diocese describes the situation in the south east region of Democratic Congo southern Katanga in a recent press sta ...
• 14 September 2005
  AFRICA/GHANA - New rector of St. Victor major inter-diocesan Seminary in Tamale Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 29 April 2005 appointed Rector of St. Victor major inter-diocesan Seminary in Tamale Ghana, Rev. C ...
• 14 September 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - S. Egidio international meeting of “Prayer for Peace” closing appeal for peace: “Peace increases the chances for a better world. The path to peace is dialogue.” Lyon ( Fides Service) - “It is time to stop the use of violence! Human life is sacred. Violence humiliates human beings and diminishes the cause of those who make use of it. The world is tired of living in fear. Religi ...