News

• 1 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic youth ministers in Sydney in July for first National Youth Symposium also in view of hosting 2008 World Youth Day, the first in Oceania Sydney (Fides Service) - ‘Builders and Dreamers: Creating Sustainable Ministry with Young People’ is the theme of the first national youth symposium to be held in Sydney in July. The event will give Catholic youth mi ...
• 1 March 2006
  ASIA/CAMBOGIA - Inauguration of new Catholic technical training school and comprehensive Care Centre for people with AIDS named after Pope John Paul II Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - To mark the 450th anniversary of its foundation this year, the Catholic community in Cambodia has a new professional Training School and a Centre for AIDS patients both recently inaugurated b ...
• 1 March 2006
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Lenten Message from the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference: The programme of every Christian must be a “heart which ‘sees’ where love is needed and acts accordingly”. Cartago (Fides Service) - The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica, Bishop José Francisco Ulloa Rojas of Cartago addressed a Lenten message to Catholics with the title “Lent, a season for enc ...
• 28 February 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - The Pope appoints Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez archbishop of Santo Domingo his Special Envoy to Celebrations for 4th Centenary of the death of Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo Lima (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Archbishop of Santo Domingo Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez his Special Envoy to celebrations for the 4th centenary of the death of ...
• 28 February 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing with joy” Lenten charity campaign in aid of thousands of homeless Colombians victims of natural disasters or manmade violence Bogota (Fides Service) - Colombians forced out of their homes by natural disasters or man made violence will be the first to benefit from a the funds raised by the annual Lenten charity campaign organised by the Colombia ...
• 28 February 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay Catholics help prisoners live Lent more intensely and promote evangelisation in prisons Hong Kong (Fides) - “Who is the prisoner”? “What can a prisoner do for others”? “How can prisoners live their sentence united with Christ?”: these questions are part of a course organised for Lent 2006 by a H ...
• 28 February 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Pontifical Academy for Life: “God’s love makes no distinction between the unborn child still in the mother’s womb, the baby, the youth, the grown adult or the elderly, because in each of them He sees the sign of His own image and likeness” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the late morning on Monday 27 February the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI received participants at the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life currently considering the them ...
• 28 February 2006
  VATICAN - “To build your life on Christ, to accept the word with joy and put its teachings into practice: this, young people of the third millennium, should be your programme!” - The Pope’s message for the 21st World Youth Day Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Your word is a lamp to my feet a light to my path" (Ps 118[119], 105): is the theme of the Message which Pope Benedict XVI has addressed to young Catholics all over the world on the occ ...
• 27 February 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Fraternity and people with a disability”: March 1 launching of 2006 Campaign organised by the Catholic Bishops of Brazil and the Office for the annual Lenten Fraternity Campaign Belo Horizonte (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Brazil and the Office for the annual Lenten Fraternity Campaign have organised the 2006 campaign on the theme Fraternity and people with a disability with the mott ...
• 27 February 2006
  AFRICA/GAMBIA - The Pope accepts the resignation of the Bishop of Banjul and appoints Successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 25 February accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Banjul (Gambia) presented by Bishop Michael J. Cleary in conformity ...
• 27 February 2006
  VATICAN - Interview with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples who just returned from a Pastoral Visit to Sudan Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples just returned from a Pastoral Visit to Sudan 17 to 25 February. We asked him about his impressions. ...
• 27 February 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Hand in Hand Helping the Poor”: theme of Lenten solidarity campaign 2006 Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Hand in Hand Helping the Poor” is the theme chosen by Hong Kong diocese for its Lenten solidarity campaign 2006. According to the diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao (the Lenten campaign is an ...
• 27 February 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus reflection: “The Season of Lent should be approached not as something tedious and tiresome but rather in the new spirit of those who have found in Jesus and in his paschal mystery the meaning of life”. Appeal for Iraq and Nigeria: “God, the Creator and Father of all humanity will call to account even more severely those who shed the blood of a brother or sister in His name” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Season of Lent should be approached not in the old spirit as something tedious and tiresome but rather in the new spirit of those who have found in Jesus and in His paschal mystery t ...
• 27 February 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A free and independent press in support of Congo’s fledgling democracy, La Prospérité daily newspaper sets the example Kinshasa (Fides Service) - For the past 5 years La Prospérité daily newspaper printed in Kinshasa strives to offer the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo information as impartial as possible and in such as way ...
• 27 February 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “In depth analysis of the vote shows some change in those in power”: 80 members of parliament lost their seats Kampala (Fides Service)- “President Museveni’s victory did not come as a surprise but in depth analysis of the elections for parliament reveals that not all remained as it was. In fact 80 outgoing MPs were not re-ele ...