News

• 30 August 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - New Bishop of Menongue Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 3 August 2005 appointed Bishop of Menongue (Angola) Rev. Mário Lucunde, until now Rector of the major seminary of Benguela. The new Bishop was born on ...
• 30 August 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of Vicar Apostolic of Requena and succession Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 30 July 2005, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Requena (Peru) presented by Bishop Victor De la Peña P ...
• 30 August 2005
  AFRICA/COTE D’ IVOIRE - New Bishop of Odienne Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 29 July 2005 appointed Bishop of Odienne (Cote d’ Ivoire) Rev. Salomon Lezoutié of the clergy of Yopougon until now spiritual director at the major ...
• 30 August 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Every vocation is for mission, at the service of the human person, the poor and the excluded in particular”: objectives of 2nd National Vocations Congress in Brazil Indaiatuba (Fides Service) - “Church, people of God at the service of life” is the slogan of the 2nd National Vocations Congress in Brazil to be held 2 to 6 September in Itaici, Indaiatuba, São Paulo, on the theme � ...
• 30 August 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic community in Qing Hai celebrates feasts of the Transfiguration and the Assumption in newly consecrated church Xi Ning (Fides Service) - About 500 Catholics attended Mass on 6 August feast of the Transfiguration for the consecration of a new church in Hei Zui Er parish, diocese of Xi Ning, a mainly Muslim area. The same amount of ...
• 30 August 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of two bishops: Bishop Thomas Zhao Fengwu, a life of poverty and penance and Bishop James Xie Shiguang who spent 30 years in prison Rome (Fides Service) - On 15 August, feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bishop Thomas Zhao Fengwu of Yanzhou, Shandong (mainland China) died at the age of 85. The Bishop was born in 1920, ordained a pri ...
• 30 August 2005
  AMERICA/CUBA - “May every child be an apostle for other children”: 370 children take part in 2nd National Holy Childhood Congress in Cuba Camagüey (Fides Service) - About 370 children and adolescents gathered with 50 animators all members of the Pontifical Holy Childhood Society for Cuba’s 2nd National Holy Childhood Congress held at La Merced diocesan ...
• 30 August 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Blessed Virgin Mary can help Koreans to be reconciled, experience forgiveness and find lost unity and harmony. The bishops recall the 60th anniversary of Korea’s liberation Seoul (Fides Service) - The Blessed Virgin Mary can help Koreans to be reconciled, experience forgiveness and find lost unity and harmony. The Blessed Virgin Mary can lead the people “towards new beginning” in their ...
• 30 August 2005
  OCEANIA/FRANCE(NEW CALEDONIA)- In the Year of the Eucharist Catholics in the Pacific intensify prayer, in particular for vocations Nouméa (Fides Service) - In the Year of the Eucharist October 2004 - October 2005 called by Pope John Paul II to intensify prayer and adoration, Catholics in the Pacific have been urged in particular to pray for vocatio ...
• 30 August 2005
  AFRICA/D. CONGO - Computer expert Sister in Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- A Catholic nun in Congo combines her religious vocation with a passion for information technology. Sr Odette Sangupamba, a member of the congregation of the Sisters of Saint Teresa of the Child ...
• 30 August 2005
  AFRICA/GHANA - Matthew 25 Centre run by the local Catholic Church offers assistance to people with AIDS Accra (Fides Service)- People in Ghana with AIDS find hope at Matthew 25 Centre which offers assistance to people with AIDS. The Centre was opened by the local Catholic Church in 2003 in the diocese of Koforidua in east ...
• 29 August 2005
  The Pope’s missionary intention for September " That the young Churches may proclaim the Christian message enabling it to penetrate and enrich every culture". Comment by Sr. Teresa Joseph of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix. Rome (Fides Service) - The words of the Risen Lord "go into the whole world and proclaim the message of the Gospel to all peoples" (Mk 16, 15) resound in the Church’s memory. This mission, a gift and task for every Ch ...
• 29 August 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI underlines a fundamental fact for evangelisation: “Wherever God is not given first place and recognised and adored as the supreme Being, the dignity of the human person is in danger. Therefore it is urgent to lead men and women of today to ‘discover’ the authentic face of God who has revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ”. Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “A wonderful Church experience, a providential event of grace for the whole Church”: this was how Pope Benedict XVI described the recent 20th World Youth Day event in Germany. He was ...
• 29 August 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Communicators in a changing world: Solomon’s young Catholics are introduced to Information Technology and the Internet Honiara (Fides Service) - To introduce young Catholic communicators to the potential and use of the media and modern information technolology, the Catholic Communications Commission Solomon Islands recently organised a s ...
• 29 August 2005
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church’s mission and the centrality of the Eucharist in the present situation in Bolivia: theme of 1st Bolivian Missiology Symposium in Cochabamba Cochabamba (Fides Service) - “Eucharist, Mission and present Bolivian Situation was the theme of the 1st Bolivian Missiology Symposium held in Cochabamba from 18 to 21 August at Maryknoll Mission Centre in Cochabamba. ...