News

• 3 February 2006
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - New national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 January 2006 appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Honduras for a f ...
• 3 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Divine Word missionaries inaugurate new religious province in north east India New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Society of the Divine Word has instituted a new religious province in north east India which covers the states of Arnachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura. The official inauguration took place ...
• 2 February 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Catholic Bishops (South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland) united in the Bishops Conference of Southern Africa have issued 4 statements on the urgency to restore hope to the people, give more value to the role of teachers, firmly oppose ‘marriage’ of persons of the same sex and condemn trafficking of sex slaves Pretoria (Fides Service) - Political and social situation; trafficking of women and children; valorisation of role of teachers; same sex “marriage” were four questions discussed in separate statements issued at the e ...
• 2 February 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Meeting of Families in July 2006 in Valencia: official prayer and prayer intentions Valencia (Fides Service) - The official prayer in view of the 5th World Meeting of Families WMF in July 2006 in Valencia can be seen at http://www.wmf2006.org. The prayer was composed by the Spanish Bishops’ commission ...
• 2 February 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Cautious optimism after mission sent by South African president Thabo Mbeki Abidjan (Fides Service) - “We are moderately optimistic” say local observers in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire with regard to the outcome of a mission to the west African country concluded yesterday ...
• 2 February 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Come and See” workshop to help lay Catholics to take a more active part in the life of the Church Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Come and See” was the invitation made to Catholics in Hong Kong diocese by Italian PIME missionary Fr Giovanni Giampietro in view of a workshop aimed at helping the laity take a more acti ...
• 2 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Belgaum Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 2 February 2006, appointed Bishop of Belgaum (India) Rev. Peter Machado, of the clergy of Karwar, until now parish priest at Kone. The new Bishop was ...
• 2 February 2006
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Religious life today: our spiritual life and the challenges facing Europe” theme of next general assembly in Fatima of the Union of European Conferences of Major Religious Superiors representing Europe’s 400,000 men and women Catholic Religious Fatima (Fides Service) - “Religious life today: our spiritual life and the challenges facing Europe today” is the theme of next general assembly of the Union of European Conferences of Major Religious Superiors UCESM ...
• 2 February 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church in Peru gives children in need a home and loving care in Catholic homes, medical centres and feeding centres Lima (Fides Service) - The Church in Peru gives children in need a home and loving care in Catholic homes, medical centres and feeding centres all over the country says Bishop Adriano Tomasi, auxiliary of Lima. There are ...
• 2 February 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Seminar on the Church, the media and announcing the Gospel Port Moresby (Fides Service) - The Church lives her mission also in the media, a world in which lay Catholics are called to render present the message of God. In Papua New Guinea the local Church is determined to intensi ...
• 2 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Commenting attack on Catholic Bishop of Vasai, Cardinal Ivan Dias says: “It was an act of barbarism”. Reaction among local Catholics New Delhi (Fides Service) - More attacks on India’s Christians have been condemned by many leading members of the local Catholic Church. On 29 January Hindu extremists threw stones at the Catholic Bishop of Vasai, Bish ...
• 1 February 2006
  VATICAN - “We are not at the mercy of dark forces, nor are we alone with our freedom; rather we are entrusted to the action of the powerful and loving Lord”: the pope says a Pope Benedict’s weekly audience Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his teaching at the general audience in the Paul VI Hall this morning the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on Psalm 144 (Vespers Friday week 4) in which, he said, the Lord is exa ...
• 1 February 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI issues Message for Lent on the theme of development: “In the face of the terrible challenge of poverty afflicting so much of the world’s population, indifference and self-centred isolation stand in stark contrast to the “gaze” of Christ.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Jesus, at the sight of the crowds, was moved with pity” (Mt 9:36) is the theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s first message for Lent in which he focuses on the question of development. Here ...
• 1 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope creates dioceses of Nongstoin and Jowai and appoints first Bishops Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in 28 January 2006, created the dioceses of Nongstoin and Jowai (India) with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Shillong, making them suffragan of ...
• 1 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Jalpaiguri Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 31 January 2006, appointed Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India), Rev. Clement Tirkey, Vicar General of the diocese of Bagdogra. The new Bishop was born on 12 ...