News

• 26 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - In forty years Jaen Vicariate Catechists Training Centre has formed 1,615 catechists many of whom evangelise in remote and impervious places Cajamarca (Fides Service) - The Vicariate of Jaen in north eastern Peru includes two zones: the farming districts of Jaén and San Ignacio in the department of Cajamarca and the forest area including Bagua and Aramango d ...
• 26 July 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Promote more investment in scientific and technological research, this is the goal of a meeting for over 1,000 researchers Rome (Fides Service) - 1200 science researchers will meet next week in Bogota to discuss the challenges facing the scientific community also in the light of the Free Trade Treaty. The themes of the meeting will be base ...
• 26 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Day of Social Commitment” as part of the lead up to World Youth Day includes 620 projects: “Young people's social commitment to build a better world will also be a stand against terrorism ” Cologne (Fides Service) - For the Day of Social Commitment” on 12 August (see Fides 28/5/2005) as part of the activities for World Youth Day (11-21 August) young people from all over the world hosted in the dioceses of ...
• 26 July 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Identify and tackle challenges at home and outside, renew consecrated life, reorganise path for future growth” Sisters of the Precious Blood start chapter tomorrow Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Identify and tackle challenges at home and outside, renew consecrated life, reorganise path for future growth of the congregation are the themes to be discussed by the 21st Chaper of the Sist ...
• 26 July 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop of Taipei encourages Catholics of St Paul’s parish to imitate the Apostle and “grow in spiritual life and mature in the spirit of evangelisation” Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - “Imitate your Patron St Paul the Apostle, grow in your spiritual life and mature your spirit of evangelisation”. This advice was given by Archbishop Joseph Cheng of Taipei to the people of St ...
• 25 July 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 5th International Retreat for Priests opens today in Monterrey on the theme “Mary your priests want to see Jesus”: 1.900 priests and over 100 bishops from 40 different countries taking part Monterrey (Fides Service) - Mary your priests want to see Jesus is the theme of the 5th International Retreat for Priests organised by the Latin American Catholic Charismatic Council under the auspices of the Council of ...
• 25 July 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Over 1,000 young people expected to attend 3rd Latin American Catholic Youth Meeting 30 July in Chicago Chicago (Fides Service) - “Let us cast our nets into the deep” (cfr. Lk 5,4) is slogan of the 3rd Latin American Catholic Youth Meeting on Saturday 30 July at the DePaul University in Chicago, on the theme “Articol ...
• 25 July 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Mobility can save and aid”: “Christopher 2005” donations of one cent for every kilometre travelled safely will purchase a means of transport for the missions Vienna (Fides Service-) - Every year on 24 July the feast day of St Christopher, patron saint of travellers, Austrian Catholics are asked to donate one cent for every kilometre travelled safely in order to purchase a mea ...
• 25 July 2005
  AFRICA/CHAD - Operations continue to move 10,000 Central African Repulic refugees to Amboko camp Rome (Fides Service) - As part of its plan to transfer 10,000 Central African refugees sheltering in southern Chad to a camp where they can be better assisted, United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has moved ...
• 25 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Campaign to give anti-polio vaccination to one million children Rome (Fides Service) - Kenya is launching two urgent anti-polio vaccination campaigns in August and September to prevent one million children from catching the polio virus which continues to spread in neighbouring countr ...
• 25 July 2005
  VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope said he prays that 'the new generations drawing vital life blood from Christ may be leaven of a renewed humanism in European societies' and with regard to terrorist attacks he invoked Almighty God 'to stop the murderous hand of those who moved by fanaticism and hatred committed these acts and to convert their hearts' Les Combes (Fides Service) - Christianity’s role in building Europe and the recent terrorist attacks in various parts of the world were the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s brief reflection before the midday Angelus pr ...
• 25 July 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Pope accepts the resignation of the Bishop of Ndalatando and appoints a successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 23 July 2005 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Ndalatando (Angola) presented by Bishop Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa OFM ...
• 25 July 2005
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - “For the first time we are sending a ‘large’ delegation of 8 young people to World Youth Day” said Fr Carlos Avila, Superior of the Catholic Mission in Tajikistan Dushanbe (Fides Service) - “For the first time young Tajiks will attend World Youth Day events with the Pope and hundreds of thousands of young Christians from all over the world. The Catholic mission in Tajikistan is ...
• 25 July 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - In view of a new educational project Salesian Sisters visit the Pacific Islands Rome (Fides Service) - Sr Edna Mary Macdonald and Sr Margaret Bentley, two Salesian Sisters , visited Honiara the capital of the Solomon Islands from 17 to 21 July and then went to Fiji. The purpose was to consider est ...
• 25 July 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - After 2 years of study 105 catechists from 25 parishes receive their diploma at a special Mass presided by the Bishop of Hong Kong Hong Kong (Fides Service) - At the end of a two years course of study 105 new catechists for Hong Kong diocese received their diploma from the Bishop Jospeh Zen and Mgr J. Baptist Tsang Hing Mun of the Diocesan Centre fo ...