News

• 25 January 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur risks the greatest calamity ever seen”. United Nations High Commission for Refugees Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Unless we guarantee security for those in need of aid we may see the greatest ever calamity”, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Antonio Guterres who launched the alarm for the hu ...
• 25 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mission territories deserve more media attention say Italian missionaries EUROPE/ITALY - Mission territories deserve more media attention say Italian missionaries Rome (Fides Service)- “We are dismayed by the way in which Italian media ignore problems in mission territories”: this lament ...
• 24 January 2006
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - New Rector appointed for St Augustine Major Inter-diocesan Seminar in Maputo Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 5 January 2006 appointed Rector of St Augustine Major inter-diocesan Seminar in Maputo Rev. José ...
• 24 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “I firmly condemn the killing of UN peacekeepers and call for an international intervention to end the violence” says Cardinal Etsou, Archbishop of Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “I firmly condemn the killing of United Nations peacekeeping troops by Ugandan rebels who have already caused the death of so many innocent civilians. I call for a decisive intervention on the ...
• 24 January 2006
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand Catholic newspaper and sister NZ Catholic website Auckland (Fides Service) - On the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, patron of journalists New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper launched its new website. The website www.nzcatholic.org.nz offers local and internat ...
• 24 January 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Church activity to promote education and care for marginalised people focus of plenary assembly of Catholic Bishops of India 8 to 15 February New Delhi (Fides Service) - Church activity to promote education and care for marginalised people will be the main topics for discussion at the next general assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI to ...
• 24 January 2006
  VATICAN - The Media: A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation -Pope Benedict XVI's Message for the World Day of Social Communications 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the wake of the fortieth-anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, I am happy to recall its Decree on the Means of Social Communication, Inter Mirifica, whi ...
• 24 January 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Overseas Aid Sunday: Caritas Korea promotes solidarity programmes to fight hunger and malnutrition Seoul (Fides Service) - “If we love God we must also love our neighbour” is the title of a message on the occasion of Overseas Aid Sunday 5 February in Korea organised by the local Church. The message issued by the ...
• 24 January 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Sr Lucy’s mission experience at Kakuma Refugee Camp north western Kenya Nairobi (Fides Service)- “Generally I am happy and used to working with and for people on the margins of society. However when I learned that I was missioned to Kakuma to work with the people living in the camp I was t ...
• 24 January 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - “May the Congress foster a better understanding of the Council’s message and produce abundant fruits for renewal and holiness in the Church”: conclusion of Lima International Congress on Vatican II and future prospects Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Some 800 people attended a two day International Congress on Vatican II and future prospects in Lima 21 and 22 January at the Centre for Catholic Studies-Peru organised by the Life and Spirituality ...
• 24 January 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Kaohsiung diocese says farewell to Card. Paul Shan with a solemn celebration Taipei (Fides Service) - “A ‘watchman for Jesus’ : 60 years of ministry never for his own interest but for the will of the Lord” said Bishop Joseph Wang referring to Cardinal Paul Shan in his homily during a Mass ...
• 23 January 2006
  VATICAN - Angelus of Benedict XVI during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “We know not how, or when, because it is not given to us to know, but we can be sure that one day we will be “one” as Jesus and the Father are united in the Holy Spirit”. Appeal for peace in Côte d'Ivoire. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Half way through the annual "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ", 18 to 25 January, on Sunday 22 January Pope Benedict XVI devoted his midday Angelus reflection to the theme of ecumenism. ...
• 23 January 2006
  VATICAN - Solemn opening of celebrations for 5th centenary of the founding of the Pontifical Swiss Guards. Cardinal Sodano tells Swiss Guards and families at special mass in Sistine Chapel: “I encourage you to love the Church of Christ ever more deeply” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Today is the official start of celebrations to mark the 5th centenary of the presence in the Vatican of the Swiss Guards. On 22 January 1506, the first 150 Swiss soldiers passed Piazza d ...
• 23 January 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Promote inculturation of the Gospel in multicultural societies: goal of 3rd national congress on “Migration, multi-culturality and pastoral of culture" Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Culture has organised the 3rd National Culture Congress on the theme “Migration, multi-culturality and pastoral of culture” 24 to 26 January at the ...
• 23 January 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Over 100 families in 33 different parishes prepare to host Asian Youth Day participants Hong Kong (Fides Services) - Already 100 families in 33 different parishes in the diocese of Hong Kong have offered to accommodate participants at the next Asian Youth Day to be held in Hong Kong 30 July 5 August 2006 on ...