News

• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - New rector for Paul VI major inter-diocesan Seminary at Nkongsamba Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Crescenzio Sepe on 20 May 2005 appointed Rector of Paul VI major inter-diocesan Seminary in the dioc ...
• 19 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “America launches a challenge: let’s globalise the culture of life” : Lima will host 2nd International Pro-Life Congress 10 - 13 November 2005 Lima (Fides Service) - To be the voice of the voiceless, to protect life with life, to be heralds of the moral principles at the foundation of society and promote responsible sexuality and healthy population policies fou ...
• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries “Men and Women of Hope”: Italian national Pontifical Mission Societies issue theme and material for World Mission Sunday 23 October 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - “Men and Women of Hope” is the slogan for Mission Sunday 23 October 2005chosen by the Italian National office for the Pontifical Mission Societies. Material prepared by the national office to i ...
• 19 July 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Our Christian conscience demands that we are seeds of new life in society at the service of the individual, the truth, goodness and justice”: final conclusions of 84th Plenary Assembnly of the Venezuelan Bishops Conference Caracas (Fides Service) - “The cause of the truth, freedom, justice, solidarity, reconciliation and peace is an unavoidable task for the Church and for the function to serve humanity which impregnates her evangelising ...
• 19 July 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Summer holidays in a parish and opportunity to evangelise the young Beijing (Fides Service) - On 20 July the Summer oratory for children opens at Holy Saviour parish also referred to as Bei Tang or north church, one of many parishes which offer Summer activities for children ever more po ...
• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We cannot just passively accept such a serious attack on our traditions and our way of life”: Bishops of Spain defend authentic marriage and the family for the good of the nation and society Madrid (Fides Service) - Since the Spanish parliament approved amendments to the law to allow homosexual couples to “marry" and adopt children and to make divorce proceedings “express” the Catholic Bishops of Spain ...
• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA - Crime and under-development in Africa. New report from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime presented in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- Crime is a component of Africa’s underdevelopment. This emerged during the presentation of a new report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC. The report was presented yeste ...
• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Many local Muslims among the mourners for assassinated Bishop Locati. Funeral tomorrow Nairobi (Fides Service)- The funeral of Bishop Luigi Locati Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo, northern Kenya assassinated on 14 July will be held tomorrow Wednesday 20 June in Isiolo Cathedral. “The Bishop will be buried in ...
• 19 July 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Moluccas ports open again: locals hope for return of tourists to boost poor economy Ambon (Fides Service) - The word tourism has been banned in the Moluccas for years, since civil strife began in 2000 and dashed all hopes of seeing the arrival of foreign visitors. Indeed for security reasons the ports w ...
• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Number of children treated at Bambino Gesù Hospital doubles in a year: Rumanians and Filipinos most numerous Rome (Fides Service) - In 2004 the 10,062 little patients treated at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome were from many different countries and spoke many different languages and compared to the previous year 200 ...
• 18 July 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope offers sincere condolences to the clergy and faithful of Isiolo after the assassination of the Vicar apostolic and expresses gratitude for the Bishop’s life of witness in telegrammes to the Papal Nuncio in Kenya and the Archbishop of Vercelli Vatican City (Fides Service) - On behalf of Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Angelo Sodano Holy See secretary of state addressed a telegramme to the Papal Nuncio in Kenya Archbishop Alain Lebeaupin in which he said the Holy Fa ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI on 16 July 2005 appointed Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro (Central African Republic) Rev. Albert Vanbuel, S.D.B., President of Major Superiors in Central Africa. The new Bishop Al ...
• 18 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Association of Catholic Doctors in Italy remembers murdered Bishop Luigi Locati, an exemplary priest, bishop and missionary who honoured the diocese of Vercelli Rome (Fides Service) - Deeply saddened by the tragic assassination of Bishop Luigi Locati, Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo in Kenya who was orginally from Vercelli in Italy, Italy’s Association of Catholic Doctors based in V ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya remembers Bishop Locati. Funeral in Isiolo Cathedral on Wednesday Nairobi (Fides Service)- “All Kenya is mourning the death of Italian born Bishop Locati. Yesterday at Sunday masses special prayers were offered for the bishop and for all the victims of violence in northern Kenya” s ...
• 18 July 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus from his holiday residence in Valle d’Aosta: In contact with nature we rediscover the right dimension, we realise that each one of us is a creature, small but unique … in the world around us we see signs of God’s goodness and providence and almost naturally we are moved to praise God and to pray Les Combes (Fides Service) - On Sunday 17 July Pope Benedict XVI from Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta where he is staying for a short period of rest led the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer with people gathered in f ...