News

• 13 January 2006
  AFRICA/NIGER - Caritas Niger busy elaborating strategic plan to assist drought stricken people Niamey (Fides Service)- Now organised at the national, diocesan and parish level, Caritas Niger (Caritas Dévelopement Niger, CADEV-Niger) has decided to give itself a new strategic planning structure. CADEV-Niger, at pr ...
• 13 January 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Lay ministry, more public witness, for a Church throbbing with life: Osaka (Fides Service) - To bring back a Church that is throbbing with life and gives more public witness to Jesus Christ, the diocese of Osaka published a pamphlet prepared by the diocesan Lay Ministry Team giving a basi ...
• 13 January 2006
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - East Timor and Australia sign agreement on oil and gas revenues from disputed undersea fields: a step forward for impoverished island Dili (Fides Service) - East Timor has at last signed a deal with Australia for revenues from disputed oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea. The pact signed in Sydney ensures a 50:50 revenue split from the Greater Sunrise ...
• 12 January 2006
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Society of African Missions (SMA) celebrates 150th anniversary Lyons (Agenzia Fides) - This year the Lyons Society for African Missions SMA is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its foundation. It was one of many missionary institutes started in the mid 19th century to evangelise ...
• 12 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Alliance of Italian Hospitals: Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital one of first to join project for integration and improvement of Italian hospitals and medical centres all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - The 3rd Conference of Alliance of Italian Hospitals held recently in Naples at the Royal Palace in Caserta connected 33 of the best hospitals in Italy with 34 Italian hospitals in various other co ...
• 12 January 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Justice and Peace Commission organises Seminar to reflect on 40 years of implementation of Gaudium et Spes and new challenges Hong Kong (Fides) - Forty years since the publication of one of the most important and well known documents issued by the Second Vatican Council, the Constitution Gaudium et Spes, the Justice and Peace Commission of Hong ...
• 12 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - January 31 Pontifical Salesian University inaugurates new Don Bosco Library 700.000 volumes for students and general public Rome (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the feast of Saint John Bosco founder of the Salesians and root of a vast spiritual and educational service for young people, on 31 January a new Don Bosco Library will be inaugu ...
• 12 January 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Casa do Moinho professional training School and Home for young girls with little economic means Rome (Fides Service) - In the town of Cotía, a few kilometres from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Casa do Moinho School trains girls with scarce economic means to work in hotels, hospitals and other institutions. The School was o ...
• 12 January 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Excellent relations between Christians and Muslims in Turkey where Christians of various denominations prepare to celebrate Week of Prayer for Unity among all Christ’s Disciples Istanbul (Fides Service) - Relations between the Christian minority and the Muslim majority in Turkey flourish in a spirit of respect, trust and solidarity, said Fr George Marovich, spokesman for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey . “Christmas was celebrate ...
• 12 January 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Jalandhar city in Punjab inaugurates Square of the Lord Jesus Christ: sign of good relations between Christian citizens and local civil authorities Jalandhar (Fides Service) - At a time of tension and attacks on Christians in various parts of India, there are also positive initiatives which show that harmony among people of different religions is possible and is li ...
• 12 January 2006
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - “women religious are a precious and irreplaceable resource for the Church in Cameroon”. says Pontifical Mission Societies national director Yaounde (Fides Service)- “The history of the Church in Cameroon is a detailed testimony of women religious from 1892 to our day” says rev. Boniface Bouobda, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ca ...
• 12 January 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives NeoCatechumenal Way communities including two hundred families departing for mission: “in a world searching for human certainties and earthly security you show that Christ is the firm rock” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear families, the crucifix you receive will be your inseparable travelling companion as you proclaim with your missionary activity that there is salvation only in Jesus Christ, who died ...
• 12 January 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - The Pope appoints Coadjutor Archbishop Bishop of Bouake Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 12 January 2006 appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Bouaké (Côte d'Ivoire) Bishop Paul Siméon Ahouanan Djro, O.F.M., transferring him from the diocese ...
• 12 January 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - “The local Catholic Church is the institution most committed to helping people suffering the consequences of drought ” Nairobi (Fides Service)- “The local Catholic Church is probable the institution most involved in helping people who suffer the consequences of the prolonged drought which has affected many parts of the country” said ...
• 12 January 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Pope chooses theme for World Youth Day 2008 “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses" received with full approval by Catholics in Australia Sydney (Fides Service) - “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses” (Acts 1:8) is the theme the Pope Benedict XVI has chosen for the 23rd World Youth Day to be he ...