News

• 5 July 2005
  CHINA - Three new Missionary Servants of the Holy Spirit make perpetual professions on the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first members of their community Lan Zhou (Fides Service) - One hundred years ago the first Missionary Servants of the Holy Spirit (Sisters) arrived in China to help the Divine Word Missionary Fathers. Today the congregation continues to offer much appr ...
• 5 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Access to treatment, support and collaboration with health systems in African countries, university formation and scientific research: Doctors with Africa CUAMM appeal to G8 Meeting Rome (Fides Service) - Italy’s largest NGO for promoting and protecting the health of the people of Africa sends an appeal to the G8 nations in the light of more than 50 years of commitment in the field, presents its c ...
• 4 July 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Pope appoints new Auxiliary of Mbarara Vatican City (Fides Service) The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 2 July 2005 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Mbarara (Uganda) Rev. Lambert Bainomugisha, until now Chancellor of the same archdiocese ass ...
• 4 July 2005
  VATICAN - Message from Benedict XVI to the Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh in view of the G8 meeting: “people living in the world’s richest nations should be ready to accept the burden of the reduction of debts for highly indebted countries and urge their leaders to honour commitments taken to reduce poverty in the world, particularly in Africa” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI through Cardinal Angelo Sodano, his Secretary of State, sent a message to the Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, on th ...
• 4 July 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI underscores the necessity for the “entire Catholic community to proclaim, teach and witness the entire truth of Catholic faith, doctrine and morals in a unanimous and harmonious manner”. The Pope also said he hoped the imminent G-8 meeting would adopt concrete measures to eradicate poverty and promote authentic development for Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear brothers and sisters how necessary it is today at the dawn of the thrid millennium for the entire Catholic community to proclaim, teach and witness to the entire truth of Catholic f ...
• 4 July 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses the Bishops of Zimbabwe: “In your preaching and teaching the faithful should be able to hear the voice of the Lord himself, a voice that speaks with authority of what is right and true, of peace and justice, of love and reconciliation” Vatican City (Fides) - “May your pilgrimage to the Tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and this meeting with Peter’s Successor, be for all of you an incentive to ever greater unity in the cause of the Gospel and th ...
• 4 July 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL Cruzeiro do Sul diocesan pastoral coordinators make three day boat journey to take part in a meeting on missionary formation and animation for Holy Childhood Cruzeiro do Sul (Fides Service) - From 23 to 26 June in the diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre-Brasile) under the guidance of Rev. Daniele Lagni, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, some 45 dio ...
• 4 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Increase missionary spirit among young people and contribute towards making youth pastoral more effective and organised: main goals of 1st Workshop for Missionary Youth Leadership Lima (Fides Service) - Recently about 50 representatives of youth pastoral groups and missionary youth groups of the archdioceses of Lima and Arequipa attended the 1st Workshop for Missionary Youth Leadership organised b ...
• 4 July 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Sunday of Reconciliation with local Aborigine community promoted by the Christian community on Palm Island where there is the largest number of Aborigines in Australia Townsville (Fides Service) - Put aside all violence, heal wounds and divisions, work for reconciliation were the aims of a rally organised on Sunday July 3 for Reconciliation with the Aborigine community promoted by the ...
• 4 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - WYD Count down: from 8 July with 40 days to go Youth Day Cross starts final pilgrimage from Dresden to Cologne for 20th World Youth Day in August Cologne (Fides Service) - Friday 8 July will mark the last forty days to the 20th World Youth Day event in Cologne 11-21 August with the start of the final lap of pilgrimage of the Youth Day Cross “Kreuzspuren” (in t ...
• 4 July 2005
  VATICAN - Vietnam’s Government Commission for Religious Affairs ends 6 day visit to the Holy See Vatican City (Fides Service) - A delegation from the Vietnamese government’s Commission for Religious Affairs concluded a 6 day visit to the Holy See on Saturday 2 July. The delegation was led by the director of the Co ...
• 4 July 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundians vote to renew parliament. “These elections mark a turning point in the history of Burundi” Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “At the moment the situation is calm no incidents have been reported” said local sources in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi where legislative elections began today 4 July. “Following local ...
• 4 July 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Education for tribal communities essential element for improving society New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Education for tribal communities is essential for improving society in India. This is the point of departure for Vishwamndal Sevashram Social Centre in Bombay run by the local Jesuit Fathers w ...
• 4 July 2005
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Vicar Apostolic of Francistown (Botswana), told Fides about the present situation in Botswana Vatican City (Fides Service) - During a recent visit to the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Bishop Frank Nubuasah, SVD, Vicar Apostolic of Francistown (Botswana), told Fides about the present situation in ...
• 2 July 2005
  Instrumentum mensium aprilis et maii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Fides is ever attentive to the Teaching of the Holy Father and keenly aware that the word of the Vicar of Christ must reach the ends of the earth in order to guide and encourage Catholics the world over. As during the Po ...