News

• 16 December 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Bishops of Arizona, deeply saddened by the death and suffering of Mexican immigrants stress the need to find new ways for communities to welcome and integrate migrants Arizona (Fides Service) - “You Welcomed Me”: was the title of a Pastoral Letter on Migration released on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and developed and approved by the Arizona Catholic Conference and the Byzant ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2 million of the world’s children suffer sexual exploitation ‘perhaps the most invisible of all’ Rome (Fides Service) - In its annual State of the World’s Children Report 2006 ,Excluded and Invisible,, UNICEF the United Nations Fund for Children analyses the situation of children and adolescents living in the most ...
• 16 December 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Mass with the sick in the Catholic Prayer Room at a Tai Pei state hospital Tai Pei (Fides Service) - According to Christian Life Weekly bulletin issued by Tai Pei archdiocese recently a Mass was held in the Catholic Prayer Room at Tai Pei State Hospital attended by Catholic members of hospital ...
• 16 December 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 500 Catholics celebrate 100th anniversary of Immaculate Conception parish in the village of Don Xiao Yang Zhuan, reflecting on the growth of the Catholic community Ji Nan (Fides Service) - Over 500 Catholics attended a solemn Mass to mark the 100th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception Parish in the village of Don Xiao Yang Zhuan, archdiocese of Ji Nan. The Mass was concelebrate ...
• 16 December 2005
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Spreading the word” method chosen by Missionary Sisters of Jesus Christ to explain the importance of the constitutional referendum 18 December Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Initiatives organised by the local Church in DR Congo to spread awareness with regard to the referendum on a draft Constitution on Sunday 18 December include a ‘Spreading the Word’ mission s ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Poland, now present in almost every diocese, dedicates annual Christmas aid campaign to Indonesian children victims of last year’s tsunami Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Polish branch of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood now present in every diocese will send the proceedings of its annual Christmas fund raising campaign Kolednicy Misyjni, to children v ...
• 16 December 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Holy Childhood Children in Kampala on solidarity mission to northern Ugandan children victims of violence and war Gulu (Fides Service )- Catholic children members of Holy Childhood Mission Society from the archdiocese of Kampala, capital of Uganda, recently visited children living in relief camps in northern Uganda displaced and suf ...
• 15 December 2005
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope establishes new diocese of Uromi and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 14 December 2005 established the diocese of Uromi (Nigeria) with territory taken from the archdiocese of Benin City making it suffragan of the same met ...
• 15 December 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 8 December 2005 confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Madagascar ...
• 15 December 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Formation seminar for middle school religious education teachers Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Aim, line and plan of Religious Instruction” was the theme of a seminar for middle school teachers organised by the middle school group of the Commission for Catechesis of Hong Kong Catho ...
• 15 December 2005
  The Pope’s missionary prayer intention for January 2006: “For migrants: may they be recognised as persons created in the image and likeness of God and welcomed with respect and charity ”. Comment by Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi C.S., Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations and International Organisations in Geneva Geneva (Fides Service) - Today more than 200 million people in the world live and work in a country which is not the one in which they were born. This is a sign of the times and a phenomenon which transforms whole countr ...
• 15 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conference to mark the 100th anniversary of Saint Pope Pius X’s “Compendium of Catholic Doctrine” Riese Pio X (Fides Service) - In 1905 Pope Pius X presented Rome diocese with a “Compendio della Dottrina Cristiana”, known as “the Catechism of Pius X”. It consisted of a series of simply worded questions and a ...
• 15 December 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - National award presented to San Camillo Hospital in Ouagadougou first centre in the country to offer HIV tests to pregnant mothers Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - On World Aids Day December 1 San Camillo Medical Centre in Ouagadougou was among five hospitals awarded the national medal of merit for activity in the field of healthcare, in particular car ...
• 15 December 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Pope establishes new diocese of Pekhon and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 15 December 2005 established the diocese of Pekhon (Myanmar), with territory taken from the archdiocese of Taunggyi, making it suffragan of the same me ...
• 15 December 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration, Multicultural situation and Pastoral and Culture: 3rd national Congress January 2006 organised by Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Culture Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Mexico are promoting a National Congress on Migration, Multicultural Society and Pastoral and Culture in order to launch a process of pastoral sensitisation and comm ...