News

• 15 June 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI comments Psalm 122: The just have entrusted their cause to the Lord and he is not indifferent to their imploring eyes, he does not ignore their invocation, or disappoint their hope Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Jesus in the Gospel says that the eye is an expression of the profound I, it is the mirror of the soul (cfr Mt 6,22-23). Well, Psalm 122, just proclaimed, consists of an exchange of loo ...
• 15 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “The family, born of humanity’s God-given natural law must be supported always” says President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar Rome (Fides Service)- “The natural institution of the family which has its origin in God must be supported always and every initiative to this purpose is very welcome” said Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony, S.I., of Tolia ...
• 15 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Bishops give unanimous support to June 18 pro-family demonstration organised by Spanish Family Forum: “this cause is not only just, it is extremely serious because one of society’s most precious goods is at take” Madrid (Fides Service) - With only days to go before Saturday’s pro-family demonstration in Madrid promoted by the Spanish Family Forum to defend real marriage, the organisers continue preparations as they receive coun ...
• 15 June 2005
  VATICAN - First International Meeting for Pastoral Care to Liberate Women on the Streets: every year one million women and girls are victims of prostitution rackets, human trafficking, sex tourism Vatican City (Fides Service) - To reflect on the situation of street women in various countries, share experiences of helping them and plan specific pastoral care in this field, about fifty representatives of Bishops’ ...
• 15 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Society offers full support to pro-family demonstration in Madrid: “the government must realise that Spanish society rejects any changes in matrimony” Madrid (Fides Service) - The Spanish government’s move to recognise same sex unions as “marriages” and allow same sex ‘parents’ to adopt children is meeting with strong opposition among the people of the countr ...
• 15 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “You must be mad in Europe, how can two men get married?” parishioners in Bissau ask Italian missionary Fr Dioniso Ferraro. Africans support Spanish demonstration pro-family and pro real-marriage Bissau (Fides Service)- “We fully support the pro-family demonstration taking place on June 18 in Madrid” said Italian missionary Fr. Dioniso Ferraro parish priest at Our Lady of Fatima church in Bissau, capital of ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “The Church in Korea is with you!” Korean Bishops’ president tells Spanish Bishops Seoul (Fides Service) - In Korea where experiments in human embryo cloning have given rise to concern and a national debate the local Catholic Church is fully committed to using all its influence and energies to defend t ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The “small Catholic flock” in Mongolia under the patronage of the Holy Family of Nazareth unites in spiritual solidarity with Spanish families to protect the family where life is nurtured and cherished Ulan Bator (Fides Service) - “We fully support the pro-family demonstration in Spain, Madrid on 18 June. On behalf of the little Church in Mongolia, under the special protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth, I can as ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - It is right and dutiful to protect life and the family: Bishops of Pakistan offer full support to Church in Spain for pro-family demonstration on 18 June Lahore (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan gaurantees clear and total support to the rightful moral position in favour of the family and life taken by the Catholic Bishops of Spain and hop ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Communications experts, Catholic and non, say minority groups deserve more space in the media Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Communications experts in Hong Kong, Catholic and non, have urged the media to give greater attention to minority groups of foreign workers. According to the diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the ...
• 15 June 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - A medical team of doctors of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Association for Distant Patients and the Italian Airforce launches second humanitarian mission to Africa Rome (Fides Service) -Doctors belonging to the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Association for Distant Patients AFMAL and the Italian airforce continue their efforts to help the blind in Africa. After a humanitarian ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPA/ITALY - “Matters regarding human life cannot be decided with a vote”: says Prof Luigi Alici, President of Catholic Action Italy with regard to the referendum on fertility treatment laws Rome (Fides Service) - “The referendum gave voice to the will of the people: matters of human life cannot be decided with a referendum or a vote. I believe that with their non-vote Italians wanted to say that maternity ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “If we resist syndromes of defeat or victory this can be new time of encounter between believers and non and for the centrality of Parliament”: S. Egidio Community comments Referendum on Fertility Treatment Rome (Fides Service) - Three quarters of Italians clearly underlined an element which was undervalued in the electoral campaign. The fact that a referendum is not the right means for expressing views on sensitive issues ...
• 14 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Dramatic testimony from Fides Cesco at Salesian mission in Duékoué west Cote d'Ivoire where 15,000 people are sheltering Rome (Fides Service)- The International Volunteers for Development (VIS) association belonging to the Salesian Fathers sent the following message to Fides. “Dear Friends at Fides we forward to you an appeal received ...
• 14 June 2005
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The weight of the clan still makes itself felt: Somali President barred from landing in Somalia’s “temporary” capital Mogadishu (Fides Service)- The president of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf who left Nairobi capital of Kenya yesterday directed to Qatar and other Persian Gulf countries for a pan-Arab consultation has yet to return to his coun ...