News

• 24 November 2005
  AFRICA/GABON - Presidential elections: Catholic Bishops call for “transparency” Libreville (Fides Service)- The Catholic Bishops of Gabon have launched a call for transparency in presidential elections 25 and 27 November. “We urge individual politicians and political parties to ensure transparency ...
• 23 November 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Cleared of antipersonnel mines Benguela railway line across Angolan province of Moxico. Encouragement for recovery of the economy Luanda (Fides Service) - A strip of 230 km of the 300km strip of Benguela railway which crosses the Angolan province of Moxico has been cleared of antipersonnel mines according to Antonio Catumba, regional director of A ...
• 23 November 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Rector appointed for Holy Apostles Propaedeutic and Major Seminary in Yaounde Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 16 September 2005 Holy Apostles Propaedeutic and Major Seminary in Yaounde Rev. Philippe Alain Mba ...
• 23 November 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholics in Australia committed to stopping trafficking of women and children Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church has a network of social institutes, organisations and associations which can help fight the scourge of human trafficking and to assist the victims of this crime. The Church is ...
• 23 November 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishops’ Conference launches “Beatitudes Credit Card” to expand Christian charity work and social services Taipei (Fides Service) - Would you like to be “a little angel of the Beatitudes”? Ask your bank for a “Beatitudes Credit Card”. This call was launched by the Catholic Bishops of Taiwan to Catholics and all men an ...
• 23 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - November 30 ‘Cities against the death penalty world day’ promoted by S. Egidio Community Rome (Fides) - On 30 November some 300 cities and 30 capitals all over the world will be connected with Rome for the greatest ever international mobilisation to stop capital punishment. At the beginning of December 2005 ...
• 23 November 2005
  VATICAN - A hymn to praise God, celebrated by Christian faith as “Father of the Lord Jesus Christ”: Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at general audience Vatican City (Fides Service) - A solemn hymn at the beginning of the Letter to the Ephesians read once a week at vespers (cfr Eph 1,3-10), a hymn to praise God, celebrated in Christian faith as “Father of the Lord Jesu ...
• 23 November 2005
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Katanga in southern Congo victim of Mai-Mai militia: Catholic Bishops’ memorandum to President of Congo and United Nations Representative Kinshasa (Fides Service)- In a memorandum addressed to the President of DR Congo and the local representative of the United Nations Organisation the Catholic Bishops of Katanga in south east DR Congo expressed concern fo ...
• 23 November 2005
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The country which bears the same of Christ the Saviour navigates in a sea of violence: Catholic Bishops of El Salvador rally the people “do not be overcome by evil” San Salvador (Fides Service) - On the feast of Our Lady of Peace patroness of El Salvador the country’s Catholics Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter “Do not be overcome by evil” in which they reflect on the responsib ...
• 23 November 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Rebuilding normality a year after the tsunami: results of efforts by Catholic communities and international bodies in affected areas Colombo (Fides Service) - “We have rebuilt homes and villages, given the people new fishing boats and nets so they can resume normal life and our main concern now is to guarantee education for children who lost their p ...
• 22 November 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Divine Word Missionaries mark 130 years of presence in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Over 500 people wearing ‘I am a SVD Friend’ T shirts took part in celebrations to mark 130 years of presence of the Divine Word Missionaries in Holy Family Catholic parish in Hong Kong. Th ...
• 22 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Temptation to believe”: 9th Festival of Spiritual Cinema opens today Rome (Fides Service) - “Temptation to believe” is the theme of the 9th Tertio Millennio Festival of Spiritual Cinema which opens this evening in Rome. According to the organisers cinema has often attention given to t ...
• 22 November 2005
  VATICAN - “The Church’s teaching is based on the fact that God created man and woman in his own image and likeness and granted them a superior dignity and a shared mission towards the whole of creation” : Pope Benedict XVI visits Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 November Pope Benedict XVI visited the offices of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, located in the Casina Pio IV in the Vatic ...
• 22 November 2005
  ASIA/VIET NAM - The Pope establishes the diocese of Ba Ria and appoints first bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 November 2005 created the diocese of Ba Ria (Viet Nam) with territory taken from the diocese of Xuân Lôc making it suffragan of the metropolitan ...
• 22 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Campus Bio-Medic: opens academic year 2005-2006 with celebrations for new hospital under construction and start of building on research centre Rome (Fides Service) - Wednesday 23 November at 11.30, to mark the opening of the academic year 2005-2006, Campus Bio-Medico University will celebrate only 11 months after the laying of the foundation stone, the closing ...