News

• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We cannot just passively accept such a serious attack on our traditions and our way of life”: Bishops of Spain defend authentic marriage and the family for the good of the nation and society Madrid (Fides Service) - Since the Spanish parliament approved amendments to the law to allow homosexual couples to “marry" and adopt children and to make divorce proceedings “express” the Catholic Bishops of Spain ...
• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA - Crime and under-development in Africa. New report from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime presented in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- Crime is a component of Africa’s underdevelopment. This emerged during the presentation of a new report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC. The report was presented yeste ...
• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Many local Muslims among the mourners for assassinated Bishop Locati. Funeral tomorrow Nairobi (Fides Service)- The funeral of Bishop Luigi Locati Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo, northern Kenya assassinated on 14 July will be held tomorrow Wednesday 20 June in Isiolo Cathedral. “The Bishop will be buried in ...
• 19 July 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Moluccas ports open again: locals hope for return of tourists to boost poor economy Ambon (Fides Service) - The word tourism has been banned in the Moluccas for years, since civil strife began in 2000 and dashed all hopes of seeing the arrival of foreign visitors. Indeed for security reasons the ports w ...
• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Number of children treated at Bambino Gesù Hospital doubles in a year: Rumanians and Filipinos most numerous Rome (Fides Service) - In 2004 the 10,062 little patients treated at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome were from many different countries and spoke many different languages and compared to the previous year 200 ...
• 18 July 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope offers sincere condolences to the clergy and faithful of Isiolo after the assassination of the Vicar apostolic and expresses gratitude for the Bishop’s life of witness in telegrammes to the Papal Nuncio in Kenya and the Archbishop of Vercelli Vatican City (Fides Service) - On behalf of Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Angelo Sodano Holy See secretary of state addressed a telegramme to the Papal Nuncio in Kenya Archbishop Alain Lebeaupin in which he said the Holy Fa ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI on 16 July 2005 appointed Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro (Central African Republic) Rev. Albert Vanbuel, S.D.B., President of Major Superiors in Central Africa. The new Bishop Al ...
• 18 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Association of Catholic Doctors in Italy remembers murdered Bishop Luigi Locati, an exemplary priest, bishop and missionary who honoured the diocese of Vercelli Rome (Fides Service) - Deeply saddened by the tragic assassination of Bishop Luigi Locati, Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo in Kenya who was orginally from Vercelli in Italy, Italy’s Association of Catholic Doctors based in V ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya remembers Bishop Locati. Funeral in Isiolo Cathedral on Wednesday Nairobi (Fides Service)- “All Kenya is mourning the death of Italian born Bishop Locati. Yesterday at Sunday masses special prayers were offered for the bishop and for all the victims of violence in northern Kenya” s ...
• 18 July 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus from his holiday residence in Valle d’Aosta: In contact with nature we rediscover the right dimension, we realise that each one of us is a creature, small but unique … in the world around us we see signs of God’s goodness and providence and almost naturally we are moved to praise God and to pray Les Combes (Fides Service) - On Sunday 17 July Pope Benedict XVI from Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta where he is staying for a short period of rest led the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer with people gathered in f ...
• 18 July 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples remembers Bishop Locati and his “diligent and tireless missionary activity” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In a telegramme addressed to the Archbisop Enrico Masseroni of Vercelli after the tragic assassination of Bishop Luigi Locati Vicar Apostlic of Isiolo in Kenya, originally from Vercelli, C ...
• 18 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 25 years of AIDS: infant deaths for AIDS a thing of the past at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. Now let’s see about Africa: hope starts in Tanzania Rome (Fides Service) - Twenty five years have passed since researchers in the United States identified acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS which was soon to develop into a pandemic causing millions of deaths mainly ...
• 18 July 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Young Adult Ignatian Ministry prepares to take part in World Youth Day in Germany Sydney (Fides Service) -In view of the 20th World Youth Day in Germany in the coming month of August, Young Adult Ignatian Ministry YAIM has organised Magis World Youth Day for young people aged between 18 adn 26 especia ...
• 18 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mission via SMS: mobile messages with Gospel verses, spiritual thoughts, local Church information Seoul (Fides Service) - In Korea, as all over the world, mobile phones are not only popular they have become essential for most people. In view of this recently a parish in Seoul archdiocese had the idea of using this mo ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “We have allowed a culture of violence to persist among us since the time of the liberation war” say Christian leaders in a joint pastoral letter for the 25th anniversary of the country’s independence Harare (Fides Service)- “Violence has really made its home among us” Christian leaders in Zimbabwe said in a joint Letter issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the country’s independence. In the Letter “Call to ...