News

• 23 September 2005
  EUROPA/ESTONIA - Ordination in Tallinn of new Bishop Apostolic Administrator of Estonia Tallinn (Fides Service) - Mgr Philippe Jourdan, appointed Apostolic Administrator of Estonia in March this year by Pope John Paul II of venerated memory, was ordained a bishop on 10 September in Tallinn by papal nuncio A ...
• 23 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Prestigious UNESCO award to Catholic priest at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Fr. Michel Lagarde, professor of Arab language and culture, is to receive the Sharjah Award for Arab Culture 2005 assigned by UNESCO and funded by the United Arab Emirates. This i ...
• 23 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Pontifical Mission Societies Office in Spain launches prayer and solidarity campaign for Sahel region of Africa where many of Spain’s missionaries are serving Madrid (Fides Service) - Bishop Francisco Pérez national director of the PMS in Spain has launched a campaign in aid of people in the Sahel region of Africa afflicted by a critical food shortage, more than 5 million men ...
• 23 September 2005
  AFRICA - Feverish work in Malawi and Zambia to complete construction of two new Catholic Universities before the end of next year Lusaka (Fides Service)- Before the end of next year Africa will have two more Catholic Universities one in Zambia and the other Malawi thanks to the respective Catholic Bishops’ Conferences. “The project is careful ...
• 23 September 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Any collaboration of the Church in ‘drugtrafficking’ is not only without foundation it is contrary to its vast work of social assistance”: Bishops- statement Mexico City (Fides Service) - In a statement with regard presumed donations to the Catholic of illegally obtained money the Catholic Bishops of Mexico declared “the Catholic Church is contrary to all immoral conduct... ...
• 23 September 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - To close the Year of the Eucharist Guadalajara organises Great Eucharistic Parish Mission 23 to 30 October Guadalajara (Fides Service) - A year after it hosted the 48th International Eucharistic Congress which officially opened the Year of the Eucharist, Guadalajara archdiocese in Mexico will close this special year given to ...
• 23 September 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Evangelisation in area of Gui Lin visited by tourists from near and far Gui Lin (Fides) - “We focus all our efforts on evangelisation”, Rev Tao Shou Ying, parish priest at Gui Li parish in Guang Xi province told Hebei Catholic bulltin Faith “It is right to make our church as beautiful ...
• 23 September 2005
  AFRICA - Hunger alarm in southern Africa: almost 9 million people risk starvation Rome (Fides Service) - There is a growing food alarm in southern Africa. “The government of Malawi has written to foreign ambassadors asking for international aid because the food shortage is destined to become worse i ...
• 23 September 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential elections announced for 17 November, state of emergency extended, rising social tension Colombo (Fides Service) - For Sri Lanka there is a fluid political season on the horizon with the announced presidential elections on 17 November and increasing political and social conflict. On 21 September parliament ...
• 22 September 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - “As the new school year starts the family finds itself at the epicentre of social and ecclesial upheaval We must lose no time in updating and intensifying pastoral care for families” urges Cardinal archbishop of Madrid Madrid (Fides Service) - “We must lose no time in updating and intensifying pastoral care for families” Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Valera archbishop of Madrid said on September 18 during his weekly Sunday address on ...
• 22 September 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - With help from the diocese the Chinese University Hong Kong opens a Centre for Studies on Catholicism Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Hong Kong Catholic diocese and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have agreed to promote academic study of Catholicism. According to Hong Kong’s diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the diocese do ...
• 22 September 2005
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Gathering of 1,500 young Papuans determined to follow Jesus in the spirit of World Youth Day Port Moresby (Fides Service) - At least 1,500 young Papuans determined to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ took part in a recent Youth Festival styled after this Summer’s great World Youth Day event in Germany i ...
• 22 September 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Eucharist, bread of eternal life”: Arequipa launches initiatives in preparation for Diocesan Eucharistic Congress Arequipa (Fides Service) - In response to calls by Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI to foster the faithful’s encounter with Christ in the Eucharist especially in this Year of the Eucharist, the diocese of Arequipa is ...
• 22 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - In five years Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital “visits” in more than forty countries Rome (Fides Service) - At a press conference yesterday held at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital there was a presentation of projects launched by the Hospital in recent years projects involving doctors and missionaries ...
• 22 September 2005
  “CARTONIDI FABULAE looking to see what lies beyond our own joy ”: exhibition opens 23 September Rome (Fides Service) - As part of the third edition of ‘Roma Design and more’ 22-27 September 2005, the department for Art, Design and New Technologies I.T.A.C.A at La Sapienza University Rome and Rome Provincial Ass ...