News

• 29 November 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - As tension rises in the country, the local Catholic Church calls national prayer campaign "For life and reconciliation among Bolivians ” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Bolivia between government and opposition increases as strikes called in six of the country's nine regions continue. On Monday activists started a hunger strike against the President o ...
• 29 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - WYD, a turning point and new impulse to Youth Pastoral Care in Australia Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Australia's network of Catholic diocesan youth pastoral co-ordinators is working intensely in view of the 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney in July next year. The event is expected to have a major i ...
• 29 November 2007
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New Bishop of Bereina appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 29 November 2007, appointed as Bishop of Bereina (Papua New Guinea), Bishop Rochus Josef Tatamai, M.S.C., until now titular Bishop of Accia and Auxiliar ...
• 28 November 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - "With Jesus, history will never be the same again" , Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The personal story of every believer from the first real encounter with Jesus, undergoes a profound change, it will never be the same again: it becomes a story of salvation! It is no longer ...
• 28 November 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Indonesia, a country where interreligious dialogue works and bears fruit ” Interview with Jesuit Fr. Ignazio Ismartono SJ, coordinator Indonesian Bishops' Crisis and Reconciliation Service Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, interreligious dialogue works and bears fruit. Good relations between religious leaders have been consolidated and Christians are esteemed an ...
• 28 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Osservatore Romano interview with president of Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco: “A Church loved by her people in a country in need of systematic re-evangelisation” - Sr Teresa Karottukunnel, FMA and her work to help drug addicts in India: Interview - Cardinal Bertone attends Pontifical Lateran University academic act to mark 70th anniversary of new premises Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In Italia there is a Church which is not interested in the life of political parties or how politics are run, it desires simply to love and serve the people speaking out clearly and firmly, ...
• 28 November 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Abortion now the main cause of death in Spain Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is now the main cause of death in Spain" says Eduardo Hertfelder - President of the Spanish Family Policy Institute (IPF) - in the presentation of a report "Abortion in Spain: 21 years ...
• 28 November 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Cardinal Dias presides Mass to close Jubilee Year for the 25th anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Kibeho Kibeho (Agenzia Fides) - Today 28 November, in Kibeho (Rwanda), in the diocese of Gikongoro, there were important celebrations to mark the end of a special Jubilee Year on the occasion of the first apparition of the Bles ...
• 28 November 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Africa suffers effects of other continents' greenhouse gas emissions: Mozambique responds with solar panels Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialised countries threaten Africa, the continent which contributes less to global warming. This was stated by the United Nations Development Programme in a repor ...
• 28 November 2007
  AFRICA - Temporary trade agreement signed between European Union and Community of East African Countries Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- A temporary trade agreement has been reached between the European Union and the Community of East African Countries which includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The new agreement s ...
• 28 November 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Musharraf resigns as army chief, country looks towards elections, religious minorities hope for a change in electoral laws Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The political and institutional situation in Pakistan continues to evolve. Today 28 November General Pervez Musharraf handed over his position as Army Chief to Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, until now vic ...
• 28 November 2007
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops say Budapest Treaty: "must be interpreted according to Costa Rican law so as to respect the dignity of the human person or the inviolable right to life " San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Costa Rica have expressed concern with regard to the Budapest Treaty and the approval of a Bill entitled "Costa Rica joins the Budapest Treaty on the International Reco ...
• 28 November 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "In the name of the God of life I urge you to stop the race to the precipice of hatred and rancour to which they have pushed our nation”: Message from president of Bishops' Conference Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 26 November in a telephone message from Rome where he was taking part in the Consistory, Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference ...
• 28 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - May the fruit of WYD be conversion of hearts: results of a study “Youth and new evangelisation in the 21st Century ”. Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The hopes of Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Pell, the Bishops of Sydney World Youth Day organising committee are already coming true with abundant fruits: World Youth Days represent for young pilgr ...
• 28 November 2007
  ASIA/THAILAND - Health authorities Campaign to break the monopoly of anti-retroviral drugs and other medicines of difficult access for the poorest people Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Public health and HIV/AIDS activists from the developing world are seeking to break the monopoly over drugs held by pharmaceutical giants through a new global campaign designed to influence inte ...