News

• 30 November 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Promote “second generation” vegetable fuels advise experts meeting in the capital of Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides)- Increase the use of fuels of African vegetable in view of the exhaustion of fossil fuels. This was advised by experts at a meeting which ended on 29 November in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkin ...
• 30 November 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Civil society, international organisations and religious communities discuss climate change effects Bali (Agenzia Fides) - Bali will be the world capital of ecology for a few days when experts from all over the world meet to discuss climate and global warming from 3 to 14 December. The meeting is sponsored by the Unite ...
• 30 November 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Sanctification of the Family” Advent 2007 theme chosen by local Catholic Church Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The family is the first place for the handing on of the faith and education to spiritual life; a place where the child learns to pray and to live a relationship of love with other people; a place ...
• 30 November 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops urge the people to put the good of the country before personal opinions and sentiments, to work to build true peace which comes with reconciliation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Colombia faithful to the Church's mission and commitment " to be witnesses of hope even in times of difficulty" have issued a statement expressing the hope that confrontat ...
• 30 November 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - On the eve of the Referendum, a Day of prayer and fasting, that "Jesus may reign in Venezuela and in the hearts of the people” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the referendum on Sunday 2 December when over 16 million Venezuelans will vote yes or no to proposed constitutional amendments to change 69 of 350 articles in the Constitution of 199 ...
• 30 November 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Santa Rosa "totally rejects" approval of the "inhuman act contrary to natural" of “therapeutic” abortion Santa Rosa (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Rinaldo Fidel Bredice, Bishop of Santa Rosa, has expressed "total rejection" of what is termed as “therapeutic” abortion recently approved by the regional parliament. The Bishop sa ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope's catechesis dedicated to the figure of Saint Ephrem, “still relevant for the life of the different Churches”: “his is a theological reflection expressed with images and symbols taken from nature, from daily life and from the Bible” - Appeal for World AIDS Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a widespread opinion today that Christianity is a European religion which exported the culture of this continent to other countries. But the truth is much more complex since the Ch ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope calls young migrants to be “ protagonists as of now of a world where understanding and solidarity, justice and peace will reign.” - Papal Message for 94th World Day for Migrants and Refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The vast globalisation process underway around the world brings a need for mobility, which also induces many young people to emigrate and live far from their families and their countrie ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Italian edition of Pope Benedict XVI's New Encyclical “Spe salvi” included with December 9th issue of Catholic weekly “Famiglia Cristiana” - Collect and recycle mobile phones to support development programmes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian version of Pope Benedict XVI's new Encyclical XVI “Spe salvi” (Saved by Hope), to be made public at the Holy See Press Office on Friday 30 November, will be included with t ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Reality comes before ideology, including that of “gender”. Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Never before as in these times of proclaimed ecological sensitivity, only on the nature of man everything and the opposite of everything can be said and done. Especially in the western area ...
• 29 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “I am working myself out of my job: I want to make sure women are no longer reduced to slavery:” a staff member of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII tells Fides Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “We are really grateful to Pope Benedict XVI for including a powerful appeal for an end to slavery in his Message for the next World Day for Migrants and Refugees ” said Gianpiero Cofano of the ...
• 29 November 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Symposium on Catholic Social Doctrine reflects on new needs of integral development in new world scenarios Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - An International Symposium on Catholic Social Doctrine organised by the Spanish Bishops' Commission for Social Pastoral care will be held at the Paul VI Foundation in Madrid 30 November and 1 Dec ...
• 29 November 2007
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Hope for peace is stronger scepticism” a Catholic missionary in the north of Ivory Coast tells Fides Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides)- “Ivory Coast continues to swing from hope and scepticism, but I am convinced the former is going to win” says a Catholic mission in the northern Ivory Coast city of Bouaké. “Scepticis ...
• 29 November 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mangichi Diocesan Youth Day at the first Catholic Mission: “Our young Christians of today have rediscovered their roots” said a local Italian missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “Persistent heat of 40 degrees for the past few weeks, did not dissuade young people in the diocese of Mangochi from taking part in the Diocesan Day for Youth. Our youngsters take part in many ...
• 29 November 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Retreat at Beijing seminary marks 10th year of lay formation courses in response to Vatican II's Ad Gentes decree Beijing (Agenzia Fides) -To promote faith formation and particular missionary formation for the laity in the Church of the third millennium and forming missionaries for the diocese of Beijing and to mark the 10th year of ...