News

• 22 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - On the eve of elections Catholic Bishops call attention to bio-ethics Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - In view of elections for parliament and a new prime minister on 24 November, the Catholic Bishops of Australia have brought the issue of bio-ethics to the attention of the country's political l ...
• 21 November 2007
  VATICAN - Pro Orantibus Day- “Contemplative life, a treasure and a gift”: a contribution by the Benedictines of Santa Maria in Rosano Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pro Orantibus Day was instituted by Pope Pius XII on 21 November 1953, the feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Temple, as a day for all the faithful to thank God for ...
• 21 November 2007
  VATICAN - Consecrated persons and lay men and women together in the great adventure of Christian education: Congregation for Catholic Education presents new document Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of the document “Educating together in Catholic Schools. Shared Mission of Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful”, issued by the Congregation for Education, is to “offer po ...
• 21 November 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - How great is Mary! Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Next Sunday we will celebrate the solemnity of Christ the King, and today is the feast of the Presentation of Our Lady at the Temple: the purest of creatures is offered to God, she is conse ...
• 21 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Osservatore Romano: Nuns in the cloister, the Internet breaks the silence - Schoenstatt diversely-able priest evangelises via the Internet. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “With time the cloister has changed. Today the silence is broken by the Internet. In the past only the bell marked the passing of time. The convent walls seemed impassable. Today computer ...
• 21 November 2007
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Catholic Church leaders issue statement on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: “a dangerous and unnecessary precedent which does not respect the dignity of the human person.” Glasgow (Agenzia Fides) - Leading members of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, and Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, who is also Chairman of the Joint C ...
• 21 November 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Helping married couples live marriage according to God's plan Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - The Fédération Africaine d’Action Familiale (FAAF), whose mission is to help couples live their love and parenthood in keeping with God's plan, recently organised a workshop to draft a Handbo ...
• 21 November 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - “We intend to continue our mission with the same enthusiasm of the first missionaries” says new Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, in Rome for ad limina visit Roma (Agenzia Fides)-“We are satisfied with the growth of the Church thanks first of all to the work of missionaries” said Kenya's new Cardinal Archbishop John Njue Nairobi and president of the Catholic Bishops Confe ...
• 21 November 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - At the end of Cape Coast Seminar African and European Bishops call for new international economic order to end to new forms of slavery Cape Coast (Agenzia Fides)- ''New forms of slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, child soldiers, prostitution, etc., are due mainly to the enormous economic gap between rich and poor countries and between the rich a ...
• 21 November 2007
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Caritas Bangladesh point of reference for Cathholic humanitarian assistance, with the support of Caritas Internationalis: Fides speaks with a missionary in Dacca Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - The machine of humanitarian aid is moving despite a thousand difficulties to help three million displaced persons who survived the fury of cyclone Sidr, which struck southern Bangladesh on 15 Nove ...
• 21 November 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Religious women show they are happy and balanced: Sisters of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Liao Ning diocese take part in Sports and Games Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - In China of today dominated by consumerism but where there is also a powerful reawakening of religious sentiments and spiritual searching, Catholic Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Fu S ...
• 21 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - School support programmes in El Salvador and India to help a total 1,200 children Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Two countries and two different programmes to guarantee children the right to education: on the occasion of Universal Children's Day, Intervita international organisation builds solar energy plants ...
• 21 November 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops in plenary assembly elect leading members: Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic confirmed Bishops' Conference President Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Chile are holding their 94th plenary assembly at Punta de Tralca, which opened on Monday 19 November with a Mass presided by the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Al ...
• 21 November 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Catholic religious concerned: people have not been given enough time to understand contents and implications of the proposed constitutional reforms Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "For Justice, Peace and Hope" is the title of a statement issued at the end of a meeting of Catholic men and women Religious of Venezuela who express "concern in the national situation and propo ...
• 21 November 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Sisters Evangelise at Internet cafes Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Becoming familiar with the Internet and new information technology and evangelise at the same time, telling people that being Christians in the third millennium means using the present day media ...