News
6 September 2006
AFRICA/GUINEA -UNHCR assisted repatriation of Liberian refugees from the Guinea region of Kissidougou has been completed
Conakry (Agenzia Fides)- The last convoy voluntary repatriation programme for Liberian refugees in the Kissidougou region of Guinea organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has reached its desti ...
6 September 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - Italian Education Science students get Summer experience in Kenya with Comboni organisation AMANI
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Eight students of Education Science at the Catholic University of Rome, spent a Summer period of experience in a district of the city of Nairobi, where their shared daily life with a group of child ...
6 September 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - “The emergency continues for earthquake victims and displaced persons Yoyakarta and Bandung, more help urgently need before the rains come”, says National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Indonesia
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - “We continue to provide humanitarian aid to displaced persons affected by natural disasters in the past months. Our Pontifical Mission Societies group of lay volunteers continues to collect mo ...
6 September 2006
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Country searching for a solution, elections postponed until October: what is needed is courage and decision in seeking a true and just peace”
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “The political path of Côte d'Ivoire is mapped out until late October when there will be elections, postponed for the umpteenth time. This postponement opened a debate on what direction to tak ...
6 September 2006
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Local Catholic Church strives to be “voice, feet and hands” of Christ in a Muslim majority society
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - “Christians as members of the Body of Christ are called to be His voice, His feet, His hands” says Jesuit Father O.C. Lim, editor of “Catholic Asian News” a monthly publication issu ...
6 September 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocese intensifies preparation for World Mission Sunday
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic diocese of Hong Kong is involved in intense preparation for World Mission Sunday 22 October with the theme “Charity Soul of Mission” the title of the Pope’s message for this ...
5 September 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - “Violence in the Bible”, theme of 39th National Bible Week organised by the Italian Bible Association ABI
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From the 11th to the 15th September 2006 the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome will host Italy’s 39th National Bible Week promoted by the Associazione Biblica Italiana (ABI). Where are the ...
5 September 2006
ASIA/BAHRAIN - First Conference on health and food emergency among children and adolescents in the Persian Gulf
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Emirate of Bahrain, will host the first Gulf Children and Adolescents Nutrition Conference. According to the Association for Medical Cooperation in Mediterranean countries (AMCM), the meeting w ...
5 September 2006
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - UN Convention on Disability Rights will restore dignity and equality to 650 million people
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 'Nothing about us, without us' is the motto of a United Nations Convention on the Rights of people with a disability. A slogan to promote social inclusion, for the drafting of a convention finally ...
5 September 2006
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - More details with regard to the murder of St John of God Brother Augustine Taiwa
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Fides has received more details with regard to the murder of St John of God Hospitaller Brother Augustine Taiwa on 28 August outside Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea (see Fides 2/9/2006). T ...
5 September 2006
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa call for “more attention for psychological and spiritual treatment of AIDS orphans”
Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - During their recent Plenary Assembly in August the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa voiced deep concern for the situation of AIDS orphans. “It is not only a questions of funds” the Bish ...
5 September 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Chapter General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin elects new Minister General Friar Mauro Jöhri. Increase in presence in Asia, decrease in central northern Europe
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Chapter General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin on 4 September elected a new Minister General for a six year mandate 2006-2012, Friar Mauro Jöhri, born on 1 September 1947 at Bivio, Cant ...
5 September 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - “Justice, solidarity and Christian witness to meet social challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean”: theme of Second Congress on the Social Teaching of the Church
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Imagining a Continent for everyone: justice, solidarity and Christian witness to meet new social challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean” is the theme of the 2nd Congress on the Soc ...
5 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Restored St Mary’s Basilica Karnataka re-opens: source of peace and harmony among religions
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of over 30,000 Catholics gathered for the solemn reopening of Saint Mary’s Basilica near Bangalore, in the south western Indian state of Karnataka.
A special mass with the blessing ...
5 September 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Daegu University hosts annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Universities of South East Asia
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives, teachers and students of more than 51 Catholic colleges and universities in seven different countries of the Asian-Pacific region gathered at the Catholic University of Daegu, in ...
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