News

• 26 June 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A new controversial lay threatens to aggravate the already precarious national economy Harare (Agenzia Fides)- The government of Zimbabwe has proposed a law to ensure that at least 51% of shares in every public company or any other business are owned by indigenous Zimbabweans. According to critics of Presi ...
• 26 June 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur contact group" will support UN and AU efforts to find solution for crisis in the western Sudan region Paris(Agenzia Fides)- A ministerial meeting in Parish of the enlarged contact group on Darfur in order to increase international mobilisation around the efforts of the African Union, European Union and the UN in Darfur a ...
• 26 June 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Deus Caritas Est theme of 2nd cycle of catechesis in Shang Hai diocese: courses draw double the number of catechumens Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical Deus Caritas Est is the theme of the 2nd cycle of catechesis in the diocese of Shang Hai. The diocese's web site says the course taking place in Qi Bao parish, 10 June to 23 Mar ...
• 26 June 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Priests and lay Catholics in Beijing in front line evangelisation anxiously await promised Papal Letter to Chinese Catholics: “Thank you Pope Benedict XVI!” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “For a long time we have been waiting and praying for precise and concrete guidelines from the Holy See. We pray that everyone will realise the great consideration and esteem the Holy Father ...
• 26 June 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in He Bei welcome a visit from Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Hong Kong Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in He Bei welcomed a delegation of 12 members of Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Hong Kong, on a visit led by parish priest Rev. Kwok. The Hong Kong Catholics visited the Cat ...
• 26 June 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fifteen days since the Italian missionary Fr Bossi disappeared, still no contact with the kidnappers; torrential rains hinder search efforts Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Government peace negotiators have sent three emissaries to the hideout of the kidnappers of Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi. The team, whose leader was involved in negotiations that led to the rel ...
• 26 June 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 20,000 demonstrators want new Constitution to guarantee respect for human life and the family and not to introduce legal abortion Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - Some 20,000 people of all ages, whole families, young people and school children took part in a march through the streets of Sucre, Bolivia, demanding that the nation's new Constitution respect fo ...
• 26 June 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Catholic Bishops call Catholics to join a Continental Mission to go out in search of those who are far from the Church and assume the challenge of evangelisation while not overlooking social duties Mexico City(Agenzia Fides) - Almost a month after the conclusion of 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida, Brazil, the Bishops of Mexico have calle ...
• 26 June 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In Brazil one out of every four babies is denied the right to life and is aborted. Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the health ministry of Brazil, every year 1.104 million women have an abortion: one out of every four babies conceived is denied the right to life and is aborted. A report issued ...
• 25 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI invokes the intercession of St John the Baptist “that also in our day the Church may remain faithful to Christ and bear witness with courage to His truth and His love for all ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the birth of John the Baptist “means in actual fact, to celebrate Christ, the fulfilment of the promises of all the prophets of whom the greatest was the Baptist called to ...
• 25 June 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses European University Lecturers: “may universities increasingly become communities committed to the tireless pursuit of truth, "laboratories of culture" where teachers and students join in exploring issues of particular importance for society” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the morning of Saturday June 23 Pope Benedict XVI received in audience participants at the first European Meeting of University Lecturers on the theme "A New Humanism for Europe. The ...
• 25 June 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: German (3) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Born Winfrid, a native of England, Benedictine monk, the Apostle of Germany, martyred in 755. His feast day June 5, the date of his martyrdom is celebrated by Catholics ad Orthodox Christi ...
• 25 June 2007
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - First Don Orione Piccolo Cottolengo opened in the suburbs of Bucharest Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - The first Don Orione Piccolo Cottolengo in Rumania was recently opened in the Bucharest suburb of Voluntari (population 130.000). In the vast area where a Charity Village is under construction ...
• 25 June 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Association of Bishops' Conference of Central Africa says “Protocol of Maputo constitutes a slow but relentless destruction of fundamental African values” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The Protocol Maputo introduces a contractual culture which constitutes a threat to the very meaning of love as a freely given gift” members of the ACEAC Association of the Bishops' Conference ...
• 25 June 2007
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops say proposal to give same sex unions the status of the institution of marriage “is totally inopportune from the point of view of natural law, constitutional right and, for us as Christians, the law of God ” San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Costa Rica has issued a statement with regard to a proposal put forward by a few members of the national assembly to give unions between same sex couples th ...