News
7 June 2006
AMERICA/PERU - On Feast of Corpus Christi Callao diocese starts Marian Jubilee Year to mark 4th centenary of the shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel
Callao (Fides Service) - The diocese of Callao in Peru is preparing to celebrate the 4th centenary of the Shrine of Our Lady of Carmel of the Legua. For the occasion the Bishop of Callao, Bishop Miguel Irizar, has called ...
7 June 2006
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops give members of parliament copies of the Bible and the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bible and the Social Doctrine of the Church as resources in the struggle to eliminate poverty in Bolivia. The Catholic Bishops of Bolivia have taken an unprecedented initiative deciding to se ...
7 June 2006
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MONUC supplies medical and social assistance in Bunkonde
Kananga (Agenzia Fides) - The Senegalese contingent of the unit of integrated police of the United Nations mission in Congo/Kinshasa, MONUC, supplied emergency care for people in Bunkonde a small locality of 10,000 inhab ...
7 June 2006
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISANDS - Communication to “build bridges”: seminar for pastoral workers
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - “You are building that bridge - between a village culture and a cash culture”, said Dr. John Roughan as he addressed the participants at the Media Education Seminar for parish animators, at ...
7 June 2006
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 1st National Meeting of Hispanic Youth Pastoral to insert young Hispanics in the life and mission of the local Church
Indianapolis (Agenzia Fides) - More than 2,000 young people, bishops, diocesan and parish youth pastoral and leaders of youth movements will attend 1st National Meeting of Hispanic Youth Pastoral 8-11 June at Notre Dame ...
7 June 2006
ASIA/INDIA - A hundred years after the arrival of the Gospel, Raigarh celebrates for a new bishop and a new diocese in Jashpur
Raigarh (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred years since the arrival of the Christian message in the area of Raigarh (Chhattisgarh State) the local Catholic community is celebrating the arrival of a new Bishop Mgr. Paul Toppo, ag ...
7 June 2006
ASIA/JAPAN - Japanese Catholics pray for Beatification of 188 martyrs
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Beatification of Peter Kassui Kibe and 187 other 17th century martyrs will be an important event for the Catholics of Japan. Fr Fuyuki Hirabaschi, secretary of the Japanese Bishops’ Conferen ...
7 June 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Irish missionary Marist Brother dies at 94 having spent 70 years on mission in the Far East
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Students and Marist brother teachers gathered for Mass on 2 June at St Francis parish in Hong Kong in memory of Irish born Fr. Kenny, who died at the age of 94 having spent 70 years on missi ...
6 June 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Day for Families programme includes novelties, International Family Fair and Family Rosary performed by children
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - The programme has been released for the 5th World Meeting of Families to be held 1 to 9 July in Valencia, Spain on the theme "Handing on the faith in the family". The event will have four main ...
6 June 2006
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Christians all over the world will observe June 25 special day of prayer for North Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday June 25 Christians of different confessions in various parts of the world will observe a special day of prayer for North Korea with prayer vigils and special services and prayers.
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6 June 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The social exclusion of so many of our brothers calls us not to be resigned to this situation we must revise our attitudes”: message from president of the Bishops’ Commission for Caritas Argentina in view of annual collection 11 June
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “On Sunday 11 June with the Annual Collection we will call for a gesture of concrete solidarity which at the same time will increase awareness of the need to work to assure that no one is ...
6 June 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI opens Rome’s Annual Diocesan Church Meeting: “The more we nourish ourselves with Christ, the more we are in love with Him, the more we feel impelled to bring others to Him: in fact we cannot keep for ourselves the joy of the faith, we feel the need to share it.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The discovery of the beauty and joy of the faith is a journey which every new generation must travel for itself because the faith touches all that is ours, our most intimate thoughts, ou ...
6 June 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - After the earthquake in Java, volunteers in Semarang diocese work tirelessly
Yoyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the earthquake in Java which affected mainly the city of Yoyakarta, aid is funded more by private than government contributions. In the days following the quake in which 6,000 wer ...
6 June 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - “Carrying God’s love to all”: vocation evening and exhibition encourage young people to discover that a vocation is an expression of Love
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Help participants, above all young people, understand that a vocation is an expression of Love and that Christians have a duty to carry God’s love to all people: these motivations inspired a ...
6 June 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Church Movements: springtime for mission in Oceania
Paramatta (Agenzia Fides) - New Church Movements and Communities are a springtime for mission in Oceania said Bishop Kevin Manning of Paramatta diocese after Pope Benedict XVI June 3 meeting in Rome with Movements and ...
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