News

• 14 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “A land blessed by God ruined by human greed”: a Congolese miner tells how his country is robbed of its mineral resources Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “When He created the earth, the Lord gave Congo a large quality of different minerals, diamonds, copper, gold, uranium, coltan, cassiterite, as well as others still to be extracted like gas an ...
• 14 March 2007
  AMERICA/HAITI - 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas Meeting aim to strengthen bonds and intensify articulated sharing Port au Prince (Fides Service) - From 19-23 March 16th Port au Prince will host the 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and the 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas Meeting on the theme "Disciples an ...
• 13 March 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - Ghanean White Father killed on mission Nairobi (Fides Service)- A White Father, a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Africa, was shot dead on Saturday 10 March in Nairobi, Kenya. Fr. Martin Addai was in his car on the Mombasa Road in the South ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Statutes of the Shalom Community approved by Pontifical Council for the Laity Vatican City (Fides Service) - About 500 members of the Shalom community, Catholics of all walks of life, priests, couples, single people, arrived in Rome to celebrate Pontifical recognition of the Shalom Catholic Commun ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Acts Faith, Hope, Charity and Sorrow (I) Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Quasi modo geniti infantes: rationabiles, sine dolo lac concupiscite” (1 Peter 2,2) (“Like new-born babies all your longing should be for milk-the unadulterated spiritual milk-which ...
• 13 March 2007
  EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - “The challenge of worldwide mission in a changing Europe”: European meeting National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies 16 to 20 March Durham (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in England and Wales are hosting the annual European meeting of National Directors in Durham this weekend (March 16th-20th).The theme for this year’s congress i ...
• 13 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 15 General Chapter of Xaverian Missionaries in June will focus on Xaverian Spirituality Rome (Fides Service) - The 15th General Chapter of the Xaverian Missionaries has been convoked in Italy for six weeks from mid June to the end of July at the Xaverian House in Tavernerio (Como), to reflect on the theme X ...
• 13 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic Church and Modern China: Urban University hosts International Colloquium Rome (Fides Service) - ‘The Catholic Church and Modern China’ was the title of an International Colloquium held on 12 March at the Pontifical Urban University. Among the speakers Fr. Wilhelm K. Muller SVD an expert o ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation of ‘Sacramentum Caritatis’ Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church signed by Pope Benedict XVI is the mature fruit of ...
• 13 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - “It is a challenge to live as authentic Christians” Bishop Oswald Gracias president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India told delegates at preparatory meeting for 2008 Indian Mission Congress Bangalore (Fides Service) - “In India it is a challenge to live as authentic Christians in our own surroundings first, to tell the Good News to our neighbours, other cultures and other religions in a dialogue of life� ...
• 13 March 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Muslim and non Muslim Australians in dialogue at Old Parliament House, Cardinal George Pell Archbishop of Sydney was there Canberra (Fides Service) - To discuss the place of Muslims in Australia some 340 non Muslim and 40 Muslim Australians were chosen from a representative sample of 1,400 Australians to take part in a 2 day meeting at Old P ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - The programme of our next reflections Vatican City (Fides Service) - Our Prayers for Lent so far have presented in different languages the texts of the hymns Ave Regina Caelorum and Stabat Mater and the complete Stations of the Cross as celebrated in Rome on ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Christ calls us to counter to evil with a serious examination of conscience and commitment to purify our life … individuals and societies which live without ever questioning their style of life are destined to ruin”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus Vatican City (Fides Service) - Conversion was the subject of the Pope’s reflection before the midday Angelus prayer in Sunday 11 March focussed on the Sunday Gospel and Jesus’ warning: "
• 12 March 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Catholics mourn Marist missionary Bishop Gerard Francis Loft who died a month ago in his native New Zealand Honiara (Fides Service) - “Jesus said to Simon Peter: do not be afraid from now on you will be fishers of men” (Lk 5, 11). This promise made by Jesus after the “miraculous catch of fish”, was fulfilled in the lif ...
• 12 March 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - On-line request for suggestions and ideas in view of great Continental Mission to follow 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences in May Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations continue for CELAM 5, the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences in Aparecida, Brazil, 13 to 31 May. The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, wi ...