News
11 March 2006
VATICAN - International Convention on 40th anniversary of Vatican II ad gentes decree: challenges and prospects for mission in Asia: Reflections by newly named Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, Archbishop of Seoul and Archbishop Oswald Gracias President of the Indian Bishops’ Conference
Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the International Convention on 40th anniversary of Vatican II ad gentes decree organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples in Rome, speaking on March 10, the ne ...
10 March 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Ten years on seventy couples renew marriage promises during a special Mass centred on the Christian understanding of married life and the family
Beijing (Fides Service) - Seventy married couples recently renewed their promises 10 years on during a special mass at Gao Qing parish church in the diocese of Zhou Cun in Shang Dong coastal province of China. In the sa ...
10 March 2006
VATICAN - International Convention for 40th Anniversary of the Council Decree Ad gentes”: “Mission and Inculturation” and “Mission today and Challenges of Tomorrow”
Vatican City (Fides Service) -On Thursday 9 March at the International Convention for the 40th anniversary of the Council Decree Ad Gentes on the missionary activity of the Church, Rev. Juvénal Ilunga Muya, Docent at th ...
10 March 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Fides Service) - «Adult» Faith. Various authors in recent decades have treated the question of faith and its internal dynamics, and in no few cases and not always to be truthful in a manner sufficiently c ...
10 March 2006
VATICAN - Challenges and prospects for mission in Europe: interventions by Cardinal Joachim Meisner Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal Vinko Pulijc Archbishop of Sarajevo
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The work of the international convention promoted by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the Pontifical Urban University on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Co ...
10 March 2006
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Every day more than 250 refugees return to Liberia
Monrovia (Fides Service)- In February the programme for voluntary repatriation of Liberian refugees in west African countries organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR topped the 50,000 mark with ...
10 March 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Sad “Day for Women’s Rights” unimaginable domestic violence
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “We celebrated the Day for Women’s Rights one day later because on March 8 the diocese commemorated Bishop Bishop Luciano Nervi (see Fides 6 May 2005)” said Fr. Giorgio Gamba Italian Monf ...
10 March 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - International Conference on Catholic Television 10 to 12 October will discuss what it means to be Catholic in TV and how to form a network of Catholic TV for evangelisation
Madrid (Fides Service) - "Rapid Development” is the slogan of an International Conference on Catholic Television to be held in Madrid. The slogan was the title of an Apostolic Letter addressed to operators of social co ...
10 March 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - European National Directors Pontifical Mission Societies discuss missionary pastoral on the old continent
Palermo (Fides Service) - A Meeting of national Pontifical Mission Societies offices and Offices for missionary cooperation in Europe opens today 10 March at S. Giovanni Battista Comvent in Baida, Palermo, Italy. These E ...
10 March 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - Increasing pressure for UN peace-keepers to Darfur. Today African Union decides whether to hand control to UN
Khartoum (Fides Service)- This morning the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, meeting at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, will decide whether or not to hand control of the Darfur region ...
10 March 2006
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Formation for missionaries in view of Third American Mission Congress CAM 3 in the wake of missionary impulse from Mission Holy Year and CAM 2
San Jose (Fides Service) - “New Evangelisation and Mission” is the theme for formation courses started on 18 February for all Costa Rican missionaries in view of the third American Mission Congress CAM 3 to be held ...
9 March 2006
EUROPE/CROATIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 January 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Croatia for a f ...
9 March 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe opens international convention on the Council decree Ad gentes forty years on : “An act of homage to our heroic missionaries who spend their lives often in difficult and dangerous conditions so Christ may be announced and all men and women may receive salvation”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - An international Convention on the 40th anniversary of the Ad gentes Council decree being held at the Pontifical Urban University was opened this morning by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefec ...
9 March 2006
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “In Guatemala human life has lost all its value”: Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruño denounces culture of death which produces, abuse of the person, indifference to suffering, violation of moral norms and human rights, threats to human life
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “Lent finds us in times when our people of Guatemala are overshadowed by unchecked violence and serious threats to life” said the Catholic archbishop of Guatemala City, Cardinal Rodol ...
9 March 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Religious called to “put out into the deep” in the ocean of the Internet
Rome (Fides Service) - Prof. Vincenzo Comodo who teaches Sociology and Communications Science at the Regina Apostolorum college and the Claretianum College recently published a book in Italian “Cons@crati on line. Int ...
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