News
1 March 2006
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Many disadvantaged minors in Angola’s larger cities get caught in crime, the local Catholic Church works to free them
Luanda (Fides Service) - Angola’s National Crime Investigation Office recently expressed concern for the growing number of minors in large cities caught up in criminal activity. Local Catholic Church sources in the cap ...
1 March 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - Growing drug consumption in Kenya with “peddlers targeting children” says local Catholic missionary
Nairobi (Fides Service)- “In recent years Kenya has become a centre not only for drug transit but also for increasing drug abuse” says Italian Consolata missionary Fr Eugenio Ferrari National Director of the Pontific ...
1 March 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - Flow of refugees in both directions between Chad and Sudan. Growing concern in the international community
Khartoum (Fides Service) - There is increasing concern for the situation of insecurity on the Sudan Chad border after the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR said it was registering movement of people in bo ...
1 March 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Indian Jesuits launches new Association for Islamic Studies
New Delhi (Fides Service) - To promote reciprocal knowledge between Christians and Muslims and Hindus in India, encourage dialogue and build a culture of tolerance, pluralism and inter-religious harmony the Jesuit commu ...
1 March 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Many young people among worshippers in church this morning for Ash Wednesday penitential liturgy
Beijing (Fides Service) -There were many young people among worshippers in churches in the capital this morning for the Ash Wednesday penitential liturgy which marks the beginning of Lent, says a lay Catholic in Beijing. ...
1 March 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic youth ministers in Sydney in July for first National Youth Symposium also in view of hosting 2008 World Youth Day, the first in Oceania
Sydney (Fides Service) - ‘Builders and Dreamers: Creating Sustainable Ministry with Young People’ is the theme of the first national youth symposium to be held in Sydney in July. The event will give Catholic youth mi ...
1 March 2006
ASIA/CAMBOGIA - Inauguration of new Catholic technical training school and comprehensive Care Centre for people with AIDS named after Pope John Paul II
Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - To mark the 450th anniversary of its foundation this year, the Catholic community in Cambodia has a new professional Training School and a Centre for AIDS patients both recently inaugurated b ...
1 March 2006
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Lenten Message from the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference: The programme of every Christian must be a “heart which ‘sees’ where love is needed and acts accordingly”.
Cartago (Fides Service) - The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica, Bishop José Francisco Ulloa Rojas of Cartago addressed a Lenten message to Catholics with the title “Lent, a season for enc ...
28 February 2006
AMERICA/PERU - The Pope appoints Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez archbishop of Santo Domingo his Special Envoy to Celebrations for 4th Centenary of the death of Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo
Lima (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Archbishop of Santo Domingo Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez his Special Envoy to celebrations for the 4th centenary of the death of ...
28 February 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing with joy” Lenten charity campaign in aid of thousands of homeless Colombians victims of natural disasters or manmade violence
Bogota (Fides Service) - Colombians forced out of their homes by natural disasters or man made violence will be the first to benefit from a the funds raised by the annual Lenten charity campaign organised by the Colombia ...
28 February 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay Catholics help prisoners live Lent more intensely and promote evangelisation in prisons
Hong Kong (Fides) - “Who is the prisoner”? “What can a prisoner do for others”? “How can prisoners live their sentence united with Christ?”: these questions are part of a course organised for Lent 2006 by a H ...
28 February 2006
VATICAN - The Pope addresses Pontifical Academy for Life: “God’s love makes no distinction between the unborn child still in the mother’s womb, the baby, the youth, the grown adult or the elderly, because in each of them He sees the sign of His own image and likeness”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the late morning on Monday 27 February the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI received participants at the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life currently considering the them ...
28 February 2006
VATICAN - “To build your life on Christ, to accept the word with joy and put its teachings into practice: this, young people of the third millennium, should be your programme!” - The Pope’s message for the 21st World Youth Day
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Your word is a lamp to my feet a light to my path" (Ps 118[119], 105): is the theme of the Message which Pope Benedict XVI has addressed to young Catholics all over the world on the occ ...
27 February 2006
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Fraternity and people with a disability”: March 1 launching of 2006 Campaign organised by the Catholic Bishops of Brazil and the Office for the annual Lenten Fraternity Campaign
Belo Horizonte (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Brazil and the Office for the annual Lenten Fraternity Campaign have organised the 2006 campaign on the theme Fraternity and people with a disability with the mott ...
27 February 2006
AFRICA/GAMBIA - The Pope accepts the resignation of the Bishop of Banjul and appoints Successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 25 February accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Banjul (Gambia) presented by Bishop Michael J. Cleary in conformity ...
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