News

• 10 January 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Every year 200,000 legal abortions and an unknown number of illegal abortions. National Pro Life March in Paris on Sunday 21 January Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every year in France the deaths of 220,000 aborted babies are officially registered. Since abortion was legalised in France in 1974 more than 7 million babies have been aborted. Once again this ...
• 10 January 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - First National Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru 15 to 18 January will deepen missionary spirituality and build bonds of reciprocal knowledge and brotherhood Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Lima will host the First National Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru from 15 to 18 January, Fides was informed by executive secretary of the meeting Fr. Ambrogio Cortesi. The meeting, to be ...
• 10 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Fighting in Somalia continues, situation in the capital Mogadishu still tense Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Military operations in Somalia by Government troops and the Ethiopian army to oust the militia of the Union of Islamic Courts continue. Various air strikes are reported but it is not known whe ...
• 10 January 2007
  AFRICA/CHAD - United Nations High Commission for Refugees concerned about security situation of 220,000 refugees from Darfur N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - UNHCR remains extremely concerned over the security situation in eastern Chad, where there are more than 220,000 Darfur refugees and now over 100,000 internally displaced Chadians - 20,000 o ...
• 10 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The banquet of differences. Dialogue in the societies of the third millennium” International Conference at Urban University Rome (Fides Service) - “The banquet of differences. Dialogue in the societies of the third millennium” is the title of an International Conference organised for 11 and 12 January by the Missiology Department of the ...
• 10 January 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Slovenian - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There have been Christians in Slovenia since the 2nd century. A most important figure of the early Christian community was Bishop Saint Victorinus, martyred in the 3rd century in persecutio ...
• 10 January 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - 4th National Mission: Catholic university and high school students bear witness to Christ in 58 different areas of the country Santiago (Fides Service) - Once again this year Catholic university students and high school pupils in Chile are spending part of their three month Summer holidays on mission in various parts of the country as part of th ...
• 10 January 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Through prayer and service Legion of Mary consolidates the faith: 85th anniversary Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of celebrations for the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Legion of Mary, the spiritual director of the local Praesidium Fr Ferdinand Lok Hung Cheong, told Hong Kong’ ...
• 9 January 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Ambassadors: “It is by respecting the human person that peace can be promoted, and it is by building peace that the foundations of an authentic integral humanism are laid. Yes, the future can be serene if we work together for humanity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 8 January Pope Benedict XVI met the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for the customary exchange of New Year greetings. After an opening discourse by the ...
• 9 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Family Policy Institute calls for National Plan to sustain the birth rate in a situation of social catastrophe of rising numbers of abortions Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish Family Policy Institute IPF a growing number of Spanish women choose to abort their babies. IPF president Eduardo Hertfelder, said today 2 out of 10 pregnancies are termi ...
• 9 January 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral letter 2007 “Social Concern and Evangelisation”: Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference in Taiwan reflect and act on Encyclical “Deus Caritas est” Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference in Taiwan issued a pastoral letter for the year 2007, dated Dec. 25, 2006, in which they suggest practical ways for Catholics to perform charitable work. ...
• 9 January 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Application of Plenary Council, CELAM 5, democracy, constitutional reform, corruption and violence: issue addressed by Bishops’ Conference president during 87th assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In his opening address at the 87th of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, CEV, Conference President Bishop Ubaldo Santana presented a panorama of the Church and the nation starting ...
• 9 January 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Economy is growing but balance of payments must be watched” says governor Central Congolese Bank Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Stable the first half of the year, “turbulent” in the second. This was how the governor of the Central Bank of Congo Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo described Congo’s economy in the past 12 mo ...
• 9 January 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI and Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples send letters of condolence to the Church in Congo for the death of Cardinal Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After receiving the news of the death of Cardinal Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi CICM, Archbishop of Kinshasa in Congo, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addressed a telegramme of sympat ...
• 9 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “We must avoid adding fuel to the fire” says Catholic Bishop of Djibouti Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “Prudence should guide all human activity. All the more in a country such as Somalia. This action could add fuel to an explosive situation” this was how Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti, w ...