News

• 7 December 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - For mission in Asia we must “rediscover the spirit of Saint Francis Xavier”: in Ho Chi Minh City Indian Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, presides celebrations for the 5th centenary of the birth of the Patron Saint of the Missions Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - To give new impulse to evangelisation in Asia “Catholics must rediscover the spirit of Saint Francis Xavier” Indian Card. Telesphore Toppo, Archbishop of Ranchi, said in a special M ...
• 7 December 2006
  AFRICA - Ecological fuel from seaweed and dates. From north to south African countries launch innovative solutions to guarantee energy for development Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa is joining the market for ecological fuels derived from vegetal organisms. A local South African company hopes in five years time to produce between 16 and 24 billion litres of bio-diesel. ...
• 7 December 2006
  EUROPA/ITALY - 50th anniversary of the encyclical Fidei Donum: Meeting for Missionary Families Bellaria (Agenzia Fides) - “Missionary Families” will be at the centre of a meeting for lay missionaries 8- 10 December at the Centro Congressi Europeo di Bellaria, in Rimini, organised by the Italian Bishops’ Conf ...
• 7 December 2006
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE -Catholic Bishops concerned about spreading violence Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Mozambique warn that a “climate of violence is spreading across the country from the cities to the more remote areas of the country with banditry, attacks by armed gangs, ...
• 6 December 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA Our Lady of Tenderness by Rev Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Advent is a season charged with divine tenderness, the unconceivable love of a God for His creatures, a love so tender that He becomes an Infant in the womb of a woman, the Blessed Virgin M ...
• 6 December 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Bertone speaks at Urban University on the occasion of 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavier: “his apostolic zeal is a combination of desire to proclaim the Gospel and his openness to the Spirit” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 5 December on the occasion of an academic act at Urban University to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavier patron saint of missions, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, ...
• 6 December 2006
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Pope appoints Bishop of Hwange Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 5 December 2006, appointed Bishop of Hwange (Zimbabwe) Rev. Fr Alberto Serrano, I.E.M.E., until now Diocesan administrator and former Vicar General of the s ...
• 6 December 2006
  OCEANIA/ISOLE FIJI - Archbishop urges Catholics to pray and fast over the constitutional crisis and coup Suva (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Archbishop Petero Mataca has called on Catholics throughout the Fiji Islands to pray and fast over the constitutional crisis and coup presently underway in the Pacific island state. The mi ...
• 6 December 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - First Symposium on Preservation and Management of Cultural Heritage of the Church Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in South Korea must seek alternative ways of preserving and managing its cultural heritage, which can also be a channel of evangelisation. This emerged from a 1st Symposium on ...
• 6 December 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Salesian day of missionary reflection and animation: the courage to go to new places, to people who have never heard the Good News Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Where is mission going? How to be a missionary? What is the mission for young religious in Vietnam? These were some of the questions proposed at a Day of Missionary Reflection and Anima ...
• 6 December 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA -Fourth National Mission Congress Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Catholics from all over Kenya have gathered in Nairobi for the 4th National Mission Congress. “We are about seventy, priests, diocesan and religious, women religious and lay people from all the ...
• 6 December 2006
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - President Kabila takes office. What challenges does he face? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Joseph Kabila Democratic Congo’s first democratically elected president sworn in today. The new head of state will have to tackle difficult problems. He will have to consolidate peace in a c ...
• 6 December 2006
  AFRICA/R.D. CONGO - Catholic Bishops call for national reconciliation, an act of clemency for political prisoners and an international fund for reconstruction of war torn Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) -“Now the elections are over the most urgent problem is national reconciliation and respect for democratic opposition” the Catholic Bishops of Congo said in an appeal launched today as the ne ...
• 5 December 2006
  VATICAN - “A well guided visit to a work of art or historical memorial can be natural catechesis”: final document after Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tourism, A Transversal Reality: Pastoral Aspects: With this central theme, the Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe took place with the participation ...
• 5 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University celebrates 500 years since the birth of Saint Francis Xavier, patron saint of missions: “Missionary spirit is born and grows only if it is deeply rooted in Christ, who died and rose from the dead for us” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, opened a solemn academic act with which the Pontifical Urban University paid homage to Saint ...