News

• 25 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA -Another child dies of avian flu bringing the death toll in Indonesia to 51 Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Another child, aged nine, died last week of avian flu bringing the total number to 51 since bird flu first struck the country in October 2003. In the first six months of 2006 63 cases were regis ...
• 25 September 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Youth in Papua New Guinea ask auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne to help stop spreading AIDS virus Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries in PNG are deeply concerned for the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus which affects 30% of the more remote areas of the territory and represents a major problem for the local communities. ...
• 25 September 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Our choice, our future”: happy Presentation Day at St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Tenaru Tenaru (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Our choice, our future’ was the theme for St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Tenaru graduation and presentation day. The school hall was filled with students, parents and friends who witnesse ...
• 23 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Bishops at the end of Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: “In your ministry it is your duty to give primary importance to prayer and unceasing striving for holiness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 23 September Pope Benedict XVI received in a special audience recently appointed Bishops from mission territories in Rome to take part in a three week Seminar organised by the C ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Statement by Bishop Ballin, Vicar Apostolic of Kuwait with regard to Pope Benedict XVI’s Lecture at Regensburg Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The following statement was issued in English, Arabic and Italian by the Catholic Bishop Camillo Ballin, Vicar Apostolic in Kuwait, to address certain reactions in the Muslim world to a lecture giv ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA - We come from local churches in remote areas of the world and in these three weeks we have heard the beating heart of the universal Church, say participants at the end of the Study Seminar for recently appointed Bishops organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops from different countries in America, Asia, Africa and Oceania shared their impressions with Fides at the end of a three week Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evan ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Solemn Mass closes Eucharistic Congress 2006 in archdiocese of Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Mass celebrated on 16 September at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul marked the closing of Eucharistic Congress 2006 organised by the archdiocese of Seoul. The Congress, on the th ...
• 23 September 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Radio Veritas Chinese section in Taiwan marks 30 years of service to evangelisation over the radio Taipei (Agenzia Fides) -“Thirty years of sowing and watering have allowed Radio Veritas Chinese section in Taiwan to collect flowers and fruits of evangelisation. Let us ask the Lord to continue to guide our work of ev ...
• 23 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Charity source of Mission”: 2nd National Missionary Meeting for men and women religious Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Serving the Gospel can never be considered a solitary undertaking but rather a commitment for the entire community" Bishop Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo of the apostolic Vicariate of Tierradentro p ...
• 23 September 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Poverty decreasing in the country as a whole but not in the north home to respectively 51.2% and 21.3% of Argentina’s poor and destitute Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Although on the whole the poverty rate in Argentina has progressively decreased from 57.5% registered in October 2002, to 31.4% registered in the first 6 months of 2006 some parts of the country a ...
• 23 September 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Congo mourns Fr. Simon-Pierre Boka of Mpasi Londi, Jesuit theologian and national anthem composer Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “A man of unity and solidarity, Fr. Boka was called away at a crucial time in our country’s history when national unity is threatened” this was how Bishop Fidèle Nsielele of the diocese o ...
• 23 September 2006
  AFRICA - “World’s military expenses beat Cold War record. In Africa every year 15 billion dollars are wasted on war” OXFAM report Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Also in Africa military expenses are increasing. According to a report issued by the British humanitarian agency OXFAM military expenses in the world in 2006 will amount to 1.059 billion dollars (8 ...
• 22 September 2006
  VATICAN - On Monday 25 September Pope Benedict XVI will receive Cardinal Poupard and a few representatives of Muslim communities in Italy and ambassadors of Muslim majority countries Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office has made it known that in Castelgandolfo at 11.45 a.m. on Monday, September 25, the Holy Father will receive Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Cou ...
• 22 September 2006
  VATICAN - “The hoped-for renewal of the parish cannot arise only from pastoral initiatives, useful though they are, or from programmes worked out at a theoretical level. … the parish 'rediscovers' itself in the encounter with Christ. ... especially in the Eucharistic” Pope Benedict XVI tells plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - This morning in the Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo, the Pope received participants in the 22nd plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which is presided by Archbish ...
• 22 September 2006
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - “Social Doctrine and Evangelisation” theme presented by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church’s Social Doctrine is at the heart of her mission to evangelise. Social Doctrine and Evangelisation was the subject of the address given by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, pre ...