News

• 11 July 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Four special Committees to prepare World Youth Day Sydney 2008 Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day organisers have announced the establishment of four committees to prepare Australia’s Catholic community for this major church event in 2008 which is giving rise to great joy a ...
• 11 July 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Nunciature publishes memorial book to mark 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the Republic of Singapore Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - A special book was published by Apostolic Nunciature in Singapore to mark a major event underlined in the book’s title “The 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Holy See an ...
• 11 July 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "We are looking for priests willing to come to evangelise and help with Christian formation" says Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - "We have one priest for every 25,000 people and we are looking for priests willing to come to the Amazon region of Peru to help with Christian formation". This call was launched by Bishop Juan ...
• 11 July 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Malnutrition pushes up infant mortality rate: Franciscan missionary engaged in courageous fight for children Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - Growing malnutrition in Indonesia is the cause of a rising infant mortality rate according to a report issued by the UN World Food Programme in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of ...
• 10 July 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Expecting Pope Benedict XVI in Turkey Catholics celebrated Saints Peter and Paul intensifying ecumenical and inter-religious relations Antioch (Agenzia Fides) - In view of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey Catholics are intensifying ecumenical and inter-religious relations. An occasion of this slow but sure movement towards unity- which makes progr ...
• 10 July 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Divine Word Missionaries conclude general Chapter: Fr. Antonio Pernia confirmed Superior General Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Society of the Divine Word (popularly known as Divine Word Missionaries or SVD) held its 16th General Chapter at Salesianum in Rome from June 4 - July 8, 2006. 140 capitulars and seven observe ...
• 10 July 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Valencia for the 5th World Meeting of Families: “I wish to propose the central role which the family founded on marriage has for the Church and for society” Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - “The reason for my visit it to take part in the 5th World Meeting of Families on the theme ‘Handing on the faith in the Family. I wish to propose the central role which the family founded ...
• 10 July 2006
  VATICAN - During Family Prayer Vigil, the Pope says : “It is a great responsibility of all to proclaim the integral truth of the family founded on marriage, a domestic church, the shrine of life” Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the evening of Saturday 8 July, at Valencia’s futuristic City of the Arts and Sciences Pope Benedict XVI presided the Family Prayer Vigil which closed the week of events for the 5th World ...
• 10 July 2006
  VATICAN - From Valencia Pope Benedict XVI launches a message of hope to the families of the world and announces that Mexico City will be the venue of the next World Meeting of Families in 2009 Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 9 July at 9.30am the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI returned to the City of Arts and Sciences to preside a concelebration of Mass the culminating event of the 5th World Meeting of Fami ...
• 10 July 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seminarians attend first national Patristics Seminar Seul (Agenzia Fides) - De gratia et libero arbitrio in Sant’Agostino was the theme of a Seminar on Patristics organised by the Korean Patristics Society to foster deeper reflection on Patristics and on the theology of ...
• 10 July 2006
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 1st National Hispanic Youth Pastoral Meeting: in 15 years time more than 50% of Catholics in the US will be Hispanic Indiana (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,300 young people and 20 bishops attended a 1st National Hispanic Youth Pastoral Meeting (PENPJH) at Notre Dame University Indiana, 8-11 June, Fides was informed by Fr Manuel Peláez, Coo ...
• 10 July 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - ‘Journey Together’ Salesians renew mission in Papua Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The 60 Salesian confreres of the Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands delegation began the final stage of their ‘Journey Together’, as they commenced the Delegation Days and the Assemb ...
• 10 July 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - More than 10,000 Sudanese refugees in bordering countries repatriated. UNHCR calls the international community to fill the void between stages of assistance and development to make sure the once home repatriates can stay home Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival at the beginning of last week of a convoy from Uganda, the number of refugees repatriated to southern Sudan with the assistance of the UN High Commission for Refugees overtook ...
• 10 July 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency persists: hundreds of thousands still risk famine in semiarid regions of Kenya. Economic recovery for families must include substantial replenishing of flocks Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The food shortage persists in semiarid regions of Kenya, where millions are threatened by the consequences of another famine. The alarm was raised by Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS NE ...
• 8 July 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Meeting of Families- “We are experiencing that the Church is deeply concerned for families and wishes to send all families an encouraging message": testimonial by a young French family Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Timothee and Virginie Berthon, a young married couple from Brittany in France and their children Jeanne aged 7 , Mathilde aged 5 and Marie aged 2 and the fourth on the way, are one of thousands ...