News

• 27 July 2006
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Cholera, TB, HIV, local and national medical training Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years of history and experience in Africa: a sound basis for planning programmes to help the poorest of the poor. Ongoing cooperation between CUAMM Doctors with Africa and the local health sy ...
• 27 July 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Day for Evangelisation and Prayer: St Benedict’s Catholic Parish celebrates patron saint Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - St Benedict Catholic Parish in Hong Kong held a special day to honour its patron saint on 16 July with new commitment for mission and evangelisation and a Religious Book Fair. According to the ...
• 27 July 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Where is Europe going? Culture, peoples, institutions": September Symposium for European University Teachers Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is Europe going ? Culture, peoples, institutions" is the theme of the 5th Symposium for European University Teachers to be held in Rome starting 28 September at the Vicariate of Rome. The e ...
• 27 July 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Madhya Pradesh adopts harsher anti-conversion law: Christians and other religious minorities protest Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - The state government of Madhya Pradesh despite objections from opposition parties has approved amendments to render more harsh an anti-conversion law already in force, causing widespread protests ...
• 27 July 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Serving the Lord with joy”: Local Catholic priests renew pastoral commitment Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Serving the Lord with Joy was the theme of an annual retreat held in Honiara in the Solomon Islands attended by 36 local Catholic priests. The retreat was preached by Fr. Jim Nolan and the pri ...
• 27 July 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Questions, studies and publications on the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Guadalupe: Guadalupe Congress 475 years since the apparitions Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Event of Guadalupe and Recent Publication is the subject of the 4th Guadalupe Congress 26- 31 July organised as part of celebrations for the 475th anniversary of the apparitions of the B ...
• 27 July 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Family associations encourage objection of conscience to protest against teaching in school of Citizen Education fearing indoctrination of children Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Family associations in Spain are concerned that Citizen Education soon to be compulsory subject in schools will mean government ‘indoctrination’ of children". They are preparing a Guide to Ob ...
• 26 July 2006
  ASIA/LEBANON - “Prayer Chain for Peace in the Middle East”: Australia's Jewish, Muslim and Baha’i students urge believers of the world to unite in prayer Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic student group has joined with Jewish, Muslim and Baha’i students in calling for an interfaith “Prayer Chain for Peace in the Middle East”. The Australisian of Jewish Students, th ...
• 26 July 2006
  VATICAN - Statement by Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, on the situation of migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons in Lebanon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During these difficult days, especially for Lebanon, I would like to add my voice to all those who have been asking for an immediate cessation of hostilities. Moreover, humanitarian organis ...
• 26 July 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - don Luciano Alimandi - “Ad Jesum per Mariam” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Seek o man to understand better the plan of God and see it is a plan of wisdom and mercy. Wishing to irrigate the air with heavenly dew He poured it all over the whole fleece: wishing t ...
• 26 July 2006
  AFRICA/ D. R. CONGO - Urgent appeal for humanitarian aid as thousands fleeing from east Congo: food supplies running out, malnutrition spreads Bunia (Agenzia Fides) - Repeated violence in east Congo is causing tens of thousands to abandon homes and fields. Warned that food supplies will soon run out the United Nations World Food Programme has launched an urgent ...
• 26 July 2006
  ASIA/ISRAEL - St John of God Brothers in Nazareth give emergency treatment to victims of rocket attacks, two dead and seventy one wounded Rome (Agenzia Fides) - St John of God Catholic Hospital in Nazareth was the first to give emergency treatment to victims of an attack on the town a week ago in the present conflict. At about 5pm on Wednesday 19 July, re- ...
• 26 July 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The new law aims to impose an education that would distance our young people ever further from the perspective of the family": says Catholic Bishop of San Luis with regard to proposed law on sexual education San Luis (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Jorge Luis Lona of San Luis diocese in Argentina has warned his people that a proposed law on sexual education violates the natural rights of parents. The Bishop reminds the Catholic com ...
• 26 July 2006
  ASIA/ EAST TIMOR - A sign of hope in difficult times: ready to serve the Church and the common good of the whole community two new Salesians make their profession Dili (Agenzia Fides) - If more young men ask to serve the Lord and consecrate their lives to service of the Church and the people in East Timor, there is still hope for the youngest democracy in Asia, despite conditions ...
• 26 July 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - In Assisi 4th national week of missionary formation and spirituality: “Narrators of Hope in the World” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - At least 130 pastoral workers, priests, missionaries and active lay adults and young people have signed up for the traditional national week of missionary formation and spirituality to be held in A ...