News
13 September 2005
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Salesians 25 years at the service of young people where violence among youth is widespread
Port Moresby (Fides Service) -Juvenile deliquency in New Guinea is a serious problem, a matter of concern for experts, educators, civil and religious leaders. The Salesians who first came here 25 years ago to work among ...
13 September 2005
ASIA/JAPAN - A Church that transcends nationality: Japanese diocese sends priest on mission to Brazil
Yokohama (Agenzia Fides) - “We want to be a Church that transcends nationality” said Bishop Umemura Masahiro of Yokohama who recently assigned a diocesan priest to Brazil in an experiment of ‘reverse missison’ co ...
13 September 2005
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Archbishop of New Orleans calls on Catholics the world over to offer prayers and funds for hurrican victims. 90% of the archdiocese’s churches, schools and parishes were flooded
New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans has appealed to Catholics the world over for prayers and material aid to support efforts by the archdiocese to meet the many needs victims of Hurri ...
13 September 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Health Ministry hopes Marburg virus epidemic is over
Rome (Fides Service) - The Angolan health ministry is confident that an outbreak of Marburg which began in October in norther Angola and has taken over 350 lives is now coming to an end. The fact that no new cases have ...
13 September 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Another Catholic priest is murdered: Bishops call for an official investigation
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have urged the National Commission for Minorities to demand an official investigation into the the murder of a Catholic priest yesterday 12 September in the dioce ...
13 September 2005
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Vitality in the Church, need for more in-depth formation, education to peace and promotion of respect for human rights in final statement issued by Meeting of Portuguese speaking Bishops’ Conferences
Maputo (Fides Service)- Signs of vitality and hope in the local Churches but also a need to improve formation for clergy and laity. This emerged from a meeting of Portuguese speaking Bishops’ Conferences in Maputo, cap ...
13 September 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Trentola Ducenta Seminary: earthly remains of Blessed Paolo Manna founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union moved to a chapel which bears his name
Rome (Fides Service) - On Wednesday 14 September at Sacred Heart Seminary, Trentola Ducenta (CE), there will be a special ceremony for the transfer of the earthly remains of Blessed Paolo Manna, founder of the Pontifica ...
12 September 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Latin America: 222 million people living in poverty. Chronic hunger in Gutemala ever more serious and tragic
Rome (Fides Service) - In the occasion of the “Latin American Conference on Chronic Hunger and Millennium Goals” to be held in Guatemala, a group of experts will disucss plans to fight the scourge of poverty.
The g ...
12 September 2005
VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus reflection : “The Eucharist is a mystery of death and glory, like the Cross which was not accidentali but rather the passage for Christ to enter his glory and reconcile all humanity”. Special mention of victims of terrorism everywhere in the world.
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “Next Wednesday 14 September, we celebrate the feast of the Exhaltation of the Cross. In this Year dedicated to the Eucharist this recurrence acquires special significance and invites ...
12 September 2005
ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - Cardinal Sepe praises Catholics in Azerbaijan for keeping the faith “despite long decades of violent persecution” and “for building constructive interreligious dialogue, peaceful co-existence among Muslims, orthodox Christians, Jews and Catholics”
Baku (Agenzia Fides) - “The totalitarian ideology of Communism, now in the past, tried with every imaginable and possibile means to remove every sign of the presence of God from these lands and to eradicate and uproot ...
12 September 2005
ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - The laying of the foundation stone for a new church in Baku “is a dream come true for the local Catholic community” said Cardinal Sepe who also blessed building site for a new Home for the Poor to be entrusted to Mother Teresa’s Sisters
Baku (Fides Service) - In the afternoon on Sunday 11 September in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, presided a ceremony for the laying o ...
12 September 2005
ASIA/INDIA - New hope for peace and development in Kashmir as leaders of India and Pakistan prepare to talk
Jammu (Fides Service) - “The situation is quite calm and we are pleased and hopeful at the news that India and Pakistan will soon meet again for talks. We are sure this means relations between the counries are really i ...
12 September 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Seminarians give up Summer vacation to teach children in need
Beijing (Fides Service) - Beijing’s Catholic Seminary is situated in an outlying industrial district where most of the workers commute from rural areas or other towns to the capital. For these working families life is ...
12 September 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Hobart archdiocese Tasmania opens new Catholic Diocesan Centre: “Preaching the Gospel is still our main task”
Hobart (Fides Service) - The Catholic diocese of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, has a new Centre which houses the Church’s administration and pastoral offices as well as the Catholic Development Fund, the Catholic Educ ...
12 September 2005
AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Jesus Bread of Life to Share”: National Youth Day 4,500 young people accompanied by their bishops reflect on Sharing the Faith
Melo (Fides Service) - “Bread of Life to Share” was the theme of National Youth Day held recently in Uruguay, not long after the memorable World Youth Day event in August in Germany, presided by Pope Benedict XVI Obl ...
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