News
8 September 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - English version of New Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church soon on sale in Australia
Sydney (Fides Service) - The new Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is “concise and valuable” said Bishop Kevin Manning of Paramatta diocese in Australia where the English version of the book will soo ...
8 September 2005
EUROPE/POLAND - Media, young people’s languages and handing on the faith: Plenary Assembly of the European Bishops' Media Commission
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Some 80 people - bishops, communications experts, spokespersons for Europe's 34 bishops' conferences and representatives of various Catholic communications agencies - will gather at the Barnabite ...
8 September 2005
ASIA/INDIA - New national monthly religious publication launched by Catholic Religious Conference of India editor Sr Mary Saroja
New Delhi (Fides Service) - 'Religious India' is a new religious monthly launched by the Catholic Religious Conference of India. The editor is highly qualified and experienced Sr Mary Saroja of the congregation of the Si ...
8 September 2005
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Installation of new Catholic Archbishop of Dhaka in a country in the grip of tension and threat of lurking terrorism
Dhaka (Fides Service) - The new Catholic Archbishop of Dhaka Paulinus Costa will be installed in the city’s Cathedral tomorrow 9 September during a solemn Mass in the presence of civil and religious authorities, numero ...
8 September 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Priests from mainland China attend Hong Kong academic seminary on Christianity and Chinese Culture Beijing
(Fides Service) - About forty philosophers, theologians, scholars and experts on Chinese religion and culture from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, United States, Gt Britain and Jerusalem took part in an academi ...
8 September 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Promote Bible Centres throughout Africa”: intervention by president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Democratic Congo at Meeting of Catholic Exegetes in Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Promote national and diocesan Bible Centres in view of organising Bible apostolate. This proposal was launched by Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani who is President of the Cathol ...
8 September 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - Religious, civil and military leaders of northern Uganda and southern Sudan meet to promote peace in both countries
Gulu (Fides Service)- To consolidate peace in southern Sudan and increase the chances of reaching an agreement to end the civil war in northern Uganda religious leaders, traditional chiefs and high ranking military offic ...
8 September 2005
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - United Nations warns that 10 million people in southern Africa face serious food shortage. Governments take action. But will it suffice?
Lusaka (Fides Service)- “This is not yet an emergency but the situation must be kept under control” say local sources in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, one of the countries considered at risk of food shortage according t ...
8 September 2005
EUROPE/BELGIUM - Defending the family and rights of children on 10 September Brussels World Family Capital
Brussels (Fides Service) - After the successful demonstration to defend authentic marriage and the rights of children organised June 18 in Madrid, Spain, it is the turn of the Belgian capital Brussels, where parliament ...
7 September 2005
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Second Mission Ecuador 2005: the missionary’s day
Loja (Fides Service) - In general, apart for some variations due to situations in different mission posts, the day of young university student missionaries taking part in Second Mission Ecuador 2005 will be marked by com ...
7 September 2005
AMERICA/MEXICO - “The encounter with Peter strengthens bonds of communion between our local Churches and the Church of Rome” says Archbishop of Durango on ad limina visit. Pastoral priorities include catechesis and parishes
Rome (Fides Service) - “The encounter with Peter, today in the person of Benedict XVI strengthens the bonds of communion between our local Churches and the Church of Rome and with the Holy Father” said Archbishop Hé ...
7 September 2005
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Students and teachers from universities in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Spain, the United States and 7 Ecuadorian Universities will take part in Second Mission Ecuador 2005 starting 9 September
Loja (Fides Service) - “With the grace of Mary we will live a new Ecuador” is the slogan of 2nd Ecuador Mission 2005 which, starting 9 September, will reach people in 65 localities, in 22 provinces, particularly rura ...
7 September 2005
VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general Wednesday audience: “Christ is the principle of unity, the mediator, the final destination towards whom all creation converges. He is the Son par excellence in the great family of the children of God in which Baptism inserts us ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Christ is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead” (vespers Wednesday week 3; reading: cfr Col 1,3.12.15.17-18): this Canticle was the subject of the teaching given by Pope Benedict ...
7 September 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - "The Eucharist, heart of Christian life and source of the Church’s mission to evangelise": Catholic University of Murcia organises a first ever University Eucharistic Congress
Murcia (Fides Service) - To honour the memory of Pope John Paul II and inspired by his Encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” and his gift of this past ‘Year of the Eucharist’, the Catholic University of Murcia in ...
7 September 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya recalls much loved Cardinal Maurice Otunga emeritus Archbishop of Nairobi on the second anniversary of his death
Nairobi (Fides Service)- Kenya is remembering the much loved Cardinal Maurice Otunga, emeritus archbishop of Nairobi who died two years ago on 6 September 2003.
“His life was important not only for the Catholic Churc ...
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