News

• 12 May 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Bishops restructure Conference, greater involvement of clergy, religious and laity Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic bishops of Australia have decided to reorganise the structure of their Bishops’ Conference announcing in a Pastoral Letter the new composition of the offices and commissions which ...
• 12 May 2006
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Le Figuier Centre for Research and Encounter inaugurated at Tizi Ouzu capital of Algeria’s Berber region Tizi Ouzu (Fides Service) - The inauguration of the new Le Figuier Catholic Centre for Research and Encounter at Tizi Ouzu capital of Algeria’s Cabilia Berbar region drew a good number of people. According to the bulle ...
• 12 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Missiology Today: a series of meetings to reflect on various aspects of missionary activity today and identify adequate responses to most urgent challenges Santiago (Fides Service) - Missiology Today is the title of a series of meetings starting on Saturday 13 May organised by the national office for the Pontifical Missionary Union in Chile and the Society of the Missionari ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: vocations flourish in young Churches, more than 80,000 seminarians and almost 10,000 novices sustained by the Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle which has the charisma to promote and support the formation of local clergy, during 2005 assigned subsidies for the upkeep of 81.200 seminarians studying at ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: Africa, the continent which will receive most help from the World Mission Sunday collection 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributed during the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS which today closes its annual meeting at Ciampino (Rome), the ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at a Congress promoted by the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and the Family: “Only the rock of total and irrevocable love between a man and a woman can found the construction of a society which is a home for all men and women” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on 11 May received participants in an international congress promoted by the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family of the Pontifical Lateran University. ...
• 12 May 2006
  EUROPA/SPAIN - 22nd Congress of Catholic Doctors: “Wherever medicine is non profit there the Church cares for the sick and the needy”. First ever exhibition on Missionary Medical Care Barcelona (Fides Service) - The 22nd Congress of Catholic Doctors organised by the International Federation of Medical Associations FIAMC which has over 50,000 members, opened on 11 May. The theme of the Congress “Cat ...
• 12 May 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Congress on Evangelisation to celebrate 60 years of the diocese of Ning Bo; in 2006 Chinese dioceses celebrate the anniversary of the institution of the local hierarchy Ning Bo (Fides Service) - “Surrounded by a great number of witnesses we run the race with perseverance with our eyes set on Jesus” (cfr. Heb 12.1-2) is the theme of a Congress on Evangelisation organised by the dioce ...
• 12 May 2006
  AFRICA -Desertification of the planet continues relentless, a problem affecting one third of humanity, Africa the continent most affected Rome (Fides Service) - Desertification of the planet continues relentless and is considered a major threat to the lives and rights of millions of people mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Horn of Africa and Central Asia. A Un ...
• 12 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “This sentence will have grave consequences which attack the fundamental cultural, moral e religious values of our nation” say Catholic Bishops after ruling to legalise abortion. A dossier reveals plan to introduce abortion throughout Latin America Bogota (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Colombia have expressed deep concern with regard to a decision taken by the Constitutional Court Wednesday 10 May to partially legalise abortion. “The Bishops’ Confere ...
• 12 May 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - “We must keep the flame of peace burning”, says Papal Nuncio after serious episodes of violence Colombo (Fides Service) - “Each of us must be responsible and help to keep alive hopes for peace. We trust in the help of God and all people of good will that in Sri Lanka the feeble flame of hope will not be extinguis ...
• 12 May 2006
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Hope for the poor and the most vulnerable in north Korea: government accepts WFP food aid Seoul (Fides Service) - North Korea has accepted the offer of international food aid to feed 1,9 million people. The government’s decision came after it had said it could manage without said Anthony Banbury, UN direct ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience teaching: Apostolic Succession, “succession in the function of bishops presents itself as continuity in the apostolic ministry, guarantee of perseverance in apostolic Tradition, word and life the Lord has entrusted to us” Vatican City (Fides Service) - After meditating at the past few audiences on the significance of Tradition in the Church- “which is the permanent presence of the word and the life of Jesus among his people”, on Wedn ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Migration and Moving to and from Muslim countries” Complex and topical subject of relations with Muslim world: 17th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - A sign of the times, the phenomenon of human mobility poses no few problems religious and spiritual, and also social, economic and political. What is more the complexity, topicality and im ...
• 11 May 2006
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - World Health Organisation 192 member countries attend 59th General World Health Assembly Rome (Fides Service) - From 22 to 27 May at the Palace of the Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the 59th General World Health Assembly will bring together 192 World Health Organisation member countries. Themes for discus ...