News

• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Seeing the Lord in the world and showing him to others through our life”: Sisters of Sheng Kung 12th hold Provincial Chapter Taipei (Fides Service) - “Seeing the Lord in the world and showing him to others through our life” was the commitment taken by the 12th provincial chapter of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception Sheng Kung ...
• 23 March 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Thousands of Liberian refugees refuse to return home Conakry (Fides Service) - The UN’s Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, a humanitarian news agency covering sub-Saharan Africa, eight countries in central Asia and Iraq, said in its March 1 report that thousa ...
• 23 March 2006
  VATICAN - “Beauty as a way to Evangelization and Dialogue”. Pontifical Council for Culture prepares plenary assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - This year's annual plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, due to be held on March 27 and 28, will be dedicated to the "Via pulchritudinis," in other words, to beauty as a w ...
• 23 March 2006
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “11 million people in Horn of Africa at risk”: warning from Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Eleven million people in the Horn of Africa particularly in the Ethiopian regions of Somali Region and Oromiya are in danger of dying of thirst due to serious prolonged drought in the area ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Muslims stage silent prayerful march for peace Jaipur (Fides Service ) - After the inter-religious march for peace and religious harmony led by Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders leader on 14 March in Benares, another similar peaceful march was held in Ja ...
• 23 March 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - British High Commissioner presents award to Don Bosco Technological Institute Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Catholic schools are a valuable resource for the country. As places of great professional competence, didactic ability and morality they are fundamental for the formation of the young gener ...
• 23 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “A society which does not respect the value of life, loses its principal and basic value, humanity”, says Bishop president of Family Pastoral Commission on “Pro Life Day” Mexico City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the national Pro-Life Day 25 March the Mexican Bishops’ Conference through its Commission for Family Pastoral issued a message signed by Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martíne ...
• 23 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops of Perù mark 4th centenary of the death of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo with a solemn mass. Commemoration also in Rome Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Today 23 March with a solemn Mass the Bishops of Peru are commemorating Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo (1538-1606) who died 400 years ago. The saint, the second archbishop of Lima, was proclaimed patro ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - New Centre for street children Nashik, Maharashtra state Rome (Fides Service) - The world has 100 million street children and 18 million of them live in India. Alone, without a home or any adult to care for them they live and work on the streets. Some are abandoned or orphaned ...
• 23 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Monumenta Liturgica Concilii Tridentini collection of six volumes at the service of liturgy Rome (Fides Service) - Six volumes “Monumenta Liturgica Concilii Tridentini” contain the work of research undertaken by the late Rev Achille Triaca and rev. Manlio Sodi who teaches at the Salesian University in Rome. ...
• 23 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - International conference on “Women Theologians: in what Europe?” To promote a fruitful inter-weaving of religious freedom and the secular state Rome (Fides Service) - “Women Theologians: in what Europe?” is the title of an international conference 30 March - 1 April 2006 promoted by Coordinamento Teologhe Italiane CTI and sponsored by the Presidency of the ...
• 22 March 2006
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Plenary meeting of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community: striving to consolidate dialogue between cultures and religions in the European Union Brussels (Fides Service) - A three day Plenary meeting of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community COMECE opens today 23 March in Brussels Belgium. Among the topics for discussion how to consoli ...
• 22 March 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Sicilian town of Linguaglossa and Catholic mission in Madagascar sign twinning project Rome (Fides Service)- “It is difficult to live in a place where there is no water, or electricity, or medical care. Linguaglossa has begun to walk alongside with the mission district of Amborompotsy and on behalf of al ...
• 22 March 2006
  VATICAN - At his general Wednesday audience Pope Benedict XVI makes an appeal for World TB Day and reflects on “the Apostles witnesses and envoys of Christ” Vatican City (Fides Service)- During his Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square on 22 March Pope Benedict XVI made the following appeal: “The day after tomorrow, 24 March, United Nations World TB Day to stop Tubercu ...
• 22 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Society for African Missions convokes general assembly Rome (Fides Service)- “This year will be the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Society for African Missions. The General Assembly to be held a few months after the celebration of the event will be a special mome ...