News

• 18 March 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Italian missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception di Ivrea alleviate suffering at Kadem Leprosy and TB Clinic Rome (Fides Service) - In the 1970s Kenya still had three large leper colonies at Alupe, Kadem and Mombasa. Until the mid 1980s more than 800 new cases of leprosy were registered every year. In 1989, according to the Wor ...
• 18 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Only 10% of the population has access to healthcare. Catholic nun at successful Jivadara therapy centre treats poor villagers with chronic diseases Kerala (Fides Service) - In southern Kerala a Catholic nun Sr Mary Eassy runs a centre for holistic Jivadara therapy for poor villagers suffering from chronic diseases. Assisi Holistic Research Centre at Panavalli, nea ...
• 18 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Brisbane archdiocese borrows two African priests Brisbane (Fides Service) - The Archdiocese of Brisbane in Australia asked the diocese of Umuahia in Nigeria to lend it a couple of priests for a while. The inter-continental twinning agreement is taking shape: Nigerian B ...
• 18 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Celebrating Catholics brave snow and ice to witness profession of 6 local Franciscan Missionaries of Mary San Yuan (Fides) - Ice and snow in the north western Shaan Xi province of China did not keep local Catholics from taking part in a Mass for the final profession of six local Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. During Mass ...
• 18 March 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications “I urge you to renew your efforts to assist those working in the world of media to promote what is good and true, especially in regard to the meaning of human and social existence, and to denounce what is false” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Friday 17 March in the Sala Clementina in the Vatican when he received the participants at the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Pope Benedict XVI said “I ur ...
• 18 March 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Three months ahead of long awaited elections Democratic Congo swings between hope and despair for situation in eastern region Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The international community has confirmed its commitment to support general elections in DR Congo on 18 June. The head of MONUC the UN Mission in Congo Jean-Marie Guehenno said there is sufficie ...
• 18 March 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholics in Pakistan welcome new UN Human Rights Council Lahore (Fides Service) - Several Catholic organisations in Pakistan have welcomed the institution by the new United Nations general assembly of a standing Human Rights Council hoping it will promote greater respect for ...
• 17 March 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “On the ball” Church in Germany plans various initiatives alongside FIFA World Cup Championship 2006 Mainz (Fides) - When Germany hosts the FIFA World Cup this year from 9 June to 9 July, the Church in Germany will be ‘on the ball’ with a series of initiatives. A special web site www.kirche-am-ball.de has been open ...
• 17 March 2006
  EUROPE/FRANCE - 2005 Report on Anti-Christian Persecution in the World issued by Aid to the Church in Need French section Rome (Fides Service) - Today in many parts of the world Christians are persecuted and denied the most fundamental of human rights, freedom of conscience. To inform people about situation of Christians in the world and re ...
• 17 March 2006
  AFRICA/NAIROBI - Injustices against refugees and the need to coordinate Justice and Peace efforts, focus of AMECEA executive council meeting Nairobi (Fides Service)- Concerned for increasing injustice committed against refugees has been expressed by the Association of Member Bishops’ Conferences of East Africa in a statement issued by the AMECEA executive c ...
• 17 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian school strike and hunger strike in West Bengal to protest against new School Service Commission Bill 2006 Calcutta (Fides Service) - Christians in West Bengal are planning to join other minority groups in a strike on 7 April to protest against a new recently approved state School Service Commission Bill 2006 which they claim ...
• 17 March 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholics in Cheongju prepare to celebrate diocese’s 50th anniversary with Diocesan Synod Cheongju (Fides Service) - Preparations in Cheongju for a diocesan Synod in 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of the diocese continue. Recently the local Church published the results of a preparatory survey involving 40, ...
• 17 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Life as a principle. Family as a means”: preparations for 2nd International Pro-Life and Pro-Family Congress Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “Life as a principle. Family as a means” is the slogan of the 2nd International Pro-Life and Pro-Family Congress to be held in Buenos Aires 19 - 21 August. The organising committee sta ...
• 17 March 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 10 February 2006 appointed Rev. Bernard Tolno National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
• 17 March 2006
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “A humane law to promote the common good”: Central American Bishops concern for new immigration law San José (Fides Service) - Deep concern about the new immigration laws being discussed in the United States has been expressed by the Catholic Bishops of central American countries in a statement signed by Bishop José ...