News

• 9 February 2006
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Radio Veritas Bengali Programme marks 25 years of mission: local Church celebrates, Muslims voice praise and appreciation for Radio’s work Dacca (Fides Service) - Radio Veritas Asia Bengali Programme marked its 25th anniversary this month. The event was given widespread attention by the local Church which sees the Radio as an important channel of support fo ...
• 9 February 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Ethics must be the basis for behaviour in public life national and international: conclusions of World Ethics Forum Guadalajara (Fides Service) - From 27 to 29 January a World Ethics Forum was held in Mexico (see Fides 10/12/2005) to promote ethics as the basis for behaviour in national and international public life. The Forum was hel ...
• 9 February 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate celebrate 75 years of service in Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate OMI are celebrating 75 years of service in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Celebrations will start on Saturday 11 February with a Mass at St Elias pa ...
• 9 February 2006
  ASIA/THAILAND - All Asia Mission Congress October 2006: Churches all over the continent prepare Bangkok (Fides Service) - Catholics in Thailand and all over Asia are preparing enthusiastically for an Asian Congress Mission to be held this year in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 19 to 22 October 2006, on the theme: “The His ...
• 9 February 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Youth leaders in mission: Lan Zhou diocesan evangelisation Congress Lan Zhou (Fides Service) - The difficulties in missionary work; challenges in the new year; valorise the role of the laity, young people in particular; basic Church communities, where the main topics discussed at a recen ...
• 9 February 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Improving hygiene in Congo Hospitals: local Higher Institute for Nursing Science trains personnel for 6 pilot clinics Rome (Fides Service) - The Higher Institute for Nursing Science, HINS opened by Opus Dei in Kinshasa the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, trains local men and women to enable them to improve the nation’s he ...
• 9 February 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - St John of God Hospital in Rome enlarges maternity department after record number of 3,604 births in 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The St John of God Catholic Hospital in Rome has had to enlarge its Maternity Department to meet ever growing needs The newly structured department extended after a record number of 3,604 births re ...
• 9 February 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - International mediation in Ivorian crisis continues. South Africa open to position of President Gbagbo Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The important thing is that dialogue continues and that the international community continues its efforts to mediate” say local sources in Abidjan, economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire with re ...
• 8 February 2006
  VATICAN - “God expresses his royalty by caring for the most fragile and helpless of his creatures”: the Pope says in his weekly teaching at the general audience during which he mentioned Fr Andrea Santoro the Italian missionary murdered in Turkey last Sunday Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his general audience this morning in the Paul VI Hall Pope Benedict XVI explained the meaning of the second part of Psalm 144 (verses14-21 - “Your Kingdom is eternal” - vespers F ...
• 8 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - “Turkish Islam should not be demonised” says Italian Capuchin priest a missionary in Turkey for 25 years serving as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies and Caritas Istanbul (Fides Service) - With regard to the assassination of the Italian missionary Fr Andrea Santoro last Sunday in Turkey Fides spoke about Christian Muslim relations in that country on the telephone to Fr. Adriano F ...
• 8 February 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - National PMS Director says : “faith helps us believe the death of Fr Andrea will bear the fruit of more missionary vocations and service”. Archbishop of Trent says: “may inter-religious contact develop in full religious freedom, mutual respect, constructive dialogue and collaboration all over the world” Rome (Fides Service) - “I am still in Brazil where I took part in the meeting of Italian ‘Fidei Donum’ in Latin America who all expressed the unanimous desire to continue their service to other Churches after the s ...
• 8 February 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Adelaide diocese ready to host annual Catholic “World Day of the Sick” 11th February Adelaide (Fides Service) - Everything is ready in Adelaide for the main celebration to mark the 14th World Day of the Sick on 11 February feast of Our Lady of Lourdes with the theme this year of “Mental Health and Huma ...
• 8 February 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionary Youth ever more committed to service of animation and formation: conclusions of meeting of Pontifical Mission Societies National Directors Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “For the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies this meeting was the realisation of a dream to insert young people in the missionary service of the Pontifical Society of t ...
• 8 February 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - United Nations warn: the number of internally displaced persons in Sudan and Uganda is double that of refugees abroad Nairobi (Fides Service)- According to the news service of the Jesuit Refugees Service-JRS on 26 January Denis McNamara UN special co-ordinator for internally displaced persons IDP criticised the international media for ...
• 8 February 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought in north east Kenya: UN and local government say 230 million dollars needed to save the lives of 3.5 million people Nairobi (Fides Service)-“We appeal to the international community to see this arid land needs immediate help. We call for general political and social mobilisation to guarantee the right of access to water, fundamental ...