News

• 25 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Qi Zuang parishioners in Xian Xian diocese lively evangelisers with 300 baptisms in two years Cang Zhou (Fides Service) -“Our people evangelise with great joy and this attracts many new people to embrace the faith and to want share it with others” said Fr Li Guang Qi, parish priest in Qi Zhuang, in the dioces ...
• 25 November 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - “Keep away from addictions” Catholic Archbishop of Honiara urges young Confirmation candidates Honiara (Fides Service) - Every young person is called to encounter Jesus in prayer and follow him in service of others, Archbishop Adrian Smith of Honiara said in his homily before he conferred the sacrament of Confirma ...
• 25 November 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - New rector appointed for St Thomas Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in archdiocese of Bamenda Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 16 September 2005 appointed rector of St Thomas Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in the archdiocese o ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - “True progress is that alone which integrally safeguards the dignity of the human being and which enables each people to share its own spiritual and material resources for the benefit of all” the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addresses 33rd UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has voiced “sincere appreciation” for the programmes which the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has carried out in the past sixty years “defe ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI inaugurates academic year at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: “This is the great challenge: to give life to a true Catholic university, one that excels for the quality of its research and teaching and, at the same time, for its faithfulness to the Gospel and to the Church's Magisterium” Rome (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI was present for the ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. “I would like the entire ...
• 25 November 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholics in Brazil start traditional national Advent evangelisation campaign: the time has come for the Church in Brazil to move from receiving to giving and to shoulder responsibility for evangelisation in Brazil with its own resources and energies Brasilia (Fides Service) - “Annuncia Me!” is the slogan of this year’s annual national Advent evangelisation campaign organised by the Church in Brazil. Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, archbishop of Sao Salvador d ...
• 25 November 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Catholic Bishops call for respect for the rules of democracy and confirm their commitment to promoting reconciliation Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- In a message to Catholics and all men and women of good will in the country the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia call for respect for the rules of democracy and confirm their commitment to promot ...
• 25 November 2005
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Thousands flee from violence in southern Congo. “We have a humanitarian catastrophe in Dubie” says Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Catholics in DR Congo continue to report on the alarming situation in the southern region of Katanga where the presence of armed militia is causing a serious humanitarian emergency. It was here ...
• 25 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Rare diseases in paediatric dermatology”: two day meeting of Italian experts and patients’ associations Rome (Fides Service) - The Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata and Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital BGCH have organised a two day meeting 25 and 26 November on “Rare diseases in paediatric dermatology”. In fa ...
• 25 November 2005
  AIDS Alarm: efforts to defeat pandemic in Africa may fail Rome (Fides Service) - To mark World AIDS Day on December 1 AMREF Italy (African Medical and Research Foundation) and ActionAids International in collaboration with the Italian Observatory on Global Action against AIDS w ...
• 25 November 2005
  Monday 28 November Urban University presentation of book by Angelo Scelzo on the life of Mother Teresa Casini, foundress of the Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Monday 28 November at 5.30 at Urban University on Rome (via Urbano VIII 16, Gianicolo), there will be the presentation of a book by Angelo Scelzo “Mi farò Santa”, on the life of Mot ...
• 24 November 2005
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will attend ceremony to open academic year at Rome’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow 25 November the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will attend a ceremony to open the academic year at Rome’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Mass in the University chapel wi ...
• 24 November 2005
  VATICAN - 350 priests from mission countries sent to Rome to study at pontifical universities reside at Propaganda Fide colleges Vatican City (Fides Service) - Every year a good number of priests in mission territories are sent by their respective bishops to study in Rome at one of the pontifical universities. These student priests reside at the t ...
• 24 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday 27 November, 1st Sunday of Advent, World Day of Prayer for Great Lakes region of Africa Rome (Fides Service) - Sunday 27 November 1st Sunday of Advent will be a world day of prayer for the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Rwanda, DR. Congo). A day on which the Church is called to pray for peace in tha ...
• 24 November 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Missionary’s analysis of referendum vote Nairobi (Fides Service)- “A too hastily prepared referendum and the presentation of a controversial constitutional project containing certainly positive elements together with other questionable ones were the factors w ...