News

• 20 June 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Pro-life Archbishop of Seoul and human cloning scientist face to face Seoul (Fides) - An Archbishop and scientist come face to face. The Communications office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference reported that Archbishop Nicholas Cheong of Seoul committed defender of life from conception ...
• 20 June 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - St Charles Borromeo Fraternity welcomes 8 new priests and 9 deacons for mission in parishes, schools, universities, prisons and hospitals Rome (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 June at 3.30pm at St Mary Major Basilica in Rome Cardinal Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice will ordain 8 priests and 9 deacons as members of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionar ...
• 20 June 2005
  VATICAN - First International Meeting on Pastoral Care for Street Women: “An insult to fundamental values common to all cultures and peoples, values rooted in the very nature of the human person” said Cardinal Fumio Hamao Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We thought it opportune to organise this meeting to discuss a phenomenon which - far from being eliminated in the process of civil evolution - is still part of social tissue. I refer to ...
• 20 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - An enormous tree firmly planted which no one can ever uproot - “numerous groups of people are anxious to defend the Christian roots of Europe: we must come out of our homes and churches and defend them in the streets " Ignacio Arsuga told Fides Madrid (Fides Service) - “Last Saturday’s demonstration was exceptional for at least three reasons: the number of participants, unprecedented world support and massive agreement on the theme, all of which made Madrid ...
• 20 June 2005
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Directory of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land now also in English Jerusalem (Fides Service) - All you want to know about the Catholic Church in the Land of Jesus can be found in the latest edition of the Directory of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land prepared by the office represent ...
• 20 June 2005
  ASIA/TURKEY - Pontifical Antonianum College and Mustafa Kemal University in Turkey meet for 9th ecumenical symposium “Paul the Apostle, from Tarsus to Antioch: Archaeology, history and religion” Antioch (Fides Service) - “Paul the Apostle, from Tarsus to Antioch: Archaeology, history and religion” is the title of an annual Symposium on St Paul held in Turkey promoted jointly by Catholic bodies and pontifical ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “Compared to 30 years ago the regional and ethnical factor is much more keenly felt” local observer comments first round of presidential elections Bissau (Fides Service)- “Yes the elections was peaceful and this is a positive fact in itself but the important thing will be the results to see if the electorate had the maturity to go beyond traditional ethnic divisi ...
• 20 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence on Christians five attacks in a month: Catholic Bishops call on government to protect religious personnel New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of India have called on civil authorities to guarantee minority groups more protection. After five attacks on Christian structures and individuals, representatives of Chri ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Info: Antananarivo (Fides Service)- Madagascar, called the “big island”, has an area of 617,249sq km and a population of more than 16 million people belonging to various ethnic groups each with different customs and tradit ...
• 18 June 2005
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Resignation of Bishop of Colón-Kuna Yala and appointment of successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 18 June 2005 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala (Panama) presented by Bishop Carlos María Ariz B ...
• 18 June 2005
  VATICAN - New Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic presented this morning to Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City (Fides) - This morning at 10.30 the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church was presented to Pope Benedict XVI by members of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican Publishing House and Saint Paul ...
• 18 June 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “75 years of mission with Him”: Boa Nova Missionaries celebrate 75th anniversary in Fatima Valadares (Fides Service) - The Boa Nova Mission Society (SMBN) is celebrating its 75th anniversary 3 October 2004 - 3 October 2005 with the slogan “75 of Mission with Him”. A major anniversary initiative the Societ ...
• 18 June 2005
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - “We firmly support the pro-family demonstration in Madrid: this is not only a question of religion, it concerns of the whole of humanity because the aim is to legalise what is contrary to the law of nature” Superior of Catholic Mission in Tajikistan told Fides Dushanbe (Fides Service) - The Catholic community in Tajikistan is deeply concerned that the Spanish government is about to pass a law which would give same sex unions the status of marriage and allows homosexual couples ...
• 18 June 2005
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkey’s Christians and Muslims are against homosexual ‘families’, local Church voices support for pro-family demonstration in Spain Istanbul (Fides Service) - “The battle to defend natural law, real marriage and the unborn child unites Christian and Muslims in Turkey and the pro-family demonstration in Spain has the full support of Turkish public o ...
• 18 June 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “We hope the Spanish government will realise that this law undermines the family which is the essential foundation of societies and nations and will reject this move to replace the law of nature with disorder which would threaten peace and justice” say organisers of International Congress on Life and the Family in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - Dr. Roberto Castellano President of the NGO Pro-Vida and Monica del Rio leader of Women’s Civil Movement organisers of an international Congress on Life and the Family taking place 17-19 ...