News
29 October 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The international community calls on Colombo to guarantee respect for human rights as civil conflict continues
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations and the international community have urged the government of Colombo to guarantee respect for human rights in Sri Lanka even in the sad situation of civil war. Fighting betwee ...
29 October 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “National Children's Month”- local Catholic Church initiatives in aid of children
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - National Children's Month promoted by the department for social wellbeing and development of the government in Manila had its focal event in Children's Day on October 26. Every year in the month ...
29 October 2007
ASIA/CHINA - The small Catholic community Bei Han, Tai Yuan diocese registers 400 adult baptisms and numerous catechumens in the past ten years
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - “A small community like yours has evangelised 400 of your co-citizens in only ten years. This is wonderful, you are wonderful! But we must remember our country has a population of 1.3 billion ...
29 October 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Campaign “Family Embrace” to promote respect, central for family harmony, fundamental for co-existence in the family and in society
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year the Family and Childhood Commission of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Venezuelan has organised a nation-wide Family Embrace campaign during Family Week from 4 to 11 No ...
29 October 2007
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Preparation for CAM 3 in Costa Rica starts with study meetings and a National Meeting to examine CAM 3 Working Paper
San José (Agenzia Fides) - After a process of three years the National Mission Council and the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Costa Rica will commence on 10 November preparations for the Third Am ...
29 October 2007
OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Technical training Centres and schools needed in rural areas to promote integral development particularly for young people
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Technical training Centres, schools, mission stations, social centres which promote health aggregation are essential in rural areas of Solomons to ensure human, economic, social, cultural and sp ...
29 October 2007
AMERICA/PERU - “Bio-ethics at the service of human dignity”: Cusco archdiocese hold 1st seminar
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Cusco has organised 29 and 30 October a seminar on the theme “Bio-ethics at the service of human dignity”, to discuss scientific progress and the consequences for basic huma ...
27 October 2007
Dossier - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 (2 part)
21 october 2007
81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007
"All the Churches for all the world"
MISSION IN AFRICA
POLITICAL- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION
CHURCH AND MISSION
GHANA MARKS EVANGELISATION CENTENARY AND ...
27 October 2007
Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
At the beginning of the month of September the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI went to Loreto for the closing event of the first year of the Agorà for young Italian Catholics. In the evening of 1 September during the Vigi ...
26 October 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses students at Pontifical Universities in Rome: “The whole culture of man today must be imbued with the Gospel”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of a Mass in St Peter's Basilica for the inauguration of the new Academic Year 2007-2008, on Thursday 25 October XVI Pope Benedict addressed thousands of students from all o ...
26 October 2007
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Volunteer Mission Day promoted by 51 NGOs
Aveiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Communicating 2015” is the slogan of Volunteer Mission Day to be celebrated on Sunday 28 October in Aveiro, Portugal organised by an association of 51 of Portuguese NGOs active in the field of ...
26 October 2007
AFRICA/GABON - “A major concern is young people to guarantee the future of the Church and the country” says president of the Catholic Bishops of Gabon in Rome for their ad limina visit
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A Church committed to the formation of lay Catholics, young people especially, which works together with the state institutions and other religious communities in the country. This was the picture ...
26 October 2007
AFRICA/GABON - Information
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Gabon, with an area of 267,667sq km. And a population of about 1,500,000 is situated at the heart of the continent of Africa. Irrigated by the basin of the River Ogoué, the country has an equator ...
26 October 2007
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Gizo diocese rejoices for ordination of new Bishop Luciano Capelli, Italian Salesian missionary
Gizo (Agenzia Fides) - When a missionary is appointed a Bishop it is a great joy for the local people. Especially when the new Bishop is a priest who has been very close to the life and the problems of the people, is fam ...
26 October 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - “Learning from St Therese how to walk the way to Christ": Saint Therese of Lisieux parish celebrates 75th anniversary
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “Towards the spirit of the Saint” was the theme of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of St Therese of Lisieux parish in the diocese of Hong Kong. According to Hong Kong Catholic b ...
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