News
13 September 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day organisation engine steams ahead: “this is a great opportunity for new evangelisation”
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - While the pilgrimage of World Youth Day symbols, the Cross accompanied by the Icon of Our Lady 'Seat of Wisdom', continues across Australia warmly welcomed with prayers and celebration, in Sydney ...
13 September 2007
AMERICA/HONDURAS - The state guarantees only 50% of the medicines the country needs
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In State hospitals in Honduras there is a shortage of basic drugs. The Special Commission for the Purchase of Medicines, through the representative of the local Catholic Church Fr Rafael Alv ...
13 September 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - “Why is school instruction so fundamental? What are its social repercussions?” National San Vincenzo Literacy Campaign
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 2007 San Vincenzo de Paoli National Campaign will focus this year on Literacy. The aim is to identify the positive social repercussions of instruction for as many people as possible. If illiter ...
13 September 2007
AMERICA/PERU - First ever vaccination campaign against pneumococcus and parasites in Cajabamba
Cajabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Ms Pilar Nores de García directress of ‘Sembrando’ programme launched by the national Institute for Labour and Family, has launched a vaccination campaign in the Peruvian Andes mountain a ...
13 September 2007
International Volunteer Service in Africa Awareness Days
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Seguimi non profit lay association is planning International Volunteer Service in Africa Awareness Days 1- 4 November. The purpose is to encourage, orient and concretise a desire to be involved in ...
12 September 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Look to the Star of the Sea …invoke Mary!” , Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - God's love is poured into our heart when it finds us open to true love, which consists in loving God for the sake of God and others for the sake of others. In other words authentic love is ...
12 September 2007
VATICAN - Pontifical Missionary Union publishes Acts of the International Congress organised earlier in the year to mark 50th anniversary of Pius XII Encyclical Fidei donum
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ Fidei Donum Missionaries: the Future of Evangelisation” is the title of a special issue of the July-September magazine Omnis Terra containing the Acts of the International Congress or ...
12 September 2007
AFRICA/GABON - Rising prices and “Dutch Disease”: Gabon affected by the “petroleum plague ”
Libreville (Agenzia Fides)- The government of Gabon has issued orders for the prices of some prime necessities to be kept under control for the next six months. The products include palm oil, sweetened concentrated milk, ...
12 September 2007
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Several thousand flee rebel attacks in north west Burundi
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- About 4,000 people were forced to abandon their homes in Bubanza province in north west Burundi after attacks by the country's last rebel group National Liberation Forces FLN which has not ye ...
12 September 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Multimedia Evangelisation: Tej-Prasarini Salesian Communications Centre in Mumbai, most useful for the Church in India ever more present in the new media
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - For some years now the Catholic Church in India has given priority attention to increasing its presence in the media which offer new forums for evangelisation.
This intuition led the local Chur ...
12 September 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - “Flores, happy island of Muslim-Christian harmony among families, in schools and in society”: testimony from Sr Daniela Martinello, 13 years on mission in Indonesia
Ende (Agenzia Fides) - “The Indonesian island of Flores is a happy example of Muslim Christian harmony among families, in schools and in society. This happens when there is respect and reciprocal trust and joint effort ...
12 September 2007
AMERICA/PERU - Archdiocese of Lima inaugurates Family Institute to promote understanding and diffusion of Catholic Church teaching on Marriage and the Family
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - As part of celebrations to mark Family Day in the archdiocese of Lima on 9 September, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, announced the commencement of the activity of the Archd ...
12 September 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “No attempt to protect the victims, only efforts to use these as ‘cases' to impose abortion as a solution ”: say Catholic Lawyers and Family Pastoral commission
Parana (Agenzia Fides) - "God alone is Lord of life and death. No one may arbitrarily decide who is to be born live and who is to die. This decision is the greatest act of discrimination": this statement was part of a Me ...
12 September 2007
AMERICA/PERU - PMS Youth without Frontiers not indifferent to plight of earthquake victims; groups of priests provide spiritual assistance until situation is back to normal
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 'Youth without Frontiers' , JSF the Missionary youth pastoral service of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru, has just completed a programme "Looking at the world through the eyes of Christ" i ...
12 September 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Aboriginal communities say government health minister must be removed and call for local Church to intervene
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Aboriginal communities in the province of Resistencia recently contested health minister Ricardo Mayol, regarding him responsible for the serious lack of healthcare services in the area.
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