News
26 July 2007
ASIA/JAPAN - The Catholic Community in Japan takes small steps forward: Bishops’ Conference statistics
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Land of the Rising Sun continues her journey of day to day living in pastoral work and initiatives for evangelisation slowly growing in numbers and in faith. This emerge ...
26 July 2007
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - St John of God Foundation backs young people in East Timor supporting education and professional training
Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The St John of God Foundation and the Hospital Mission in East Timor have launched a development programme based on the "human capital", young people especially. In July and August the Foundation ...
26 July 2007
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE- Zimbabwe: as the economy collapses operation to
discredit people who oppose the government continues
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Inflation, drought, unsuccessful government policies continue to worsen the economic situation of Zimbabwe. After enforcing a 50% cut in prices of prime necessities (see Fides 4 and 13 July 2007) ...
26 July 2007
AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Good Governance is the priority of my mandate” says new President of the Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa IMBISA
Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Lubango in Angola, Bishop Gabriel Mbilingue, has been elected president of the Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa IMBISA taking place in the A ...
26 July 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops criticise new anti-terrorism law
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - To protect innocent persons, safeguard the human rights and freedoms of every citizen, prevent abuse by police: in this spirit the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines have criticised a new anti-t ...
26 July 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - In preparation for WYD8 young Australians reflect on “Experience of God and the snares of New Age trends”
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The uniqueness of the incarnate God, Jesus Christ made Man; the evanescence and deceit of new trends such as New Age which propose a pseudo-religious experience, a combination of syncretism, i ...
26 July 2007
AMERICA/PERU - HIV/AIDS Virus decimates indigenous Shawi peoples in Amazon region of Peru
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Ten members of the Pampayacu indigenous Shawi community at Charapillo, Yurimaguas, San Martín, Pongo del Cainarachi, recently died of the HIV/AIDS virus. There is concern for the remaining 70 fami ...
25 July 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Sinhalese (Sinhala) and Tamil - Sri Lanka (1)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Sri Lanka has two official languages: Sinhalese, spoken by 68% of the population and Tamil spoken by 28%. English is used in government and tourist environments.
Sinhalese or Sinhala is th ...
25 July 2007
VATICAN - “Compendium Orationum Quotidianarum ad usum fidelium”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In August Fides will publish a Compendium of daily prayers for the faithful in 34 languages. The Compendium, sent by per e-mail will have six section plus a Compendium on the Assumption of ...
25 July 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The better part” is listening to Jesus, Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the course of their journey he came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and listened to h ...
25 July 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - New Chair of Missiology at Madrid's San Dámaso Theology Faculty in entrusted to National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The San Dámaso Theology Faculty in Madrid has instituted a Chair of Missiology to be inaugurated for the coming academic year 2007-2008. The Grand Chancellor of the Faculty, Cardinal Antonio M. ...
25 July 2007
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Echoes of the visit to Angola by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- “During Cardinal Ivan Dias' visit to Angola the Angolan people's love for the Church and the Pope was very evident” said a local Church source with regard to the recent visit made by the Prefe ...
25 July 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Niger Delta: lethal mix of petroleum, arms and drugs, (en route for Europe)
Port Harcourt (Agenzia Fides)- Arms and drugs. This lethal combination, added to the problem of unequal distribution of local oil proceeds, is throwing into chaos and anarchy the Niger Delta region where most of Nigeria' ...
25 July 2007
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Special Court to try Red Khmer crimes in 2008
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Observers, relations of the victims, NGOs., religious communities in Cambodia, the man in the street, welcome the news that the International Cambodia Court instituted to examine war crimes c ...
25 July 2007
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Hydroelectric power stations: Bishops say errors of the past must be avoided, people must receive fair retribution for property, and be given homes and land to work
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "For the good of the Family and the development of the country " is the title of a statement issued by the Bishops of El Salvador with regard to a plan to construct new dams and hydroelectr ...
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