News

• 12 December 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Stories of lives illuminated by the Gospel and the radio is a channel of evangelisation Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The radio can be a channel of evangelisation: this is the conviction of Hong Kong's Catholic associations and movements active in the field of evangelisation. According to the diocesan bulleti ...
• 12 December 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Climate change could cause new conflicts. It is necessary to intervene to maintain peace in the world ”: fears expressed at UN Conference in Bali Bali (Agenzia Fides) - Participants at the UN climate change Conference in Bali is (3 to 14 December) included political leaders, representatives of international organisations, numerous members of civil societies from a ...
• 12 December 2007
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “Living a season of hope”: Caritas Jerusalem message for Christmas 2007 Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Advent 2007 as a season of hope and Christmas as a time to renew trust in Jesus Christ who brings new life and great joy, were the themes of a Message for Christmas 2007 issued by Caritas Jeru ...
• 12 December 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “For Christmas give World Youth Day to a young person in a poor country ”, WYD voucher campaign Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - A lovely Christmas gift would be to make a contribution to help young people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania with scarce economic resources take part in the 23rd World Youth Day event in ...
• 12 December 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Water programme in Rwanda: movement to fight world hunger to build aqueduct in Gicumbi district Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the world today 400 million minors, an average of one in five in the south of the world have no access to clean water. The situation is most serious in Sub-Saharan Africa where in countries such ...
• 11 December 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI 's Message for World Day for Peace 2008: “The human family, a community of peace” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today the Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for World Day for Peace to be celebrated 1 January 2008, of which the theme is “The human family, a community of peace”. ...
• 11 December 2007
  VATICAN - Concrete ways of mission: evangelisation, inculturation, implantatio of the Church (part one) - Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Missionary activity consists essentially in evangelisation, in the light of the principle of inculturation among people and groups who do not yet believe in Christ. Paul VI underlined the p ...
• 11 December 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops Pro-Life and Family Day message: "Only a Christian family with a strong identity can hand on the faith and be a shining sign of truth, goodness and beauty” 30 December demonstration and Papal TV Message Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Our homeland is in heaven" is the title of a Message issued by the Spanish Bishops' Commission for the Family and Life in view of the Pro-Life and Family Day on 30 December. The Bishops expl ...
• 11 December 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops' Conferences of West Africa form New Association at last: first president Cardinal Turkson, Archbishop of Cape Coast Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Cardinal Peter Turkson, Archbishop of Cape Coast, in Ghana, is the first president of the Association of Bishops' Conferences of West Africa, a fusion of the new Association which is an amalgamatio ...
• 11 December 2007
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - “Formation is the key to democratic stability in Congo” head of Bukavu diocesan Justice and Peace Commission tells Fides Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)- “Our democracy is still young and fragile, but rich in opportunities for growth. Do not discourage us if we make mistakes, rather, at critical moments help us ” says Fr Justin Nkunzi, head of ...
• 11 December 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Several churches restructured or newly built reopen for worship Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to information collected by Fides in October and November in mainland China several churches were consecrated and opened for worship. The churches had either been restructured or newly bu ...
• 11 December 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack Catholic church under construction in Delhi: local Church shocked and saddened New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There is nothing left only ruins. On 5 December about 150 Hindu extremists razed to the ground the Church of Divine Mercy in the Delhi area, still under construction, provoking shock and sadne ...
• 11 December 2007
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - In the wake of cyclone Sidr a Bishop says: “We are making every effort to help the homeless but more international aid is needed Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - “We are doing our best to help the homeless in the wake of cyclone Sidr. We offer help and comfort to all those in need without distinction”, says Bishop Bejoy D’Cruze, OMI, of the diocese o ...
• 11 December 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Seven million pilgrims expected for feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mgr Monroy Ponce: "the event offers the sons and daughters of Mexico and all America an opportunity to realise they are brothers and sisters” Guadalupe (Agenzia Fides) - All is ready for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe patroness of Mexico and all America on 12 December, the date of the first apparition 476 years ago, to Juan Diego, canonised by the Servant ...
• 11 December 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA - Bishops issue pastoral Message for National Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples: “your Amerindian and Inuit traditions permit the development of new ways of expressing the message of salvation" Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Catholic Aboriginal Council for Reconciliation issued a message for the 5th National Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples, in which it r ...