News

• 5 December 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 9 November 2007 appointed Rev. Giovanni Attilio Cesena, of the archdiocesan clergy of Milan, National Dir ...
• 5 December 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Great Lakes Summit; Congolese press sees US in front line in the quest for peace Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “American Pax ”, “Nkunda challenges Bush: total war in north Kivu” are some of the titles of newspaper in Congo which are giving ample space to the Summit in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, dedic ...
• 5 December 2007
  AFRICA - Two optical fibre cable projects will connect Africa with the rest of the world by 2010, the year of the World Football Championship in South Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - This month the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy, see Fides 30/10/2007), will work on the construction an optical fibre cable destined to become the supporting axis of telecommunication ...
• 5 December 2007
  ASIA/NEPAL - Christianity attracts increasing numbers of young people, with the hope of experiencing a World Youth Day. “Please send more missionaries to Nepal” says Vicar Apostolic Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The small Catholic community (6,226 faithful) in Nepal is living a springtime of the faith, local Church sources told Fides, as increasing numbers of young Nepalese show an interest in Christi ...
• 5 December 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Ordination of new Auxiliary Bishop for the archdiocese of Yangon: a happy event for the Burmese Catholic community Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the Catholic community in Burma gathered in Santa Maria Cathedral for the ordination of the new Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon, Bishop Justin Saw Min Thide, age 56. The Ordination Mass ...
• 5 December 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Giuseppe Li Shan, new Catholic Archbishop of Beijing, continues pastoral visits to parishes Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “Prayer and witness” were the two main points in the homily given by the new Archbishop of Beijing, Archbishop Giuseppe Li Shan, during a Mass on his pastoral visit to Christ the King Parish ...
• 5 December 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Education, development, promotion of women: Caritas Solomons assesses the past and plans the future Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Solomon Islands has just concluded a three year period of intense activity. In a country which has experience ethnic tensions and is still besieged by pockets of endemic poverty and unde ...
• 5 December 2007
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Massive mobilisation pro-life: great March against abortion, presentation of document “Respect, defend, serve and love life” San Pedro de Macorís (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds took part in a Pro Life March on 30 November in Marcia organised by the local Catholic Church and supported by many different Christian organisations. The March moved from ...
• 5 December 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Archbishop of Caracas says 'Christmas challenges us to be channels of God's peace, to overcome division, disputes, hatred and to avoid all violence' Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge L. Urosa Savino Archbishop of Caracas, has urged the people to live Christmas in a spirit of charity, putting aside hatred, rancour, selfishness and violence, in view of the situa ...
• 5 December 2007
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - After the cyclone, hunger: one million tons of flour needed to feed 7 million affected persons Dacca (Agenzia Fides) -Bangladesh has called on the international community to send 500,000 tons of rice and grain to feed thousands of people affected by cyclone Sidr, which destroyed harvests, caused more than 4.000 de ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Bishops of Korea and the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar on ad limina visit: “ I am aware of the practical gestures of reconciliation undertaken for the well-being of those in North Korea. I encourage these initiatives and invoke Almighty God’s providential care upon all North Koreans.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The Church in your countries has made remarkable progress since the arrival of missionaries in the region over four hundred years ago, and their return to Mongolia just fifteen years ag ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Clericus Cup athletes will attend Papal General Audience tomorrow Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - An important appointment awaits the participants in the second Clericus Cup event: on Wednesday 5 December representatives of each of the 16 teams in the championship will take part in the ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation of 70th Bibliographia Missionaria at the Pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 6 December, at 5pm at the Pontifical Urban University (Newman Hall) in via Urbano VIII, 16 (Roma), the University Library and the Urban University Press will present the 70th vo ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - The missionary nature of the Church in post-Council Magisterium (part 2) - by Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his first Deus caritas est (25 December 2005) wrote: The task of the Church is to communicate this divine love through the vivifying action of the Spirit. "The Spirit ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Freedom to believe or not to believe in Him. Comment by Prof. Michele Loconsole - From the editor's desk: Letter to missionaries, MISNA news agency 10th birthday- Archbishop Bruno Forte: authority is condition of the Church's “synodality”, Comment on the Document of Ravenna by the Mixed Catholic-Orthodox Commission. - The evangelical perspective is the key to the promotion of women, says Papal Nuncio in India. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tell me who is your God and I will tell you who you are. It is known in the ambit of the phenomenology delle religions, that the spiritual experience man has inherited from his forefathers ...