News

• 1 October 2007
  AFRICA - Helping Africa join world trade to reduce its poverty: international meeting opens in Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- Help Africa finds its place in international trade system and promote its economic development. This is the goal of a meeting for African ministers of the economy which opens today 1 Octobe ...
• 1 October 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “An attack led by someone not invited to the peace talks” says a local source in Darfur with regard to attack on AU peacekeepers at AMIS base Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “The attack was perpetrated by some faction not invited to the peace talks at the end of the month in Libya ” Fides was told by a local Church source near to where the AU peacekeepers were k ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Local Christian Churches request government permission to hold special week of prayer for the nation Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's Christians, like the rest of the population, are suffering because of the difficult situation in the country and wish to pray to God for the gift of reconciliation and peace. To do this ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Active participation in diocesan Mission Sunday initiatives on 26 September continue to World Mission Sunday and beyond Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The celebration of the diocesan Mission Sunday 26 September is moved by the desire to foster active participation of the faithful”. This was said by Italian PIME missionary Fr Renzo Mila ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith killed on 26 September was a diocesan priest not a Jesuit Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - Fides was informed by the local Church that Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith, killed on 26 September in an attack on the diocese of Mannar, (see Fides 27/9/2006), was not a Jesuit as previously r ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progress in North - South dialogue for North Korea's de-nuclearisation: the Church prays for peace and stability Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean people, civil associations and Christian Churches welcomed the news of an agreement reached in talks between United States, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas with regard to North ...
• 1 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thirty years serving the marginalised, the helpless, the excluded: Jesuit Social Service in Australia Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits Social Service JSS in 2007 is celebrating 30 years of activity in Australia with various initiatives including prayer meetings and special solidarity events. Julie Edwards, head of ...
• 1 October 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week for the Defence and Promotion of Life in view of proposed Bill to legalise abortion in Brazil at any time in pregnancy Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - October 8 in Brazil will be the annual national Day of the Unborn Child established by the Bishops of Brazil in 2005 at the end of their 43rd general assembly. In the statement the Bishops aske ...
• 1 October 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 25th anniversary of the re-opening of the Pontifical University of Mexico: "the University's mission is to generate culture and in the case of a Catholic university to generate culture with the leaven and the values of the Gospel " Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr Guillermo Moreno, vicar general of the archdiocese of Mexico City, on behalf of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, grand chancellor of the Pontifical University of Mexico has called on th ...
• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop of Patna and appoints Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , on 1 October 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Patna (India), presented by Archbishop Benedict John Ost ...
• 29 September 2007
  Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo. Here, after three weeks in the mountains in northern Italy at Lorenzago di Cadore, for a period of rest, he resumed his ...
• 28 September 2007
  VATICAN - Message for the end of the month of Ramadan - “Christians and Muslims: called to promote a culture of peace" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the troubled times we are passing through, religious believers have, as servants of the Almighty, a duty above all to work in favour of peace, by showing respect for the convictions o ...
• 28 September 2007
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Publications, meetings with seminarians and girls in formation on the Fidei Donum Encyclical during October mission month and next Easter the sending of first four Fidei Donum priests to Mauritania Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “In my country we are giving great importance to the celebration the 50th anniversary of the Fidei Donum encyclical” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Guinea Bissau, Mg ...
• 28 September 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Help us stop the violence”: President of Congo asks UN General Assembly Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “United Nations assistance is crucial for the disarmament of foreign armed groups, using force if necessary, and for their repatriation and integration” Joseph Kabila president of Democratic ...
• 28 September 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - Discovery of local coal seams poses basis for launching Kenya's cement industry Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Kenya has good hopes of becoming a coal producer after prospecting in two districts of East Province obtained encouraging results. At present Kenya imports coal from South Africa and the disco ...