News
27 September 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “The voice of Catholic education!”: National Catholic Education Commission Conference 27 - 29 September in Sydney
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Rethinking the duty and mission of the Catholic school in modern day Australia in a context ever more globalised and marked by many different religions and cultures: this is the theme of Nationa ...
27 September 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Catholics Bishops call for participation and transparency in electoral process, they also denounce new Health Code for attacking life and the family
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In view of general elections on 15 October the Bishops of Ecuador have issued a message in which they call the Electoral Commission to ensure “transparency in the process, indispensable to guara ...
27 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA -Malaria and dengue in Rajasthan district, 500 cases admitted to hospital in one day
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Hospitals in Rajasthan and other parts of India are tackling a serious outbreak of malaria and dengue.
So far 200 cases have been reported by the SMS government hospital and 190 people have been ...
27 September 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Hsin Chu prepares 3rd Sacred Scripture Seminar on the “Return to the Word of God, walk with Christ”
Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Hsin Chu is preparing for the 3rd Sacred Scripture Seminar on the “Return to the Word of God, walk with Christ” sponsored by the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Teaching of ...
26 September 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic Bishop of Maumere (Flores): “We shouted and campaigned for all human life not only the lives of our three Catholics and we will continue the battle side by side with our Muslim brothers and sisters
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - “The campaign to abolish capital punishment has nothing to do with religion”, said Bishop Vincentius Sensi of Maumere diocese of Flores, the home of Domingus Da Silva, one of the three Indon ...
26 September 2006
EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Building together “missionary bridge of prayer”: Pontifical Mission Societies initiative for 2006
Prague (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 22 October Catholics all over the world will celebrate the annual World Mission Sunday with prayers and special collections in support of missionaries, missionary work, and poor churche ...
26 September 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - “Drug addiction challenges our pastoral charity”: Bishops’ Message on scourge of drug abuse and urgent need to find solutions
Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - “The problem of drug addiction calls for attention from society and from the Church and demands pastoral charity” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Chile Bisho ...
26 September 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Josephite Sister says plight of Indigenous Australians is most pressing social issue, united Catholic community must take action
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “The level of Indigenous health is still appalling” Josephite Sr Katrina Brill said in a Social Justice Sunday call to Australian nuns to join forces on Indigenous issues. Sr Brill, a Sister ...
26 September 2006
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Council of Catholic priests in Colombo archdiocese warns that widespread violence, kidnapping, killing could cause the country to collapse
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Priests of the Catholic archdiocese of Colombo has voiced great alarm for growing crime rate, including killings, abductions, disappearances and other forms of violence. In a pres ...
26 September 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Local Church calls on government to eliminate poverty and tackle worst ever humanitarian crisis
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Colombia has urged the government to give serious attention to the problem of widespread poverty and to tackle the worst humanitarian crisis the country has ever known. ...
26 September 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - African Union puts more troops in Darfur. But will they stop the massacre?
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- International pressure increases to convince Khartoum to put an end to violence in Darfur, the tormented western region which borders on Chad.
Yesterday 25 September during a meeting in Addis ...
26 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - “Serving the Sick means doing God’s Will”: Sisters of the Holy Cross Society celebrate 150th anniversary launching new programme to help children with hearing and speech impediments
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are at least 425,000 people who cannot hear or speak but no structures for specialised assistance. Now the Catholic Sisters of the Holy Cross Society have launched a new Home-Trainin ...
26 September 2006
ASIA - Acting to improve precarious health of children in southern Asia
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In southern Asia over one billion people, especially children, have no medical care, they are undernourished and prey to disease due to bad hygiene and sanitation above all no access to clean water ...
25 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses members of Muslim communities: “the relations of trust which have developed between Christians and Muslims over several years, will not only continue, but will develop further in a spirit of sincere and respectful dialogue, based on ever more authentic reciprocal knowledge which, with joy, recognises the religious values that we have in common and, with loyalty, respects the differences.”
Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - This morning at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI received envoys of Muslim countries accredited to the Holy See and leading members of the Muslim communities in ...
25 September 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus recalls the testimony of countless Christians “who dedicate their lives to serving others out of love for the Lord Jesus, operating as servants of love and therefore "artisans" of peace. Some are asked to give the supreme witness of blood, as it happened a few days ago for Sr Leonella Sgorbati”
Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In his midday reflection on Sunday 24 September before leading the recitation of the Angelus with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Bene ...
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