News

• 21 September 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Flood emergency in Assam state more than a third of the population affected Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - A serious emergency due to flooding caused by monsoon rains has arisen in Assam State in India. Torrential rains in recent weeks affected over two thirds of the population leaving at least 50 de ...
• 21 September 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazil admits using underhand strategy to combat leprosy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 September the Brazilian minister of health issued a statement admitting that figures showing a fall in recent in the number of persons receiving treatment for leprosy were incorrect. Those in ...
• 21 September 2007
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Water pollution favours high incidence and spread of intestinal parasites Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican National College of Bio-Analysis CODOBIO, announced that most boys and girls living in El Arroz village in the La Ciénega district, are carriers of ‘Blastocisti Hominis� ...
• 20 September 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI recalls unfading value of the thought of Saint John Chrysostom, irresistibly impelled to preach the Gospel: “The missionary ideal threw him, heart of fire, into pastoral care” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The year is the sixteenth centenary of the death of Saint John Chrysostom (407-2007). John of Antioch, also called Chrysostom or ‘Golden mouth' because of his eloquence, can be said t ...
• 20 September 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE -The Church is by nature missionary , Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During Mass on Sundays and feast days the congregation prays the Creed and proclaims faith in “one holy, catholic and apostolic” Church, mentioning four traits of the Church as Traditio ...
• 20 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “May Aid to the Church in Need also in the future offer help where the needs of the Church are greatest”: Papal Message to ACN marking 60 years of service Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “May Almighty God grant your ‘Aid to the Church in Need" association light and strength, that also in the future it may offer help where the needs of the Church are greatest”. These are the c ...
• 20 September 2007
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Over 2.400 Small Christian Communities in Dar es Salaam offer basic service of in depth evangelisation Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- In the archdiocese of Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania there are more than 2,400 Small Christian Communities, SCC. Sr Rita Ishengoma, of the congregation of St. Teresa of the Holy Child ...
• 20 September 2007
  AFRICA - One and a half million people in Africa affected by worst floods in decades: concerning situation from west to east Rome (Agenzia Fides)- At least 1.5 million Africans are affected by floods which have devastated vast areas of the continent since country since July according to UN humanitarian agencies. The World Food Programme says t ...
• 20 September 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Cable TV and American Catholic network ETWN will enable young Indian Catholics in Karnataka to be virtually present for World Youth Day in Sydney 2008 Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Mangalore diocese, in the southern Indian state of Karantaka, especially young people, have welcomed the news that they will now be able to watch one of the most popular Catholic ...
• 20 September 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The whole Church commemorates Saint Andrea Kim Taegon and companion martyrs Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Through the ages, Asia has given the Church and the world a great host of these heroes of the faith, and from the heart of Asia there rises the great song of praise: Te martyrum candidatus laud ...
• 20 September 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - In depth study meetings on the figure of Saint Paul the Apostle, “faithful disciple and tireless missionary”, in preparation for Year of St Paul indicted by Pope Benedict XVI Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Federation of Catholic Workers Associations in Argentina in view of the Year of St Paul indicted by Pope Benedict XVI will host four meetings on the figure of Saint Paul at its head of ...
• 20 September 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Catholic Bishops say the country's natural resources including its mineral riches must be used to render living conditions more humane Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Making the mineral sector more humane" was the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Peru after a meeting in Lima on 18 September on the exploitation of minerals in the Piura regi ...
• 20 September 2007
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - First National Mission Symposium Missionario in the framework of 50th anniversary of Fidei Donum encyclical, the Great Continental Mission and preparations for CAM-3 Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - About 75 participants took part in Uruguay's 1st Mission Symposium held in Kolping on theme "All the Churches for all the World" . The Synposium was organised by the Mission Commission of the ...
• 20 September 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “World Youth Day has an ecumenical spirit and importance”, says Anglican Archbishop Peter Jansen of Sydney Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen sees the World Youth Day 2008 event as "a great event to promote ecumenism and a wonderful opportunity lead young our people to Christ". ...
• 19 September 2007
  VATICAN- AVE MARIA “Conversion cannot wait”, Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A frequent temptation for those walking along the way of the Lord is to give in to sin, to their sinful tendencies and convince themselves that instead of being fought these tendencies shou ...