News

• 29 October 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi resigns Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- Situation ever more confused in Somalia, where today, 29 October, prime minister Ali Mohamed Gedi presented his resignation to the temporary parliament meeting in Baidoa (250 km north west of ...
• 29 October 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Violence against women is a way of killing the whole community ” a report from east Democratic Congo denounces Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)- “Action aimed to humiliate and kill a whole community using exceptional and at times systematic action perpetrated in one village or another”. This is goal of sexual abuse of women in south Ki ...
• 29 October 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts open new mission to help hearing impaired children Péporyakou (Agenzia Fides) - A new mission of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts opens today at Péporyakou, in the diocese of Natitingou in Benin. The first community has four members, from two different congre ...
• 29 October 2007
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The international community calls on Colombo to guarantee respect for human rights as civil conflict continues Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations and the international community have urged the government of Colombo to guarantee respect for human rights in Sri Lanka even in the sad situation of civil war. Fighting betwee ...
• 29 October 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “National Children's Month”- local Catholic Church initiatives in aid of children Manila (Agenzia Fides) - National Children's Month promoted by the department for social wellbeing and development of the government in Manila had its focal event in Children's Day on October 26. Every year in the month ...
• 29 October 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - The small Catholic community Bei Han, Tai Yuan diocese registers 400 adult baptisms and numerous catechumens in the past ten years Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - “A small community like yours has evangelised 400 of your co-citizens in only ten years. This is wonderful, you are wonderful! But we must remember our country has a population of 1.3 billion ...
• 29 October 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Campaign “Family Embrace” to promote respect, central for family harmony, fundamental for co-existence in the family and in society Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year the Family and Childhood Commission of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Venezuelan has organised a nation-wide Family Embrace campaign during Family Week from 4 to 11 No ...
• 29 October 2007
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Preparation for CAM 3 in Costa Rica starts with study meetings and a National Meeting to examine CAM 3 Working Paper San José (Agenzia Fides) - After a process of three years the National Mission Council and the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Costa Rica will commence on 10 November preparations for the Third Am ...
• 29 October 2007
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Technical training Centres and schools needed in rural areas to promote integral development particularly for young people Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Technical training Centres, schools, mission stations, social centres which promote health aggregation are essential in rural areas of Solomons to ensure human, economic, social, cultural and sp ...
• 29 October 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - “Bio-ethics at the service of human dignity”: Cusco archdiocese hold 1st seminar Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Cusco has organised 29 and 30 October a seminar on the theme “Bio-ethics at the service of human dignity”, to discuss scientific progress and the consequences for basic huma ...
• 27 October 2007
  Dossier - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 (2 part) 21 october 2007 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007 "All the Churches for all the world" MISSION IN AFRICA POLITICAL- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION CHURCH AND MISSION GHANA MARKS EVANGELISATION CENTENARY AND ...
• 27 October 2007
  Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum At the beginning of the month of September the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI went to Loreto for the closing event of the first year of the Agorà for young Italian Catholics. In the evening of 1 September during the Vigi ...
• 26 October 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses students at Pontifical Universities in Rome: “The whole culture of man today must be imbued with the Gospel” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of a Mass in St Peter's Basilica for the inauguration of the new Academic Year 2007-2008, on Thursday 25 October XVI Pope Benedict addressed thousands of students from all o ...
• 26 October 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Volunteer Mission Day promoted by 51 NGOs Aveiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Communicating 2015” is the slogan of Volunteer Mission Day to be celebrated on Sunday 28 October in Aveiro, Portugal organised by an association of 51 of Portuguese NGOs active in the field of ...
• 26 October 2007
  AFRICA/GABON - “A major concern is young people to guarantee the future of the Church and the country” says president of the Catholic Bishops of Gabon in Rome for their ad limina visit Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A Church committed to the formation of lay Catholics, young people especially, which works together with the state institutions and other religious communities in the country. This was the picture ...