News

• 5 June 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Doctors and nurses strike causes healthcare collapse: Red Cross steps in Harare (Agenzia Fides)- “A war situation ” .This was how the international Red Cross Committee defined the health system in Zimbabwe where junior doctors and nurses are striking for higher salary and better working c ...
• 5 June 2007
  ASIA/JAPAN - Japan's 188 martyrs will be Beatified, the country's Catholics overjoyed Tokyo (Fides Service) - Catholics in Japan are celebrating since Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree on June 1 recognising the martyrdom of 188 priests, religious and lay people killed in Japan between 1603 and 1639. The J ...
• 5 June 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Australia-Philippines agreement to fight terrorism in South East Asia Manila (Fides Service) - To render the area of South East Asia more secure, combat terrorism and piracy, co-operate in intelligence and defence an agreement was signed in Canberra by Australian prime minister John Howard ...
• 5 June 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Week of Religious Instruction in Schools discusses proposed Bill to exclude religion as a subject in Venezuelan schools Caracas (Fides Service) - The National Office for Religious Instruction in Schools ERE belonging to the Catholic Bishops' commission for education has promoted a National Week of Religious Instruction in Schools 4 - 8 Ju ...
• 5 June 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Transcendent dimension, principal of freedom to teach, guarantee state and private education with equal funding: points in a new provincial Education Law Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires has issued a statement listing certain fundamental points to be considered when drafting a new Provincial Education Law. Amo ...
• 5 June 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Gizo and appoints successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 5 June 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Gizo, Solomon Islands, presented by Bishop Bernard Cyril O’Grady, ...
• 5 June 2007
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Pope appoints auxiliary Bishop of Kundiawa Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 5 June 2007 appointed Auxiliary of the diocese of Kundiawa (Papua New Guinea), Rev. Anton Bal, until now vicar general of the same diocese, assigning to ...
• 4 June 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI proclaims four new saints: “Let us thank God for the wonders he has worked in the Saints who are a reflection of his glory. Let us be drawn by their example to make our whole life, like theirs, a canticle of praise and glory to the Most Holy Trinity ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday June 3, Pope Benedict XVI presided the celebration of Mass in St Peter's Square during which he canonised three priests and a woman religious: ...
• 4 June 2007
  VATICAN - On Sunday 3 June before leading the recitation of the Angelus prayer, Pope Benedict XVI greeted visitors who had come for the canonisations and he called for “renewed efforts to eliminate the new forms of slavery which afflict humanity” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday June 3rd after Mass in St Peter's Square during which he had canonised four new saints, Pope Benedict XVI greeted those who had come from different countries to be present for the ...
• 4 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of the Central African Republic: "I sincerely hope that Africa will no longer be forgotten in this world of profound changes and that authentic hope may be born for the peoples of that continent” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “You are called to carry out your mission at the service of the people entrusted to you by the Lord in a difficult contest…peace and national harmony are among the most urgent challenge ...
• 4 June 2007
  AFRICA/GABON - “ The call to holiness: this is the message which Pope John Paul II tirelessly announced to the whole Church” said the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples in his homily on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the late Pontiff's visit to Gabon Libreville (Fides Service)- Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has concluded his pastoral visit to Gabon, (see Fides 31 May 2007) where on June 2 in the capital Libreville h ...
• 4 June 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Catholic priest and three deacons assassinated in Iraq Mosul (Fides Service) - Four Chaldean Catholics, a priest and three deacons were brutally assassinated yesterday 3 June in Mosul in front of Holy Spirit Church as they left after Mass. The three men were Fr. Ragheed Aziz ...
• 4 June 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “We urge you all to prepare to undertake the Great Continental Mission, to go out to those most distant from the Church and to take up the challenge to re-evangelise the baptised more deeply ”: Message from Mexican delegation at Aparecida Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A call to "renew the fire of the Holy Spirit to experience a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ and, as disciples follow Him with constancy and dynamism" was launched by the Mex ...
• 4 June 2007
  VATICAN - ASIA/INDONESIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Atambua and appoints Successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Atambua (Indonesia) presented by Bishop Anton Pain Ratu, S.V.D., in c ...
• 4 June 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope creates diocese of Shendam and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June 2007 created the diocese of Shendam (Nigeria), with territory taken from the archdiocese of Jos, making it suffragan of the same archdiocese. T ...