News

• 23 May 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Relics of Saint Teresa of Lisieux visit Lyons: Meeting on “Missionary Creativity from the 19th century to our day ”, World Missions Week, meeting of Fidei Donum priests and many other events at the House of Pauline Marie Jaricot Lyons (Agenzia Fides) - Since the inauguration of the newly restored home of Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799- 1862), the young girl from Lyons who founded the first of the Pontifical Mission Societies, the Society for the Pr ...
• 23 May 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Saturday 26 May diocese of Mangochi celebrates installation of Bishop Alessandro Pagani Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- Bishop elect Alessandro Pagani will be ordained and installed in his diocese of Mangochi, in Malawi on Saturday 26 May. “The celebration is expected to be attended by many people” said Monfo ...
• 23 May 2007
  ASIA/JAPAN - With regard to constitutional amendments the Catholic Bishops religious freedom and separation of Government and Religion must be respected Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - “Give to Cesar what belongs to Cesar and to God what belongs to God”: the Catholic Church in Japan recalls that for a correct harmony between government and religion it is useful to follow th ...
• 23 May 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New Pastoral Centre for Vietnamese immigrant workers. Catholic religious orders organise assistance for immigrants Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnamese immigrant workers in Korea have a new social and pastoral centre where they can meet, share experience, pray together and take part in social, cultural and spiritual activities. The Vie ...
• 23 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “The Conference will help re-launch the Church's mission to evangelise. This s second evangelisation 500 years after the first must be a new springtime for the Church ”: interview with Archbishop Roberto Octavio of San Juan Aparecida (Fides Service) - Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, tells Fides about the importance of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean ...
• 23 May 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Building the dignity of all men and women ”: inspired by the Gospel and the Church's Social Doctrine Social Week seeks solutions to country's principal problems Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Building the dignity of all men and women is the theme of Social Week being held from 21 to 24 May at the Catholic University of Ecuador. The event, organised by the Bishops' Social Pastoral Commi ...
• 23 May 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Ecumenism makes progress in Oceania: 20 May - 3 June Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and Prayers for Reconciliation Sydney (Fides Service) - Two weeks of intense ecumenical prayer in the Pacific from 17 May to 20 May the Church in Oceania celebrates the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and from 20 May to 3 June Prayers for Re ...
• 22 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Christian faith, which is shared by the majority of Rwandans, if lived coherently and fully, is a real help in overcoming a past of errors and death,”: Pope Benedict XVI Message to the President of Rwanda Vatican City (Fides Service) - Made public today was a Message, dated April 3, from the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, for that country's annual day of national mourni ...
• 22 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (17) Vatican City ( Fides Service) - Wednesday 7 April 1858, miracle of the candle: 17th apparition. “Our Lady called Bernadette in the evening of April 6. The news that Bernadette was going to the Grotto spread and about ...
• 22 May 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Catholic school must maintain its specific identity of being at the service of the integral formation of the human person, and the first and ultimate foundation of this integral formation is God " Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - Over one hundred representatives of Catholic schools all over the world are meeting in Santiago de Compostela, in Spain for the 17th Meeting of OIEC, International Organisation fo ...
• 22 May 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - In April new record inflation 3713.9%, but the real figure could be double Harare (Fides Service)- Inflation continues to rise in Zimbabwe. According to the central office for statistics in April the annual rate reached 3713,9%, and the monthly rate is 100%. Experts in economy speak of hyper-in ...
• 22 May 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - COMESA Summit: Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa heads of state meet for full implementation of free trade zone Nairobi (Fides Service)- Today 22 May a summit of 12 heads of state of COMESA Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa countries opens in Nairobi, Kenya. The summit, the main instance of this commercial association, ...
• 22 May 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 100 episodes of violence in these first months of 2007: Christians in Delhi take to the streets claim respect for the right to freedom of conscience New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 May in Delhi Christians of various denominations will stage a massive demonstration to urge the government to guarantee respect the freedom of belief and worship of all Indian citizens. ...
• 22 May 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Building hope for dialogue: religious leaders of North and South meet Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years of relations, ten years of hope for a future of dialogue and peace: in this spirit a delegation of S. Korean religious leaders visited the N. Korean capital Pyongyang, to meet religious ...
• 22 May 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - “ We have survived! A Message from Bishop Bernard O' Grady op, Bishop of Gizo in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands devastated by earthquake and Tsunami in early April Gizo (Fides Service) - "We have survived! Despite the widespread devastation, a sample of which is shown in the attached photo, we are slowly making our way to recovery after the magnitude 8.1 earthquake of April 2, 2007 ...