News

• 11 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - “A Bridge between Europe and Asia: Saint Francis Xavier 5th centenary”: Goa hosts international Conference on the patron Saint of the Missions promoted by Navarra University in Spain Goa (Agenzia Fides) - “A Bridge between Europe and Asia: Saint Francis Xavier 5th centenary” is the title of an International Conference on Saint Francis Xavier organised 22-25 January in the Indian city of Goa by th ...
• 11 January 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Cardinal Etsou played an important part in the transition from a mission church to a local church” says Cardinal Danneels Brussels (Fides Service)- “Cardinal Etsou played a most important part in the transition from a mission Church to a local Church in his country” said Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, in his ...
• 11 January 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Truth is the first victim of war and the first element to restore in view of peace”: Week of Prayer for Peace in Northern Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “I testified how true it is that in every war the first victim is truth. The war in northern Uganda is no exception: the army and the rebels lie” Fides learned from a missionary in Northern U ...
• 11 January 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Peace process in Cabinda enclave starts with disarmament and incorporation in regular army of former rebels Luanda (Fides Service) - Concrete steps in the Cabinda peace process included the destruction in early January of weapons belonging to the FLEC (Cabinda Liberation Front fighting for independence from Angola). The dest ...
• 11 January 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 500 New School Desks made by Andine community children in Cotopaxi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador, with a population of 13, 40 % indigenous, is a poor country, almost 70% of the country’s 4,8 million children live in extreme poverty. Schools in the Andes region are shoddy with few old ...
• 11 January 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic parishes participate with enthusiasm in diocesan Year of the Family Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan Year of the Family in Hong Kong, solemnly opened on Sunday 22 October, World Mission Sunday, is putting family and marriage pastoral at the centre of local Church life. According ...
• 10 January 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA “Mary, the force of witness” Rev Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past, and John looked towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God!’. And the two disciples heard ...
• 10 January 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Every year 200,000 legal abortions and an unknown number of illegal abortions. National Pro Life March in Paris on Sunday 21 January Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every year in France the deaths of 220,000 aborted babies are officially registered. Since abortion was legalised in France in 1974 more than 7 million babies have been aborted. Once again this ...
• 10 January 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - First National Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru 15 to 18 January will deepen missionary spirituality and build bonds of reciprocal knowledge and brotherhood Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Lima will host the First National Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru from 15 to 18 January, Fides was informed by executive secretary of the meeting Fr. Ambrogio Cortesi. The meeting, to be ...
• 10 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Fighting in Somalia continues, situation in the capital Mogadishu still tense Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Military operations in Somalia by Government troops and the Ethiopian army to oust the militia of the Union of Islamic Courts continue. Various air strikes are reported but it is not known whe ...
• 10 January 2007
  AFRICA/CHAD - United Nations High Commission for Refugees concerned about security situation of 220,000 refugees from Darfur N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - UNHCR remains extremely concerned over the security situation in eastern Chad, where there are more than 220,000 Darfur refugees and now over 100,000 internally displaced Chadians - 20,000 o ...
• 10 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The banquet of differences. Dialogue in the societies of the third millennium” International Conference at Urban University Rome (Fides Service) - “The banquet of differences. Dialogue in the societies of the third millennium” is the title of an International Conference organised for 11 and 12 January by the Missiology Department of the ...
• 10 January 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Slovenian - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There have been Christians in Slovenia since the 2nd century. A most important figure of the early Christian community was Bishop Saint Victorinus, martyred in the 3rd century in persecutio ...
• 10 January 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - 4th National Mission: Catholic university and high school students bear witness to Christ in 58 different areas of the country Santiago (Fides Service) - Once again this year Catholic university students and high school pupils in Chile are spending part of their three month Summer holidays on mission in various parts of the country as part of th ...
• 10 January 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Through prayer and service Legion of Mary consolidates the faith: 85th anniversary Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of celebrations for the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Legion of Mary, the spiritual director of the local Praesidium Fr Ferdinand Lok Hung Cheong, told Hong Kong’ ...