News
6 December 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “No to the death penalty”: Pontifical Mission Societies Australia supports world campaign to abolish capital punishment
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “Australia should be more committed to saying NO to the death penalty and YES to life” said Fr Terry Bell, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia.
He said that ...
6 December 2005
VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe concludes pastoral visit in Vietnam inaugurating new diocese of Bà Ria and installing first Bishop: the Church in Vietnam is living an important page in its history, a page of joy and hope
Bà Ria (Fides Service) - On the last lap of his pastoral visit to the Catholic Church in Vietnam Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples was present for the inauguration o ...
6 December 2005
AFRICA - Earthquake in central east Africa: fragmentary news from the epicentre zone, little damage but a lot of fear in Kenya, Burundi and the capital of Tanzania
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The earthquake which affected a vast area of East Africa caused much fear but little damage in Kenya, Burundi, and much of Tanzania, although there is still no precise news of the situation in east ...
6 December 2005
AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - The tragedy of AIDS in a divided country. Jesuit Refugee Service launches programme to help HIV/AIDS sufferers in Bouaké, in the rebelled controlled area
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- The AIDS emergency is one of the African tragedies which have plagued the continent for decades. According to the AIDS Epidemic Update 2005 issued on 21 November by the United Nations Joint Progr ...
6 December 2005
ASIA/INDIA - “Voice of Life”: new Catholic weekly in Kerala
Kochi (Fides Service) - Jeevanaadam or Voice of Life is the title of a new Catholic weekly in the local Malayalam language launched in Kerala. According to editor Fr. Feranandez the publication aims to promote cultural a ...
6 December 2005
ASIA/CAMBODIA - 450th anniversary of the presence of the Church in Cambodia: pastoral visit by Papal nuncio Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio
Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - The first missionary to set foot in Cambodia in 1555 and start evangelising was Dominican missionary Fr. Gaspar De Cruz. To celebrate 450 years of Catholic presence in this small nation in In ...
6 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Orionina Family organises international mission congress : 8 - 11 December 90 delegates from 4 continents will reflect on the situation and prospects of orionina mission
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 December at the Casa "Divin Maestro" in Ariccia (Rome), there will be an international Mission Congress “To the ends of the earth - La Piccola Opera on Mission: pastoral care and fr ...
6 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - “ll Rischio Educativo” by Mgr Giussani: “This is a book which helps Christians discover reasons for faith and non Christians discover reasons for life”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presented yesterday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome the book “Il Rischio Educativo” (The Education Risk) by the late don Luigi Giussani. Speakers at the meeting organised by the se ...
5 December 2005
EUROPA/SPAIN - Society of Jesus starts Jubilee Year for 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro and to commemorate St Ignatius of Loyola 450 years after his death: a year of Christian renewal in the footsteps of the great Spanish missionary
Pamplona (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 3 December the Society of Jesus opened a Xaverian Year to mark three important dates for Jesuits: 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506) and to ...
5 December 2005
ASIA/JAPAN - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Kagoshima and appoints successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2005 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kagoshima (Japan) presented by Bishop Paul Shinichi Itonaga in ...
5 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Winter spiritual renewal course for priests will be held in Jerusalem
Rome (Fides Service) - Love cannot fail or limit itself or become bored. It must be renewed every day. This is what happens among one particular category men in love: priests “lovers of God”. They too must renew the ...
5 December 2005
AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawi in the grip of famine and institutional chaos sees timid signs of hope according to local missionary: “it has started to rain, people are sowing every kind of available seed, what is a more a political solution may be in sight”
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “Christmas is coming and the end of a particularly difficult year for Malawi is near and people want desperately to see a point of return, a return to a rule of law, to good government, to a l ...
5 December 2005
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus prayer recalls that “religious freedom is far from guaranteed effectively and everywhere” and asks those present to pray “that every man and women may realise to the full the religious vocation inscribed in the depth of every being”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the spirit of Advent, when “the ecclesial Community prepares to celebrate the great mystery of the Incarnation it is called to rediscover and deepen its personal relation with God”, ...
5 December 2005
VATICAN - “It is necessary to announce with new enthusiasm that the Gospel of the family is a path to human and spiritual fulfilment...and to help people realise the intrinsic evil of abortion” Pope Benedict XVI tells presidents of Latin American Bishops’ Commissions for the Family and Life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on Saturday 3 December received in audience participants in the meeting of presidents of the Latin American Bishops’ Commissions for the Family and Life. The meeting is being ...
5 December 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Bishops: Nostra Aetate marked a turning point in inter-religious dialogue
Sydney (Fides Service) - “Nostra Aetate marked a turning point in inter-religious dialogue” the Catholic Bishops of Australian said in a statement issued at the end of a recent meeting in which they said the Council ...
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