News

• 11 October 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Talks continue: LRA representatives are good negotiators” says one international mediator for peace in Northern Uganda Juba (Agenzia Fides)- “Talks continue: yesterday 10 October the LRA delegation presented a 20 page document the second point for discussion on social and economic aspects. The government delegation should reply today� ...
• 11 October 2006
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “Missionaries of Christ that all may have life in Him”: Mission Sunday 2006 to strengthen conviction that every true disciple must be missionary San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries of Christ that all may have life in Him” is the theme chosen for Mission Sunday activity this year in Costa Rica “in keeping with the spirit which is guiding the Church in Lat ...
• 10 October 2006
  EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Presidents of European Bishops Conferences attend Plenary Assembly in St Petersburg: new presidency elected San Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time ever, the Presidents of Europe’s 34 bishops’ conferences met in Russia, in Saint Petersburg, from 4th - 8th October 2006. “We have come here from all over Europ ...
• 10 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We urgently need professional Catholic communicators in the field of television…We need Catholic television!”: World Congress of Catholic TV Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The first World Congress of Catholic Television 10 -12 October opened today in Los Negrales, Madrid presided by Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, and Archbishop John P. Fol ...
• 10 October 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Excited Catholics await canonisation of first bishop born on American soil Blessed Rafael Guízar Valencia: soon patron saint of Mexican Bishops’ Conference Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mexican Bishop Rafael Guízar Valencia (1878-1938), will be canonised in Rome on Sunday 15 October by Pope Benedict XVI. He will be the first saint born on American soil. "St Rafael is a wo ...
• 10 October 2006
  VATICAN - Excavations bring to light 40 small and medium-sized mausolea, and more than 200 individual graves: new section of Roman necropolis on the ancient Via Triumphalis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 9 October, at the Vatican Museums about 200 media operators from many different countries took part in a press conference followed by a visit to present a new section of the Roma ...
• 10 October 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Office of United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights calls for independent investigation into Darfur massacres Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is urging the Government of Sudan to order an independent investigation into recent militia attacks that may have left ...
• 10 October 2006
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - “Agreed, the elections are important, but the humanitarian crises afflicting our country must not be forgotten” warns Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga in the Katanga region Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Although attention in Democratic Congo is focussed on elections, there are humanitarian crises which cannot be overlooked” Bishop Fulgence Muteba, Catholic bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, in south ...
• 10 October 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Preparations for Mission Sunday Pontifical Mission Societies to celebrate “80 years of generosity, communion and sharing on every continent” New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in India is preparing to celebrate World Mission Sunday 22 October, with prayers and special collections, and also awareness building initiatives. The national office of t ...
• 10 October 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - “We thank God for Creation and for Health”: latest issue of “Voice Katolika” focuses on harmonious relationship with man, nature and God Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Being aware of the gifts we receive every day from God, health which allows man to live and go about his daily activity, creation, nature, the sun, the sea, the land. This and more is presented ...
• 10 October 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Pro-life Mobilisation: against New Health Code which promotes abortion, bans objection of conscience and imposes sexual education without values and which excludes parents Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - “Azione Pro-Vida” and the network of organisations Pro-Life and Pro-Family have launched a campaign to defend life and to protest against a new Health Code which promotes abortion, the ab ...
• 10 October 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN -Catholic archbishop of Tai Pei issues open letter on the necessity of prayer and imitation of Jesus in social and political life and in times of national crisis Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “Prayer is not passive or impotent! Prayer helps us find the truth. With the country in disorder we Christians must pray and pray above all that the president will repent”: this was part of ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Letter to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Papal Envoy to the imminent Asian Mission Congress in Chang Mai, Thailand Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI has addressed a Letter in Latin to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, metropolitan Archbishop of Naples, his special envoy to the Asian Mission Congress, in Chang Mai Thailand 19 ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - “There is a need of families which are not misled by modern cultural currents inspired by hedonism and relativism, and instead are ready to live with generous dedication their mission in the Church and in society” Pope Benedict says at the XVI Angelus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy of the 27th Sunday of the Year, 8 October, proposed Jesus’ teaching on matrimony and on this subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dwelt in this midday reflection before t ...
• 9 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Witnesses to the joy of being Christians: may this be your choral commitment. Continue, indeed intensify ecclesial communion and be generous protagonists of the evangelising mission which the Lord entrusts to you”: Pope Benedict XVI receives Catholics from the Romagna region of Italy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Receiving thousands of Catholics from various dioceses of the Italian region of Romagna on Saturday 7 October in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, the Pope urged them to “Witness to the j ...