News
24 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “The challenge now is to co-ordinate aid” said head of Caritas Pakistan Bishop Joseph Coutts
Islamabad (Fides Service) - Bishop Joseph Coutts, director of Caritas Pakistan has just returned from a visit to people in areas affected by the October 8 earthquake. Reporting from Caritas base in Rawalpindi the Bishops ...
24 October 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Melbourne’s oldest Catholic Church St Francis marks 160th anniversary: busy parish, centre of propulsion for evangelisation and vocations
Melbourne (Fides Service) - On 23 October Melbourne’s oldest Catholic Church, St Francis, busy parish, centre of propulsion for mission and seedbed of vocations, celebrated its 160th anniversary. The anniversary coinci ...
24 October 2005
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Serabu marks centenary of evangelisation. Many couples chose to get married on this important date
Freetown (Fides Service) - Recently crowds of Catholics gathered at Sacred Heart parish church for the conclusion of celebrations to mark the centenary of evangelisation in Serabu, in town in the central southern part of ...
24 October 2005
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Take note of the signs of the times, listen to the “flock of the faithful”: Manila archdiocese closet pastoral assembly with 2,000 delegates
Manila (Fides Service) - At the end of a general pastoral assembly organised by the archdiocese of Manila, yesterday 23 October, Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales said on behalf of the whole community “We wish to be a pe ...
22 October 2005
VATICAN - Interview with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on the occasion of WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2005
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, which falls this year on 23 October, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe kindly agreed to giv ...
22 October 2005
ACTIVITY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETIES FOR MISSIONARY ANIMATION AND COOPERATION
ACTIVITY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETIES FOR MISSIONARY ANIMATION AND COOPERATION ...
21 October 2005
World Mission Sunday 2005: Catholic Church Statistics
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Here is Fides annual report on Catholic Church statistics which is prepared every year in view of World Mission Sunday 23 October. Figures regarding members of the Church, church structures ...
20 October 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the wake of CAM 2 the 1st Mission Congress for Amazonia and Roraima opens tomorrow in Manaus with the slogan “Church in the Amazon, our life is mission”
Manaus (Fides Service) - Brazil’s 1st North Regional Mission Congress (for the states of Amazonia and Roraima,) opens tomorrow 21 October in Manaus, Amazionia State in the far north of Brazil. The aim of the congress i ...
20 October 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “The main concern now is reconstruction because so many people have lost their homes and the fields which provide their livelihood” says Archbishop Víctor Hugo Martines
Quetzaltenango (Fides Service) - Over two weeks have past since the fury of Hurricane Stan swept Guatemala leaving destruction and death in its wake. According to the local press and national Red Cross organisation many ...
20 October 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Christians give generously to special collections and other efforts of solidarity for earthquake victims in Pakistan
Sydney (Fides Service) - “We are with them as they help those stricken people start a new life”, said Fr Terence Bell, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia, explaining how PMS Australia ...
20 October 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - Mission: Bread Broken for the Life of the World
Nairobi (Fides Service)- In preparation for Mission Sunday celebrations in Kenya the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in that country, Italian Consolata missionary Fr. Eugenio Ferrari, addressed a s ...
20 October 2005
VATICAN - To play a leading role in the cultural debate of today students at Rome’s Pontifical Universities launch a new magazine Synthesis
Rome (Fides Service) - To play a leading role in university activity, participate in the present day cultural debate in order to facilitate the Church’s cultural response in the future, students at Rome’s Pontifical ...
20 October 2005
EUROPE/FRANCE - Mission Week 16-23 October 2005: “We are close to all the travellers on all the roads of the world because mission is movement towards others”
Paris (Fides Service) - Presenting activities for Mission Week 2005, 16-23 October Bishop Daniel Labille, president of the French Bishops’ Missions Commission and Rev. Jean-Marie Aubert, national director of the Pontif ...
20 October 2005
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mission Month of October: holiness of life “fundamental presupposition and an irreplaceable condition” for any missionary animation.
Lagos (Fides Service)- The Pontifical Mission Societies (Missio Nigeria) has just concluded its mission animation programme October 4 - 15, 2005. The programme started with a five-day Reflection/Workshop for all the PMS ...
20 October 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Ramadan in Moluccas provides opportunities for Muslim - Christian reconciliation
Ambon (Fides Service) - Local Church sources in Amboina diocese, Moluccas Islands, say Ramadan the annual Muslim month of prayer and fasting is an opportunity for promoting reconciliation and joint social activities. The ...
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