News
5 October 2005
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic diocese in Mindanao extends microcredit projects to help 23,000 low-income farmers
Davao (Fides Service) - Micro-loan projects launched by the Catholic diocese of Tagum in Mindanao southern Philippines to eliminate poverty and promote development of low-income rural communities are proving highly succe ...
5 October 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Eucharist and Mission: 23 October procession of the Blessed Sacrament to close Year of the Eucharist on World Mission Sunday
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “Walk with Christ” is the slogan of a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament on 23 October through the streets of Sydney to mark the closing of the special Year of the Eucharist and the annual e ...
5 October 2005
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “Democracy, politics and honesty”: moral guidelines from Bishops’ Conference to make the electoral process “ respond to the deep longing for peace, justice and solidarity”
San José (Fides Service) - ‘Democracy, politics and honesty’ is the title of a pastoral statement issued on 3 October by the Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica in view of the start of the electoral campaign leading ...
5 October 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - Liturgical Books now available in Karimojong
Moroto (Fides Service) - In this Year of the Eucharist Karimojong speaking Catholics in Uganda have received the best of gifts, liturgical books in their own language. The work started in 2002 and was undertaken by Fr Re ...
4 October 2005
VATICAN - Synod of Bishops - Opening Meditation by Pope Benedict XVI: the Lord “knocks at our door, he is close and so also is true joy, stronger than all the sadness of the world, of our lives”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The 11th general Assembly of the Synod of Bishops began with a prayer and a brief Scripture reading followed by an off the cuff meditation by Pope Benedict XVI in which the Holy Father unde ...
4 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Don Bosco College pupils among 11 students killed in protest demonstrations in north east India
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Deep sadness was expressed by the Archbishop of Shillong Dominic Jala after 11 students were shot dead when police opened fire on protesters demonstrating in Garo Hills in the north eastern st ...
4 October 2005
VATICAN - Synod of Bishops - “Relatio ante disceptationem” Cardinal Angelo Scola: “the constitutive factors of evangelisation and new evangelisation are essential implications of Eucharistic action”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Angelo Scola Patriarch of Venice, Relator general of the 11th general ordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops presented on Monday 3 October his intervention consisting of an intr ...
4 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Church in Peru strives to promote devotion and adoration of the sacrament of the Eucharist : Eucharistic Congress in Huánuco, Eucharistic Youth Day in Callao, in Lima a series of conferences and a festival of liturgical hymns
Perú (Agenzia Fides) - In the Year of the Eucharist the Church in Peru has organised various initiatives to foster deeper devotion and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. From 6 to 9 October at the auditorium of Immacul ...
4 October 2005
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - “The grace of the Call comes from God: he made me what I am”: testimonial from a Brother of the Congregation of Frères Missionnaires des Campagnes in Burkina Faso who recently made his solemn vows
Ouadougou (Fides Service)- What is a religious vocation? Every priest and religious can reply on the basis of his or her own experience and encounter with the Lord. The experience is personal but also universal. Brother ...
4 October 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Emphatic disapproval of Spanish Bishops with regard to a proposed law which excludes parents and makes the state the sole educator of young generations
Madrid (Fides Service) - The Standing Commission of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has issued an emphatic statement with regard to a proposed Bill on education approved by the government on 22 July. The Bishops voice ...
4 October 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO
Cry of grief from new Bishop of Manono south east Congo: “war has destroyed everything”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- A cry of grief comes from Katanga, south east Democratic Congo. Bishop Vincent de Paul Kwanga, the new Bishop of Manono, launched the cry in a press statement. According to the local Catholic ...
4 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Announcing the Gospel over the air: Radio Veritas Asia Urdu section holds 7th National Conference. “Culture of forgiveness” theme of programmes for 2006
Lahore (Fides Service) - Radio Veritas Asia Urdu section is an essential channel of witness for Catholics in Pakistan and a precious means of spreading the Gospel over the air. Radio Veritas is a point of reference for t ...
4 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - 200 million carriers of hepatitis C virus in the world: a petition for a World Day and better prevention
Rome (Fides Service) - On October 1st a delegation of the European Liver Patient Association presented the European Commissioner for health Markos Kyprianou with a petition to establish a a World Day for Hepatitis C.
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4 October 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Maronite Catholics in Australia welcome relics of Maronite Saints for the first time
Sydney (Fides Service) - In 2005 for the first time ever relics of three Maronite saints, Charbel, Rafqa and Nemetallah have been brought from Lebanon to visit the consistent and lively community of Maronite Catholics in ...
3 October 2005
VATICAN - Benedict XVI opens Synod of Bishop on the Eucharist: “If we remain in Christ we too will bear fruit, we will produce not the vinegar of self-sufficiency, malcontent with God and his creation, but the good wine of joy in God and love for neighbour”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 2nd October in St Peter’s Basilica Pope Benedict XVI presided a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist with Synod Fathers from all over the world for the opening of the 11th ge ...
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