News

• 29 August 2006
  VATICAN - Christian prayers in the languages of the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To continue the urgent task of new evangelisation launched by Pope John Paul II, Fides News Service is planning a section on Christian Prayers in as many languages as possible. The French d ...
• 29 August 2006
  September 2006 the Pope’s missionary intention: ““For the People of God in missionary lands: may they consider their own ongoing formation a priority”. Comment by Cardinal Ricardo J. Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu (Philippines) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Missionaries often think of themselves as evangelisers. The missionary zeal focuses them on the need to share the Faith with others in the hope of bringing all men and women to Christ. Yet ...
• 29 August 2006
  VATICAN - “Tourism reveals a universal richness, which does not reject the human person, but rather preserves his footprints, his trace.”: Message issued by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples for World Tourism Day 2006 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Tourism enriches precisely insofar as it helps in rendering the so-called “rich” systems “relative” and opens them up to the perception of other forms of “being rich”. Natur ...
• 29 August 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Orionini community in Bangalore celebrates religious profession of first three Indian members: after the Philippines and Korea the sons of Don Orione in Asia take another step Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Orinini family in India welcomed its first three local members Sidon, Martin and Praveen, who recently made their profession at Christ the King parish in Bangalore in the presence of the d ...
• 29 August 2006
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At least 118,000 affected by serious flooding in Ethiopia Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides)- The United Nations World Food Programme warns that least 118,000 people have been affected by exceptionally serious floods in vast areas of Ethiopia over the past few weeks. The humanitarian ...
• 29 August 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We are Missionaries of Great Joy”: 1st National Mission Congress of the Holy Childhood Association of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Nigeria Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- “We are Missionaries of Great Joy” was the theme of the First National Mission Congress of the Holy Childhood Association of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Nigeria. It was held August 1 - 4 ...
• 29 August 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Wu Qiao parish starts St Francis Xavier Association to continue the work of the patron Saint of Missions Xian Xian (Agenzia Fides) - As part of celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the diocese of Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou), He Bei province, the Catholic parish of Wu Qiao decided to start a St Francis Xavier Missi ...
• 29 August 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Spreading God’s Love to Transform Ecuador: 1,000 students take part in Mission Ecuador 2006, evangelisation and social service to assist those in need Quito (Agenzia Fides) - At least 1,000 college students will take part in Mission Ecuador 2006 1-10 September with activities of evangelisation and social assistance organised for the third consecutive year by Loja Techn ...
• 28 August 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe his Special Envoy to Asian Mission Congress in Thailand in October Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Metropolitan Archbishop of di Naples (Italy), his Special Envoy to the Asian Mission Congress, in Chang Mai (Thail ...
• 28 August 2006
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Bishop of Mandeville resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 8 August 2006, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Mandeville (Jamaica), presented by Bishop Gordon Dunlap Bennett ...
• 28 August 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Metropolitan Archbishop of Kampala resigns and successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 19 August 2006, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Kampala (Uganda), presented by Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, in ...
• 28 August 2006
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope recalls Saint Augustine and his mother Saint Monica: to Mary “we entrust Christian parents that like Monica they may accompany the growth of their children with their example and their prayers. To the Virgin Mother of God we also entrust young people that, like Augustine, they may seek Christ, the fullness of Truth and Love” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - At midday on Sunday 27 August Pope Benedict XVI led the recitation of the Angelus prayer with several hundred people gathered in the inner courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gan ...
• 28 August 2006
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Pope creates the diocese of Banmaw and appoints first Bishop Vatican Service (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 28 August 2006, created the diocese of Banmaw (Myanmar) with territory taken from the diocese of Myitkyina, making it suffragan of the archdiocese ...
• 28 August 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Apostolic Prefecture of Kiangchow mourns first Bishop Augustine Zheng Shouduo, 15 years of forced labour borne with courage and humility Kiangchow (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Augustine Zheng Shouduo of the apostolic prefecture of Kiangchow (Xinjiang/ Yuncheng) Shanxi province, 670 km south west of Beijing died on Sunday 16 July 2006 at the age of 89, at the ...
• 28 August 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Assessing fruits of Summer catechetical courses in Catholic communities all over the country Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen children in the faith and lead other children to the faith; to include elements of Chinese culture in the teaching of Christianity to make it more easy to understand; to educate to ...