News

• 23 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Awareness of the importance and the urgency of mission ad gentes, as the primordial duty of the Church, is ever deeper”: says Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe takes part in Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates Javier (Agenzia Fides) - The Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates and Diocesan Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies organised in Javier Navarra, Spain to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavie ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ouagadougou Seminary celebrates ordination of 22 deacons, and institution of 36 readers and 26 acolytes from Burkina, Niger and Mali Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 June at St John Baptist Seminary in Ouagadougou, 22 young men, including two Camillians and two Redemptorists, were ordained deacons; another 36 seminarians including 6 Camillians were ...
• 23 June 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Education and healthcare for children in Tamil Nadu Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Madrid based Fontilles Association to Fight Leprosy, Spain has offered 116 boys and 114 girls in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu the chance to go to school and receive an education which will a ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Agreement between Sudanese government and one guerrilla group to guarantee security in Darfur. With regard to the sending of an international peace force to the region talks continue. Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- An international peace force cannot be sent to the west Sudan region Darfur where civil war has raged for years without the consensus of the Sudanese government, said United Nations’ vice secr ...
• 23 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic Festival in public park is an opportunity to evangelise among non Christians Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - “It is good to be here with you! We have experienced your joy which comes from profound interior peace”. This was said by passers by and ordinary people according to the organisers of par ...
• 23 June 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - “We must look to the future with optimism ... and work for unity to guide and help our country towards progress and prosperity”: Bishops’ post election call Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “The election is over and now we face the challenge to build the future, strive for the common good, serve with responsibility the many marginalised people, build with generosity, cultivate healt ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Basic education for all: UN World Food Programme to build 25 new schools in southern Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The UN World Food Programme plans to build 25 new schools in southern Sudan where the rate of primary school attendance is one of the lowest in the world. The schools are part of a project worth 3 ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Reciprocal recognition between Somali government and Islamic Courts which control most of the country Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- An agreement reached between the Islamic Courts and the transition government of Somalia foresees a treaty and reciprocal recognition. The agreement - said agreement mediator Arab League gene ...
• 22 June 2006
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Nicola Bux and Salvatore Vitiello - “Primacy and Protagonism” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Primacy and Protagonism” While certain politicians propose compulsory semesters of civil service in order to educate young people to solidarity or make great efforts to promote initia ...
• 22 June 2006
  VATICAN - Saint James the greater teaches us “to readily heed the Lord’s call, to follow Him with enthusiasm, to be willing to bear witness to Him with courage, if necessary to the supreme sacrifice of our life”: Pope Benedict XVI teaching at general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his teaching at the general audience on Wednesday 21 June Pope Benedict XVI continued his reflection on the Apostles chosen by Christ during his life on earth. After Saint Peter and his ...
• 22 June 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic community welcomes two new deacons who share their vocation experience on the eve of ordination Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “Once we answer the Lord’s call with perseverance we will reach our goal, because the Lord has prepared a banquet for those who love Him” said seminarian Ye Bao Lin one of two deacons t ...
• 22 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Religious and musical events and an exhibition on the Legacy of Saint Ignatius of Loyola to mark the 450th anniversary of the death of Saint Loyola (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 450th anniversary of the death of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, July 31 2006, who founded the Society of Jesus, as part of Jesuit Jubilee Year celebrations all over the year to mark 50 ...
• 22 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Franciscan Youth Mission in August planned by young people for young people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A mission “young people to young people” is the fruit of an intuition born during the experience of World Youth Day in 2000 when Pope John Paul II asked the young Catholics present to “set th ...
• 22 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Abandoned children, humanitarian emergency: 145 million of the world’s children abandoned Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presented in Rome a cultural project on the Emergency Abandonment from which will be born a Permanent and Multi-Disciplinary Observatory which will collect, examine and compare scientific products ...
• 21 June 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - New Rector appointed for Taiwan Regional Seminary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 21 May 2006, appointed Rector of Taiwan Regional Seminary, rev. Joseph Huang, of the diocesan clergy of Taichung. The new rector is ...