News

• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children: 50% undernourished, 20% underweight and smaller than average, 70% lives below poverty line Quito (Fides Service) - In the world 150 million children suffer from under-nourishment, 6000 contract HIV/AIDS, more than 120 million cannot go to school and thousands are subject to abuse and violence. In Ecuador, sin ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Statement from Bishops’ Conference on the death of Conferenc under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela issued a statement with regard to the death of the Conference under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, last seen on Friday 21 April and foun ...
• 25 April 2006
  ASIA/NEPAL - “The King called back parliament and the people rejoice in the streets while the Church prays for peace” report from Fr Pius Perumana, pro-Prefect Apostolic of Nepal Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “We are all safe and sound, the Catholic community suffered neither losses nor damages but like everyone else has had enough of violence and destruction. Now the King has announced he is rea ...
• 25 April 2006
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm for increasing domestic violence Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- Sofia Simba Tanzanian minister for Conditions of Women and Children has sounded the alarm over increasing domestic violence on women in the country. Quoting a World Health Organisation re ...
• 25 April 2006
  VATICAN - Presentation of ‘Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine’ at Zaghreb, Budapest and Vienna Rome (Fides Service) - The capitals of Croatia, Hungary and Austria are the next stops for the five day tour undertaken by Cardinal Renato Martino President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 23 to 27 ...
• 25 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples sends condolences through Papal Nuncio in Egypt after terrorist attacks at Dahab Vatican (Fides Service) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, addressed the following telegramme of sympathy to the papal nuncio in Cairo Archbishop M ...
• 25 April 2006
  VATICAN - May missionary zeal continue to fill you and your beloved people, strengthening you in your efforts to spread the Gospel: Pope Benedict XVI tells Catholic Bishops of Ghana on ad limina visit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 April in the apostolic palace Pope Benedict XVI received a group of Catholic Bishops from Ghana on their five year ad limina visit: “My dear Brothers, the Pope told the Bishops, I a ...
• 25 April 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Love of God and China’s martyr saints in the light of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, theme of pilgrimage to Wu Feng Qi Marian Shrine organised by Catholic Hua Kuang Social Welfare Foundation Tai Pei (Fides Service) - To thank God for the fruits granted to the Catholic Hua Kuang Social Welfare Foundation; pray for the future of the Foundation and its members; renew commitment of service; commemorate God’s L ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Building a frontier of communion and peace as a place of encounter rather than division: Bishops of Colombia and Ecuador Villagarzón (Fides Service) - “We confirm our commitment to finding solutions to complex situations in border areas between Colombia and Ecuador” say the Bishops of frontier zone dioceses of Colombia and Ecuador in ...
• 25 April 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Jesuit Refugee Service concerned for women forced into prostitution because of cuts in international funds for refugee camps Conakry (Fides Service)- The Jesuit Refugee Service in Guinea reports that cuts in funding to Liberian refugees has led many young women to turn to prostitution to pay for school fees. At the end of the school year 200 ...
• 25 April 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Two new churches dedicated to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta New Delhi (Fides Service) - The charisma of Mother Teresa of Calcutta continues to live and bear fruits of love and service in India, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India said when it announced the dedication of t ...
• 25 April 2006
  AFRICA/REUNION - 204,000 people about one third of the population affected by chikungunya virus “bending disease” which strikes like dengue Moroni (Fides Service) - In the French island of Reunion, near Madagascar, already 5,049 cases of chikungunya have been registered in a serious outbreak of the virus which started in March 2005. According to the World H ...
• 24 April 2006
  VATICAN- Pope Benedict XVI recalls “the mystery of the loving mercy of God ” the centre of the Pontificate of John Paul II: “Divine Mercy is no secondary devotion, it is an integral dimension of Christian faith and prayer ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The apparitions of the Risen Jesus to the disciples and devotion to Divine Mercy central to the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II were the themes illustrated by the Holy Father Benedict XVI ...
• 24 April 2006
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - The Bishop of Ouesso resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 22 April 2006 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Ouesso (Republic of Congo), presented by Bishop Hervé Itoua, in co ...
• 24 April 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Okigwe resigns and is succeeded Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, on 22 April 2006, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Okigwe (Nigeria), presented by Bishop. Anthony Ekezia Ilonu, in c ...