News

• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Three year refresher course for women religious in Han Dan diocese Han Dan (Fides Service) - Women religious in the diocese of Han Dan will be offered a three year updating course to foster spiritual and intellectual growth in view of ever better service in the work of evangelisation a ...
• 21 March 2006
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “It is our duty as pastors and teachers to promote, preserve, and protect marriage as it is willed by God”: US Catholic Bishops’ statement Washington (Fides Service) - “It is our duty as pastors and teachers - a responsibility we share with the Christian faithful and with all persons of good will - to promote, preserve, and protect marriage as it is wille ...
• 21 March 2006
  AFRICA - Africa discusses avian flu threat Libreville (Fides Service)- '”The appearance of avian flu in south east Asia, Europe and more recently in Africa is a cause for serious concern in the international community”, the president of Gabon Omar Bongo Ond ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Local Church opens John Paul II Pro-Life Centre for families with HIV/AIDS Kep City (Fides Service) - In 2003 in Cambodia 20 new cases of HIV-AIDS were registered every day. In 2005 in nine months 10,000 new cases of HIV and 19,811 cases of AIDS were registered, according to the Department of S ...
• 21 March 2006
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Capuchin project provides decent homes for poor people in Cape Verde Praia (Fides Service) - To help some of the many people in Cape Verde, the elderly, the poor, single mothers, large families living in make shift homes or caves the local community Capuchin Fathers, who first arrived her ...
• 20 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 2nd Continental Meeting for National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in America Mexico City (Fides Service) -Some 24 national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies from all over American continent have arrived in Mexico City to take part in the 2nd Continental Meeting for National Directors ...
• 20 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic young people and immigrant foreign workers celebrate St Joseph national patron anxious to learn from him the virtue of humility Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “In a world where so much importance is given in success and getting rich, and fundamental values of the family, faith and humility are undervalued St Joseph can be of great help” a priest i ...
• 20 March 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus: “St Joseph’s example urges us to carry out with fidelity, simplicity and modesty the task assigned to us by Divine Providence" Vatican City (Fides Service) - Before leading the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 19 March with people gathered in St Peter’s square to receive his blessing Pope Benedict XVI said: “Today 19 March i ...
• 20 March 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS From Africa to the Pacific South African Bishop Kevin Dowling in Melanesia on “choose life” campaign against AIDS Honiara (Fides Service) - It is a journey which has taken him to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island and other parts of the Pacific to increase awareness on the theme of respect for life and the fight against HIV/AIDS: Bish ...
• 20 March 2006
  AMERICA - Viral haemorrhaging fevers have 80% mortality rate. Diagnosis kit for Ebola, Marburg and other infective diseases Rome (Fides Service) - Laboratory researchers on infective diseases at Columbia University have developed a quick test to identify viral haemorrhaging fevers like those caused by the Ebola and Marburg viruses. Increasi ...
• 20 March 2006
  AMERICA - Work continues on Central American Mission Ad Gentes Centre for formation and new mission commitment Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) - The Central American Mission Ad Gentes Centre soon to be opened is a fruit of the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM 2 held in Guatemala in November 2003 and a Central American Mission Plan t ...
• 20 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Parish priest killed in archdiocese of Goa Goa (Fides Service) - A Catholic Fr. Eusebio Ferrao, aged 61, parish priest of St Francis church at Macasana in the southern part of the state of Goa, south west India, was found dead on 18 March. The body was found by ...
• 20 March 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope celebrates Mass with workers: “Work is of primary importance for the realisation of the person and the development of society which is why it must be organised and undertaken with full respect for human dignity and as a service to the common good.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Work is important for self realisation but on no account should it be seen as the ultimate purpose of life Pope Benedict XVI said on Sunday 19 March, the feast of St Joseph, during Mass cel ...
• 20 March 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Bishops of Cameroon: may the ecclesiological and spiritual intuitions of Ecclesia in Africa give “new impulse to the salvific mission which the Church received from Christ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The tenth anniversary of the post-synodal Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa which Pope John Paul II signed and consigned to Africa’s Catholics in Yaounde in September 1995 was the main focus ...
• 20 March 2006
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - In the wake of the exhortation “Ecclesia in Africa” Catholic Bishops say country’s political and social forces must guarantee democracy, transparency, peace, social justice Rome (Fides Service)- “The Church in Cameroon had made progress and continues to do so. Vocations are flourishing and people take part in liturgical celebrations en masse and with enthusiasm” says Mgr Patrick Lafon, ...