News

• 10 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - European National Directors Pontifical Mission Societies discuss missionary pastoral on the old continent Palermo (Fides Service) - A Meeting of national Pontifical Mission Societies offices and Offices for missionary cooperation in Europe opens today 10 March at S. Giovanni Battista Comvent in Baida, Palermo, Italy. These E ...
• 10 March 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Increasing pressure for UN peace-keepers to Darfur. Today African Union decides whether to hand control to UN Khartoum (Fides Service)- This morning the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, meeting at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, will decide whether or not to hand control of the Darfur region ...
• 10 March 2006
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Formation for missionaries in view of Third American Mission Congress CAM 3 in the wake of missionary impulse from Mission Holy Year and CAM 2 San Jose (Fides Service) - “New Evangelisation and Mission” is the theme for formation courses started on 18 February for all Costa Rican missionaries in view of the third American Mission Congress CAM 3 to be held ...
• 9 March 2006
  EUROPE/CROATIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 January 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Croatia for a f ...
• 9 March 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe opens international convention on the Council decree Ad gentes forty years on : “An act of homage to our heroic missionaries who spend their lives often in difficult and dangerous conditions so Christ may be announced and all men and women may receive salvation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - An international Convention on the 40th anniversary of the Ad gentes Council decree being held at the Pontifical Urban University was opened this morning by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefec ...
• 9 March 2006
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “In Guatemala human life has lost all its value”: Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruño denounces culture of death which produces, abuse of the person, indifference to suffering, violation of moral norms and human rights, threats to human life Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “Lent finds us in times when our people of Guatemala are overshadowed by unchecked violence and serious threats to life” said the Catholic archbishop of Guatemala City, Cardinal Rodol ...
• 9 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Religious called to “put out into the deep” in the ocean of the Internet Rome (Fides Service) - Prof. Vincenzo Comodo who teaches Sociology and Communications Science at the Regina Apostolorum college and the Claretianum College recently published a book in Italian “Cons@crati on line. Int ...
• 9 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Poor country children in Shan Xi province go to school thanks to a group of city Catholics in Beijing Beijing (Fides Service) - Thanks to a group of city Catholics in Beijing poor country children in Shan Xi province can now go to school.: “We do not have a lot to give, our contribution is small, a drop in the ocean, a ...
• 9 March 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Asia-Pacific religious leaders unite to stop terrorism and eliminate poverty Cebu (Fides Service) - Leaders of different religions in the Asia-Pacific region have vowed to work together to help stop terrorism, eliminate poverty and injustice and promote peace and social harmony. The resolution wa ...
• 9 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Ahmedabad diocese starts “Year of the Family” 2006: vocation and mission of the Christian family in the third millennium Ahmedabad (Fides Service) - To promote reflection on the Christian family, its calling and mission in the third millennium in an era of global culture and major social changes and in view of growing threats to the family ...
• 9 March 2006
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - East Timor ever poorer: economy and development among the slowest in Asia Dili (Fides Service) - The youngest nation in Asia East Timor which will celebrate the 4th anniversary of its independence from Indonesia on May 20, lives in a situation of concerning economic under development and pover ...
• 9 March 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Etsou asks Catholics to support Kinshasa Catholic Radio and Television project: valuable and powerful means for necessary new evangelisation Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Frédéric Etsou has said that the country has urgent need of a Catholic Radio and Television station to face the present crisis in values, growing relativis ...
• 9 March 2006
  AFRICA/GHANA - St. Joseph Knowledge Centre Jirapa for development in Sahalian territory Rome (Fides) - Jirapa is a town in Upper West Region of Ghana near the border with Burkina Faso. In 1929 the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary built an orphanage here. The orphanage still exists but in terrible conditions. ...
• 9 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - By 2020 India could be the world capital for HIV/AIDS. Catholic assistance for HIV/AIDS patients in Godavari Andhra Pradesh (Fides Service) - By 2020 India could be the world capital for HIV/AIDS. Since 1987 the country has registered 4.5 million cases of infection. It emerged from a recent Indian government survey that high ...
• 8 March 2006
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 5th ordinary assembly of Latin America catechesis experts: Latin America Society of Catechists marks 10th anniversary San José (Fides Service) - Members of the Latin America Society of Catechists from eleven different countries recently gathered at Casa San Benito, inSanta Barbara Heredia, Costa Rica, for the Society’s 5th ordinary ...