News

• 6 March 2006
  AFRICA/BENIN - Presidential elections, polling stations close, second round forecasted Cotonou (Fides Service) - A few hours ago polling stations in the first round of presidential elections in Benin closed after being open yesterday 5 March and some hours this Monday morning because of logistic difficulti ...
• 6 March 2006
  VATICAN - “Disciples and missionaries of Christ today”: 1st Congress for Church Movements and new Communities in Latin America 9 - 12 March 2006 in Bogota, Colombia Vatican City (Fides Service) - In order to define the significance and identify the implications of being disciples of Christ today, especially in the context of Latin America, the Pontifical Council for the Laity and t ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Charity, antidote to individualism and fanaticism: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem issues Lenten Message Jerusalem (Fides Service) - In his Message for Lent 2006 the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah underlined that despite the difficulties and suffering they experience Christians in the Holy Land must realise that ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu fundamentalist ideology: an analysis by Indian Redemptorist Fr. Desmond de Sousa Goa (Fides Service) - Crisis In Hindutva: Growth or Decline? Will Hindu fundamentalism continue to threaten other religious groups? Will its capillary diffusion or political links succeed in influencing the social and po ...
• 6 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Ms Yan Jia Yi a member of Hong Kong Association of Lay Missionaries sent on mission to Cambodia Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “I am grateful to the Lord for calling me to be a channel of his grace and I know that going on mission means giving but also receiving” said Ms Yan Jia Yi, a member of the Catholic Assoc ...
• 6 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Internet offers ideas for Lenten reflection and prayer: initiative of Jesuit Fathers at Creighton University Sydney (Fides Service) - For Lent this year the Jesuit Fathers at Creighton University have proposed a daily itinerary of reflection and prayer via the Internet. The initiative is for all Christians but particularly youn ...
• 6 March 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - International Women’s Day: number of unemployed women in Latin America continues to grow, 6.5 million women in cities without jobs, those who do work are only temporarily employed and receive scarce social benefits Bogota (Fides Service) - Every year in view of international Women’s Day on 8 March the commission for social pastoral of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference organises a campaign to increase awareness of the conditions ...
• 6 March 2006
  AFRICA/ RD CONGO - “What the country needs is authentic Rule of Law” say Congo's Catholic Bishops in view of approaching general elections Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “After 45 years of delay and 15 year of a pointlessly long period of transition, the people of Congo hope with the coming elections to have at last in 2006 a rule of law” the Standing Commi ...
• 4 March 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS FEBRUARII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI intervened several times in the month of February with regard to incidents in various parts of the world following the publication in certain European newspapers of cartoons on the Prop ...
• 3 March 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Saint Pio da Pietrelcina missionary in the world: in the Amazon forest new complex with church, school and medical centre opens tomorrow 4 March Borba (Fides Service) - Tomorrow in the village of Autazes in the heart of the Amazon forest region of Brazil a new centre named after St. Padre Pio consisting of a church, a school and a medical centre will be officiall ...
• 3 March 2006
  AFRICA - A new wave of drought could affect children at risk for malnutrition and disease Rome (Fides Service) - According to the World Food Programme WFP the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF living conditions of people in east Africa, in particular children at risk of malnutrition and disease, may w ...
• 3 March 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Sunday 5 March Latin America Day: “In our day the material needs of poor countries still press us to share what we have, but faith must always be the basis and principle object of missionary activity” Madrid (Fides Service) - In Spain Sunday March 5 is Latin America Day an initiative organised by the Missions Commission of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. In a letter to present the Day the president of the Commissio ...
• 3 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - European Meeting for National Pontifical Mission Societies Offices (PMS) and National Offices for Missionary Cooperation 10 to 14 March. Focus: 50th anniversary of Fidei donum, Encyclical, PMS youth experience at WYD Cologne, dialogue with Islam Palermo (Fides Service) - A European Meeting for National Pontifical Mission Societies Offices (PMS) and National Offices for Missionary Cooperation will be held from 10 to 14 March at the Convento S. Giovanni Battista d ...
• 3 March 2006
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Movemos algo or, Let’s make something move! Swiss Holy Childhood ‘Starsinger’ children collect almost one million Swiss Francs to spend for children in need Fribourg (Fides Service) - “Movemos algo!” or, let’s make something move, was the motto for the annual Starsinger collection taken by children members of the Pontifical Holy Childhood Mission Society in Switzerland ...
• 3 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Holy Spirit Study Centre bridge between East and West 25 years at the service of the Church in China Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Holy Spirit Study Centre in Hong Kong, opened in 1980, has served as a bridge between East and West for 25 years. The Centre offers opportunities for research and study and formation in Christ ...