News

• 8 February 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - United Nations warn: the number of internally displaced persons in Sudan and Uganda is double that of refugees abroad Nairobi (Fides Service)- According to the news service of the Jesuit Refugees Service-JRS on 26 January Denis McNamara UN special co-ordinator for internally displaced persons IDP criticised the international media for ...
• 8 February 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought in north east Kenya: UN and local government say 230 million dollars needed to save the lives of 3.5 million people Nairobi (Fides Service)-“We appeal to the international community to see this arid land needs immediate help. We call for general political and social mobilisation to guarantee the right of access to water, fundamental ...
• 8 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesians mark hundred years of service on the subcontinent New Delhi (Fides Service) - Salesians in India are marking a hundred years of evangelisation and human promotion in India and fifty years of service in Sri Lanka helping street children and promoting reconciliation amon ...
• 8 February 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - World Day for former Child Soldiers: China Keitesti tells of her sad experience at a meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies München (Fides Service) - On the occasion of World Day for Child Soldiers 12 February the national office for Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany missio München has organised an ecumenical service on Saturday 11 ...
• 6 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Vicar apostolic of Anatolia Bishop Padovese: “Fr. Andrea came here to bear witness and as a witness he died ”. A call to the Catholic community: “We need to feel the support of all Christians ” Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) - “Fr. Andrea was a man of dialogue, he was not a man to argue or to proselytise. His only thought was to dialogue with the local people and in fact this is required of the situation here whe ...
• 6 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Spokesman of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey: civil authorities and leaders of local Orthodox and Muslim communities send messages of sympathy and solidarity to Catholic community in Turkey Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. George Marovitch, Spokesman of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey on the telephone from Istanbul, said the small Catholic community in Turkey was deeply shocked by the murder of Itali ...
• 4 February 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS JANUARII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The principal event in the month of January was the publication of Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical Letter presented at the Holy See Press Office on 25 January. The document takes its title from the first words of ...
• 3 February 2006
  VATICAN - Day of Consecrated Life: Pope Benedict XVI encourages men and women religious “like lighted candles, irradiate always and everywhere the love of Christ, light of the world ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his homily during 5.30pm evening Mass in St Peter’s on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord at the Temple, February 2, also known as Candlemass, and celebrated by the Church as th ...
• 3 February 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Academy for Life: International Congress on “The Human Embryo before Implantation” 27 and 28 February followed by 12 general assembly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Human Embryo before Implantation” is the theme of an international congress to be held in the Vatican 27 and 28 February 2006 at the New Synod Hall, organised by the Pontifical A ...
• 3 February 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Lenten Fraternity Campaign 2006 in aid of 200,000 children in Chile under six living in conditions of vulnerability and social risk Santiago (Fides Service) - “Don’t shut us out” is the slogan of the annual Lenten Fraternity Campaign promoted by the Catholic Church in Chile which this year 2006 will be in aid of children violated in their right ...
• 3 February 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bolivian Bishops call for solidarity with victims of natural disaster: “No Bolivian can be indifferent in the face of so much suffering and desperation” La Paz (Fides Service) - “In various regions of our country the people are living the negative effects of nature: overflowing rivers, loss of life, harvests, animals, spreading disease, lack of food and medicine, the m ...
• 3 February 2006
  ASIA/KOREA - The Pope appoints Coadjutor Archbishop of Daegu Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 February 2006, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Daegu, Mgr. John Choi Young-soo, until now titular Bishop of Sitifi and auxiliary of the same archdi ...
• 3 February 2006
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - New national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies 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 Honduras for a f ...
• 3 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Divine Word missionaries inaugurate new religious province in north east India New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Society of the Divine Word has instituted a new religious province in north east India which covers the states of Arnachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura. The official inauguration took place ...
• 2 February 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Catholic Bishops (South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland) united in the Bishops Conference of Southern Africa have issued 4 statements on the urgency to restore hope to the people, give more value to the role of teachers, firmly oppose ‘marriage’ of persons of the same sex and condemn trafficking of sex slaves Pretoria (Fides Service) - Political and social situation; trafficking of women and children; valorisation of role of teachers; same sex “marriage” were four questions discussed in separate statements issued at the e ...