News

• 29 October 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - More Funds for healthcare to avoid another wave of deaths following the earthquake in Pakistan Rome (Fides Service) - Hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims in Pakistan risk death, disease and other hazards as the Winter season draws close. There is urgent need of homes, clean water and medical assistance. Al ...
• 29 October 2005
  “Communicating and participating”. From the mass media to shared communication: what challenges face the Church? Symposium to celebrate 25th anniversary of Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Communications Rome (Fides Service) - The year is the 25th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Communications at the Pontifical Gregorian University opened by the then Rector, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini. In a quarte ...
• 28 October 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI sends message for 40th anniversary of Vatican II Declaration Nostra aetate: “May Christians and Jews offer an ever more compelling shared witness to the One God and his commandments” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, promulgated by Pope Paul VI forty years ago, “opened a new era of relations with the Jewish People and offered the foundations for sincere theolog ...
• 28 October 2005
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Prayers for peace to dispel pre-election tension in Zanzibar Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- “The decision to postpone national elections has not given rise yet tensions” said local Church sources in Dar Es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, where presidential and parliamentary elect ...
• 28 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Eucharist, light and life of the new millennium”: in November Eucharistic Congress for northern dioceses and 4th Eucharistic-Marian Congress in Ica diocese Lima (Fides Service) - At the end of the Year of the Eucharist 13 ecclesiastical jurisdictions Piura, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Chulucanas, Chimbote, Cajamarca, Chota, Huamachuco, Jaén, Chachapoyas, Moyobamba, Huaraz and Hua ...
• 28 October 2005
  VATICAN - "Migrations, sign of the times” is the title of a Message issued by Pope Benedict XVI for the 92nd World Day For Migrants and Refugees to be marked on 15 January 2006 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migrations, sign of the time” is the theme of Holy Father's Message for the 92nd World Day of Migrants and Refugees which will be celebrated on January 15, 2006, made public today. The ...
• 28 October 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Fervid preparations for 5th World Meeting for Families: parish catechesis, awareness programmes in schools, 1st National Symposium for Grandparents Valencia (Fides Service) - Catholics are preparing to host the 5th World Meeting for Families to be V EMF held in Valencia 1 to 9 July 2006, on the theme "The Family and the Handing on of the Faith". The Bishop of Valenc ...
• 28 October 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Space for reflection on the concept ‘secular state’ in the context of human rights and the best way to guarantee authentic religious freedom: objective of International Congress on “Churches, Secular State and Society” 14 to 18 November Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Church-State relations, together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the National Human Rights Commission and the Mexican Institute of Christian Social ...
• 28 October 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 99.5% success for a combination of medicines to prevent malaria tested on 160 children in Mali Rome (Fides Service) - A combination of medicines used to prevent pneumonia and opportunistic bacterial infections in patients with HIV/AIDS unexpectedly shown itself to be highly effective for the prevention of malaria. ...
• 28 October 2005
  UNITED NATIONS - Every 15 minutes a child is infected by HIV virus. Only 5 per cent of the world’s HIV+ children receive medical care Rome (Fides Service) - At least 18 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa are in danger of becoming orphans by the end of 2010 because of the AIDS virus. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF only 5 pe ...
• 28 October 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop John Tong presides 100th anniversary celebrations at Rosary Church Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Addressing parishioners at Rosary Church in the central Kowloon district of Hong Kong on the occasion of the parish’s 100th anniversary, Bishop John Tong, auxiliary of Hong Kong, said “Our ...
• 28 October 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Bishop of Bobo-Dioulasso speaks about “traditional mechanisms” of African culture at the 1st Forum of Leaders for Peace in Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (Fides Service)- How religions can help promote a culture of peace was the focus of the 1st Forum of Leaders for Peace in Burkina Faso held in mid October in the capital Ouagadougou. The Forum, presided by ...
• 28 October 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Missionary Bishop harassed by immigration authorities: Zambian Bishops’ Conference protests Lusaka (Fides Service)- “We have noted with dismay the continued harassment and embarrassment of Rt. Rev. Paul Duffy OMI, the Bishop of Mongu by the Zambian immigration officials” the Catholic Bishops of Zambia said ...
• 28 October 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Ten days of intense prayer and reflection on the Eucharist: Seoul Archdiocese concludes fruitful Eucharistic Congress Seoul (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Seoul ended a ten day Eucharistic Congress on Sunday 23 October. Ten days of deep prayer and serious reflection on the Eucharist marked the closing of the special Year of the Eu ...
• 28 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Local Catholics join “Help Kashmir” campaign coordinated by a Hindu leader - inter-religious prayer for earthquake victims New Delhi (Fides Service) - “Help Kashmir” is an aid campaign in aid of victims of the October 8 earthquake launched by religious leaders, churches, NGOs and associations in Bhopal, capital of the Indian state of Mad ...