News

• 14 March 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Light a lamp in Africa!”. The lamp of education, a school for everyone. Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix open a new school in Luena Luena (Fides Service) - Just back from Angola, where she visited with the General Bursar Sr Candida Aspesi, Sr Rosangela Giorgi in charge of programmes for development and economy with solidarity, sent Fides a report on ...
• 11 March 2005
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - Personal and direct proclamation of the Word of God to people at home and at work: Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate undertake new evangelisation in Romania Bucharest (Fides Service) - It will be the Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest Ioan Robu, who will present the missionary cross and mandate to Giuseppe Rubino, Elio Filardo, scholastic Benoni Varga and pre-novice Lucian Bos ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Three months since the tsunami, great progress has been made to resettle refugees and rebuild infrastructures in south east India: great effort on the part of the local Catholic Church Hyderabad (Fides Service) - A continual coming and going of people, vehicles, volunteers and religious. Three months since the tsunami, at the Social Services Centre of the diocese of Vijayawada, in the south eastern sta ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Over 60 Orthodox icons from various part of the world on show in Hong Kong provide opportunity for Christians to meditate on the mysteries of faith Hong Kong (Fides Service) - An icon is catechesis in painting, a work of art which leads the beholder on a mystic journey towards the transcendent. It opens the mind to the mystery of God. This was the message which emer ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Commission for Lay Apostolate programmes and initiatives to strengthen lay Catholics’ Christian identity and render them more effective agents of new evangelisation Seoul (Fides Services) - The Commission for Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea CBCK comprising 13 active members appointed for a three year term, including priests, religious and lay men and wo ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian women ready for courageous proclamation of the Gospel of Salvation. Seminar in Lahore focuses on struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan: Women ‘objects’ never again Lahore (Fides Service) - The mission to announce the Gospel and spread the Good News is not reserved only for priests and religious. Lay women are also called to be ready and courageous announcers of the Gospel of salvat ...
• 11 March 2005
  VATICAN - In Mexico Cardinal Sepe addresses missionaries: “Revive the grace of your vocation and intensify, faithful to your original charisma, your path towards mission ad gentes. Prefer the most places most humble and arduous, to the far ends of the earth!” Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Institute of Santa Maria de Guadalupe for Foreign Missions in Mexico City hosted the last event on Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe’s brief pastoral visit to Mexico. Here, on Thursday 10 Marc ...
• 11 March 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We will continue”: after 57 of commitment and the present scarcity of mission resources, Basque dioceses opt to continue to support missions in Ecuador and Angola, because “for a diocese being missionary is not an option” Vitoria (Fides Service) - On Sunday March 13, the Basque dioceses of Spain will celebrate the traditional Day of Basque Diocesan Missions, an organisation present in the dioceses of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria, t ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/KOREA - 30.000 members of the Korean Catholic Health Association recently instituted with the support of the local Bishops’ Conference Rome (Fides Service) - It was approved in September 2004 during the general assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea under the aegis of the national Caritas and charged with the task of dealing with proble ...
• 11 March 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Human life is of sacred and inviolable value: any exception tends to consider it a good at our disposal, which can be negotiated, wounded, destroyed”: President of Brazilian Bishops’ Conference comments on Bio-Ethics Bill being discussed by parliament Brasilia (Fides Service) - Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Archbishop San Salvador de Bahia and President of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference, in an interview with the local press with regard to a proposed Bill on B ...
• 11 March 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Everywhere on the Continent profound cultural and religious changes are taking place, the Church is called to speak out in fidelity to her mission”: conclusions of meeting of general secretaries of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean Bogota (Fides Service) - The annual meeting of general secretaries of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean closed yesterday after reflecting on two important questions: the religious situation in th ...
• 11 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Consecrated brothers and sisters, wake up! Put out into the deep” Bishops say to religious in Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Consecrated life is a concrete reality in Congo today. According to statistics our country has an estimated 11,000 men and women religious among a population of 50 million, 50% Catholic. Thei ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - White Paper on Religious Minorities: satisfaction for government attention to rights of Christians New Delhi (Fides Service) - Christians in India have welcomed a recent “White Paper on Religious Minorities” approved the Indian government. The paper, which will be published soon, makes a global analysis of the sit ...
• 11 March 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Bombers of peace” to carry real peace to the hearts of Angolans after 25 years of civil war. Head of “Pro Peace” speaks after the movement’s second congress Luanda (Fides Service)- “The goal is to build a climate of trust so elections will be transparent without protest or suspicion”, Angolan Catholic Bishop José Francisco Moreira dos Santo head of the Pro Peace Movemen ...
• 10 March 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “John Paul II leans on the staff of our prayers, the prayers of the Church”: children, adolescents, young people, adults, the elderly, in the city and beyond, regardless of race or ideological divisions, unite in a crusade of prayer for the Pope Mexico City (Fides Service) - Every day at the end of mass in the chapel of Guadalajara minor seminary one of the students takes the microphone and says: “Let us pray for the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II. He needs us ...