News

• 21 January 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - To learn to imitate his missionary zeal and exemplary virtues Taiwan Catholics make pilgrimage to Island of Shang Chuan the place where Spanish missionary St Francis Xavier died Taipei (Fides Service) - To thank God for the exemplary life of the Spanish Jesuit missionary St Francis Xavier and to learn to imitate his missionary zeal and virtues a group of Catholics from Taipei made a pilgrimage t ...
• 21 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic Bishops express appreciation for certain points of the new draft electoral Bill Kinshasa (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo have welcomed the adoption of proportional representation in the draft electoral law. “The Bishops’ Conference of Congo CENCO hav ...
• 21 January 2006
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Famine in southern Africa makes tragedy of Congolese and Angolan refugees even worse Lusaka (Fides Service)- According to IRIN, the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks a humanitarian news agency covering sub-Saharan Africa, eight countries in central Asia and Iraq, unless more emergen ...
• 21 January 2006
  OCEANIA/WESTERN SAMOA - The Church’s first Polynesian Bishop Cardinal Pius Taofinu’u returns to the House of the Father Apia (Fides Service) - “He was a man of inculturation, a charismatic leader who led the local Churches of Oceania to maturity” said Fr. Jan Hulshof, Prepositer General of the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers), recall ...
• 21 January 2006
  EUROPE - United and co-ordinated to fight Aids: Meeting for Catholic organisations which care for 25% of the world’s AIDS patients Geneva (Fides Service) - Share resources and know-how, improve cooperation in the fight against AIDS: these are the objectives of a meeting in Geneva 23-26 January of representatives of Catholic organisations involved in ...
• 20 January 2006
  Intentions entrusted by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the Apostleship of Prayer for the year 2007 JANUARY General: That in our time, unfortunately marked by many episodes of violence, the Church’s bishops and priests may continue to indicate the way of peace and understanding among peoples. Mission: That the ...
• 20 January 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Ratnapura Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 20 January 2006, appointed Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, Rev. Ivan Tilak Jayasundera of the diocesan clergy of Kandy, until now professor of liturgy ...
• 20 January 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Difficult African Union summit starts Monday 23 January Khartoum (Fides Service)- A summit meeting of heads of state and government of African Union countries will start on Monday 23 January in Khartoum, capital of Sudan. The meeting will discuss certain questions which are c ...
• 20 January 2006
  EUROPE/FRANCE - 30 ans ça suffit! 30 years of legalised abortion is enough! Pro-life demonstration in Paris solidarity from Spain Paris (Fides Service) - A pro-life demonstration on Sunday 22 January to demand protection for life from the moment of conception and the abrogation of anti-life laws has been organised by forum 30 ans ça suffit! - whic ...
• 20 January 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Official celebrations for 4th centenary of the death of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Patron of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Peru will open celebrations for the 4th centenary of the death of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Patron of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences on Sunday 22 January with a solemn Mass ...
• 20 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Young people are the hope of the Church” says Cardinal Etsou, archbishop of Kinshasa, concerned for a growing phenomenon of “street minors” and for the negative influence exerted by certain media Rome (Fides Service)- “I said this also to the Holy Father: I will never tire of being with young people, listening to them and helping them achieve their aspirations” said Cardinal Bamungwabi Nzabi Etsou archbishop ...
• 20 January 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic school curriculum will soon include education to critical use of the media Bangalore (Fides Service) - Catholic education institutes are getting ready to include Education to Critical Media Use as a regular subject in the school curriculum. For some time religious and secular bodies involved in ...
• 20 January 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Xian Xian diocese marks 150th anniversary “Now it is our turn to write a new page in the history of the Church in a new century” Beijing (Fides Service) - In 2006 Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou)in Hebei Province cradle of the Catholic community in China will celebrate its 150th anniversary. For the occasion the Bishop Li Lian Hui addressed a pastoral ...
• 20 January 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Hear the Gospel on-line: Church in Australia provides daily Mass Readings MP3 Sydney (Fides Service) - To offer Web users the opportunity not only to read Holy Scripture but also to hear it on-line, the Church Resources office of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has launched Dailyrea ...
• 20 January 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - First Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru 100 years ago, Japanese Cardinal Fumio Hamao, President of Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, presides Centenary Celebrations in Lima Lima (Fides Service) - The first Japanese immigrants landed in Peru a hundred years ago on 21 November 1906. A group of 774 farm workers arrived with a contract to work at the Hacienda Santa Clara, 36 of them had left th ...