News

• 21 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - First Missionary Congress of Higher Education: "Apostles of a new evangelization" Santiago (Agenzia Fides ) - Today, Friday October 21, from 9 am to 6pm at the headquarters of the Pontifical University of Chile, the first Missionary Congress of Higher Education will be held. The Congress is organized ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Association of the Rosary spreads, "to draw strength and wisdom from evangelization" Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of St. Luke, 18 October, during the month of the Rosary and Missions, the Association of the Rosary in parish of Xi Ling, in the diocese of Wen Zhou was born. According to reports ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - For the first time the Mass for World Mission Day will be celebrated in Russian Astana (Agenzia Fides) - There are many initiatives for World Mission Day in Kazakhstan, where the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) were established in 2008 and since then continue to work in order to raise the Kazakhs ...
• 21 October 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "The population still needs to be reconciled in its innermost self", says the Bishop Lwena to Fides Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "The hope is through faith that enlivens our communities despite the serious problems that they are afflicted by," said His Exc. Mgr. Jesus Tirso Blanco, Bishop of Lwena, in eastern Angola, pass ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Blessed Paolo Manna translated into Arabic, to be missionaries in the Middle East", says the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Although they are a small minority, and despite the difficulties, "the Christians in Lebanon want to be leaven in the mass, for the Middle East. This is why we encourage t missionary experiences; ...
• 21 October 2011
  VATICAN - Don Guanella, "father of the poor" in 4 continents: over 12 thousand pilgrims for his canonization on World Mission Day Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the World Assembly of Guanella Lay Movement the program of initiatives for the canonization of Blessed Don Luigi Guanella, founder of the Servants of Charity and the Daughters of St. Mary of D ...
• 20 October 2011
  VATICAN - On Mission Sunday the canonization of Msgr. Conforti: Bishop of Parma ardent zeal for the salvation of all men Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Missionary is the most beautiful and sublime personification of the ideal life. He has contemplated in the spirit Jesus Christ who shows the Apostles the world they must conquer for th ...
• 20 October 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Dedicated to the Catholic funeral Liturgy and the inculturation of the 15th Asian Liturgy Forum Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic funeral liturgy and Inculturation" is the theme of the 15th Asian Liturgy Forum that is taking place in Tai Pei, from October 17 to 21, sponsored by the Liturgical Commission of the Ep ...
• 20 October 2011
  VATICAN - "Let us remain faithful to the original inspiration, looking to the future": an interview with Msgr.Jan Dumon, General Secretary of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We have remained faithful to the original mission conceived by the founders. The work was born from the awareness that a newly formed Church needs to be helped in forming their own ministe ...
• 20 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The Mission and the challenges of the New Evangelization": Chile celebrates World Mission Sunday Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In view of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Chile have prepared a full calendar of activities at a national level, with a clear aim: "To awaken and renew the commitm ...
• 20 October 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Bill: Churches can also collect illegal weapons San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of different Puerto Rican Churches have positively welcomed the draft law providing for an amnesty of 60 days during which anyone with a weapon, can deliver it to the police or chur ...
• 20 October 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Apostolic Nuncio in Ambon, safe city, the seminar and the new school catechetical were inaugurated Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen the fraternal relations between the different religious communities in Ambon; give a signal of trust and dialogue; bringing words of peace to a community that fears a new war: with t ...
• 20 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Suspects on military and paramilitary groups: new elements of investigation into the killing of Fr. Tentorio Davao City (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice for father Pops" is the name of the new Civil Society Forum, launched this morning in Davao, a major city on the island of Mindanao, to ask for transparency and justice in the murder ...
• 20 October 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - More than 60 000 refugees were transferred to Kakuma camp Kakuma (Agenzia Fides) - The difficulties in the Horn of Africa continue: recently more than 60 000 refugees were transferred from Dadaab to Kakuma camp. Various international organizations are warning of possible outbre ...
• 20 October 2011
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Missionary October amid difficulties and indifference, in a poor and starving country Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - In Ethiopia, the celebration of Missionary October is not felt for several reasons: the different calendar, the major presence of communities of the Eastern rite, the weakness of the structu ...