News

• 7 May 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-First ordination of a Congolese priest in Hong Kong: he is a CICM missionary Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Dominique Mukonda, of the missionaries of Scheut (CICM, the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), of Congolese origin, arrived in Hong Kong three years ago, was ordained priest on ...
• 7 May 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-The often forgotten battle of mothers who die in childbirth Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Africa 4.5 million children under the age of 5 and 265 000 mothers die each year. Most of these deaths are related to pregnancy and childbirth and could be avoided by ensuring basic health care ...
• 7 May 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-The local church offers free services to the community of Valle Hermoso Valle Hermoso (Agenzia Fides) - The House-Hotel "Juan Pablo II" belonging to the colony Emiliano Zapata, supported by the Church Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, offers several free services to the community of Valle Hermoso, ...
• 7 May 2011
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A new Center to help victims of religious extremism Astana (Agenzia Fides) - A center in Astana for the victims of religious extremism has opened. It is called the "Kokbozat Centre", which will provide psychological, social and legal assistance to all those who have suff ...
• 7 May 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR-"Building a Church in the midst of this world, close to the suffering of the poor": say the Bishops after the meeting of the Episcopal Conference meeting Quito (Agenzia Fides) - From May 2 to 6, in the second week of Easter according to tradition, the members of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador met in Quito. According to the final statement of the meeting, received by ...
• 6 May 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA-"I have the duty to say that bombings are immoral acts, " says the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "I am surprised that statements were made on the fact that I should deal only with spiritual matters and that the bombings have been authorized by the UN. But this does not mean that the UN, NAT ...
• 6 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Consecration of new churches, "the faithful must not only dedicate the temple to God the Father but also the sacred temple of the heart" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "The faithful do not have to dedicate only the temple to God the Father but also the sacred temple of the heart" are the words spoken by Archbishop Zhang Xian Wang, Bishop of the Diocese of Ji N ...
• 6 May 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-The Bishop of Saltillo denounces the death of the miners: Stop with this "modern slavery" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Saltillo, Mgr.Raul Vera Lopez, has warned that until the federal government bans the so-called "Pozos coal" (coal wells) for the extraction of coal and and will not force coal ...
• 6 May 2011
  VATICAN-Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies, May 9 to 14 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –With the welcome greeting of Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, Assistant Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
• 6 May 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-A new school for Aboriginal children with problems or who have dropped out of school Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - After 60 years, the Jesuits will soon open a new school in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney. It will be a school that goes to the heart of the educational aim of the Society of Jesus, that is to say, ...
• 6 May 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-"The war has left the poor poorer," said Sister Rosaria from Abobo, after a month of fighting Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation seems calm after four weeks of intense fighting. There are still sporadic skirmishes, because situations like this cannot change from morning to night, " says Sister Rosaria, of t ...
• 6 May 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE-Pastoral operators of the center north of the country engaged in examining the Continental Mission La Serena (Agenzia Fides) - The Regional Days organized by the Episcopal Conference of Chile are being held in La Serena. From May 5 to 7 is the turn of the Centre North. The objective of this Second Regional Meeting of ...
• 6 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-At least 20,000 encephalitic children forced into begging Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan the worst form of child slavery in the name of religious tradition has become common practice. In the village there is no law nor authority to protect these slaves, mentally retard ...
• 5 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Bishop Peter Li Hongye, who died during the Easter Vigil, is remembered for his fortitude with which he lived his vocation and endured long periods of suffering Luoyang (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 April, during the Easter Vigil, while he was blessing the water before administering baptism, the Archbishop Peter Li Hongye, Bishop of the Diocese of Luoyang (Loyang) in the province of ...
• 5 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-The Catholic communities opened the month of Mary with great devotion and missionary zeal Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The solemn Marian pilgrimage, the Eucharistic celebration and the procession have marked the opening of the Marian month of May, the month of Mary, in the Chinese Catholic continental communitie ...