News

• 21 May 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR-The "American Bishop" of Pyay "priority to evangelization" Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - "The priority for our Church is to evangelize. The motto I have chosen for my episcopal service, 'May they have life', clearly expresses this meaning and this need to communicate the love of Christ ...
• 21 May 2011
  VATICAN-Over 20 years of commitment of the Catholic health care institutions providing assistance to victims of AIDS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in remote areas and where the average income is very low, the only ones to provide antiretroviral therapies and to intervene on behalf of ...
• 21 May 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA-The presence of the Church in the digital age: Forum sponsored by the Bishops Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Truth, Preaching and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age" is the theme of the Forum to be held on June 1 at the Regina Apostolorum auditorium at the headquarters of the Episcopal Conference ...
• 21 May 2011
  AMERICA/URUGUAY-Message from CELAM: renewed commitment for the Continental Mission and the call for everyone to become missionary disciples Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - "Four years ago, the Word marked the route in Aparecida, when we chose to promote the task of becoming missionary Disciples in the service of life, and now we confirm our commitment for the C ...
• 21 May 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-Resignation of Bishop of Koudougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 21, 2011 accepted the resignation from the ministry of the Diocese of Koudougou (Burkina Faso), presented by Archbishop Basile Tapsoba, in accordance wit ...
• 20 May 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-Solidarity and communion for vocations in mission lands continue to grow Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 21 and Sunday, May 22 the National Day of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle, on "Vocations in mission lands" will be held in Argentina. According to information s ...
• 20 May 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-Even two religious missionaries will receive the "Servitor Pacis Award New York (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 June the “Path to Peace” Foundation will bestow the 2011 annual Award to Frà Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Malta. The annou ...
• 20 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Maria example of evangelization: the first Cultural Week dedicated to the Madonna was celebrated Beijing (Agenzia Fides) –To celebrate the Year of Evangelization of the Lay and the Marian month, to urge the faithful to imitate the spirit of Mary following her footsteps as an example of evangelization: these are t ...
• 20 May 2011
  EUROPE-Evangelization, youth, dialogue in the continent under examination of the Jesuits Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A special meeting of the Council of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials (CEP) to put into action a strategic plan for the next three to four years was recently held. According to informat ...
• 20 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Attacked or driven out from their homes: the trampled rights of Christians in Punjab Lahore (Fides Service) - Two Christian nurses were seized and beaten for nine hours by an official of the Muslim Fatima Hospital in Lahore (Punjab), a wealthy Muslim landowner, with a history in politics, usurped the lan ...
• 20 May 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-"Another 30,000 refugees in the catholic mission of Duékoué" an appeal from the Bishop of Man to Fides Man (Agenzia Fides) - "There are still 30,000 displaced people received into the catholic mission run by the Salesians in Duékoué" Bishop Gaspard Beby Gnéba, Bishop of Man in western Ivory Coast reports to Fides. The ...
• 20 May 2011
  AFRICA/UGANDA-Centenary of the evangelization of northern Uganda: "we are living in the reconstruction phase," says the Bishop of Lira to Fides Lira (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we conclude the second Archdiocesan Synod of Gulu. If Synod means 'walking together' I remember that 100 years ago, in 1911, when the first Comboni missionaries arrived in Gulu, alone, on th ...
• 20 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-In defense of Christians in Orissa, " the judicial farce continues:" many crimes still go unpunished New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The government's response, courts and institutions, against the Christian community in Orissa, affected by the massacres of 2008, is still "too weak, similar to a farce." This is what Joseph D ...
• 19 May 2011
  VATICAN -Benedict XVI's general audience: "The Church in China, especially now, needs the prayer of the Universal Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the general audience on Wednesday, May 18, held in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI called for prayers for the Church in China, with these words: " During the Easter se ...
• 19 May 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-150 years since the death of S. Eugenio de Mazenod, founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Rome (Fides Service) - On 21 and 22 May, at the Shrine of Divine Love in Rome, the Italian celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of Msgr. Eugene de Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Missionar ...