News

• 20 December 2010
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of the Bishop of Damongo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 17 December, 2010, appointed as Bishop of Damongo (Ghana), Mons. Peter Paul Angkyier, former Vicar General and diocesan consultant of Damongo. The new Bish ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kottapuram Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 18 December, 2010, appointed as Bishop of Kottapuram (India), Bishop Joseph Karikkassery, until now Titular Bishop of Buxentum and Auxiliary Bishop of Verap ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Inauguration of the Centre for Pastoral Care Service at the Sanctuary of the Mount of Beatitudes Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The great dream of Cardinal Paul Shan, Bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung Diocese and President emeritus of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, and that of many Catholics in Taiwan has fina ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In Manila, a new house for disabled children, to enhance their capabilities Quezon City (Agenzia Fides) - The Guanella Home for Special Children, a simple house with a familial environment designed to accommodate about twenty children with mental and physical disabilities, was inaugurated on 12 ...
• 20 December 2010
  VATICAN - Secretary General Appointed for the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, has nominated Dr Baptistine Jeanne Ralamboarison, Dame of the Order of Pope St Sylvester, as Secretary Gen ...
• 20 December 2010
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Marian Sanctuary inaugurated in Ziguinchor, dedicated to Our Lady of the Mission Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - “A historic day for the Diocese of Ziguinchor,” recounts Fr Bruno Favero to Fides, director of the Pontifical Mission for Senegal and Mauritania, who describes how on 12 December in Ziguinchor ...
• 20 December 2010
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church insists in calling for international observers for the elections of 2011 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Nicaragua insists on the presence of international and domestic election observers to legitimize the outcome of the presidential and legislative elections which are schedu ...
• 20 December 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Sending missionary groups of children and young people of Czestochowa, 20 years on from Redemptoris Missio Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, 18 December, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa organized a pilgrimage to the church of San Giacomo, where the material prepared ...
• 20 December 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - post-election violence: Cardinal Njue invites politicians not to inflame minds Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - While the controversy continues in Kenya on the publication of the names of six politicians accused of organizing the violence that followed the 2007-2008 elections - who are being investigated ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Even if food is not lacking, children in the east are still dying from malnutrition Kupang (Agenzia Fides) - A lack of trained health staff, treatments and health promotion make Indonesia's eastern province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) one of the country's most food insecure, despite the general avail ...
• 20 December 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The village of Gramalote destined to disappear due to rain Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - About six thousand people have fled their homes in a village in north-eastern Colombia. The Minister for the Interior said that probably in a few days it “will not exist anymore”, as the vill ...
• 18 December 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Rebirth of “Radio St Gabriel", authentic voice of the Church Vanimo (Agenzia Fides) – The diocesan radio stations are spreading the authentic voice of the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea according to the Bishops of Papua New Guinea, informing Fides that the service “is bei ...
• 18 December 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Catholic youth, ambassadors of peace and reconciliation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The young people of Central Africa want to be “messengers of peace and reconciliation” in their land, marked by violence and conflict, is what the participants say at a meeting on the the ...
• 18 December 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - “Save Rizana, sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia”: appeal by religious leaders and human rights groups Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - A heartfelt appeal and a petition to save Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan Muslim woman sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is the initiative, Fides is told, undertaken by Christian, Muslim and ...
• 18 December 2010
  VATICAN - “Freedom of religion and mission” - Fides Editorial Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his Message for the XLIV World Day of Peace, 1 January 2011, Benedict XVI assigns “an historic and prophetic mission” to religious freedom so that humanity may live in peace and sere ...