News

• 7 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conversion as the source for the “new mission”: 35th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 8, the XXXV General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) will open in Rome, to focus on conversion. As the outgoing Superior General, Fr. William Ste ...
• 7 September 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of the Parish of Jesus the Good Shepherd: a moment of communion in the heart of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The consecration of the parish of Jesus the Good Shepherd, in the Diocese of Bao Tou, in the Province of Inner Mongolia in mainland China, was not only a moment of communion for the local faith ...
• 7 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Public workers strike ends after keeping the nation on hold 3 weeks Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – After 21 days of strike, hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers have returned to work. However, this is only a suspension of the strike, civil servants' unions said, ...
• 7 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Continental News Agency for Africa to form within coming year Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Africa will provide a single, large, news agency for the entire continent. This is what was decided at the meeting in Nairobi, which opened August 31 (see Fides 01/09/20 ...
• 7 September 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Caritas says two days of rain worse than Tropical Storm Agatha Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – In just two days, Guatemala has suffered losses comparable to those resulting from the week-long passage of Tropical Storm Agatha last May. The government led by Alvaro Colom Caballero ...
• 7 September 2010
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - “On the issue of migration, everybody has their part to play,” says Auxiliary of Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – “Being a migrant is a right of people; it was even a right for Jesus himself. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were migrants in their own time, when they had to flee into Egypt. They did so for a ...
• 7 September 2010
  ASIA/NEPAL - Filters distributed to 37,000 families suffering from arsenic-contaminated water Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Aid organizations are distributing water filters to some 37,000 households in the Terai plains of southern Nepal who are being slowly poisoned by drinking arsenic-contaminated water. According ...
• 7 September 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Capuchins working over 30 years along Amazon River Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - The Rio Solimões snakes its way through northwest Brazil, from the Peruvian frontier until it merges with the Rio Negro, close to Manaus. On the banks of the Solimões thousands live, some in pe ...
• 6 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods and terrorism: a nation on its knees Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "We are doing our best in this extremely difficult time for the nation. The fury of floods is intensified with the nightmare of terrorism: two disasters that strike us to the heart. There is gr ...
• 6 September 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Maputo: calm, although protests threaten to return Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a situation that is evolving day by day and, therefore, it is impossible to offer any assessments at the moment," Fides has been told by a Church source from Maputo, the capital of Mozam ...
• 6 September 2010
  VATICAN - Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples offers Seminar for Bishops ordained in the last 2 years Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – 102 Bishops, who have been appointed in the last two years (2008-2010) in the ecclesiastical circumscriptions that depend on the Missionary Congregation, are in Rome participating in a Se ...
• 6 September 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Sisters of Saint Martha celebrate 50th anniversary Hua Lien (Agenzia Fides) – Cultural pluralism and communion marked the solemn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the diocesan congregation of Sisters of St. Martha in the Diocese of Hua Lien, Taiwan ...
• 6 September 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Caritas Voices Against Poverty”: a new campaign from Caritas Internationalis, to fight poverty New York (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas is launching a new campaign to put pressure on governments to live up to their anti-poverty promises. ‘Caritas Voices Against Poverty’ aims to mobilise its supporters behind the Mil ...
• 6 September 2010
  ASIA - “Koran burning” has Christians in Asia concerned Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Christians are calling it unacceptable and reprehensible: the “Koran Burning Day,” a campaign launched by Pastor Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida (USA ...
• 6 September 2010
  VATICAN - Pope on bicentennial of Leo XIII's birth: “Christians, acting as individual citizens or groups within the reality of history, constitute a beneficent and peaceful force for profound change.” Carpineto (Agenzia Fides) - “Christians, acting as individual citizens or groups within the reality of history, constitute a beneficent and peaceful force for profound change, actualizing the development of the potenti ...