News

• 12 August 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Caritas Santiago celebrates 54th anniversary of foundation Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – In the setting of the Continental Mission and the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Nation, Caritas Santiago is celebrating its 54th anniversary and remembering with gratitude the path that the ...
• 12 August 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - FOCUS Catholic Campus Ministry now present on 50 campuses Denver (Agenzia Fides) – In a recent press statement, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, a fast-growing college campus outreach now with a presence at colleges in 28 states (including District of Columbia) ...
• 12 August 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian churches say it's “time for amendments to the new Constitution" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “Now is the time for making amendments to the new Constitution.” That is the message being sent out by the Catholic Church, along with other Christian denominations following the approval by ...
• 12 August 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Kagame re-elected with 93% of the vote; attack in Kigali leaves 7 wounded Kigali (Agenzia Fides) – The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, was re-elected with 93% of the vote on August 9, the National Electoral Commission announced yesterday. The presidential term lasts seven years. In the 20 ...
• 12 August 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Religious minorities are the last to receive aid,” says local Catholic priest Munich (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Immanuel Asi, President of the Lahore Biblical Theological Institute and a member of the directive committee of the Theological Institute for Laity in Pakistan, as well as expert in interre ...
• 11 August 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “Listen, learn, and preach with children”: slogan for PMS Congress Riberalta (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Riberalta, located in the Department of Beni in the Northeast Region of Bolivia, near the border with Brazil, was the site of a four-day Congress from August 5 to 8 sponsored by ...
• 11 August 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - 300 missionaries in the remote villages of the Northern Andes of Peru Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) – As part of Continental Mission in the Archdiocese of Trujillo, 300 lay people in parishes along the coast were sent this week to 120 villages in the Sierra Trujillo (area in the Andes), in or ...
• 11 August 2010
  AFRICA - The challenge of gender ideology: a talk by Msgr. Anatrella at African Bishop Assembly Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The anthropological question was the focus of the conference given by Monsignor Tony Anatrella at the 15th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SEC ...
• 11 August 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Missionaries say foreign guerrila groups used to foster illegal exploitation of natural resources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The war that the Armed Forces of DRC (FARDC) are conducting against the rebels of the Rwandan Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the Ugandan Resistance Army of the Lord (LR ...
• 10 August 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Missionary: “There are still gray areas on the blood diamonds issue.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "It seems like a very spectacular process but that will be hard to get to the bottom of things with such different aspects and such complex information," Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missiona ...
• 10 August 2010
  AMERICA/CUBA - Pilgrimage of “La Virgen Mambisa” to Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Dionisio García Ibáñez, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and President of the Bishops' Conference, presided at the opening Mass for the start of the National Pilgrimage of ...
• 10 August 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The challenge of missionary pastoral work” - Conference sponsored by the new Office for Missionary Pastoral Work of the German Bishops Erfurt (Agenzia Fides) – September 6 to 8, there will be a conference on "Challenges of the pastoral mission, organized by the Office for Missionary Pastoral Work (Arbeitsstelle für Katholische Missionarische Pastoral ...
• 10 August 2010
  AFRICA - Over 700,000 people victim to counterfeit drugs each year, a large part are Africans Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700,000 people a year. A large part of these victims are African. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to 30 per ...
• 10 August 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Ad Gentes Missionary Training Course 2010: integral formation for missionaries Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday, August 8, marked the opening day for the Ad Gentes Missionary Training Course 2010 being held at the Missionary Cultural Center (known as CCM) in Brasilia. The course is being attende ...
• 9 August 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Diocese of Corumba delves into the Continental Mission Corumba (Agenzia Fides) – 90 group leaders from the Diocese of Corumba (in the State of Southern Matto Grosso – MS) met last weekend to study, reflect, and deepen in the theme of the Continental Mission. The Secretar ...