News

• 15 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - 'Debt2Health agreement': history making agreement between Australia, Indonesia and the Global Fund to Fight TB Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Australia, Indonesia and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and malaria reached a history making agreement to support health programmes to treat and prevent TB in Indonesia. The 'Debt2 ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ Evangelisation is not just planning, it is doing ”: reflections after First National Mission Congress for Seminarians Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – “This meeting has been an important experience of missionary commitment. Prayer, conferences, group discussion, hymns have had one same goal: how to prepare future priests to be shepherds a ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The greater the obstacles the greater still must be our efforts for reconciliation, peace and solidarity”: Assembly of Bishops concludes Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “The great majority of our people desires Venezuela to be ‘a home for all’ the dream of those who founded our Republic: a home of acceptance, tolerance, peace and brotherhood. One great ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Pope appoints National Director of the PMS auxiliary Bishop of El Alto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, appointed today, 15 July, as Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto (Bolivia), Rev. Eugenio Scarpellini, of the diocesan clergy of Bergamo (Italy), assigning him the ...
• 14 July 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Religions against discrimination and defamation on religious grounds Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) – As part of a second series of seminars on 'Islam, Christianity and Europe', today, 14 July, in Brussels, a study meeting on the theme on the theme “The role of religious actors in the fig ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: “Fundamentalism and anti-conversion laws are contrary to religious freedom ” Bombay (Agenzia Fides) – “Religious freedom is the only authentic path to peace. The theme is most important for India and for the whole world: a decisive reflection on the world today and respect for basic human rig ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “The Pope's message will help dialogue ” says Archbishop of Jakarta Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – “Religious freedom is a fundamental human right. We are grateful to the Holy Father for choosing to offer us some reflections on this question: this will be most useful for Indonesia”: Spe ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Ordination of Bishop of Linhai (Taizhou) mainland China Taizhou (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 July Mgr Anthony Xu Jiwei, aged 75, with 25 years of priesthood, was ordained Bishop of Taizhou, in the province Zhejiang (mainland China). Since 1999 he had served as Diocesan Ad ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Monsoon floods leave 600,000 people stranded Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangladesh floods have left 600,000 stranded and submerged thousands of hectares of crops. Torrential rains crossing the Himalayan mountains cause rivers to flow southwards and overflow in Bang ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - On line Catholic Bible in Hindi, especially for young people Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Bible in Hindi, a complete edition, can be read on line at www.biblemitr.com a site created by the Catholic archdiocese of Bhopal, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The local Chur ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Concern for the most vulnerable of refugees and migrants: women, children and the elderly Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The 6th National Meeting of Protection Networks promoted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Institute for Migration and Human Rights (IMDH) is being held in Br ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - “ Arequipa's Catholic Identity ”: archdiocese concludes 400th anniversary celebrations Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Special Envoy of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , to celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the creation of the diocese of Arequipa, arrived at Lima' ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Coal mine tragedy, casualties include 2 former Don Bosco pupils Amaga (Agenzia Fides) – On 16 June, in the town of Amaga, 73 miners at the end their shift were killed by an explosion of built-up methane. The Don Bosco news service ANS said the casualties included two former pupils ...
• 14 July 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - 'C-Radio': a new Catholic radio station Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – A new Catholic radio station has just opened in Sydney. It is called 'C- Radio' (meaning Catholic Radio) and will broadcast news, information, podcasts of prayers and spirituality, recorded rea ...
• 13 July 2010
  VATICAN - Cardinal Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, sends a message to Bishop Julio Jia Zhiguo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has sent a message to Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, legitimate unofficial Bishop of the diocese of Zhengding ...