News

• 13 August 2010
  AFRICA - 255 killed, 700 kidnapped by Ugandan rebels in Central Africa and Congo, report denounces Rome (Agenzia Fides) – More than 700 adults and children have been abducted in a largely unreported massive abduction campaign started by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central African Republic (CA ...
• 13 August 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria's organization for fighting leprosy, supporting 5 million patients, offers emergency aid to Pakistan Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - For over 20 years, the organization for the fight against leprosy (Aussätzigen-Hilfswerk) of the national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria (Missio Austria) has been orga ...
• 12 August 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Caritas provides aid to 300 needy families suffering cold wave Puno (Agenzia Fides) – More than 300 families in the areas of higher altitude in San Antonio de Esquilache, province of Puno, received donations from Caritas because of the cold that does not abandon the southern Peruv ...
• 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 ...