News

• 10 June 2010
  VATICAN - Cardinal Hummes tells priests: “We must be very conscious of the present missionary urgency. It is necessary that we rise and go on mission everywhere.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "The great objective of the Year for Priests was to renew in every priest the awareness and concrete carrying out of their true priestly identity and their specific spirituality in order ...
• 10 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Carreño resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on June 10, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Vicariate Apostolic of Puerto Carreño (Colombia), presented by Archbishop Efrén Álvaro ...
• 10 June 2010
  AMERICA - Year for Priests comes to a close: “a year not only for priests, but for the entire People of God” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Approximately 15,000 priests from nearly 100 countries are now in Rome participating in the International Encounter for the close of the Year for Priests declared by Pope Benedict XVI on ...
• 10 June 2010
  ASIA/TURKEY - In killing Bishop Padovese, “they've symbolically beheaded the Church” Izmir (Agenzia Fides) – "With the brutal murder of Bishop Padovese, they have symbolically beheaded the Church in Turkey," reads a heartfelt testimony sent to Fides from Fr. Martin Kmetec OFM Conv, Franciscan missionar ...
• 10 June 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church in Pakistan hopeful for international petition to end blasphemy law: 3,000 signatures Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Pakistan welcomes with great hope the international petition launched Aid to the Church in Need in France, to abolish the blasphemy law. The petition continues to gather suppor ...
• 10 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation for missionaries to the Amazon: “Before reaching foreign lands, the missionary should be familiar with the situation of the place.” Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – June 9 marked the opening day at the Mission Cultural Center (JCC) in Brasilia, for the first missionary training course which is focusing on the Amazon. The event, organized by the Bishops' ...
• 10 June 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Missionaries of Charity celebrate 25th anniversary in Archdiocese of Tai Pei Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – The 25 years of service to the poorest of the poor, the sick, elderly, abandoned, provided by the Missionaries of Charity founded by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, have not only brought be ...
• 9 June 2010
  VATICAN - Nearly 2 billion people without access to basic medicine Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Church provides a major contribution to health care in all parts of the world – through local churches, religious institutions and private initiatives, which act on their own re ...
• 9 June 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on October 30, 2009 appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in the Central African ...
• 9 June 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics prepare for Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and closure of Year for Priests Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Many spiritual activities are being planned for this month of June, the month of the Sacred Heart, in view of the closure of the Year for Priests. This year, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart ...
• 9 June 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tons of food products left to expire could have fed 500,000 needy families Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The scandal connected with tons of food purchased abroad to feed the poorest Venezuelans and then left to expire in their containers is occupying a prominent place in the media and public deba ...
• 9 June 2010
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “Form responsible and ethical people who will take leadership as a service” says Cardinal Pengo at Catholic African University Symposium Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - “Education for peace should not be mere words or formula, but it should be introduced in our curricula. Our universities must promote peace and security in Africa through education, trai ...
• 9 June 2010
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drug alert in Luanda: “cocaine is consumed in almost all of Luanda's nightclubs” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – There has been a cocaine alert in Luanda, the capital of Angola. According to statistics presented by the national police headquarters in the Angolan capital, the number of cocaine users has in ...
• 9 June 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Year for Priests miracle: increase in new priests and seminarians Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Six new priests ordained in Sydney and others ordained in Melbourne in 2010; a significant increase in seminarians throughout the country... These are the figures that make up the "miracle that ...
• 9 June 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - International petition against blasphemy law Paris (Agenzia Fides) – A vast work of mobilization and an international petition to repeal the "Blasphemy Law" is in force in Pakistan, which affects the country's Christian community: this is the initiative launched ...