News

• 7 June 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - 50 years of DRC: Bishops organize conference “to understand the past and the present, in order to plan for the future” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A celebration with 3 perspectives: retrospective, introspective, and prospective. This is what the Congolese Bishops' Conference (CENC) is planning for the 50th anniversary of independence be ...
• 7 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Church speaks out: Gold workers given low pay and no insurance Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) – The Human Rights Office of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado in Peru has reported on the continuing complaints reaching them from the workers of the lowest classes. They have b ...
• 5 June 2010
  VATICAN - “The Church’s communion in the apostolic faith is both a gift and a summons to mission” Paphos (Agenzia Fides) - “Following in the footsteps of our common fathers in the faith, Saints Paul and Barnabas, I have come among you as a pilgrim and the servant of the servants of God...I also look forward to gree ...
• 5 June 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Priests from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to attend closing of Year for Priests in Rome Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – While a small group of priests from the Diocese of Hong Kong who have made a Year for Priests pilgrimage in Europe, visiting the sites associated with St. John Vianney, returnes (see Fides 0 ...
• 5 June 2010
  OCEANIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 27 November 2009 appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in the Pacific Island ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Over 3,000 children attend National HCA Meeting despite rain San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, May 29, at the auditorium of the Don Bosco Citadel in Soyapango, San Salvador hosted the IX National Meeting of the Pontifical Missionary Society of the Holy Childhood Associati ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Lay missionary in prison ministry dies in the waters of Rio Negro Rio Negro (Agenzia Fides) – A prison ministry worker and lay missionary, Pedro Fukuyei Yamaguchi Ferreira of the Diocese of San Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the Amazon (Brazil), was found dead after he was reported missing ...
• 5 June 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The mission starts with the youth Goroka (Agenzia Fides) – "Papua New Guinea is a country with great variety: over 6 million people, 800 languages, dialects, cultures, and ethnicities. The mission takes into account this diversity, recognizing that the ...
• 5 June 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thousands of women trafficked, deprived of dignity and rights Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Each year, thousands of women from countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America are trafficked to Australia. For the privilege of migrating here, living in this country 'servicing' 6 or ...
• 5 June 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - In eastern Congo, gold likely to be a curse for local population says exclusive report sent to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The recent news that in Nigeria some 200 people have died in recent months due to mining a gold mine, is in addition to a series of complaints about environmental damage and human costs cause ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meetings with indigenous communities, to avoid repeating Bagua clashes Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos of Trujillo, has welcomed the attempt proposed by the Peruvian government to resolve the problems that exist in the A ...
• 4 June 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A “year of plenty” for priestly vocations Bafata (Agenzia Fides) – Deacons Admir Cristiano Barreiro, age 29, Francisco Fernandes, age 28, and Avito José Fernandes de Araújo, age 30, on Saturday, June 5 will be ordained priests in the Diocese of Bafata, Guine ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop of Hong Kong meets with Indonesian immigrants: pastoral care and solidarity of local Church Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Living far from home in itself is a challenge. We hope you find the peace given by Christ under the guidance of the Holy Spirit." With these words, Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, encouraged I ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "We should be the ones to offer that little or a lot we have to those who have lost everything": casualties mount from storm in Central America, Holy Father's appeal Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Dead, injured, and many left homeless, destroyed homes, roads covered with mud, isolated communities: there is still not yet an exact account of the damage left from Tropical Storm Agatha ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing the joy of being disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ”: Ad Gentes Course 2010 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Colombia, Fr. Mario Alvarez Gómez, has sent Fides a statement on the "Ad Gentes Course 2010," which began May 31 and ends June 25 ...