News

• 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 ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/KOREA - Auxiliary Bishop of Pusan appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on June 4, 2010, appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Pusan (Korea), Fr. Joseph Son Sam-seok, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Major Seminary ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - New school hopes to promote education for local youth Metiyagane (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, June 5, is the day set for the opening of the Metiyagane “Don Bosco Residential Technical Center” (DBRTC), a new Salesian work in Sri Lanka. The event will also include the pl ...
• 4 June 2010
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Anti-drug operation between Liberia and USA leads to confiscation of 4 tons of cocaine; Liberian government says no to drugs Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) – A major drug operation conducted jointly by the United States and Liberian demonstrates, once again, how West Africa has become a strategic hub in the trafficking of South American cocaine to ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Padovese, a great loss for the Church Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) – "The death of Bishop Luigi Padovese is a great loss for the Church in Turkey and for the Universal Church," Fides was told by Fr. Hanry Leylek OfmCap, a Turkish Capuchin friar based in Mers ...
• 4 June 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Missionary tells Fides: Director of “The Voice of the Voiceless” was “one of the most committed human rights activists” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Floribert Chebeya was one of the most committed human rights activists and had received threats for some time," Fides learned from Fr. Loris Cattani, Xaverian Missionary working on the “Netw ...
• 4 June 2010
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Women present petition to Health Minister to end forced sterilization of HIV-positive women Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) – Bus loads of women and men with their mouths gagged with packaging tape, marched from Katutura to the head office of the Ministry of Health and Social Services to hand over a petition to end ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking: people like ourselves, human beings with a name, hopes and dreams, fears and disappointments Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “The starting point for ministering to migrants, refugees, trafficked persons is to understand their situation and all its components, personal, social, economic, political in the light of ...
• 2 June 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Parish of Shu Zai Jiao of the Diocese of Cha Yi celebrates 120th anniversary of evangelization baptizing 4 catechumens Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring (the) good news!" (Rom. 10:15): 120 years ago this phrase of St. Paul marked the establishment of the parish of Shu Zai Jiao, dedicated to St. Jose ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Pontifical Mission Societies honors Catholic journalists writing on Church's worldwide mission New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note recently sent to Fides from the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the USA, the PMS will be paying tribute to Catholic journalists who have de ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco prepares for HCA Missionary Congress on August 21 Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - "We missionary children sow hope for making a better place" is the theme of the Missionary Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (also known as “Missionary Childho ...
• 2 June 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Indigenous population has lost rights to territory, natural resources Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) – Papua New Guinea’s indigenous people have lost their right to challenge developers and the state over deals involving their land and resources. Numbering some six million people, Papua ...
• 2 June 2010
  AFRICA/COMOROS - First Apostolic Vicar of Comoros tells Fides: “Ours is a silent but active presence” Agenzia Fides (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is much appreciated by the local population, almost entirely Muslim, for her charitable activities and human development," says Monsignor Charles Mahuza Yava, the firs ...
• 2 June 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Asia on a mission in Europe, for a rebirth of the faith Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - A Indian face and heart walk through the streets of Budapest. Tireless hands, eyes that scatter joy, lips ready to speak - at any time - of the name of Jesus: this is Fr. Benvin Sebastian Madas ...