News

• 12 March 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Congress approves March 24 as Archbishop Romero Day nationwide San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – With 56 favorable votes out of 84 deputies who make up the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, a legislative decree declaring March 24 as the Day of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Gald ...
• 12 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Caritas Macao launches an aid “hotline” for disabled, sick, and elderly Macao (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas Macau launches "hotline" for the disabled, sick, and elderly and all people who are in need, to make their service to the needy more rapid and efficient. The members od Caritas then visi ...
• 12 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We call on all students to be open and generous to the world-wide missionary apostolate of the Church”: Final Statement from Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) Benin City (Agenzia Fides) – The Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) have issued an explicit invitation calling Nigerian youth to be missionaries, at the end of their National Meeting held in Benin City, at Holy ...
• 12 March 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Diocese of Marquette investigates miracle attributed to missionary Bishop Baraga, the “Snowshoe Priest” Marquette (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Marquette is investigating an possible miracle attributed to Servant of God, Bishop Frederic Baraga (1797-1868). The official inquiry will move the cause for Bishop Baraga's c ...
• 12 March 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Youth Mission pilgrimage begins today in Guatemala and El Salvador Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 20 young people from the various mission centers of Italy will begin today, March 12 (until March 27) a pilgrimage following in the footsteps of those who, through their lives, have walked the pat ...
• 12 March 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI recalls Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi as a “partner in the dialogue between Muslims and Catholics” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Grand Imam and Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi “for long years was a valued partner in the dialogue between Muslims and Catholics.” This was how the Holy Father Be ...
• 12 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - NGOs: target for extremists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "The non-governmental organizations are the favorite target of Islamic extremists. Especially for what they represent in Pakistani society: human rights, freedom, democracy" Fides is told by Pe ...
• 12 March 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Missionaries appeal: save Palawan from mines and bio-fuels Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Save the island of Palawan and its indigenous communities from destruction and pollution...this is the goal of a forum of missionaries, Christian communities, NGOs, and environmental groups who ...
• 12 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Stopping abortion: 40 Days for Life Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, nuns, lay people, and activists, have been holding vigils for 20 days now before a clinic known for the practice of abortions in Sydney. They pray, fast, distribute information materia ...
• 11 March 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish bishops and priests send chalices and vestments to parishes in Haiti Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – There has been a prompt and generous response from bishops and priests in Spain to the appeal launched by the Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Bernard Auza, through Father Ángel García, ...
• 11 March 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Cistercian monks from the “Stift Heiligenkreuz” Abbey on their way to Sri Lanka to found new abbey Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - On March 14, four Cistercian monks will leave the Abbey “Stift Heiligenkreuz” near Vienna (Austria) for Sri Lanka. In 2001, three young candidates for the monastic life from the Archdiocese o ...
• 11 March 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Cistercian monks from the “Stift Heiligenkreuz” Abbey on their way to Sri Lanka to found new abbey Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - On March 14, four Cistercian monks will leave the Abbey “Stift Heiligenkreuz” near Vienna (Austria) for Sri Lanka. In 2001, three young candidates for the monastic life from the Archdiocese o ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Count continues for those who fled Haitian capital following earthquake Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Fides has received a copy of the first results from the campaign for the registration of those who left Haiti's capital after the earthquake, from the International Organization for Mig ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Archdiocese of Bello Horizonte promotes encounter for Catholic TVs Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The main Catholic Communication Network (TV Horizonte, Radio America, Radio Cultura, Journal of opinion and the site www.arquidiocesebh.org.br) from the the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, is ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New iPhone “apps” help maintain prayerful conversation with God Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) – Although computer manufacturer Apple boasted of the iPhone's more than 140,000 applications - or "apps” - there were still some waiting to be discovered by Catholic iPhone users. Ac ...