News

• 14 December 2009
  AFRICA - “Due to climate changes, our seminarians can no longer grow anything they need to live on.” African priest expresses his concern. Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Until the early 90s, our seminarians were able to meet most of the food needs of their communities by cultivating the fields. In recent years, due to climate change, they cannot produce anything, ...
• 14 December 2009
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Inauguration of Saint Maximilian Kolbe Hospital at the Franciscan Friar's mission in Sabou Sabou (Agenzia Fides) – This year, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, marked another great event for the mission and the people of Sabou, a town in central-western Burkina Faso. In a testimony sent to Fides, F ...
• 14 December 2009
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Living in Solidarity”: Caritas Uruguay website gets a new look Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The new website of Caritas Uruguayan offers all the information on its activities in an ordered structure, and is dynamic and colorful. The site is organized to inform about the most serious ...
• 14 December 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Missionary Church in Tachira prepares from Year of the Word of God in 2010 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – With a solemn Eucharistic celebration at the Sports Center of Tariba, with the participation of delegations of the diocesan clergy and parishes, December 12 marked the end of the first phase o ...
• 14 December 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Preparing for Christmas, reinforcing ecumenical ties: God accompanies those who suffer Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - From a place like Bhopal, marked by sorrow over the tragic incident of the explosion of the Union Carbide 25 years ago, comes an impulse towards ecumenism among Christians in India in preparation ...
• 14 December 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops say climate changes present real threat to nation Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Climate change threatens to seriously affect large areas of the Philippines, with disastrous consequences for the life of the population. This is the alarm raised by the Church in the Philippin ...
• 14 December 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Terrazas recalls 300th anniversary of the life and missionary work of Concepcion Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, presided a Thanksgiving Mass for the people of Concepcion on December 8th, on the 300th anniversary of its foundation. The ce ...
• 12 December 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - Irish missionary killed in Kenya; an active promoter of several development projects who had recently completed the construction of a new church Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The death of Father Jeremiah Roche has aroused strong emotions in his community and in his homeland, Ireland, where the newspapers have given prominence to his killing," Fr. Cooney, of the Gene ...
• 12 December 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Association of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa on pilgrimage to Church of St. James for missionary sending Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – Next Saturday, December 19, the Pontifical Holy Childhood Association of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa has promoted a pilgrimage to St. James Church where the material prepared for missio ...
• 12 December 2009
  AMERICA/CHILE - Continental Mission in Santiago in 2010 focuses on the youth Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – Over a thousand young people from universities, schools, parishes, movements, congregations, and church institutions are coming together at the Cathedral of Santiago today, Saturday, ...
• 12 December 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrated with video telling her story Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, December 12, is a great celebration throughout Latin America and Mexico in particular, for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Fides received a note from the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
• 12 December 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Claretians celebrate 100th anniversary in Peru: working throughout the world for the salvation of mankind, like Antonio Maria Claret Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) – With a Mass presided by Archbishop Javier del Rio Alba, Archbishop of Arequipa, the Claretians of Arequipa celebrated the 100th anniversary of their presence in Peru. The celebrations had beg ...
• 12 December 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - “Christmas is not only a Christian feast, but also an opportunity for evangelization”: Catholics parishes prepare Christmas concerts open to the general public Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Miserere Mei Deus, Ave Maria, Holy Night, Hodie Christus Natus Est, Adeste Fideles, Gloria...are some of the best-known songs in the program of Christmas concerts that many parishes in mainland ...
• 12 December 2009
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian leaders preparing for Christmas: end occupation to build peace Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - End the occupation of Palestinian territories and the boycott that is strangling the Palestinian economy, to reduce poverty in the population and remove the wall of separation that seals barri ...
• 12 December 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - More victims of cholera in the northern part of the country Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - In the last two weeks, an outbreak of cholera has killed 24 people in northwest Kenya. Between November 23 and December 3, about 193 cases were recorded. The districts most affected are Kaped, L ...