News

• 28 November 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Church can go where others cannot: over 1,000 hospitals and 5,000 clinics caring for AIDS patients in Africa Karen (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church is at the forefront of efforts to combat AIDS in Africa, in both the care and prevention spheres.” This is what a spokesperson from the African Jesuit AIDS Network told Fides in pr ...
• 28 November 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Making miracles of solidarity with small gifts Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "A small Christmas gift can accomplish great miracles": this is the underlining theme of the solidarity campaign for Advent being organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Australia. ...
• 28 November 2009
  AFRICA - African Bishops' Message for World AIDS Day: AIDS continues to be a priority for the Church in Africa, although it may have disappeared from the international agenda Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church is second to none in facing HIV in Africa and caring for people infected and affected,” says the Message for World AIDS Day (celebrated on December 1), from the Symposium of Bishops ...
• 28 November 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Tang Shang celebrates 110th anniversary, publishes missionary materials Tang Shang (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Tang Shang (originally Yong Ping) of the He Bei Province in mainland China, is celebrating its 110th anniversary with various initiatives, including the publishing of missionar ...
• 28 November 2009
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops' Messages call Advent a time for change Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The liturgical season of Advent, as time and opportunity for change: this is the theme that echoes in pastoral letters and messages from various Korean bishops being circulated for this forthco ...
• 28 November 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Permanent Mission launched in La Paz today, strong emphasis on formation La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – Another city that is entering into the missionary atmosphere being lived across Bolivia is: La Paz. Today, 28 November, it will launch the Mission that will guide the path of the local church f ...
• 28 November 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Preparations for January 2010 National Congress on Holy Childhood begin Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – In honor of the celebration of the Holy Childhood National Conference to be held in January 2010 at the Prelature of Aiquile, the Holy Childhood Association (HCA) Coordination Committee of ...
• 28 November 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Become a missionary, putting on a smile for Christmas”: First Christmas Carols Festival of organized by the PMS Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "Become a missionary, putting on a smile for Christmas" is the slogan of the first Festival of Christmas Carols. The festival aims to promote the true Christian spirit of Christmas through music a ...
• 28 November 2009
  ASIA/THAILAND - The story of the young ambassador of the Camillian Center of Rayong, one of the longest-living women born HIV-positive Rayong (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of World AIDS Day, Fides has received the testimony of one of the many victims of the virus. Her name is Oon (Orapan) and at age 22, she has become an ambassador for the Center ...
• 27 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - 100th anniversary of the approval of the Capuchin Sisters of Immaculate Mary of Lourdes, now present in Brazil, Mexico, Albania and Madagascar, ready "for any work of charity" Palermo (Agenzia Fides) - The Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculate of Lourdes celebrate on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 2009, the centennial anniversary of the congregation and its aggregation to the Capuchi ...
• 27 November 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “We are awaiting the publication of the UN report on Congo before making a comment” Xaverian missionaries say Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In relation to the indiscretions of the press on the UN report in which reference is made to two Xaverian missionaries working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the General Curia of the ...
• 27 November 2009
  VATICAN - “The Jubilee is also a special time given to us to renew the announcement of the Gospel to everyone, and to become, to an ever greater degree, a Church of communion and mission.” Benedict XVI in the Message to the Bishops of Vietnam for the Jubilee Year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “"I whole-heartedly unite myself to the joy and thanksgiving of the Bishops of your country, whom I had the pleasure of meeting last June, along with all of their dioceses," writes Pope B ...
• 27 November 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Local Church sees new bridge linking Shanghai to Chongming Island, for Expo 2010, as a new opportunity to relaunch apostolate Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - The opening of the bridge that connects the island of Chong Ming to the mainland, to the city of Shang Hai, is being welcomed by the local Church as a new opportunity to revitalize the mission ...
• 27 November 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Redemptorist Missionaries celebrate 150th anniversary of arrival in South America Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Redemptorist Missionaries of Colombia held a celebration in recent days to recall the three Italian missionaries who arrived in 1859 to the then Republic of New Granada, now Colombia. They we ...
• 27 November 2009
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Controversial presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, November 29 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Honduras will be called Sunday, November 29th to take part in a controversial presidential election, which the majority of Latin American countries do not recognized, but which could be re ...