News

• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Missionaries of 8” prepare for Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in Lyon: churches open until midnight, prayer meetings, welcoming visitors Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - From December 5 to 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the city of Lyon will welcome, as it does every year, thousands of visitors and pilgrims who will visit the Marian shrine o ...
• 25 November 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Archdiocese of Cuzco celebrates Mission Day in Paucartambo as part of Continental Mission Paucartambo (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of young people, children, and adults, a Mission Day was successfully held last weekend in Paucartambo, in the Archdiocese of Cuzco. The parishes of Challabamba, Pilco ...
• 25 November 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic radio reporter among victims of Maguindanao massacre Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic journalist, a volunteer of a diocesan radio, was among the 12 journalists killed in the massacre of Maguindanao, which according to the latest information from the local police has exc ...
• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Thanks to antiretroviral therapy administered to HIV-positive mothers, nearly 200,000 new infections among children have been prevented since 2001 Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, nearly 60 million people have been infected with HIV and 25 million have died. Fortunately, new infections are falling and over the last eight years have ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Rector of Interdiocesan Propedeutic Seminary “Saint Jean Baptiste” of Archdiocese of Bertoua appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 15 July 2009, appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan seminary propedutico "Saint Jean Baptiste" in th ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/BENIN - In response to declining socio-political situation, Bishops launch “prayer chain” for the nation Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Benin have sounded the alarm for the "continued decay" of political and social life in the country, in a statement issued at the conclusion of the Plenary Assembly, held Novembe ...
• 25 November 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The local police are accomplices in the massacre,” and behind it all is an “imprudent decision” made by the Electoral Commission Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – The Maguinano massacre was "an announced massacre.” For days, the "people on the street" knew of threats and impending clashes between rival clans, which had "their own armed paramilitary b ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The UN report is fine, but we have to take steps in stopping illegal trafficking that finances the war," two missionaries with long experience in the Congo tell Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We urge the international community to create a system of tracing illegally extracted minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is good that the UN has issued a report denouncing ...
• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - H1N1 Flu and the mutation: clarifying the distortion of the “Italian case” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As expected, the H1N1 virus has mutated, but this should not recreate the psychosis unleashed in the first weeks of the flu. However, we must remain vigilant about the possible risks related to ins ...
• 25 November 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - The importance of the religious life of the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, November 21, which is so dear to Chinese Catholics, religious sisters of various congregations in mainland China na ...
• 24 November 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Every people, every generation can and should boast about its martyrs. Martyrs are not simply heroic examples of fidelity, courage and perseverance in a pagan world, they are living channels of the salvation brought by Christ.” Cardinal Tomko in Taichung Taichung (Agenzia Fides) - “Christ washes away the sin of the world, taking it upon himself, offering his life, forgiving those who kill Him. The sin of every generation is taken away, conquered by Christ who lives in ...
• 24 November 2009
  VATICAN - “No justice without life”: Study Conference on the death penalty in the world today Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “No justice without life" (the death penalty in the world), is the theme of a study conference which will be held in Rome, on November 25, 2009 3-5pm in the Newman Hall of the Pontifical ...
• 24 November 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Faithful of Trujillo celebrate one year of the Continental Mission: “Our life would have no meaning, if we had not met Christ.” Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Solemnity of Christ the King, there was also a celebration of the first anniversary of the Mission Continental in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Trujillo. At 11 o'cloc ...
• 24 November 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - President of Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Julio Terrazas re-elected: “Hope is not reached with pills, but with the joy of being disciples and missionaries who are willing to serve the Lord" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz was elected for the seventh time as President of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB). Archbishop Jesus Perez Rodriguez of Sucre, is Vice-C ...
• 24 November 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Illegal proliferation of light weapons is a plague on Mindanao,” Fr. Elisha Mecado, OMI says, following Maguindanao massacre Cotabato City (Agenzia Fides) – Among society in Cotabato and neighboring provinces, there is great fear and indignation at what in Mindanao they call “war road”: violence between paramilitary groups and the prolif ...