News

• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “We have seen unimaginable suffering,” two representatives from Aid to the Church in Need say, after visiting Angolans expelled from Congo Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “We saw unimaginable suffering and appalling conditions.” This is how Fr. Andrzej Halemba and Fr. Ulrich Kny of the Association of Pontifical Right Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) describe th ...
• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan Bishops examine new Constitution draft: “The current Constitution should be amended because it is not serving the common good.” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The current Constitution should be amended because it is not serving the common good and thus, a new one urgently needs to be presented,” says a note from the Bishops of Kenya who met in Na ...
• 24 November 2009
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A lively and dynamic community for the Holy Year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community of Vietnam is entering into its Jubilee Year today with great dynamism and enthusiasm. The local Church remembers the 350 years since the establishment of the first ...
• 24 November 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Urgent aid requests from Caritas have increased by 40.7% in first half of year, demonstrating the emergence of new forms of poverty Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The data collected in the third observation report of Caritas, on the evolution of urgent requests for help received by the organization's network of Hospitality and Primary Care in the first h ...
• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Adopt a well in Ethiopia: an initiative of National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty Mekellè (Agenzia Fides) - "The privatization of water is already a tragedy for Italy, imagine if we talk about Africa or Ethiopia, where there is a lack of drinking water.” These were the words of Professor Aldo Morro ...
• 23 November 2009
  EUROPE/GERMANY - In light of upcoming Copenhagen Summit, Catholic aid agencies request financial support for victims of climate change: “It is not a matter of almsgiving but justice!” Freiburg (Agenzia Fides) – Today, November 23, Environmental Affairs Ministers of Europe will meet in Brussels to agree a common position in light of the UN Summit on Climate Change to be held in Copenhagen in two week ...
• 23 November 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Tomko in Kaohsiung: “What the Church today should fear is not persecution, but becoming tasteless...To give taste to the world, means showing people the paths of the Lord's salvation.” Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - “Christ is the light. Christ entrusted to his disciples the mission to be light. In our society today many young people, many adults, men and women of culture, seek the way to salvation and the ...
• 23 November 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Missionaries for the world “Made in Taiwan” Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - "The official closing of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of Taiwan just ended. You could taste the joy of a wonderful experience of prayer and fellowship," Agenzia ...
• 23 November 2009
  UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Swine flu shows alarming reports from Eastern Mediterranean Dubai (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, influenza H1N1 has so far more victims in Iran than in the other 22 countries of the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region. With 33 deaths ...
• 23 November 2009
  VATICAN - “For a more balanced and humane health care”; theme for upcoming International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care announced Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The XXIV International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care just ended at the Vatican. This year, the theme was: “Ephphatha! The Deaf Person in the Life of the ...
• 23 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Africa Cup 2010 should be an opportunity for dialogue and friendship,” Bishops of Angola say Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “The Africa Cup for soccer is an opportunity to strengthen dialogue between people of different cultures, to increase esteem and respect for each other and build a friendship that goes beyond a ...
• 23 November 2009
  AFRICA/GHANA - “With missionary vocations...Africa can become a continent of hope,” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Kenya tells Fides Accra (Agenzia Fides) - “We thank God for the gift of the missionaries, men and women who moved by love, left their country, came to minister in our midst bearing much bodily suffering, cultural challenges, climatic di ...
• 23 November 2009
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Jubilee Year of the Church in Vietnam recalls faith and martyrdom in story of two Apostolic Vicariates of Tonkin and Cochinchina Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church celebrates tomorrow, 24 November, the Solemnity of the 117 Vietnamese martyrs canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988, beatified in four groups: 64 in 1900 by Leo XIII, 8 in 190 ...
• 23 November 2009
  AMERICA/CHILE - Sunday of prayer for the Church, persecuted Christians, and priests Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - Today, millions of Catholics around the world live their faith and their commitment to Christ in a heroic way. Some even risk their lives to proclaim the Gospel. According to the Repor ...
• 23 November 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Testimony of a Colombian missionary, living amidst violence and praying for peace Buga (Agenzia Fides) - "Liberen los secuestrados" (Free the Captives) is the slogan of eighty young Colombians who denounce the scourge of kidnapping in their country and are creating an awareness campaign, which led the ...