News

• 16 October 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Hope and expectation for the fate of abducted missionary Pagadian (Agenzia Fides) - “The civil-military committee working on the case of the abduction of Fr. Sinnott is working well, thanks to the work of intelligence sources, as well. We are hopeful. There have been positiv ...
• 15 October 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - A month after his passing, Catholics remember Fr. Angelo Giovanni Pastro, Camillian missionary who spent half a century serving the sick and Chinese indigenous peoples Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - “Abba” (Father) is the favorite word the faithful of Taiwan use - especially the children - in referring to their beloved Fr. Angelo Giovanni Pastro, an Italian Camillian Missionary, who died ...
• 15 October 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pastoral Letter of Cardinal Rouco Varela for Mission Sunday: “The Church of the 21st Century feels the urgent need for Christ's love to reach every heart, especially the poor...” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church of the 21st Century feels the urgent need for Christ's love to reach every heart, especially the poor, those who suffer, and the marginalized.” This is what the Archbishop of Madr ...
• 15 October 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Preaching the Gospel helps to reflect on and update content and activity of the missionary dimension of the Church”: Message from the Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz Santa Fe (Agenzia Fides) - “Preaching the Gospel helps to reflect on and update content and activity of the missionary dimension of the Church.” This is what Archbishop Jose Mara Arancedo of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz ...
• 15 October 2009
  AFRICA/SEYCHELLES - “Awaken Catholics to the Church's mission”: the objective of World Mission Sunday Port Victoria (Agenzia Fides) - “Thanks to Fr. Leon des Avanchers and the first missionaries, we received the Good News of the Gospel. This Good News is what we must make known around us,” writes Fr. Edwin Mathiot, D ...
• 15 October 2009
  Special Feature for Mission Sunday 2009: CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS WORLD POPULATION – CATHOLICS PERSONS /CATHOLICS PER PRIEST ECCLESIASTICAL CIRCUMSCRIPTIONS – MISSION STATIONS BISHOPS PRIESTS PERMANENT DEACONS RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN ...
• 15 October 2009
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanon's missionary activity for Arabic-speaking countries Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – There has been a wealth of activities in this Month of the Missions and for World Mission Sunday (WMS) in the Catholic community in Lebanon, thanks to the efforts of the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
• 15 October 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Increasing awareness among the faithful and donations for Mission Month of October, gathering inspiration from Fr. Damien Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “Reach Out, Give Life”: with this invitation to reach out to all those in need and give one's own life out of love, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia (also referred to as “Catho ...
• 15 October 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Missionaries in defense of the people troubled by war in eastern Congo, where nickel is among resources powering the war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – As the participants of the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops discuss Peace and Reconciliation in Africa, from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recent testimoni ...
• 15 October 2009
  AFRICA/UGANDA - East Africa Community tries to create peacekeeping force for the region and surrounding area Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – The member countries of the East Africa Community (EAC) have decided to create a standby brigade to end conflicts in the area and fight against the piracy in the Indian Ocean. The decision cam ...
• 14 October 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Fr. O'Leary, Director of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute of the South African Bishops, reminds Synod of the need to create a group of “Peace Elders” to intervene in situations of conflict Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The proposal: to form a group of key people (Bishops, Clergy, Religious and Lay-People) who would be trained to intervene in peace negotiations, operations of verification of accords and ...
• 14 October 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - PMS in the United States intensify work through Internet and Facebook New York (Agenzia Fides) - In the week immediately before World Mission Sunday, final preparations by the US Pontifical Mission Societies Office have included an expanding of their presence on the Internet, in terms of m ...
• 14 October 2009
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic school directors attend conference; Jubilee Year announced for celebration of 350th anniversary of the death of Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Louisa De Mariac Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Central Committee for Catholic Schools held its annual meeting in Cairo, to study the common themes and problems of the various Catholic scholastic institutes in Egypt. According to informat ...
• 14 October 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Preparing for World Mission Sunday: permanent formation of the youth responsible for evangelization groups in the Diocese of Han Dan Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – For the youth leaders of the evangelization groups in the Diocese of Han Dan, in the Province of He Bei, the long vacation for the national holiday was transformed into an occasion for spiritu ...
• 14 October 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In the hope of rescuing Fr. Sinnott, Catholics in Mindanao are living World Mission Sunday in a Muslim environment: testimony from PIME Missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - “The recent kidnapping of Fr. Sinnott has placed us in a situation of increased tension. The people are afraid as the kidnappings now occur on all levels, although foreigners are the favored ...