News

• 28 September 2009
  ASIA/JAPAN - Prayer and mission in the Year for Priests in Tokyo on First Sundays Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – In honor of the Year for Priests, the Diocese of Tokyo is dedicating the First Sunday of every month to pray a special prayer for priests and their parish mission. The initiative, Fides was told ...
• 28 September 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - A mission experience concludes with a spiritual retreat of 73 religious from the Congregation of Our Lady's Presentation; 4 sisters sent to work with lepers Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - “A good weekend: enrich our spiritual life in order to always have a heart interested in the nation, the Church, and the mission of evangelization,” was the theme for the spiritual retreat ...
• 28 September 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Fighting between police and demonstrators from 3 former Presidents' movements; Madagascar protests impeding Rajoelina speaking in UN Assembly Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – There are 8 wounded and 17 arrested, after fighting broke out on September 26 in front of the Mahamasina Stadium in downtown Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. “The most seriousl ...
• 28 September 2009
  AFRICA - Reinforce “South-South” cooperation for a new international economic system, the conclusion of the South Africa - South America Summit Porlamar (Agenzia Fides) – The new “South-South” agreement for finding an alternative to the economic system, dominated by the Western countries. This is the ambitious program of the second summit held for countrie ...
• 26 September 2009
  Dossier - THE PRINCIPAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS OF AFRICA (4) THE PRINCIPAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS OF AFRICA (4) The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Introduction The Catholic Church's ...
• 25 September 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father Benedict XVI sends video-message to UN Summit on Climate Changes: “the natural environment is given by God to everyone, and so our use of it entails a personal responsibility towards humanity as a whole, particularly towards the poor and towards future generations” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The video-message sent to participants in the UN Summit on Climate Changes, held in New York on September 22, is taken from words spoken by the Holy Father Benedict XVI on this issue, dur ...
• 25 September 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The power of Christ's forgiveness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Recently we celebrated the feast of Saint Matthew the evangelist. In the light of God's infinite mercy, Matthew himself narrates the unforgettable event of his calling to follow Jesus: “A ...
• 25 September 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Archbishop of Czestochowa presents copy of Black Madonna icon to Orthodox Russian monks whose monastery was once used as a concentration camp, where over 6,000 Polish soldiers were killed Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation of monks from the Russian Orthodox Church, who are visiting Poland September 23-29, yesterday (September 24), participated in a time of Marian Prayer entitled “Jasna Gora Ap ...
• 25 September 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Priests and catechists of Granada meet to reflect on “Vocation and Catechesis,” in this Year for Priests Granada (Agenzia Fides) - “Vocation and catechesis” is the theme of the 9th Interdiocesan Encounter of priests and catechists of the Archdiocese of Granada, scheduled to begin today, September 25 and last until Sept ...
• 25 September 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - After the success of the Year of St. Paul, Church organizes a new web conference on Saint Luke Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The experiment carried out in the Year of St. Paul had a great success, far beyond expectations. This is why the Church in Australia has decided to continue exploring in the area of web confere ...
• 25 September 2009
  AFRICA/ERITREA - General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries expresses “solidarity and communion” with the Church and Eritrean people Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - “'If God is with us, who can be against us?' (Rm. 8:31). With these words of St. Paul we, delegates of the 17th General Chapter, wish to express our solidarity and communion with all of you, de ...
• 25 September 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Over 500 participants at the interreligious encounter for peace organized by the Community of Saint Egidio in Guinea Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - “It is surprising to see this kind of encounter in our country, with religious leaders and people from all walks of society. We hope that peace may become a way of life, that this reflects the ...
• 25 September 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop Crepaldi: “Peace and political and social stability are indispensable” for Africa's agricultural, human, and economic development Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Africa is the place that presents the challenge for the future of Catholicism: or we manage to spread the Gospel in that continent or we will suffer many more difficulties.” This is what newly ...
• 25 September 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “We cannot speak of missionary formation if there is no opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ.” Missionary Training for 80 missionary group leaders and III Encounter of the Secretaries of the Holy Childhood Association Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - “We cannot speak of missionary formation if there is no opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ.” This was the conclusion from the encounter of members of the Missionary Animators ...
• 25 September 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We children have hunger and thirst for justice, too.” III Archdiocesan Seminar for Children's Ministry Medellin (Agenzia Fides) – Children's Ministry and the Department of Communications of the Archdiocese of Medellin, in collaboration with the Pontifical Bolivarian University (UPB), have organized the III Archdiocesan ...