News

• 16 September 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Justice and Peace Commission: “work for peace, reconciliation, respect for human dignity, mutual understanding, getting rid of violence and hate, making room for peaceful coexistence” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “We reject any intent on the part of authorities to criminalize those who exercise the civil right to demonstrate, established in Article 68 of the National Constitution.” This is what an of ...
• 16 September 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Continental Encounter of Pastoral/Social Ministry: “to respond from our existence as Church to the challenges of our modern day, in the context of the Continental Mission” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “Reflect at the light of Aparecida on the vision and mission of the Pastoral-Social Ministry and Caritas on the continent, to respond from our existence as Church to the challenges of our modern ...
• 16 September 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Catholic Church confirms commitment to the poor and most in need La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church and the Bolivian Government have signed an appendix to the “Marco Agreement” of 1997, which established that, once the new Constitution of the country was approved, an a ...
• 15 September 2009
  VATICAN - Papal Mass with former students: “If we reflect on the perplexity of the world in face of the great issues of the present and future, then there should also arise in us again the joy over the fact that God has freely shown us his face, his will, himself.” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – The question of man's purity before God, “one of the fundamental themes of the religious history of humanity” was at the heart of the homily given by the Holy Father Benedict XVI d ...
• 15 September 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Bao Tou, in Inner Mongolia, inaugurates Diocesan Center of Evangelization and Formation with perpetual profession of 5 religious Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) – It is an historic event that is considered the largest gathering in the last 60 years in the Catholic village of Xiao Ba La Gai, Diocese of Bao Tou, in Inner Mongolia, August 22, on the Feast ...
• 15 September 2009
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Rector of Holy Spirit Interdiocesan Major Seminary in Archdiocese of Dhaka, appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 1, 2009, appointed Fr. Shorot Francis Gomes, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Dhaka (Banglade ...
• 15 September 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pilgrimage of the World Youth Day Cross begins. Archbishop of Madrid: “We wish to reach the end of our path as pilgrims who have sought and found Christ Crucified.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “We wish to reach the end of our path as pilgrims who have sought and found Christ Crucified.” This is what Cardinal Antonio M. Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, said during a Prayer Vigil ...
• 15 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 6th International Congress on Personalist Bioethics on the “Protection of Life and Organ Transplants” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On September 17-18, the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) will host the 6th Internationl Congress on Personalist Bioethics on the “Protection of Life and Organ Transplants.” The ...
• 15 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop of Rosario: “Placing de facto unions on par with marriage implies downplaying the values of marriage and the family.” Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - “Placing de facto unions on par with marriage implies downplaying the values of marriage and the family.” This is what Archbishop Jose Luis Mollaghan of Rosario said in recent days, in refer ...
• 15 September 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Church highlights needs for full integration of refugees into society: restitution of land and property is not enough; psychological rehabilitation of victims is also needed Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – In light of the constant growth of people “who are excluded from access to rights and the possibility of fulfilling their duties,” ways should be found “to keep these people from becoming ...
• 15 September 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Legionaries of Christ Novitiate in Gozzano celebrates first vows and donning of cassock Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On September 13, in the Shrine to the Crucified in Boca (Novara, Italy), 16 young men of the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Gozzano made their first religious vows and concluded their ...
• 15 September 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The opposition tries to incite the province, “running the risk of igniting ethnic and tribal rivalries,” local sources tell Fides Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – The tri-party coalition that is opposed to the leader of the High Authority of Transition in Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, has announce a new “informational campaign” in the various re ...
• 15 September 2009
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Law on stoning for adultery approved: Church and human rights organizations show concern Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Indonesia is showing great concern after the approval of a new law in the Province of Aceh, in the northern part of the island of Sumatra, which calls for the authorization of ...
• 15 September 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic schools working to fight pornography and pedophilia Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The fight against sexual abuse of minors, pornography, and pedophilia is still far from being over in the Philippines. After an increase in public and international awareness, the House of Repr ...
• 15 September 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop Marchetto: “Where the stranger becomes a guest and is welcomed, the possibility of seeing others as enemies disappears.” Recoaro Terme (Agenzia Fides) - “The causes that often force migrants to leave their own countries, in search of better opportunities elsewhere, are poverty, the impossibility of finding an adequate and dignified emplo ...