News

• 2 September 2009
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 26, 2009, appointed Fr. Michel Coppin, SDS, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
• 2 September 2009
  EUROPE/GERMANY - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany/Monaco confirmed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 5, 2009, confirmed the appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies i ...
• 1 September 2009
  ASIA/ISRAEL - New health center opened in Aboud Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – A new Caritas health center in the Jerusalem area has been opened in Aboud. In the past 19 years, thanks to the high quality service offered by various health sectors and laboratory services ...
• 1 September 2009
  MISSIONARY INTENTION - Holy Father's Missionary Prayer Intention for September 2009: “That Christians in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, who often meet with great difficulties, may not be discouraged from announcing the Gospel to their brothers, trusting in the strength of the Holy Spirit.” Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Over the course of the Church's 20 centuries of history, it has been calculated that an estimated 43 million Christians have died as martyrs. Half of them have died in the past century, p ...
• 1 September 2009
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Work begins on Saint Giuseppe Moscati Hospital, supported by John Paul II, near the Basilica of “Notre Dame de la Paix” Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) – The Apostolic Nuncio in Ivory Coast, Archbishop Ambrose Madtha, Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, Ms. Therese Marie-Therese Houphouet-Boigny (widow of the first President of Ivory Coa ...
• 1 September 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Priests of South Africa issue a report on their status and prepare to collaborate during the World Cup 2010 Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The serious acts of violence committed against Catholic priests have been denounced by representatives of the priests in the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (South Africa, B ...
• 1 September 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Petition to abolish the “Law on Blasphemy” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in Pakistan are working against the controversial law on blasphemy. The Justice and Commission of the Pakistani Bishops' Conference, has called for the signing of a petition to be ...
• 1 September 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Celebrating the Year for Priests in Gujarat Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Year for Priests as an occasion for renewal of the Christian identity and witness for the entire world: this was the theme of a special day celebrated by the priests of the Diocese of Ah ...
• 1 September 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - On the feast of Saint Augustine, in this Year for Priests, Catholics in Fu Feng celebrate the ordination anniversary of 9 priests Fu Feng (Agenzia Fides) - “As we are living this Year for Priests, we pray for Pope Benedict XVI and for all the priests of the world, that they may imitate Saint Paul: not only looking after the Christians but also af ...
• 1 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - In the month dedicated to the Holy Childhood Association, Argentina celebrates HCA's 160th anniversary Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – As they do every year, the Pontifical Mission Societies of Argentina have celebrated throughout the country, during the entire month of August, the “Month for the Holy Childhood Associa ...
• 1 September 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - National Encounter for Pastoral and Social Ministry 2009 on: “Poverty in Mexico,” a complex phenomenon to be approached from various angles Cuautitlan Izcalli (Agenzia Fides) – Poverty in Mexico is “a complex problem that, in order to be understood in its entirety, should be approached from various angles, not only from an economic viewpoint, but also fr ...
• 1 September 2009
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Disappointment for outcome of trial for two Jesuits murdered in Moscow in October 2008 Moscow (Agenzia Fides) – On August 25, in Moscow, the sentence was finally issued for the murderer of two Jesuits: Fr. Victor Betancourt and Fr. Otto Messmer, who were killed between October 27-28 in their residence in ...
• 1 September 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Faithful to Mary and Her Son Jesus”: Marian Procession in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa at the Shrine of Jasna Gora, in honor of the Year for Priests Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “Faithful to Mary and Her Son Jesus” was the guiding theme for the celebration of Vespers and the Marian Procession held in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, at the Shrine of the Black Mad ...
• 31 August 2009
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Salesians organize video training course for students Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – Learning to make videos, how to tape, direct, post-production...are all among the professional training course that Salesians organized for the youth of the Solomon Islands on video training. ...
• 31 August 2009
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - 10 years after the vote for independence, progress remains mere illusion Dili (Agenzia Fides) – Justice, reconciliation, economic and social development are still a distant reality for East Timor, which this past August 29 celebrated its 10th anniversary of independence from Indonesia. Acco ...