News

• 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 ...
• 25 September 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Shi Jingxian of Diocese of Kweiteh: a person of profound spiritual life, with a steadfast faith and outstanding intelligence Kweiteh (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 16, Bishop Nicholas Shi Jingxian, OAR of the Diocese of Kweiteh (Shangqiu), in the Province of Henan (mainland China), passed away. His physical conditions had worsened ...
• 24 September 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “may the love of truth and the constant thirst for God, which marked the whole life of St. Anselm, be a stimulus for every Christian to seek without ever tiring an ever more profound union with Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Monk of intense spiritual life, excellent educator of youth, theologian with an extraordinary speculative capacity, wise man of government and intransigent defender of the 'libertas Eccl ...
• 24 September 2009
  VATICAN - New Members, Experts, and Auditors for the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed the members of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, which will take place October 4-25 in the Vatican. Among them are: Ca ...
• 24 September 2009
  VATICAN - New Board of Superintendence and President of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has issued the following statement. The Commission of Cardinals which oversees the activities of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), chaired by Cardin ...
• 24 September 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The anthropological turning point: the primacy of 'receiving' over 'acting' Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical Caritas in Veritate, occupied the newspaper columns for several days: with attention mainly on any possible economic and social indications the text mi ...
• 24 September 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - First phase of the XVII General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries ends: “Re-foundation, re-qualification, new plan” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The first phase of the XVII General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries (see Fides 2/9/2009), which is being held in Rome at the General House of the missionary institute founded by Saint Daniel ...
• 24 September 2009
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Synod for Africa and Year for Priests, focus for Third Plenary Meeting of Bishops of Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – The Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops and the Year for Priests were the focus of the Third Annual Plenary Meeting of Bishops of Malawi, which concluded today, September 24. ...
• 24 September 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Message from the Bishops for the beginning of electoral campaign: “to give an ethical and evangelical orientation in this a decisive moment” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - “An essential part of our evangelizing mission as Pastors is our task of offering words of orientation in light of the electoral process, for Catholics and for all those interested.” This is ...
• 24 September 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bible Week on Saint Paul in the Diocese of Cucuta, to show the parallel between the Apostle and the missionary disciple Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) – In the celebrations for “Bible Month,” which is taking place in various Latin American nations (see Fides 22/9/2009), the Federation for Bible Study of the Diocese of Cucuta has organized a ...
• 24 September 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Preparing for the 66th General Assembly of the Inter-American Confederation of Catholic Education (CIEC): “promoting communion and solidarity gives an evangelizing perspective” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The 66th General Assembly of the Inter-American Confederation of Catholic Education (CIEC), an entity that works for the improvement of education in the entire American continent “promoting com ...
• 24 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of Vice-Postulators for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization underway; November 1, Day of Prayer for the sanctification of the people of Argentina and for the glorification of its Servants of God Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Know the lives of men and women who are in the process of beatification or canonization; verify the current state of the various phases of the Cause, whether it be diocesan or in Rome; u ...