News

• 31 August 2009
  AFRICA/GABON - Three main candidates in the presidential race claim victory Libreville (Agenzia Fides) – There are still no official results from the presidential elections that were held yesterday, August 30, in Gabon, however each of the three candidates claims to have won the race. Andre M ...
• 31 August 2009
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Ivory Coast celebrates ordination of 3 Bishops Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) – A large crowd attended the Episcopal Ordination of three Bishops held in Yamoussoukro, the capital of Ivory Coast. It is the first time that the country witnesses the ordination of three ...
• 31 August 2009
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Message for the National Day of Migrants: “No community can consider itself Christian if it does not welcome our brother and sister immigrants with arms wide open.” Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - “Immigration and Faith” is the title of the message that was written by Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of San Marcos, President of the Pastoral Services for Human Mobility of the Guatemalan ...
• 31 August 2009
  AMERICA/CUBA - IV National Congress of the Holy Childhood Association, on Saint Paul: “With Jesus We Sow Peace and Love.” Camaguey (Agenzia Fides) – From August 25-28, the Diocesan House of the Merced in Camaguey (Cuba) hosted the IV National Congress of the Holy Childhood Association. The event, which had the theme: “With Jesus We Sow ...
• 31 August 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Dioceses of mainland China respond to the Pope's appeal for aid for the people of Taiwan struck by Typhoon Morakot Tang Shan (Agenzia Fides) - “My thoughts turn to the numerous peoples who have been hit by a violent typhoon in the past few days in the Philippines, in Taiwan, in certain south-Eastern Provinces of the People's Republ ...
• 31 August 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - September 1: IV Day for the Protection of Creation: “let us reflect on the need to breathe clean air and on our personal contribution in making that possible” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – September 1, 2009 marks the IV Day for the Protection of Creation, promoted by the National Office for Social Affairs and Labor and the National Office for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue o ...
• 31 August 2009
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Bishop of Arua resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, with the date August 19, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Arua (Uganda) presented by Bishop Frederick Drandua, in c ...
• 31 August 2009
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Bishop of Kotido appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, with the date August 17, 2009, appointed Fr. Giuseppe Filippi, MCCJ, Provincial Superior of the Combonian Missionaries in Uganda, as Bishop of Kotido (Uganda). ...
• 31 August 2009
  ASIA/KOREA - Archbishop of Daegu resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, with the date August 17, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Daegu (Korea) presented by Archbishop John Choi Young ...
• 31 August 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Coadjutor Bishop appointed for Islamabad-Rawalpindi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, with the date August 4, 2009, appointed Father Rufin Anthony, Rector of Christ the King Major Seminary in Karachi and Vicar General of Faisalabad, as Coadjut ...
• 31 August 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Bishop of Mbujimayi resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on August 1, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Mbujimayi (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Bishop Tharcis ...
• 31 August 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Ngong resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on August 1, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Ngong (Kenya) presented by Bishop Cornelius Schilder, MHM, in conform ...
• 31 August 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus, mentions that “when the husband and wife generously dedicate themselves to the education of their children, guiding and orienting them in the discovery of God's design of life, they are preparing that fertile spiritual soil from which vocations” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – The importance of the educational task of parents in the birth and growth of Christian families, of vocations, and the charisms of the Holy Spirit was addressed by the Holy Father Bene ...
• 13 August 2009
  Dossier - Marian devotion and Marian shrines in Africa Pope Benedict XVI's prayer to Mary Protectress of Africa Magisterium on the Blessed Virgin Mary and Marian shrines Certain features of African Marian devotion Apparitions and visions: definition and historical ...
• 10 August 2009
  Dossier - The Cloister “The home of purity of life dedicated entirely to Jesus Christ, where silence is hallowed and Liturgy is a shared celebration of joy and adoration”: interview with Rev. Vincenzo Macera, parish priest at San Giuseppe ...