News

• 20 July 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Catholic Church offers “guardian angels” to young mothers: the work of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 4 centers, two telephone help lines and a website Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – According to statistics from the Internal Affairs Ministry of the government in Taiwan, 8,195 children were born to single mothers in 2008, equal to 4% of all births. The number of mothers und ...
• 20 July 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI prays the Angelus in Romano Canavese: “Providence always helps those who do good and dedicate themselves to justice; it helps those who do not think only of themselves but of those who are worse off.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, July 19, the Holy Father Benedict XVI left Les Combes (Introd), in Valle d'Aosta, where he was spending a brief time of rest, and traveled to Romano Canavese (Diocese of Ivrea) ...
• 18 July 2009
  Instrumentum mensis Iunii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Thursday 11 June, Solemnity of Corpus Christi, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI presided Mass in the square in front of his cathedral, San Giovanni in Laterano, at the end of which he presided the Blessed Sacrament Proces ...
• 17 July 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A window to Asia through the Australian Catholic news Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The interaction and strict connection on a political, cultural, social, and religious level between eastern Asia and Oceania are well-known. The migration patterns between the two continents ar ...
• 17 July 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Laity's participation in the life of the Church and society: new Pastoral Letter from Filipino Bishops, on presidential elections Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic laity should actively participate in the pastoral life of the Church and social renewal, with an “evangelically fruitful presence” in institutions, politics, the structures of ...
• 17 July 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The youth of Hong Kong prepare for the Asian Youth Day scheduled for November in the Philippines Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The 5th Asian Youth Day will take place on Tagaytay City (Philippines), on November 23 to 27, however various initiatives are being planned to prolong the celebration November 20-30. The mai ...
• 17 July 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Solemn celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Diocese of Ayacucho; Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Special Papal Envoy Ayacucho (Agenzia Fides) – This coming Monday, July 20, at 10:00am, there will be a Solemn Mass held in the Cathedral of Huamanga, presided by the Pontifical Legate of Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Tho ...
• 17 July 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Meeting for Rectors of Latin American Shrines, to promote study of the presence of popular piety and shrines in Latin American culture Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Department for Mission and Spirituality has organized an encounter, September 7-11, on popular piety in the Aparecida Document, the Continental Mission in Shrines and from Shrines, in the re ...
• 17 July 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “La valigia con lo spago”: “my ideas on immigration have changed since I began giving spiritual counseling in detention centers. We try to defend ourselves from people who are simply desperately in need...” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The testimony of a religious sister, Sr. Kathleen Erickson, RSM (Sisters of Mercy, USA), who carries out a pastoral activity with immigrants, breaks the veil that has been placed on the reality o ...
• 17 July 2009
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Catholic Church's activity in Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On July 9, in the Coptic Catholic Church of Saint Teresa, in the district of Sharabia-Cairo, the Catholic Women's Committee sponsored an educational course on the A-N1H1 flu, given by medical sp ...
• 17 July 2009
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - “Set aside tribalism and chose a future leader for the nation using objective criteria, at the light of the Gospel,” Bishops say in looking ahead to November elections Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) - “Be vigilant, to stay awake and to protect our democracy that was hard-earned and hard-won through the sacrifices of many lives.” This is the appeal from the Bishops of Namibia, made to Cat ...
• 17 July 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop of De Aar resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on July 17, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of De Aar (South Africa) presented by Bishop Joseph James Potocnak, S ...
• 17 July 2009
  VATICAN - Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the FAO, Monsignor Volante: “the programs for fighting hunger are fundamental in improving the conditions of the poor” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “We are supporting those who work on a daily basis to meet the basic food needs of all people. Here at the FAO, there is a lack of personnel. The staff number has been lowering for years now. How ...
• 17 July 2009
  VATICAN - Vatican Museums open in the evening for the first time, July 24 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time, the Vatican Museums will be open to the public in the evening hours, on Friday, July 24. On that day the Museum will remain open from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., with the last ...
• 17 July 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - 'priestly holiness' Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world thanks to impulse given by the Holy Father Benedict XVI with the indiction of a Year of the Priesthood, diocesan and ecclesial realities are launching initiatives to redi ...