News

• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Sunday 2009: “The nations will come to its light” (Rev 21, 24) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The goal of the Church's mission is to illuminate with the light of the Gospel all peoples journeying through history towards God, so that in Him they may be fully realised and accompl ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: “we are “Rommi” we are rich, I have three children. Some days I try to go to work in the green houses, I get 25 euro a day” Naples (Agenzia Fides) – – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, we continue our journey among people we call gypsies, a people who have migrated for almost a thousand years, m ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: travelling through the largest Rome communities in Europe, testimonial of young Rom girl under protection who had the courage to report her father for forcing her to steal Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, comparing our fears, with them and among them, aware that only schooling for new generations can integrate different ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: a Filipino immigrant tells how she reached Europe: “I was closed with two other girls in a container, without food, the air was unbreathable, the heat stifling. We reached a port in northern Europe …” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Testimony of a young Filipino woman: “I earned too little in my country. It was difficult to leave my family, my little girl and my husband, but I decide to come here to give her a better futur ...
• 4 July 2009
  Dossier - Magisterium of the Successor of Saint Peter POPE BENEDICT XVI in the year dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle The Year of St Paul 2008-2009 “As we thank the Lord for calling Paul and for rendering him a light for the nations and our teacher, let us pray: Give us today witnesses to the resurrection, captured by your love and ...
• 3 July 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Representatives of all female religious institutes in the country meet and take part in a solemn Eucharistic Procession with thousands of faithful Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – Some 78 women religious from 23 Chinese provinces representing almost every female religious congregation in mainland China, took part in a solemn Eucharistic Procession with thousands of lay ...
• 3 July 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Daughters of Saint Camillus in the world of suffering care for the aged, the disabled and persons with AIDS and leprosy Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – On arriving in Kerala (Thariode) in 1972, the Camillian Sisters were initially directed by Mother Celsa Bonato, who came from Italy as Novice Mistress and Superior. In 1977 a second house wa ...
• 3 July 2009
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - In eastern Congo thousands of killings and rapes Human Rights Watch denounces; Bishop of Butembo-Beni appeals for help for the victims of violence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- 1,500 civilians killed and thousands of women and girls raped since January this year in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Libe ...
• 3 July 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Presidential elections: second round 2 August between Kumba Yala and Malam Bacai Sanha Bissau (Agenzia Fides)- Guinea Bissau will vote in a second round of presidential elections. This was announced by the independent electoral Commission which made public the results of the first round held on 28 June (s ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - First European Meeting for University students: “New disciples of Emmaus. Being Christians at university”; 11 July Papal audience Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The First European Meeting for University students: “New disciples of Emmaus. Christians at university” will be held in Rome 6 - 12 July (see Fides 17/6/2009). Organised by the Office for Uni ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A “Charter” to highlight the cultural and educative singularities which mark the identity of Catholic infant schools: initiative of the Archbishop of Bologna Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - The “Formative charter of Catholic Infant Schools” was personally elaborated by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna. “This is a document - according to FISM, Italian Federation ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “A Suitcase with String”: Who is raiding the villages of profound poverty to auction plundered meat? Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today it is almost as if we were ashamed of our models, our cultures our civilisations based on democracy. Almost as it we were weighed down by a complex of the mistakes, or better, the horrors, th ...
• 3 July 2009
  VATICAN - Italian Army Band concert closes the Year of St Paul, exposition of a Carolingian Bible extended to 27 September 2009 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With a concert yesterday evening, July 1, by the famous Italian Army Band, positioned in the apse of the Basilica, St Paul's outside the Walls said farewell to the Year of St Paul. The Band, conduc ...
• 3 July 2009
  VATICAN - Programme of the apostolic visit of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to the Czech Republic (26-28 September) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Press Office of the Holy See has made public the programme of the apostolic visit of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to the Czech Republic, which will take place from 26-28 September. ...
• 2 July 2009
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New Rector appointed for St Joseph's major theological seminary in Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 April 2009, appointed Rector of St Joseph's Major Theological Seminary in the archdiocese of Yangon ...