News

• 20 July 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops ask Secretary of State to continue efforts in resolving Honduras's political crisis; second dialogue attempt by President of Costa Rica fails Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Writing on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., sent a letter July 16 to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urging ...
• 20 July 2009
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Jemaah Islamiyah behind attacks in Jakarta Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – The Indonesian police have announced that the Jemaah Islamiyah is behind the kamikaze attacks that took place in Jakarta during the night this past July 16-17, causing 8 deaths and over 60 wou ...
• 20 July 2009
  ASIA - The Church in Asia and paths of dialogue: FABC seminar Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Dialogue, in all its forms, is for the Church in Asia a fruitful road to evangelization. This is the principle at the heart of reflection and discussion for the seminar being organized by the ...
• 20 July 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “La valigia con lo spago”: Lucrezia crossed the desert with her children, which the “coyote” that led them said: “The children slow you down. Leave them behind!,” but she did not leave them and she died in their arms Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The wall between Mexico and the United States has claimed 10,000 lives as of today. Marco, a 5-year-old, was hidden in the back of a truck, on a desert road, along with his father. He felt great ...
• 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 ...