News

• 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 ...
• 2 July 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The work of Conventual Friars Minor to assist poor people and street children produces vocations Palmira (Agenzia Fides) – The presence of Conventual Franciscans in Venezuela dates to 1978, when the first three missionaries left Italy and arrived in Guanare. From the early years the missionaries helped with pastor ...
• 2 July 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparations for a course of ongoing formation for priests during the Year of the Priesthood Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – “Revision and assimilation of the theology and pastoral of the Sacrament of Holy Orders in the light of the Revelation of Christ (Sacred Scripture and Tradition interpreting the faith and fo ...
• 2 July 2009
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Franciscan Missionaries of Mary involved in intense pastoral activity at a centre inaugurated a year ago which includes a school for poor children Song Doc (Agenzia Fides) – Opened just over a year ago, the House of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at Song Doc, in the southern part of Vietnam, is already an important point of reference for the people of Ca Mau ...
• 2 July 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Alarm for consumption of heavy drugs; growing numbers of young people, many of them girls, seduced by heroine and cocaine Conakry (Agenzia Fides)- The Republic of Guinea (also known as Guinea Conakry) is no longer only a transit point for drugs (principally cocaine) on its way to Europe, it is a now a new market for drug traffickers. A war ...
• 2 July 2009
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Boost continental agriculture and address Africa's many crisis, focus for African Union Summit Sirte (Agenzia Fides)- Civil war in Somalia and piracy along its coasts, political crises in Zimbabwe and in Madagascar, civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan, how to boost Africa's economy, starting with agriculture. ...
• 2 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Presentation of a new edition of the book “Il secolo del martirio” the century of martyrdom Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 20th century was a century of genocide and totalitarianism, but also of new martyrs and great witnesses. The mystery of iniquity and the mystery of equity. This is the underlying theme of a n ...
• 2 July 2009
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The necessary activity of Peter Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Clemente Romano, narrating of the death of the apostles Peter and Paul, observes that it was facilitated by the envy of certain members of the Christian community. Two thousand years later, ...
• 2 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope dedicates his catechesis to the Year of the Priesthood: “if the ‘diptych’ consecration-mission is not taken into account, it becomes very difficult to understand the identity of the priest and of his ministry in the Church ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “As a precious legacy of the Year of St Paul, we can heed the Apostle's call to deepen our knowledge of the mystery of Christ, so He may be the heart and the core of our personal and c ...
• 1 July 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Closing of the Year of St Paul and “new missionary departure” in the Year of the Priesthood: Chinese Catholic community celebrates solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Thanksgiving for successful evangelisation during the Year of St Paul, enthusiastic willingness to celebrate the Year of the Priest according to the indications from the Holy Father Benedict XVI, ...
• 1 July 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Archbishop Migliore to the UN: transparency of finance system immediate aid for poor countries and new rules for international trade must be priorities for the international community New York (Agenzia Fides) - Transparency of the financial system, integration of poor countries in the system of global trade, investments in food security and social expenses, short term economic interventions to allevi ...
• 1 July 2009
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Mgr Melchior de Marion Brésillac, whose sacrifice started Apostolic succession in Sierra Leone commemorated 150 years after his death Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- “The creation of the “ Apostolic Vicariate of Sierra Leone” by Pius IX, on 13 April 1858, marked a new start for Catholic missions in this part of West Africa which had been abandoned for ...