News

• 3 June 2009
  VATICAN - WYD Cross travels to L'Aquila, where it has “brought courage and hope in the future, to face the time of reconstruction without fear” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The pilgrimage of the World Youth Day (WYD) Cross took place from Saturday, May 30, to Tuesday, June 2 in Abruzzo, in the areas struck by the earthquake on April 6. 17 youth “missionari ...
• 2 June 2009
  ASIA/NEPAL - Hindu extremist groups say Christians should leave Nepal, but society shows its unity and solidarity with Catholics Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – The message has become loud and clear. Following the bombing of the Kathmandu Cathedral (see Fides 25/05/2009), the extremist Hindu Nepal Defense Army (NDA), which has been carrying out acts ...
• 2 June 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Congress for the New Evangelization, one year after the Pope's visit for WYD Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Sydney is preparing to celebrate the Diocesan Congress of the New Evangelization (SCENE) in July 2009. The event will mark the first anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's visit ...
• 2 June 2009
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “With the immense number voters, the people have called for an increase in democracy and respect from their representatives,” missionary says Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Just 10 days after the re-election of President Bingu wa Mutharika (see Fides 22/5/2009), Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfort Missionary who has lived in Malawi for years, sent a note to Fides o ...
• 2 June 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Final Message for the Encounter of the Border Dioceses: a message of hope for societies of greater justice and solidarity Posadas (Agenzia Fides) - “400 years after the first Jesuit arrived, united in the heart of a missionary region that we have once more observed as a common heritage of all our peoples, we wish to echo these painful sit ...
• 2 June 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - V Eucharistic Symposium for the close of the Year of St. Paul, on his Eucharistic message Lima (Agenzia Fides) – For the fifth consecutive year, the Parish of Saint Joseph the Worker of Barranco, in the Archdiocese of Lima, will sponsor a Eucharistic Symposium with the proposal of helping the faithful to de ...
• 2 June 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spain renews Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus after 90 years, on June 21 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Next Sunday, June 21, 2009, a ceremony will be held at Cerro de los Angeles, in Getafe (Madrid), for the renewal of Spain's Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 90 years after it was firs ...
• 2 June 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Vocational Prayer Encounter widely attended; Year for Priestly Vocations to be inaugurated by Bishop Tong on July 1 Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Year for Priestly Vocations in Hong Kong will coincide this year with the Year of the Priest declared by the Pope. According to a report from the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version of the ...
• 2 June 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Czestochowa launches Year of the Priest website dedicated to priestly and religious vocations Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The Pastoral Office for Vocations of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa and the Major Seminary of the same Archdiocese have started a website dedicated specifically to priestly and religious v ...
• 2 June 2009
  VATICAN - Final Document from the European Meeting on Pastoral Care of Tourism Today: “pastoral care of tourism can only be a missionary pastoral care.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “As effective and active members of the Church, Christians live also in the “world of tourism” with the obvious awareness of their faith, according to each one’s competences and dif ...
• 2 June 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Austrian Mariannhill Missionary killed Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Ernst Plöchl, a 78 year-old Austrian missionary from the Congregation of Mariannhill Missionaries was killed in the South African Cape Province. Fr. Ploechl, who was a missionary i ...
• 2 June 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells group of new Ambassadors: “in the midst of a worldwide social and economic crisis, people must regain an awareness of the need to struggle ... in order to establish true peace, with the aim of constructing a more just and prosperous world.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI received 8 new Ambassadors to the Holy See from Mongolia, Benin, New Zealand, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Namibia, and Norway, in an audience on May 29. With ...
• 1 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - The genocide in Darfur: peace begins with the child. Testimony of Sr. Maria Goretti Puthen, missionary in the El Daein Refugee Camp Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Wednesday, June 3, at 6pm, in the headquarters of “Italia Solidale” in Rome, Sr. Maria Goretti Puthen, Salesian missionary, will offer her first-hand account of the reality of the war in Darf ...
• 1 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - General Chapter of the Dehonians, confirmation of General Superior Fr. Jose Ornela Carvalho, pilgrimage to the sites of Saint Paul Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 22nd General Chapter of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians), being held in this Year of St. Paul, from May 18 to June 11, bears the title of: “The love of Christ impels us” (2 Cor ...
• 1 June 2009
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Over 700,000 people affected by floods, 40,000 homeless; Caritas appeal Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) – Over 700,000 people have been affected by heavy flooding in Namibia. Of these, 40,000 are homeless and in need of urgent assistance. The water levels of the Zambesi River have reached over 8 ...