News

• 25 February 2009
  VATICAN - Economic crisis: Holy See warns of the effects of recession on poor nations and children, need for ethics in economic and financial undertakings Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – The severe economic crisis, whose effects are being felt worldwide, is especially hitting developing nations and as a consequence runs the risk of placing the UN-established Millennium Goals fo ...
• 25 February 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - First missionary family from Ecuador departs for Guatemala, a fruit of CAM3; missionary sending on February 27 in the Cathedral Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Laguatasi- León Family of Ecuador: Marco Laguatasi, Maribel León, and their children Naomi, Pauleth, and Mateo Lagautasi León, will set off at the beginning of March, as ad gentes mission ...
• 25 February 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - A Lenten Campaign in support of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Jesuit School of Theology at Hekima College in Nairobi (Kenya) will be dedicating Lent 2009 to the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe. “In Zimbabwe, a political sta ...
• 25 February 2009
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Protection and solidarity towards civilians caught up in the conflict Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - “In a true spirit of Christian charity let us give generous expression to our solidarity with our suffering brothers and sisters irrespective of their race, color or creed.” This was the app ...
• 25 February 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Members of the Catholic Rosary Association of the city of Xin Zhou kick off Lent with a spiritual retreat Xin Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - “In these last four months of the Year of St. Paul, we should renew the evangelizing spirit of Saint Paul by announcing the Word of God in our parish.” These were the words of Fr. Pan Li Zh ...
• 25 February 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocese of Hong Kong launches Catholic Church Reconstruction Fund for churches destroyed in Si Chuan earthquake Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Hong Kong has officially launched the Catholic Church Reconstruction Fund, for churches destroyed in Si Chuan earthquake, in collaboration with religious from the Paris Foreig ...
• 25 February 2009
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Mogadishu conflict worsens, taking its toll on the population Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The fighting in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu continues to worsen by the minute, as government troops and Al-Shabab rebels continue their skirmishes. According to the most recent press r ...
• 24 February 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - August 9-15, 2009: Santiago de Compostela to host 2nd European Franciscan Meeting Santiago de Compostela (Agenzia Fides) – Preparations are underway in Spain for the 2nd European Franciscan Meeting for youth, which will be held in Santiago de Compostela, August 9-15, 2009. The center of the Meeting ...
• 24 February 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brotherhood Campaign 2009 launched with the theme: “Brotherhood and public security” Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, February 25 (Ash Wednesday), the Brotherhood Campaign 2009 will be launched at the National Shrine of Aparecida. The theme chosen this year is “Brotherhood and public security,� ...
• 24 February 2009
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas of Nigeria issues an alert on the global economic recession and its impact on the large African nation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “We are deeply concerned about the current global economic recession and the consequences it has unleashed on an already impoverished Nigerian population especially coming on the heels of the re ...
• 24 February 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We have no words to describe our concern and grief”: Statement from the Archbishop of Medellin, following priest's murder Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - “We have no words to describe our concern and grief upon the assassination of our beloved priest.” This is what Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo of Medellin (Colombia) and his Auxiliary ...
• 24 February 2009
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Educational workshop on mass media, for youth Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – It is the Church's responsibility to present the youth with a path of discernment and education in how to use the mass media well, in a world in which they are constantly fed different message ...
• 24 February 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - The community of the Cathedral of Jing Xian brings the Gospel to the remote villages of the Diocese Heng Shui (Agenzia Fides) – Over 60 faithful, led by their Pastor, Fr. Zhang Jian Tong and two diocesan religious sisters working in the Cathedral of the Diocese of Jing Xian (today Heng Shui) have gone out to bring th ...
• 24 February 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Good News TV”: a Catholic voice in the mass media panorama Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A TV on the Internet is the new idea that has just be launched into the Pakistani mass media by the Archdiocese of Karachi. Its name is “Good News TV” and it began airing this past Februar ...
• 24 February 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - What is happening in eastern Congo? A missionary tells Fides about the Congolese-Rwandan joint military operations Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – What is happening in North Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where since January there has been a Congolese-Rwandan joint military operation underway, to di ...