News

• 6 February 2009
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Doctors Without Borders helping victims of attacks in DRC and South Sudan Kinshasa/Rome (Agenzia Fides) – For several months now, rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been carrying out violent attacks on civilians in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on an increa ...
• 6 February 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A priest offers Agenzia Fides his reflections on Holocaust Memorial Day Roma (Agenzia Fides) – On this memorial day, our minds, hearts, and souls feel drawn to silence – a silence filled with memory, silence filled with the desire to find a meaning in this memory that returns with such g ...
• 6 February 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Find a mini-oasis of listening and silence every day.” Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi's “‘Le Parole e i Giorni- Nuovo Breviario Laico,’ presented in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) – At a moment when the world panorama gives the sense of great insecurity, comes a work that offers a coherent and purposeful path through the use of 366 quotes. This is the content of the book “ ...
• 5 February 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope concludes his Catecheses on Saint Paul: “there remains luminous before us the figure of an extremely fruitful and deep apostle and Christian thinker, from whose closeness, every one of us can benefit” - Appeal for Sri Lanka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his General Audience on February 4, the Holy Father Benedict XVI concluded his series of catecheses on the Apostle Saint Paul, focusing on his death and his legacy. “Ancient Christia ...
• 5 February 2009
  VATICAN - Note from the Secretariat of State Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Here is the text from the Note from the Secretariat of State, released by the Holy See Press Office: In the wake of reactions provoked by the recent Decree from the Congregation for Bish ...
• 5 February 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Exchange of experiences in the faith and evangelization between the Diocese of Tai Yuan and Jin Zhong for promoting the mission for the new year Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of priests, religious, sisters, seminarians, catechists, and laity of the Archdiocese of Tai Yuan and the Diocese of Jin Zhong (Yu Ci) participated in a fruitful exchange of faith an ...
• 5 February 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 3-week Missiology Course to be dedicated to study, prayer, and reflection on missionary themes Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On February 2, 2009, the 27th John Paul II Missiology Course began in the National Headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Argentina, according to a report sent to Agenzia Fid ...
• 5 February 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - As Bishops decry the attack on the Synagogue of Caracas, Apostolic Nunciature suffers yet another attack Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the President's Office of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference have shown their “sorrow and dismay at the violation of the sacred area and the profanation of the most cherished ...
• 5 February 2009
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - “Mary, readily listening to the word”: message for the 262nd anniversary of the discovery of the image of Our Lady of Suyapa, patroness of Honduras Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Thousands of pilgrims participated this Tuesday in a Mass in honor of Our Lady of Suyapa, patroness of Honduras, to celebrate the 262nd anniversary of the discovery of her image, a small s ...
• 5 February 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - Lord, you are all we need! Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For all of us life has its trials when the 'sea' on which we are sailing becomes stormy and waves threaten to submerge us and we, in the boat with the sleeping Jesus, cry out, as the apostl ...
• 5 February 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Updates on the Madagascar crisis, as protests continue with lesser intensity Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, is the main political opponent of President Marc Ravalomanana and continues his protest, although with seemingly less supp ...
• 5 February 2009
  AFRICA - 12th African Union Summit ends a day late Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – The 12th Summit of the African Union, held in Addis Ababa (capital of Ethiopia and AU headquarters), has ended a day late. The decision to prolong the Summit was taken following the stron ...
• 5 February 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Labour Party government allots funding for Catholic schools Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Labour Party government led by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has recognized the importance and quality of Catholic education and has created a funding package for Catholic schools. ...
• 5 February 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Brothers celebrate 50 years in Pakistan, where their schools work to form the nation's leaders Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is a religious family that focuses mainly on the mission of education. In Pakistan, the Brothers of La Salle (Christian Brothers) are celebrating their 50th anniversary in the country and ...
• 5 February 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Suffering: learning to Hope Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Rejection of suffering, all suffering, by our present day culture, is the most serious symptom of the desperation into which it has fallen. In front of the mystery of suffering, especially ...