News

• 5 March 2009
  VATICAN - Pope's Message to the youth: “If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him k ...
• 5 March 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father Benedict XVI to visit the Capitol Building and Monastery of Santa Francesca Romana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has published the program for the Holy Father Benedict XVI's visit the Capitol Building and the Monastery of Santa Francesca Romana in Tor de Specchi, which will ...
• 5 March 2009
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishop of Aitape resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 5 March 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Aitape (Papua New Guinea), presented by Bishop Austen Robin Crapp, ...
• 5 March 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Pontifical Mission Societies offer support to faithful in Pakistan Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Australia are making an effort to provide support, solidarity, encouragement, and prayer for the Catholics in Pakistan. For years now, they have been w ...
• 5 March 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - First National Encounter of Youth Missionary Coordinators in the Year of Pauline Jaricot, July 22, 2009 - July 22, 2010 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On February 20 – 23, in Brasilia at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, the First National Encounter of Youth Missionary Coordinators (JM) was held. Fides learne ...
• 5 March 2009
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: auto-financing the Church, financing seminaries, presentation of “The Illustrated Bible, with Commentaries” Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Paraguay will continue their 184th Ordinary Plenary Assembly until Friday, March 6. In a press conference, they presented the main points from their third session, which was ce ...
• 5 March 2009
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “The ruling is necessary, but it is not enough on its own as it only covers a small part of the crimes committed,” a missionary tells Fides, in commenting on the recent verdict for rebels from Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – On February 25, the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone found 2 commanders from the United Revolutionary Front (RUF) guilty of crimes committed during the civil war that concluded in 2002 (see ...
• 5 March 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - International Crime Court orders arrest of Sudan President Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “We have no word of the incidents or the violence against foreign presence in Sudan, nor against the Church; there are only various demonstrations taking place in the streets of Khartoum, in ...
• 5 March 2009
  VATICAN - Pope's encounter with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome (3) - Importance of the liturgy; the Bishop of Rome and the Petrine Ministry Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As is customary at the beginning of Lent, on Thursday, February 26, the Holy Father Benedict XVI met in the Blessings Hall in the Vatican with the parish priests and clergy of the Diocese o ...
• 4 March 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - Temptations Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Season of Lent reminds us of Jesus' experience in the desert: “And at once the Spirit drove him into the desert and he remained there for forty days, and was put to the test by Satan. ...
• 4 March 2009
  AMERICA - Continental Encounter of National Directors of the PMS Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – From March 2-6, Bogota is hosting the Continental Encounter of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bogota (Colombia), with the participation of the National Directors from ...
• 4 March 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - First National Congress for Directors of the Holy Childhood Association in July: the Christian, missionary, and human qualities of a director, in the spirit of Saint Paul Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador, via the National Secretariat of the Holy Childhood Association, according to a report sent to Agenzia Fides from Osvaldo Fierro Teran, Secretary Gene ...
• 4 March 2009
  AMERICA/ANTILLES - Pastoral Letter from the Archbishop of Saint-Pierre et Fort de France on the public strike: “No one can turn a deaf ear to this cry of the people that awaits an urgent response.” Martinique (Agenzia Fides) - “The strike that has been paralyzing life on Martinique for the last several days can leave no one indifferent, because it shows a profound suffering and loss,” affirmed Archbishop Michel ...
• 4 March 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Tension in Madagascar following unconfirmed news of the arrest of main opposition leader Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – Tension has once again arisen in Madagascar, where conflict continues between President Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Antananarivo who was removed from office. The s ...
• 4 March 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Regional implications of President Vieira's death: Senegal looks worried Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “The death of President Vieira is still an enigma, but two things can be said for sure: drug-trafficking played a role, although it may not be the only reason; the claim that the Head of State ...