News

• 26 January 2009
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “You should strive to venture into activities that will help to awaken, enliven and support the missionary efforts of the Church,” Apostolic Nuncio tells the PMS National Assembly in Zambia Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - “The meeting was an opportunity to renew our vision of the missionary church. It helped us to renew our vision to actions and helped us to find new stimulus and boldness for missionary animati ...
• 26 January 2009
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - “The new technologies are helping to break the isolation and foster communion”: Agenzia Fides interviews Fr. Roger McCarrick, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Bishops' Conference (CEPAC) Suva (Agenzia Fides) – Communion, sharing, cooperation, in spite of the isolation, thanks to the new forms of media and technology...this is the depiction of the Church in the Pacific Islands made by Fr. Roger McCarric ...
• 23 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid begin with a youth encounter February 7 in the Diocese of Granada Granada (Agenzia Fides) – In view of preparations for World Youth Day, which Pope Benedict XVI will preside in Madrid in 2011, the Youth Delegation of the Diocese of Granada has organized a series of encounters for the ...
• 23 January 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - On Sunday, January 25, a new Church to be inaugurated in Lima, on the occasion of Cardinal Cipriani's 10th anniversary as Archbishop of Lima Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Lima will inaugurate a new Church this Sunday, January 25, in honor of Cardinal Cipriani's 10th anniversary as Archbishop of Lima. After 18 years of waiting, the dream of the ...
• 23 January 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops once again call on authorities to use just treatment and not to involve the Church nor her Hierarchy in pre-election political propaganda La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has expressed “its surprise and concern for the constant attacks and disqualifications that the highest authority in the country has made against the pe ...
• 23 January 2009
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishops alert on the situation of violence and the rise of delinquency in the country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Auxiliary Bishops of Santo Domingo and Santiago, in their homilies in honor of Our Lady of Altagracia (the country's patroness), their concern for the situation of violence and the r ...
• 23 January 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The exclusive moving testimony of Cardinal Castillo Lara given to Agenzia Fides just days before his death: “taking lives does not eliminate poverty.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara, a Salesian from Venezuela, President emeritus of Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See and President emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatica ...
• 23 January 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Christian leaders in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: unite efforts in fighting the environmental and financial crises in the world Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Unite efforts to fight the environmental and financial crises in the world: this is the conviction that the Christian leaders of Hong Kong have expressed during the prayer encounter they org ...
• 23 January 2009
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer Encounter for the Week for Christian Unity: faithful praying for the “divided nation” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians of various confessions present in Korea gathered to pray together, reflect on the divisions among them, and invoke God, in the name of unity. The encounter was attended by over 4, ...
• 23 January 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Biological colonialism is on our doorstep:harvesting ovarian human eggs in Africa will help meet the needs of embryonic stem cell research in industrialized countries,” says the Archbishop of Johannesburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “The Global ethic is a challenge to the churches,” Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg said in his opening address at the Plenary Assembly of the Southern African Catholic B ...
• 23 January 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Message for Chinese New Year from the six major religious groups of Hong Kong: solidarity, charity, moral principles, interior purification, and spirituality are the keys to overcoming the current crisis, to bring about peace and harmony Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity, charity, moral principles, interior purification, and spirituality are the key points that the leaders of the six major religious groups of the Special Administration of Hong Kong ...
• 23 January 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - General Nkunda, one of the main perpetrators in the war in North Kivu, arrested in Rwanda. One missionary tells Fides: “We are worried about the underhanded activity of the military operations.” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Congolese rebel General Laurent Nkunda was arrested yesterday (January 22) evening in Rwanda in a joint operation carried out by Rwandan and Congolese armed forces. Nkunda, who is accused of ...
• 23 January 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church says “No” to armed children in the South's conflict Basilan (Agenzia Fides) – Children and young men taking up arms is extremely dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. This is what the Catholic Church in South Philippines has said in observing the intensification ...
• 23 January 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - New ideas and projects for the future of youth in the First International Festival of Itineraries of the Spirit: International Day of Prayer with the theme: “We Want Peace in the Holy Land.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A new collaboration has been established between the most important “Vacation Schools” in Europe, the “Accademia Britannica” and the youth of the National Association “Papa Boys,” fr ...
• 22 January 2009
  VATICAN - “Let us make our own the desire of St. Paul, who dedicated his entire life for the one Lord and for the unity of his mystical body, the Church, giving with his martyrdom, a supreme testimony of fidelity and love for Christ”: the Pope's catechesis dedicated to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Four times, in His prayer to the Father from the Upper Room – before suffering His Passion – Jesus prays that his disciples may be “one,” and twice, He mentions the reason for thi ...