News

• 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 ...
• 24 February 2009
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Cambodia amidst trials of the past and national reconciliation Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – In the Church of the Child Jesus in Phnom Penh, every day the faithful pray for national reconciliation, for the good of the Cambodian people, for the future of the country. The Church of t ...
• 23 February 2009
  VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus asks that we accompany him with our prayers, “so that I may faithfully carry out this great task, entrusted to me by Providence, as successor to the Apostle Peter.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Gospel passage of the paralitic who was forgiven and healed (Ml 2:1-12) “Jesus has the power not only to heal the sick body but also to forgive sins; and indeed, the physical healin ...
• 23 February 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Pontifical Academy for Life: “every discrimination exercised by any power in regard to persons, peoples or ethnic groups on the basis of differences that stem from real or presumed genetic factors is an act of violence against all of humanity.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Every human being, then, is much more than a singular combination of genetic information that is transmitted to him by his parents. The generation of man can never be reduced to the mere ...
• 23 February 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Family Movement promoting Lenten fasting as a response the challenges and temptations facing the family today; preparations for its 15th anniversary of foundation Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – In order to respond to the challenges facing the family today (especially the Christian family), with a vision of faith, the Hong Kong Family Movement is promoting Lenten fasting as an instr ...
• 23 February 2009
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Bishop of Ban Mê Thuôt appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on February 21, 2009, appointed Fr. Vincent Nguyên Van Ban, head of seminarian formation for the Diocese of Quy Nhon and professor at the Nha Trang Major Se ...
• 23 February 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father's “lectio divina” on the Letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians at Rome's Major Seminary: “Paradoxically, freedom is achieved through service; we become free, we become servants of one another.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On February 20, Vigil of Our Lady of Confidence, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made a visit to the Roman Major Seminary, where he held a “lectio divina” for seminarians on the Letter o ...