News

• 9 February 2009
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - What's not making headlines: 900 people massacred in one month in Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – This is what is not making headlines this week: the figure of how many people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo from Christmas up until today: over 900. However th ...
• 9 February 2009
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Missionaries of Saint Paul: a strength for evangelization Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – The evangelization of Myanmar continues forward with the example of Saint Paul, especially through the Congregation of the “Brothers and Sisters Missionaries of Saint Paul,” an institute of ...
• 9 February 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Youth Without Borders” missionaries celebrate 30 years of life and service Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The group “Jovenes sin Fronteras” (Youth Without Borders) of Ecuador celebrated its 30th anniversary of missionary service in the country on February 4, according to a report sent to Agenzia ...
• 9 February 2009
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - National Pastoral Assembly analyzes country's problems: “only a commitment on everyone's part will pave the way for valid and equal responses” Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Honduras and various different pastoral associations in the eight dioceses met January 25-29 2009 in the National Assembly of the Catholic Pastoral Ministry, at the “L ...
• 9 February 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI's Message for the 17th World Day of the Sick: “our attention turns particularly to children, the most fragile and defenseless of all, especially sick and suffering children...A silent cry of pain is heard from all these children; it is a cry that reaches our conscience as persons and believers.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Within the mark of the Year of St. Paul, the Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI for the 17th World Day of the Sick, February 11, 2009 (celebrated on a diocesan level), invites the fa ...
• 9 February 2009
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Dawn of the era of ACEAO,” the only coordination structure of the western African Bishops' Conferences - Address of Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, accompanied by Archbishop Robert Sarah, Secretary of the same Dicastery, traveled to Abidjan (Ivory Coast) wh ...
• 6 February 2009
  VATICAN - John Paul II and the “Theology of Communication” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - During the launch of a new book from Vatican publisher Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), entitled “John Paul II: Development of a Theology of Communication,” retired papal theologian Georges Ma ...
• 6 February 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops' Conference presents a 5-year plan for overcoming famine Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Kenya has launched a strategic 5-year plan for overcoming the famine that is now affecting 10 million people in the country, due to the drought and the rise in food ...
• 6 February 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Children being baptized “Pio” in honor of the Friar of Petrelcina Miao (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to the “Padre Pio Missionary in the World” project, in a remote area in northeastern India, devotion to Padre Pio has begun to spread. So much so, says Salesian Bishop George Pallippar ...
• 6 February 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Five new deacons in the Diocese of Tai Yuan Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – Over 4,000 faithful from the Diocese of Tai Tuan (Province of Shan Xi) participated in the ordination of 5 diocesan seminarians to the diaconate, on February 4. Bishop Li Jian Tang, the Dioce ...
• 6 February 2009
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Caritas distributes aid to over 15,000 flood victims Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – Torrential rains and flooding have left heavy damages in the Solomon Islands. The government has declared a state of emergency and Caritas has responded with immediate emergency aid. This is t ...
• 6 February 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops conclude meeting on the Continental Mission Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – February 4-5, the Bishops' Permanent Council held its Meeting in the city of Cochabamba, in which they discussed the launching of the Permanent Mission in Bolivia, scheduled to take place o ...
• 6 February 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops ask that the Federal War not be excessively esteemed, as if the nation's only pride is its bellicose events Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Venezuela, at the close of their Plenary Assembly, issued a statement on the 150th anniversary of the Federal War, which the nation will celebrate this February 20. The Bishops ...
• 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 ...