News

• 22 January 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Hispanic Alliance for Life and Family founded to provide pro-life information and educational material for Hispanics in the USA Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Following the first Hispanic National Pro-Life Congress that took place in Dallas, Texas September 19-21, 2008, several leaders have been working on the formation of a coalition of pro-life ...
• 22 January 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Archdiocese of Caracas to launch Mission on January 24: “an opportunity to renew our Church structures and communities, to enliven the faith and religious practice of Catholics, and offer renewed strength to the evangelization effort” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “The evangelizing Mission will be, without a doubt, with the help of God and Our Lady of Coromoto, a perfect opportunity to renew our Church structures and communities, to enliven the faith an ...
• 22 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “With the children of Asia...we seek Jesus”: theme for the Holy Childhood Day, this Sunday, January 25 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “With the children of Asia...we seek Jesus” is the theme of the Holy Childhood Day this year, being celebrated on Sunday, January 25. Holy Childhood is thus starting a project that will last ...
• 22 January 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - For the Year of St. Paul, the Diocese of Tainan will make a pilgrimage to the parish dedicated to Saint Paul, which holds an image of the Apostle in the native dress of the Pai Wan Tainan (Agenzia Fides) – Over 160 faithful of the Diocese of Tainan recently participated in a pilgrimage to the Parish of Saint Paul in the Diocese of Kaohsiung. It was one of the many initiatives in the calendar of t ...
• 22 January 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - More signs of war on the horizon in Darfur, as the UN-African Union peacekeeping forces await reinforcements Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) have threatened to respond with a bloodbath if government troops attack their posts in southern Darfur. The JEM is one of the main guerri ...
• 22 January 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Generous contribution to priestly formation made by Bishop Joseph Xu Zhixian of Wanhsien, dead at 92 years of age, who faithfully served his diocese until the end Wanxian (Agenzia Fides) – On December 8, 2008, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Bishop Joseph Xu Zhixian of Wanhsien (Wanxian/Wanzhou) passed away at 92 years of age in the City of Chongqing (China mainland). T ...
• 22 January 2009
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The army takes command of the area and continues its offensive, while the number of refugees living in unstable conditions continues to rise Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – The scenes of the civil war in Sri Lanka are particularly bloody, however the government claims that thanks to the successive victories of the regular army, the conflict is nearing its end, in ...
• 22 January 2009
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Interview with a missionary priest - from a Asian country … to Belgium (correspondence from Belgium, Luca De Mata - 12) Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - I arrived in Belgium a few days ago and, with the help of the local Caritas office, have already met immigrants of various nationalities. On Sunday I went to the ethnic market in a tunnel close ...
• 21 January 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Benedict XVI's telegram to the 44th President of the United States of America, the Honorable Barack Obama Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI sent a telegram to the 44th President of the United States of America, the Honorable Barack Obama, on the occasion of his inauguration into the White House, i ...
• 21 January 2009
  VATICAN - Message for the 56th World Leprosy Day: on the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, may governments “pay special attention to children who are sick with leprosy and run the risk of seeing their futures mortgaged by the negative consequences of their illness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In this year which marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, President of the Pastoral Council for Health Pastoral Care, me ...
• 21 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 442,000 Euros raised in the “Supporting China's Forgotten Catholics” Campaign sponsored by the COPE and “Aid to the Church in Need” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The solidarity campaign “Supporting China's Forgotten Catholics,” which was organized by the COPE Group and the association “Aid to the Church in Need” at Christmas, raised 442,000 Euro ...
• 21 January 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte reelected as President of the Bishops' Conference at the start of the Plenary Assembly Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The 93rd Plenary Assembly of Peruvian Bishops, which will last until January 23, opened on January 19 with a Mass concelebrated by all the Bishops of Peru. The Mass took place at 9am, in Saint An ...
• 21 January 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops call for thorough investigations following attack on the Nunciature Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “We, the Bishops forming the Presidential Council of the Bishops' Conference, wish to express our profound concern for the attack which took place early yesterday morning on the Apostolic Nunc ...
• 21 January 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - Drawn towards Jesus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past, and John looked towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God.' And the two disciples heard wha ...
• 21 January 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Reaffirming the commitment for “Life in dialogue,” the road to peace in Mindanao Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) – The “Sisilah” (meaning “chain”) Movement for dialogue, working in an area of the South Philippines where Christian and Muslims live in close contact, have launched a worldwide p ...