News

• 6 November 2008
  ASIA/LAOS - Canonization process opened for 15 missionary martyrs of Laos Nantes (Agenzia Fides) – The history of evangelization in Laos holds various martyrs who gave their lives to make the seed of the faith grow in the small southeastern Asian nation. Today, the canonization process of 1 ...
• 6 November 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The Franciscan Missionary,” providing missionary formation services for 75 years Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The Franciscan Missionary,” the magazine published by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, turns 75. Begun in Assisi, the magazine has played an important role in formation for the missions. ...
• 6 November 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: the Universal Church takes measures to help the peoples affected by the conflict Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church is taking measures to help the people of the war-torn area of North Kivu. “Is history repeating itself? Are we up against another episode of genocide? The images are not ...
• 6 November 2008
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence continues on the Northwest Frontier Province: a Catholic girls' school is attacked and destroyed Swat (Agenzia Fides) – For the Christians living in the Northwest Frontier Province, fear is a part of everyday life. Threats, as well as physical and verbal aggressions continue, while Islamic fundamentalist groups, t ...
• 6 November 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “There are 1,600,000 people in North Kivu at risk for starvation in the coming months,” says a missionary in Bukavu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The humanitarian tragedy in North Kivu will last even longer. The rainy season has come and the fields that should be tilled and sown are abandoned. There are 1,600,000 people who rely on in ...
• 5 November 2008
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops’ Conference elects its President, Vice-President, and Secretary Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay recently celebrated their 183rd Plenary Assembly (November 3-7) in Asuncion, during which they elected as President Archbishop Pastor Cuquejo of ...
• 5 November 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mass celebrated on the border between Mexico and the United States in memory of the 337 illegal immigrants who have died trying to cross the border Juarez City (Agenzia Fides) – In the presence of faithful, priests, and Bishops from either side of the border, a Mass was celebrated on November 2 in Juarez City, located between Nuevo Casas Grandes, El Paso and New M ...
• 5 November 2008
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Vocational Week 2008 to help all youth and adolescents to discern, decide, and assume their vocation as disciples and missionaries, following the example of Saint Paul Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – Vocational Week 2008 in Santo Domingo was inaugurated on November 3, with a youth encounter with Cardinal Nicholas de Jesús López, Archbishop of Santo Domingo. The Vocational Week runn ...
• 5 November 2008
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Religious life is attracting new candidates in Polynesia Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - “For youth today, the religious life seems to present difficult sacrifices which can certainly be a detriment for some who experience the call. They are called to renounce their independence, ...
• 5 November 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - The Word of God brings new hopes to Orissa: campaign to distribute 1,000 Bibles Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of Bibles have been burned, destroyed, or damaged in the wave of anti-Christian violence that has struck Orissa. Thus, Indian Christians have launched a campaign to collect 1,000 ...
• 5 November 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Two pilgrimages led by the Third Order Canossians, on the 200th anniversary of the Order, and in honor of the Year of St. Paul Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Two pilgrimages, in Italy and Hong Kong, are at the center of the celebrations being held by the Third Order Canossians, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Daughters of ...
• 5 November 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic women in Asia and Oceania working for the family, society, immigrants, and equal opportunity Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic women in eastern Asia and the Pacific are making an effort to work in society, in defense of the family, of immigrants' rights, equal opportunity, to fight marginalization and pove ...
• 5 November 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Like a drop of water as it falls into the ocean Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The month of November opens with two Feast Days lived intensely by the Liturgy and by popular piety: All Saints and All Souls. These two feasts give depth to the month traditionally dedica ...
• 5 November 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Amidst war and propaganda, Kivu continues to suffer; Kinshasa sends in the Mai Mai militia to fight rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Nkunda's rebels have taken over Rutshuru (in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), where they are trying to give an impression of normality, allowing humanitarian aid to reach the local peop ...
• 5 November 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Work, study, and rights: more space for aborigenes in Australian society Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Australia's society and government are taking important steps in favor of aboriginal minorities. There have been comforting signs in the last few months, which have been applauded by the many c ...