News

• 19 September 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The spiritual fruits of WYD in Hong Kong: the greatest participation of youth in the life of the Church and more response to vocations Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – World Youth Day (WYD) has strengthened the faith and encouraged the response of the youth to their vocations. The Diocese of Hong Kong continues to reap fruits from WYD. According to a repor ...
• 19 September 2008
  ASIA/LAOS - Redemptorists in Thailand prepare for pastoral work in Laos Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – The Redemptorist missionaries in Thailand are working in the local community, living in the midst of difficulties, lack of resources, facilities, and personnel. Among some of their objectives ...
• 19 September 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Over 50 Nigerians condemned to death and 23,000 in detention centers across the world Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Over 50 Nigerians are currently on death row in various countries throughout the world, the majority for alleged involvement in drug related offences. The Executive Secretary, National Human Rig ...
• 19 September 2008
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - UN confirms emergency situation caused by tensions on the Djibouti-Eritrea border Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The situation on the Djibouti-Eritrean border remains volatile after a flaring of tensions on the border in June left over 35 dead and dozens wounded (see Fides 12/6/2008). This is what has been ...
• 18 September 2008
  VATICAN - Pope speaks of his journey to France at the General Audience: “In reality, we are all pilgrims, we need Mary to guide us; and in Lourdes, her smile invites us to go forward with great confidence in the awareness that God is good, God is love.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On September 17, the General Audience was held in the Paul VI Audience Hall, where the Holy Father Benedict XVI, after arriving via helicopter from his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo ...
• 18 September 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - “Varanasi decided to send a peace mission... to spread the message of peace in Orissa.” An interview with the Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Varanasi. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – While there continues to be reports of anti-Christian violence in various Indian states such as Orissa, Karnataka, Madhya Pardesh, and Kerala, the Diocese of Varanasi has sent a peace mis ...
• 18 September 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - World Youth Day in Taiwan (October 9-12) on the themes from WYD in Sydney, with an emphasis on the missionary vocation Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – World Youth Day 2008 in Taiwan will take place October 9-12, taking up the themes addressed in the World Youth Day celebrated in Sydney: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come ...
• 18 September 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Educational training for working with children in the Vicariate of Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – “New wine cannot be poured into old wine skins.” This phrase from the Gospel has been at the heart of the reflection for the training seminar for preschool teachers at the Apostolic Vic ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishop of Colon-Kuna Yala tells Agenzia Fides: “The great challenge is trying to draw the people back into the Church and getting Catholics to live their faith with fidelity, so they can be true witnesses for the community.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The great challenge is that large number of people who live in indifference,” Bishop Ausilio Aguilar of Colon-Kuna Yala (Panama) told Agenzia Fides while he was in Rome, participating in a s ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA - Caritas of Latin America and the Caribbean sends a message of support to Bolivia: “The youth of Bolivia deserve a future full of peace, where harmony and fraternity are the trademark of our cities.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We are pained by the fact that a country of our America, with its poverty and its great faith, is now facing great difficulties in maintaining national unity.” With these words begins the ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops declare September 19 “National Day of Prayer for Peace”: “We hope that sadness and pain will cease to afflict our people and our nation.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We wish to reunite all the faithful for a National Day of Prayer for Peace on Friday, September 19, in which each community is called to pray and carry out a public activity, pilgrimage, com ...
• 18 September 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Over 5 million people at risk for starvation in Kenya, 923 million at risk worldwide Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – At least 5 million people could die of hunger. This is what has been declared by the Kenya Food Security Steering Group. The organization has found that at least 1.3 million people in rural ar ...
• 18 September 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - South Kivu students in eastern Congo protest against the war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The students of Bukavu (the capital of South Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo) have organized peaceful demonstrations protesting the war on the border between nor ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Crossing the desert on foot in search of a better life Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Veronica is 30 years old. She is from Puebla, Mexico and lives in New York with her husband. All day she works for a family living in Manhattan, where she earns 600 dollars a week. She take ...
• 18 September 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Pope and the message of Lourdes: a trustworthy hope interrogates secularism Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Anyone who imagines that a revolution will resolve the problems and the life of a people or a nation for centuries, must think again. France today – like the rest of Europe – is shaken ...