News

• 15 October 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rome is a “multi-ethnic city,” open to all foreign citizens and religious faiths, says a press conference given by the Foreign Citizen Council Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Rome has never been a racist city”: this is what the President of the “Citizen Council for the Representation of Foreign Communities” in the City of Rome, Mr. Pan Yong Chang, affirmed in ...
• 15 October 2008
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Montfort Missionaries’ work with the youth of Malawi at the heart of the celebration of World Mission Day Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – The laborious activity of the missionaries is the best way to celebrate World Mission Day in Malawi. Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Montfort Missionary who has been working in the small African natio ...
• 15 October 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Mbeki’s mediation raises cautious hope for an agreement between the majority and the opposition Harare (Agenzia Fides) – There is a cautious hope for reaching an accord in the drawn out crisis of Zimbabwe. After President Robert Mugabe decided to name key Ministers (Defense, Exterior, Interior, etc...) for the go ...
• 14 October 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - In order to live the missionary month and prepare for World Missions Day, the faithful of the parish of Tong Tang make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Fr. Matteo Ricci, with the firm commitment to follow in his footsteps Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics from the parish of Tong Tang, dedicated to St. Joesph, in the Archdiocese of Beijing, took a pilgrimage to the tomb of the great missionary Fr. Matteo Ricci, in honor of this year of ...
• 14 October 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - For World Missions Day, the Church makes a renewed effort to form missionaries and youth according to the example of Saint Paul Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – An encounter for all new missionaries, religious, and laity interested in working or who have been working already in the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh; the preparation of especially dy ...
• 14 October 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A “double blessing” for World Mission Day, to become “missionaries in our own land” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, will be blessing World Mission Day 2008 in a special manner. On October 19, Zelie and Louis Martin will be beatified and their ...
• 14 October 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Church celebrates World Mission Day with the joy of the upcoming beatification of Venerable Padre Olallo, a man of charity, the second Cuban to be declared Blessed Santiago de Cuba (Agenzia Fides) – For the entire month of October, all communities are be encouraged to pray for the missionary work of the Church and are being sent various different prayer intentions each week, says ...
• 14 October 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Extraordinary Assembly of Bishops to reflect on the present situation in the country and the launching of the Great Continental Mission Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The 28th Extraordinary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference is underway beginning today, October 14, until October 17. Over the course of the week, they will address various topic ...
• 14 October 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The passing away of Cardinal Antonio González Zumárraga, who was a fundamental support in carrying out the Third American Missionary Congress with great responsibility and commitment as President of the Central Committee Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Antonio González Zumárraga, Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, President of Honor of the Ecuadorian Bishops’ Conference and President of the Central Committee of the Third American Missi ...
• 14 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI encourages acceptance of the teaching of the Apostle Paul, who “compares the Church to the human body, made up of members very different one from the other but all indispensable to its correct functioning. In the same way, this orchestra and choir are formed of various instruments and voices which, in harmony together, produce a melody sweet to the ear and to the spirit.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the evening of October 13, in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls the Holy Father attended a concert given by the Fondazione pro Musica e Arte Sacra, during the XII Ordinary G ...
• 14 October 2008
  VATICAN - The Vatican at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Cardinal Lajolo gives a preview of the novelties from Vatican Museum Editions and the wide-ranging publishing activity of the Holy See Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City and President of the Governing of the State of Vatican City, will be present at the Book Fai ...
• 14 October 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops speak out against war in East Congo, with the message: “Innocent blood in the Democratic Republic of Congo” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “Thousands of deaths, peoples condemned to inhumane conditions, children who are kidnapped an forced in to armed groups, etc....It is truly a human drama that we see before our eyes and tha ...
• 14 October 2008
  AFRICA - Stealing from the African people: between 1970 and 2004, 607 billion dollars from sub-Saharan countries have been deposited in countries abroad Rome (Agenzia Fides) – While the world is witnessing a dramatic international financial crisis, very few are worrying about the fact that, according to the President of the World Bank, this economic situation “will p ...
• 14 October 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new era opens for Spiritan missionaries in the Philippines Manila (Agenzia Fides) – For over a decade, the Holy Ghost Fathers have been transmitting their testimony and charism in the Philippines. And the missions have progressed rapidly, thanks to their work, the collaboratio ...
• 13 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI canonizes four Saints: “Let us thank the Lord for the gift of sanctity... Jesus invites us all to follow him, like these saints, on the way of the cross, to inherit the eternal life that he, dying, made a gift to us.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On October 12, XXVIII Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the Mass held at Saint Peter’s Basilica, in which he canonized four Saints: Italian priest Gaetano E ...