News

• 21 July 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The youth, prophets for the Third Millenium: WYD concludes Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The 23rd World Youth Day officially ended with the Prayer Vigil held on Saturday, July 19 and the Closing Mass on Sunday, July 20. WYD has been described by both the Holy Father and crowds of y ...
• 21 July 2008
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The “National Catechetical Center” opens its doors, to coordinate an evangelization effort in all the dioceses and promote catechetical training and textbooks San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – The Costa Rican Bishops’ Conference has noted the importance of making catechesis a priority in Diocesan Pastoral Ministry and thus, in July 2008 it has opened the National Catechetical Cen ...
• 21 July 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 4th All-American Youth Missionary Encounter, to reflect on the Aparecida Document and the CAM 3 conclusions, establish an All-American Proposal Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Quito (Ecuador) will host the 4th All-American Youth Missionary Encounter (IV Enajomis) August 18-22, immediately following the celebration of the 3rd American Missionary Congress (C ...
• 21 July 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Catholic schools ask the Head of the Education Department to respect the agreement established in the “Marco” Law in planning and directing educational works La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – Last July 13, the Head of the Education Department held a meeting for the institutionalization of directors’ positions in the public and private schools. This event has caught the attention o ...
• 21 July 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians in Orissa; Bishops’ appeal to authorities Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – As the ad hoc Committee established to investigate the violence committed against Christians in Orissa in December 2007 concludes its initial phase of work, with meetings and testimonies, ...
• 21 July 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Change for Zimbabwe: the government and opposition sign an agreement to begin direct dialogue Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Is the political climate in Zimbabwe changing? This is what international analysts and the country’s population are all asking after it was announced that on July 21, an accord would be signe ...
• 21 July 2008
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Cocaine: a threat to fragile local establishments from Guinea Bissau to Sierra Leone Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The confiscation of over 500 kilograms of cocaine from a plane in the Bissau airport is showing the gravity of the drug-trafficking situation, especially, the extent of its complexity on all le ...
• 21 July 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2007 Annual Report from “Medici con l'Africa CUAMM,” after over 50 years’ experience in sub-Saharan Africa, in the continent’s poorest areas Padua (Agenzia Fides) – 452,367 clinical visits; 93,949 hospitalizations; 21,324 births; 210,302 vaccinations: these are some of the results of 2007, in the 16 hospitals of sub-Saharan Africa run by the NGO from Padua ...
• 19 July 2008
  Dossier - Instrumentum mensis Iunii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Among the numerous audiences the Holy Father granted in the month of June, special mention should be made of his meeting on 2 June with pilgrims from the archdiocese of Turin, northern Italy accompanied by the Archbishop ...
• 18 July 2008
  VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I say to you…” - a little clarification Prof. Michele Loconsole Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Following queries with regard to an article by Prof. Michele Loconsole published in Fides 27 June, “Jesus the Jew: an authentic historic discovery or a storicist reduction?” (see Fide ...
• 18 July 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Sydney (3) - “As we promote Christian values, we must not neglect to proclaim their source by giving a common witness to Jesus Christ the Lord. It is he who commissioned the apostles, he whom the prophets preached, and he whom we offer to the world.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At 10:30am on July 18, in the Crypt of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, the Holy Father Benedict XVI held an ecumenical encounter with several leaders of other Christian Churches and mem ...
• 18 July 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Sydney (4) - “In a world threatened by sinister and indiscriminate forms of violence, the unified voice of religious people urges nations and communities to resolve conflicts through peaceful means and with full regard for human dignity.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – After the ecumenical meeting in the morning, on July 18, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made his way to the Chapter Hall in St. Mary’s Cathedral, where he held a meeting with representati ...
• 18 July 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed for Germany/Aachen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 14, 2008, appointed Rev. Klaus Krämer, of the clergy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Na ...
• 18 July 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - “We should drill this quote of Saint Paul into our heads, forever: “Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!” - China’s Catholics celebrate the Year of St. Paul with a new missionary impulse Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics throughout China are living the Year of St. Paul with great enthusiasm, in union with the Pope and the Universal Church. According to information sent to the Agenzia Fides, the Year of ...
• 18 July 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Ecumenism, dialogue, and the Way of the Cross on the streets of Sydney at the 23rd WYD Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Today, July 18, has been an intense day for Benedict XVI at the 23rd World Youth Day, one full of important events. Among the events that were held today were an ecumenical meeting, a meeting w ...