News

• 8 July 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Installation of the Bishop of Liao Ning on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul and the inauguration of the Year of St. Paul: “our diocese wants to begin a new Pauline era.” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Paolo Pei Jun Min, who until now had served as Coadjutor Bishop for the Diocese of Liao Ning, continental China, appointed in 2006 with the Holy Father’s approval, has officially begu ...
• 8 July 2008
  AFRICA - Over 14 million people’s lives at risk in the Horn of Africa due to drought and the rise of food prices Rome (Agenzia Fides) - More than 14 million people located in the Horn of Africa are in need of urgent food aid and other humanitarian assistance. This was what a report from the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Team sa ...
• 8 July 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Come Holy Spirit: my hopes for WYD”: Letter from Bishop Kevin Manning of Parramatta Parramatta (Agenzia Fides) - "Holy Spirit pour out your grace on this great south land of the Holy Spirit, grant to us a new Pentecost. Make of this land a true place of welcome for the young people of the world, grant t ...
• 8 July 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Bishops award $4 million dollars to support pastoral needs of the Church in Latin America Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America approved in June an additional $1.57 million in grants to 105 pastoral projects in 21 ...
• 8 July 2008
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Education, health, justice, security, and the high cost of living are among the main problems pointed out by the Bishops at the closing of their Ordinary Assembly Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Panama have published a statement at the close of their second ordinary annual meeting held June 30 – July 4, 2008, in which they mention some of the most important eccles ...
• 8 July 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops’ Ordinary Assembly to analyze the present situation of the Venezuelan clergy “in order to mark the profile of the priest in need of a renewed and profound evangelization effort of our people” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Ubaldo R. Santana Sequera of Maracaibo, President of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, opened the 90th Ordinary Assembly for the Bishops’ Conference yesterday, July 7, with an ...
• 8 July 2008
  ASIA/THAILAND - The Year of St. Paul, special occasion for communion with the Holy Father and the Universal Church Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – The Year of St. Paul will be intimately linked to the universal voice that comes forth from the Chair of Peter: with this spirit, the Catholic Church in Thailand is already living the Year of ...
• 8 July 2008
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Program for the Year of St. Paul: celebrations, prayer meetings, a music and poetry contest based on the Hymn to Charity, posters, CDs, and stickers inspired by the Letters of St. Paul Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – An intense schedule of celebrations, gatherings, and activities are underway for the Year of St. Paul 2008-2009 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Sunday, June 29, the Apostolic Nuncio A ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope, looking ahead to World Youth Day, invites “the whole Church to share in this new stage of the great pilgrimage of young people across the world” and makes an appeal to the participants in the G-8 Summit, “so that at the heart of their deliberations they will put the needs of the weakest and poorest peoples.” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – “My thoughts already go to Australia where, God willing, I will travel next Saturday, July 12. In Sydney, in fact, in the southeast of the country, the 23rd World Youth Day will take ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - “Especially in our time it is important that bishops be witnesses and teachers of holiness, capable of transmitting faithfully, by example and words, those truths that illumine man's heart and lead him to eternal life”: Cardinal Bertone’s homily at the episcopal consecration of Archbishops Vacchelli and Auza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of July 3, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone presided a Solemn Mass in the Vatican Basilica for the episcopal consecration of His Excellency Piergiusep ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - Plenary Indulgence granted by the Holy Father on the occasion of World Youth Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who, on the occasion of the ‘Twenty-third World Youth Day’, will gather at Sydney in the spirit of pilgrimage; all those who, wher ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - “If you simply have Our Lord in your heart, you will never be afraid of anything!”: the experience of Fr. Jiang - sole caretaker of the wreckage of the Church destroyed by the earthquake, surviving on what nature provided Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – “If you simply have Our Lord in your heart, you will never be afraid of anything!...I felt like my heart was bleeding as I looked upon the wreckage of my parish that has centuries of history ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Indications from the Regional Bishops’ Conference of Taiwan for the Year of St. Paul Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – The Office for Sacred Scripture of the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith, of the Regional Bishops’ Conference in Taiwan has given several indications as to how Catholics on the island ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - “Populorum Progressio” Foundation due to meet in Guadalajara to consider financing 230 new projects in support of poor indigenous mixed race and Afro-American rural communities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The members of the administrative council of the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation are due to meet in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 9 to 12 July to consider the financing of development proje ...
• 7 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Missionaries today, St. Paul-style”: Missiology Week in Burgos, in honor of the Year of St. Paul Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning today, July 7, until Friday, July 11, the Theology School in Burgos will host the 61st Spanish Missiology Week. The Missionary Week will be dedicated this year to the Year of St. Paul ...