News

• 1 August 2008
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Sisters of Saint Mary of Torfou, over 50 years in Africa preaching the Gospel to the sick, the youth, and children amidst dramatic circumstances Yako (Agenzia Fides) – The Sisters of Saint Mary of Torfou arrived in Yako (Burkina Faso) on January 6, 1957, where they began their first missionary experience outside France. The journey was made by three Sisters, an ...
• 1 August 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian Federal High Court blocks the cession of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – The Nigerian Federal High Court has blocked its own national government from ceding the remaining part of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, scheduled to take place on August 14. Judge Mohamme ...
• 1 August 2008
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “I have seen how God’s presence has truly lit my path”: vocational story of a young Camillian Brother from Indonesia Flores (Agenzia Fides) – Below is a vocation story sent to Agenzia Fides from a young Camillian Brother from Indonesia who is in formation in the Philippines: “Ever since I was a child I always enjoyed participatin ...
• 31 July 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The mission of the Camillian Order on the island of Samar is growing, with the collaboration efforts of the laity who have laid the first stone of a new hospital in a rural area Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “The island of Samar is the poorest of the 7,000 islands of the Philippines, and yet, the feast of Saint Camillus, celebrated on July 14, has been an opportunity to witness and appreciate how ...
• 31 July 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Auxiliary Bishop of Lubumbashi appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on July 31, 2008, appointed Bishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga, S.D.B, Bishop of the Diocese of Uvira, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi (Democratic ...
• 31 July 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The 'answer' to the educational emergency is to extend the Church. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - All baptised Christians know they are called to extend the Church, calling other men and women to be a part of it. The Church is the family of God, the heavenly communion of the saints come ...
• 31 July 2008
  AFRICA - The Blue Helmets pull out of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border; increased worries about peace in the region New York (Agenzia Fides) – The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to withdraw the remaining UN peacekeepers monitoring the ceasefire in the buffer zone between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The two countries wer ...
• 31 July 2008
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Daughters of Charity in Madagascar, assisting women and children to fully integrate in society Andemaka (Agenzia Fides) – Andemaka is a town with nearly 3,000 inhabitants in the south of Madagascar with a small community of volunteers of St. Vincent De Paul and Daughters of Charity, among whom is Sr. Giuseppina ...
• 31 July 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Church’s firm commitment to immigrants: “The Church should maintain a critical perspective towards any ideology that is not rooted in the intrinsic value of the human person.” Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Guatemala is strongly committed to the migration situation, says a document released by the Bishops’ Conference describing the dramatic situation in the country ...
• 31 July 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - Solidarity Month begins: “Listening is loving and this is how we build a more fraternal society.” Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – With slogans such as “Listening works wonders.”; “Listen to others as you would have them listen to you”; “Listen with your heart,” Solidarity Month began in Chile on Jul ...
• 31 July 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Recognition of Catholic Center for terminally-ill patients Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Among the terminally-ill (with cancer, AIDS, and other incurable diseases) are those patients in the last stages of their illness, which medicine has been unable to cure, and they approach ...
• 31 July 2008
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - The drama of the “sans papiers” in Belgium: Cardinal Danneels calls for a “policy that is realistic, just, and generous.” Brussels (Agenzia Fides) – It is the drama of the illegal workers, the so-called “sans papiers” (without documents), which has erupted in Belgium as well, where an illegal immigrant protesting on top of a crane at ...
• 31 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “I want my mom and I to have a house where rain and wind can’t get in.” (Luca De Mata writes from Spain - Part 3) Cuenca (Agenzia Fides) – I am almost at the end of my trip in Cuenca. The weather is a bit schizophrenic: on-and-off rain; on-and-off cloud cover. The colors shine and then are dulled, or completely vanish into the res ...
• 30 July 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Prisonniers Sans Frontières,” a Christian organization for rehabilitation of inmates Maradi (Agenzia Fides) – In the prison and correctional facility in Maradi, Father Dondeynaz, of the Redemptorist Order, has spent years serving as a pioneer in prison ministry, especially with Christian inmates (mainl ...
• 30 July 2008
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - The Year of St. Paul in Papeete: “This jubilee year should be, above all, an occasion for us all to read or re-read the Acts of the Apostles and the Letters of Saint Paul” Papeete (Agenzia Fides) – “What could be the goal for this jubilee year, if it is not that of becoming more familiar with the teachings of Paul of Tarsus? Unfortunately, there are many Catholics who know nothing more ...