News

• 4 June 2008
  VATICAN - “AVE MARIA” by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The Heart of Mary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 31 May, the feast of the Visitation which this year coincided with the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pope Benedict XVI underlined the importance of the Rosary prayer in ...
• 4 June 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Include migrants in the local pastoral ministry, for an increasingly ‘catholic’ Church”: address given by Cardinal Martino at the African Meeting on migration Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, presented the Instruction “Erga migrantes caritas Christi” tha ...
• 4 June 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - "A new focus on Pastoral Care of the Family": a formation program for pastoral workers from the Archdiocese of Lima Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Facing the need for adequate formation for those entrusted with the close accompaniment of families in living and carrying out their mission, the Archdiocese of Lima Family Commission will begin of ...
• 4 June 2008
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - First Regional Encounter of Lay Missionaries: “being a lay missionary means sharing our commitment with a Church with a missionary nature.” Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) – From June 4 to 5, the First Regional Encounter of Lay Missionaries will be held in the Franciscan Pastoral Center in Costa Rica, according to information sent to Agenzia Fides by Rocio Araujo ...
• 4 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - 6th European Symposium for University Professors begins: 400 professors of 26 European countries address the theme of “Widen the horizons of rationality. Perspectives for philosophy.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Widen the horizons of rationality. Perspectives for philosophy.” This is the theme for the 6th European Symposium for University Professors taking place in Rome June 5 – 8, organized by the ...
• 4 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Award bestowed on four organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa Oviedo (Agenzia Fides) - The organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa: the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (Tanzania), the Malaria Research and Training Centre (Mali), the Kintampo Health ...
• 4 June 2008
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Regional war against the Lord’s Resistance Army follows failed peace negotiations Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “The negotiations are no more, the man (Kony) doesn't know what he wants and we have resolved to go the military way.” This was how Major Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the Ugandan Army, ann ...
• 4 June 2008
  ASIA/KOREA - “Religious education within the family”: Study Seminar Daegu (Agenzia Fides) – The Family Pastoral Commission of the Korean Bishops’ Conference has promoted a study seminar on religious education within the family. The event took place at the Catholic University of Daegu ...
• 4 June 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Rise in divorce in Goa; the children always pay the consequences Panaji (Agenzia Fides) – The divorce rate continues to rise in unprecedented proportions in the Indian state of Goa. The situation has been defined as “alarming” bu Fr. Savio Rodrigues, advisor at St. Britto de Map ...
• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Erection of the Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu and appointment of the first Metropolitan Archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 23, 2008, the Holy Father Benedict XVI created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia), separating it from the Ecclesiastical Province of Kuching. The new Eccle ...
• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Kumbakonam appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 31, 2008, appointed Fr. Francis Antonysamy, of the clergy of Tanjore and parish priest of the Basilica of Vailankanni, as Bishop of Kumbakonam (India). ...
• 3 June 2008
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishop of Yagoua appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 31, 2008, appointed Monsignor Barthélemy Yaouda Hourgo, of the clergy of Maroua-Mokolo and Apostolic Administrator of Yagoua, as Bishop of Yagoua (Ca ...
• 3 June 2008
  VATICAN - In the audience with pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Turin, the Pope announces another “solemn exposition of the Shroud” in 2010: “to contemplate that mysterious face which silently speaks to the hearts of men, inviting them to recognize therein the face of God.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On June 2, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received participants in a pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Turin, led by the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal Severin ...
• 3 June 2008
  VATICAN - “That a true pastoral care and welcome to families of migrants and itinerant people might be the hallmark of the attitude and praxis of the Church towards people in mobility.” Concluding Communiqué from the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The family is the way of the Church and pastoral care directed at the migrant’s and itinerant’s family particularly aims at the integration (which is not assimilation), and/or the ...
• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Returning from the earthquake zone, the first volunteers and religious sisters share their experience of faith lived in the midst of a desperate people Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics in He Bei have welcomed their “witnesses to the faith” with arms wide open: the first volunteers, including religious sisters who arrived on the site of the wreckage immed ...