News

• 12 February 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - New support projects for poor and marginalised children in the tribal dioceses of north-eastern India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - These dioceses see themselves as indebted to the first religious of the Foreign Missions of Paris (MEP), who brought the Gospel to the tribes of north-eastern India, as well as to the “new i ...
• 12 February 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Youth of Tai Yuan respond to the Pope’s call: “Let us live the Pauline Year with an active evangelisation.” Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - “We respond to the Pope’s call to evangelise for the Pauline Year and we commit ourselves to living the Pauline Year in active evangelisation.” This has been the response to the Holy Fath ...
• 12 February 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - 2 million unemployed: No roses for Kenya this Saint Valentine’s Day. Who thinks about the farmers of Naivasha? Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The investigation commission for the elections seems a necessary and important step that will shed light and return peace to the country,” Agenzia Fides was told by a source from the local ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to participants at a Meeting to mark the 20th anniversary of Mulieris dignitatem: “it is necessary to recall God's design that created the human being masculine and feminine, with a unity and at the same time an original difference and complimentary ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ A renewed anthropological study is certainly necessary based on the great Christian tradition, which incorporates new scientific advances and, given today's cultural sensitivity, in thi ...
• 9 February 2008
  Dossier - NEONATAL EUTHANASIA Contents: The child: “desired ” and “undesired” Prenatal diagnosis Definition of neonatal euthanasia The Groningen Protocol Spina bifida What happens in Belgium, Switzerland, France, United Ki ...
• 8 February 2008
  VATICAN - Intentions of the Holy Father for 2009 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Here we publish the list of Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer intentions for the year 2009. January General: That the family may become more and more a place of training in charity, persona ...
• 8 February 2008
  VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (first part) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...
• 8 February 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Almsgiving at the start of Lent: “a specific way to assist those in need and, at the same time, exercise that self-denial that frees us from attachment to worldly goods." Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “Almsgiving, coming to the aid of others brings us closer to God and can become an instrument of true conversion and reconciliation with Him and with our brothers,” says the Archbishop of Truji ...
• 8 February 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Catholic Church’s rapid response to volcanic eruption of Tungurahua Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The volcano Tungurahua, located in the centre of Ecuador, once again erupted on Wednesday, February 6, spewing forth a cloud of ashes 10 kilometres high and glowing volcanic rock, amidst intense ...
• 8 February 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “We are all part of the Church; it’s time to share”: Lenten Campaign in support of evangelisation. Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “We are all part of the Church; it’s time to share” is the theme of the Campaign in support of the Church, sponsored by the Episcopal Conference of Argentina for its fourth consecuti ...
• 8 February 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appeal for flood victims: “Let us create an authentic chain of support.” Holy Father’s help sent to victims via Pontifical Council Cor Unum La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims and evacuees in Bolivia continues to increase with the onslaught of floods caused by the natural phenomena, “La Niña,” that since November has left its mark on six of t ...
• 8 February 2008
  ASIA/TURKEY - Pauline Year, opportunity for testimony: Turkish Catholics organising celebrations ASIA/TURKEY - Pauline Year, opportunity for testimony: Turkish Catholics organising celebrations Tarsus (Agenzia Fides) - In Tarsus and Antioch, places familiar to the presence and preaching of the Apostle Paul in Tur ...
• 8 February 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas of Korea tells faithful: “Live Lent with the poor” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Lent is a time in which the Christian is called to open his eyes and lend a hand to his neighbour, towards those brothers who live in difficulty, poverty, and injustice. This is what the message f ...
• 8 February 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Appeal of Jinde Charities for the Chinese victims of snowstorms, in light of the Pope’s Message for Lent Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Chinese Catholic community is in the frontline in the battle against the ice and snow, helping victims of the natural disasters, in the spirit of Pope’s Message for Lent 2008. Included amo ...
• 8 February 2008
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Pontifical Missionary Societies in Zambia hold a meeting for studying the PMS Statutes Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Missionary Societies of Zambia held their National Meeting in Lusaka February 5-6, for a study of the PMS Statutes, according to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by Fr. Bernard Ma ...