News

• 6 September 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - East Congo: “A spark of hope for negotiations although fighting continues” Goma (Agenzia Fides)- "There is some hope for negotiations, according to local radio stations Nkunda has said he is ready to talk with the government" Fides was told by a missionary in North-Kivu, eastern Democratic Con ...
• 6 September 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The local Catholic Church in Cambodia strives to live and implement the spirit of Vatican II in order to contribute to the country's moral growth. Interview with Bishop Emile Destombes, Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh, Cambodia and president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Laos and Cambodia CELAC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In this ad limina visit we have celebrated Mass at the tomb of Saint Peter. We have experienced the close bond which exists with the Church of Rome and we have lived and shared fraternal ...
• 6 September 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The local Catholic Church issues a book on subject of defending human life Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A new handbook which illustrates and Catholic position with regard to defence of human life and issues of bio-ethics was recently presented by the local Church in Seoul, always attentive to this s ...
• 6 September 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - After caring for the sick for 35 years, a Camillian missionary leaves Ouagadougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - “At the end of this month of September I will leave the Camillian Mission in Burkina Faso”. These are the first words of a letter of good bye which Camillian Fr. Giovanni Grigoletto, ad ...
• 6 September 2007
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Miskita communities in Rio Coco region in conditions of hunger and total isolation Rio Coco (Agenzia Fides) - 12,000 Miskita families in the Río Coco region are completely abandoned, assaulted by armed bandits which steal and extort food from the subsistence farming communities. This was reported by ...
• 6 September 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Local Church concerned that Catholic schools and hospitals may face government take-over Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic aid association Aid to the Church in Need ACN recently denounced growing fear among priests and lay people in Venezuela that the government intends to take over the country's Catholic ...
• 6 September 2007
  AMERICA/URUGUAY National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 14 June 2007 confirmed Rev. Fr. José David Palumbo, OMI National Director of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 5 September 2007
  VATICAN - “Europe needs places of encounter and experience of unity in the faith guided by the Spirit … May the light of Christ illuminate the path of the continent of Europe!” - Pope Benedict XVI sends message to the Third European Ecumenical Assembly Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - “I view important encounter with the firm hope that it may foster progress in the ecumenical path towards full and visible unity of all Christians. This in fact is one of the pastoral ...
• 5 September 2007
  VATICAN - Message from Pope Benedict XVI: “With his eyes set on Christ… may every member of the Order of the Brothers of B. V. M. of Mount Carmel feel called to be a credible witness of the spiritual dimension proper to every human being ” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In this month of September the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Vurgin Mary of Mount Carmel celebrate its General Chapter on the 8th centenary of the consigning of the “Formula of ...
• 5 September 2007
  VATICAN - A message of hope for the maritime community “Hope is the sure and steadfast anchor of the soul. This hope, for us Christians, has a name: Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord. ” - Final statement of the 22nd International Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We pledge to remain in solidarity with the People of the Sea as witnesses of Hope, through Proclamation of the Word, Liturgy and Diakonia and to advocate a consequent maritime humanism. ...
• 5 September 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - In Mary's Nativity we are all born anew, Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The month of September is marked on the liturgical calendar by a special presence of the Blessed Virgin, beginning with the commemoration of her birth, on 8th September. It is a joy to thin ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Just one moment with Missio …look at Cristo, open your hearts and give love ”: Pontifical Mission Societies Austria ready to greet Pope Benedict XVI and take the opportunity of the Papal Visit to promote a programme to help former child soldiers in Uganda to return to a normal life Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - With a new web site (www.missio.at), a short video-clip to be broadcast on Friday 7 September in the frame of the Papal Visit, and a campaign with 400 posters put up all over the capital of Austr ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria, former confessor of Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaks of the holy woman in a series of daily radio programmes: “to everyone she met she gave the same attention, care, respect and love” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The September 5th 2007 is the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, only six years after her death. The only non member o ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Discovering the Face of Christ in every Prisoner”: 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral (ICCPPC) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 5 to 12 September the 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral is taking place in Rome at the Casa La Salle in via Aurelia Nuova 472-476) on th ...
• 5 September 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO “Who is funding for the new war in Congo?” a missionary asks in a dramatic report to Fides Goma (Agenzia Fides)- Fides received a dramatic report from a missionary in north Kivu, Democratic Congo, where fierce fighting between the regular army and the rebels led by Laurent Nkunda has continued for several days ...