News

• 17 July 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - National Regeneration Movement promotes dialogue to counter religious extremism Jammu (Agenzia Fides) - To counter religious extremism, ethnic discrimination and corruption in Indian society religious leaders led by the Catholic Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar, Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery, have form ...
• 17 July 2007
  AMERICA/CUBA - 3rd National Holy Childhood Meeting thanks God for 15 years of activity since re-birth and reflects on new mission projects Camaguey (Agenzia Fides) - Some 396 Holy Childhood children and 72 leaders representing all eleven dioceses in Cuba took part in the 3rd National Holy Childhood Meeting in Camaguey, Cuba, 13 - 15 Fr. Raúl Rodríguez Dag ...
• 17 July 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Young people disciples and missionary of Jesus Christ": some 12,000 expected to take part in 9th national Youth Mission Congress to carry "Christ to the ends of the earth" Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people disciples and missionary of Jesus Christ" is the theme of Mexico's 9th national Youth Mission Congress 26 to 29 July in Guadalajara, organised jointly by the national Pontific ...
• 17 July 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Pope appoints auxiliary of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 16 July 2007 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Yangon (Myanmar) Rev. Justin Saw Min Thide, until now bursar of the archdiocese of Yangon ...
• 17 July 2007
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Pope creates diocese of Sandakan and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 16 July 2007 created the diocese of Sandakan (Malaysia), with territory taken from the diocese of Kota Kinabalu, making it suffragan of the metropolita ...
• 16 July 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI leads recitation of the Angelus prayer from his holiday home in the mountains: “ Every good Christian knows that holidays are an opportunity to rest the body and nourish the spirit with more time for prayer and meditation ” - and he invites young people to take part in World Youth Day in Sydney 2008 Lorenzago di Cadore (Agenzia Fides) - “I thank the Lord for making it possible for me to spend once again this year a few days of rest in the mountains, and I am grateful for the welcomed given to me here in Lorenzago, ...
• 16 July 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Entrust yourselves to the working of the Holy Spirit" Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples addresses missionaries and seminarians in Angola Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his Pastoral Visit to Angola (see Fides 9 July 2007) the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Ivan Dias, after meeting on 13 July seminarians and miss ...
• 16 July 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - UNHCR starts transfer of 500 Ethiopian refugees to Somalia Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR has begun operations to transfer a group of 500 refugees who fled conflict central in southern Somalia, according to a UNHCR report sent to Fi ...
• 16 July 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day pilgrim Cross and Icon revives faith in Australia, especially among young people Sydney (Agenzia Fides) -Australian Catholics need to deepen and strengthen their faith, they need new motivation and opportunities to rediscover and intensify their sense of belonging to the universal. One such opportuni ...
• 16 July 2007
  AMERICA/CUBA - “The Church has the compelling duty to continue to awaken the conscience of the men and women of today and to proclaim God's primacy” says Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino at conclusion of CELAM Assembly L'Avana (Agenzia Fides) - In Havana the 31st ordinary assembly of the Council of Latin American Bishops's Conferences CELAM closed with Mass in the cathedral presided by the Archbishop of Havana in Cardinal Jaime Ortega ...
• 16 July 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - She Shan Marian Shrine in a Shanghai welcomes Catholics from many different regions: “May Our Lady Help of Christians protect mission in China, the path to unity" Chinese Catholics rally to Holy Father's call Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - She Shan Marian Shrine in a Shanghai, “ dedicated to the liturgical memorial of Our Lady, Help of Christians, who is venerated with great devotion at the Marian Shrine of Sheshan in Shanghai.� ...
• 16 July 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Hopes and prayers in Mindanao for release of Italian PIME missionary Fr p. Giancarlo Bossi - search continues on the island of Basilan Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the Philippines prayer and searching continues for Fr. Giancarlo Bossi, PIME abducted in Zamboanga on 10 June by unidentified kidnappers. The local police and the army continue the search in t ...
• 13 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World - Indonesia (4) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelisation and Catholic Church - Presence of a Nestorian diocese in the 7th century at Barus (west cost of the North Sumatra province). Christianity arrived with Europeans in 16th and 1 ...
• 13 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Youth Mission has been a return to the essential, to the newness of the Faith, the newness of God. Our intention was not so much to do new things, but to make new the things that we do and live”: report on Youth Mission in the archdiocese of Madrid, and dioceses of Getafe and Alcalá de Henares Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Youth Mission organised by the archdiocese of Madrid together with its two suffragan dioceses Getafe and Alcalá de Henares, is nearing its conclusion. The Mission will have its culminating m ...
• 13 July 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Central Bank Chief criticizes government for enforcing 50% cuts on prices of prime necessities Harare (Agenzia Fides)- The economic and institutional crisis heightens in Zimbabwe where the governor of the Central Bank, Gideon Gono, has harshly criticized the government for refusing to follow his advice on how to a ...