AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A “year of plenty” for priestly vocations
Bafata (Agenzia Fides) – Deacons Admir Cristiano Barreiro, age 29, Francisco Fernandes, age 28, and Avito José Fernandes de Araújo, age 30, on Saturday, June 5 will be ordained priests in the Diocese of Bafata, Guine ...
ASIA/KOREA - Auxiliary Bishop of Pusan appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on June 4, 2010, appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Pusan (Korea), Fr. Joseph Son Sam-seok, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Major Seminary ...
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ASIA/SRI LANKA - New school hopes to promote education for local youth
Metiyagane (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, June 5, is the day set for the opening of the Metiyagane “Don Bosco Residential Technical Center” (DBRTC), a new Salesian work in Sri Lanka. The event will also include the pl ...
ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Padovese, a great loss for the Church
Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) – "The death of Bishop Luigi Padovese is a great loss for the Church in Turkey and for the Universal Church," Fides was told by Fr. Hanry Leylek OfmCap, a Turkish Capuchin friar based in Mers ...
AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco prepares for HCA Missionary Congress on August 21
Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - "We missionary children sow hope for making a better place" is the theme of the Missionary Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (also known as “Missionary Childho ...