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 ...
ASIA/INDIA - Asia on a mission in Europe, for a rebirth of the faith
Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - A Indian face and heart walk through the streets of Budapest. Tireless hands, eyes that scatter joy, lips ready to speak - at any time - of the name of Jesus: this is Fr. Benvin Sebastian Madas ...
2 June 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Encounter for vocations ministry in Oceania
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Identify and adopt new ways and means to promote vocations in Oceania is the objective of the meeting to be held next week in Sydney with over 40 experts and Vocations Directors from Australia, ...
1 June 2010
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Courts decide embryos “are not human”; Church protests
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - There is sadness and outrage in the Korean Church after a court in Seoul ruled that frozen human embryos are "not human," thus endorsing such practices as experimentation and destruction of embryo ...