News
28 October 2009
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Corruption and politics behind the kidnapping business”: Interview with Fr. Eliseo Mercado, OMI Missionary in Mindanao
Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - “Kidnapping is a despicable crime against humanity. But in the South Philippines, it continues to take place without the government being able to stop it. It is estimated that since 1996, ove ...
28 October 2009
OCEANIA/TAHITI - Year for Priests, occasion to rediscover the missionaries who have spread the Gospel: the founding fathers of the mission in Tahiti, Fr. Honore Laval and Fr. Francois d’Assise Caret
Papeete (Agenzia Fides) – Every month during the Year for Priests, Papeete's diocesan newspaper “Le Semeur Tahitien” asks the faithful to rediscover the figure of a priest or a Bishop who has marked the history of ...
28 October 2009
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A Brief Overview of the Country
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – Mozambique, a country located in southern Africa, has a surface area of 799,380 km2 and a population of 20.5 million inhabitants. The country has a coastline on the Indian Ocean reaching 2, 470 ...
28 October 2009
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Polls open in Mozambique: situation is calm, incumbent President and party declare victory, uncertainty as to voting participation
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - “The Mozambicans are coming to the polls calmly. The electoral campaign has been fairly tranquil, although there have been a few low-key incidents,” Agenzia Fides has been told by local Churc ...
27 October 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on July 30, 2009, confirmed the appointment of Fr. Eugenio Scarpellini as National Director of the Pontifi ...
27 October 2009
AMERICA/CHILE - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on July 30, 2009, confirmed the appointment of Fr. Jorge Vega Velasco, SVD, as National Director of the Po ...
27 October 2009
EUROPE/SPAIN - Basque dioceses celebrate 50 years on the missions in Africa
Vitoria (Agenzia Fides) – On October 31, in the Diocesan Seminary of Vitoria, there will be a gathering to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Basque dioceses' work on the missions in Africa. The festivities will beg ...
27 October 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 16th Encounter for National Youth Ministry Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean, to become “disciples and missionaries, evangelizers of the youth”
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - “Walking with Jesus, accompanying our people” is the theme of the 16th Encounter for National Youth Ministry Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean, taking place October 25-30 in Vi ...
27 October 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Missionary Disciples, here and beyond our borders”: preparation for the III National Encounter of Missionary Groups 2010
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Sergio Fenoy of San Miguel, in a message sent to priests, community superiors of consecrated life, directors of educational institutions, and members of Church movements and associ ...
27 October 2009
ASIA/HONG KONG - Salesian Sister Monica Liu is new President of the Association of Major Women Superiors in Hong Kong; Bishop John Tong invites religious to participate in Year for Priestly Vocations
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Sr. Monica Liu, of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians, Provincial Superior of the Salesian Sisters, has been elected the new President of the Association of Major Women Superiors in H ...
27 October 2009
ASIA/VIETNAM - “Great Assembly of the People of God in the Holy Year 2010”: Bishops' announcement for the Jubilee Year for the Church in Vietnam
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – A “great assembly of the people of God,” organized “according to the model of the Synod of Bishops” will be a central event of the Holy Year 2010, in which the Church in Vietnam, as the ...
27 October 2009
AFRICA - Arms Trade Treaty talks to resume in early November, mentioned in Propositions of Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In early November, the United Nations Disarmament Commission will examine the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The Treaty was also mentioned in the Final List of Propositions of the Special Assembly for ...
27 October 2009
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Mozambique to vote tomorrow: incumbent President is the favorite
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – Over 10 million Mozambican voters (of a population of a little over 22 million) will hit the polls tomorrow, October 28, for presidential elections, nationals and provincials.
It is the fourt ...
27 October 2009
ASIA/PAKISTAN - For the first time, refugee children vaccinated against measles in Waziristan zone
Dera Ismail Khan (Agenzia Fides) – Thousands of refugee children in southern Waziristan have been vaccinated for the first time against measles. There are nearly 180,000 children among the IDP (internally displaced peo ...
26 October 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI concludes Synod for Africa: “Courage! Get on your feet, continent of Africa...As she offers the bread of the Word and the Eucharist, the Church dedicates herself also to work, with every means available, so that no African will be without daily bread”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Get up, Church in Africa, family of God...Take the journey of a new evangelization with the courage that comes from the Holy Spirit...Courage! Get on your feet, continent of Africa. Welc ...
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