News
10 July 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Preparing for CAM 3: 21 international groups, 23 Ecuadorian groups, and 40 press agencies to participate; celebration of an exposition of Catholic missionary publications
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Intense preparations continue as there is barely a month left before the kick off of the Third American Missionary Congress (CAM 3), which will be held in Quito (Ecuador) August 12-17. According t ...
10 July 2008
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - New law on religious freedom underway in the country: the Catholic Church asks that the fundamental rights of all believers be respected and guaranteed
Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The proposal for a new Religion law offers an opportunity for the government as well as for all believers. What is needed is that that the laws be inforced, with freedom of conscience and fundame ...
10 July 2008
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Final document from the AMECEA: “As Christians we are all called upon to announce the Good News of Christ and denounce injustice wherever we are.”
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - “You are the salt of the earth. you are the light of the world..” (Mt 5:13:14). This is the title of the final document that came out of the 16th Plenary Assembly of the AMECEA, an organizati ...
10 July 2008
ASIA/JAPAN - G8 Summit concludes with a promise to help Africa and a commitment to fight the serious pandemics
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Aid for Africa, funding for the struggle against pandemics such as AIDS, commitment to solving the world food crisis...these are some of the objectives of the Summit that was held by the United Sta ...
10 July 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “World Youth Day will be a great opportunity and a response to the youth’s interrogatives” - Interview with Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, as he prepares to welcome the world’s youth
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – “In my country, the Church is having to face different situations and issues,” said Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, the host city of World Youth Day 2008, in explaining the situ ...
9 July 2008
ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic community in Italy, young and small, increasingly active in pastoral ministry and organized in its composition
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Chinese Catholic community of the diaspora living in Italy is showing itself to be increasingly active in pastoral activities and evangelization; better organised in its composition, thanks to ...
9 July 2008
ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s WYD delegation receives missionary sending from Bishop Tong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “Receive the Holy Spirit as the guide of your soul, your interior teacher,” and “moved by the Holy Spirit, serve your neighbor, especially your peers, by bearing witness to your faith. ...
9 July 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Catholic Church is still the largest religious community in the country: WYD is a great evangelization opportunity
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - With 27.56% of the Australian population being Catholic, the Church is still the largest religious community in the country. This is what a statement sent from the Church in Australia to Agenzia ...
9 July 2008
AFRICA - Africa plans on creating a Common Agricultural Market by 2009 to overcome food crisis
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Despite its immense agricultural potential, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the only place in the world to import virtually all of its food. This is especially a problem in these trying times of famine ...
9 July 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The humble way
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “At that time Jesus exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. 26Yes, Fat ...
9 July 2008
AMERICA/HAITI - “We cannot sit back with our arms crossed.” Emergency Appeal from Caritas Haiti for support for 20,000 families in extreme poverty, victims of the food crisis
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – “In the face of this grave situation, we cannot sit back with our arms crossed.” This was the opening statement made in a solidarity campaign launched by Caritas Haiti, in order to ...
9 July 2008
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Priests concerned about the country’s situation make an appeal for reconciliation, unity, and peace
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - At the close of their 23rd Annual Assembly, the diocesan priests have sent a message to the faithful expressing their concern for the country’s situation, indicate their commitment to the p ...
9 July 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico joins the “World Assembly of Parliament Members and Governors for Life and the Family”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The initiative “Asamblea Mundial de Parlamentarios y Gobernantes por la Vida y la Familia” (“World Assembly of Parliament Members and Governors for Life and the Family”) has also r ...
9 July 2008
EUROPE/RUSSIA - “What the Catholic community in Russia needs most is to grow in its awareness of the gift of the faith and live it with a missionary spirit.” - Interview with Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God of Moscow
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Paolo Pezzi was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God of Moscow on September 21, 2007 and was conferred the pallium by the Holy Father on the Solemnity of ...
9 July 2008
ASIA/INDIA - More violence against Catholics in Orissa: church, orphanage, and Jesuit residence destroyed
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholics living in the Indian state of Orissa are once again object of attacks being carried out by Hindu extremist groups against the local Catholic community. The Indian Bishops’ ...
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