News
4 July 2008
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The President of Nigeria proposes that a Summit Meeting be held regarding the Niger Delta, site of the country’s oil reserves
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – A heated debate has begun in Nigeria over the proposal made by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, for a Summit on the Niger Delta region, with the participation of all those implied in the crisis ...
4 July 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Diplomacy on the move for Zimbabwe: the United States prepares a UN resolution and fixes its gaze on Mugabe and 11 of his closest collaborators
Harare (Agenzia Fides) – The pressures are intensifying from other Western nations regarding the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. The United States has presented a resolution proposal from the United Nations Secur ...
3 July 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict starts new cycle of catechesis at the beginning of the Year of St Paul: “Paul the Apostle, a noble and practically inimitable figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to Lord's Church”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “ Paul the Apostle, a noble and practically inimitable figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to Lord's Church, as well as broad openness to humanity ...
3 July 2008
VATICAN - Today in St Peter's Basilica Ordination of Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, newly appointed Secretary adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today 3 July at 5pm in St Peter's Basilica, His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of His Holiness, will ordain Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, recently appointed S ...
3 July 2008
VATICAN - The Pope appoints the Rector of the Pontifical Urban University, Mgr Ambrogio Spreafico, Coadjutor Bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Mgr Ambrogio Spreafico, until now rector of the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Coadjutor Bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino, grantin ...
3 July 2008
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Eucharist: the “heart” of the Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the last encyclical, almost a last will and testament, of the Holy Father John Paul II, of holy memory, entitled Ecclesia de Eucharistia we read at paragraph 11: “ The Church has recei ...
3 July 2008
ASIA/PAKISTAN - For the Year of St Paul: Mission Congress and a Formation Seminar on the Letters of St Paul
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – For the Year of Saint Paul the Catholic Church in Pakistan will focus on formation and on mission involving priests, religious and lay Catholics. A major initiative consists of two formation s ...
3 July 2008
ASIA/CHINA - American university students visit Home for the Elderly run by Catholics
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Fourteen students from St Paul' University in the United States who are working with Beijing University on a social experience programme, recently visited a Home for the Elderly run by ...
3 July 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Work begins in Sydney on another Neo Catechumen Way Redemptoris Mater Seminary
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 29 June Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, laid the foundation stone for another Redemptoris Mater Seminary which the Neo Catechumen Way are building on Chester Hill, in the ...
3 July 2008
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church rejoices upon the release of 15 people, including Ingrid Betancourt, calling for the release of remaining hostages
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian Bishops’ Conference, which is currently holding its Plenary Assembly in celebration of its Centennial Anniversary of foundation (see Fides 1/7/2008), received with great joy the ...
3 July 2008
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Bishops’ Conference hopes to strengthen the faith and Christian identity of the Colombian people, revealing the many positive aspects of evangelization and of the human advancements made over the last hundred years.”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – ““The celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Bishops’ Conference hopes to strengthen the faith and Christian identity of the Colombian people, revealing the many positive aspect ...
3 July 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Inauguration of the Pauline Year has been lived in many Catholic communities as a strong call to evangelization
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – News continues to reach Agenzia Fides from the many Catholic communities in continental China upon the inauguration of the Pauline Year, which took place on June 28 and 29, in communion with t ...
3 July 2008
ASIA/NEPAL - “Following the murder of the Salesian missionary, the Church in Nepal is receiving support and solidarity”: the Apostolic Prefect of Nepal gives his testimony to Agenzia Fides
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – “Fr. Johnson was a Salesian in his early sixties, a very committed priest, an excellent religious, a person with great compassion for the poor and the marginalized. In the past, at the mis ...
3 July 2008
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angola prepares plan to increase oil production, while Nigeria faces guerrilla warfare in the Niger Delta
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – While the price of unrefined oil rising to over 145 dollars a barrel, Angola has announced a plan to increase its own oil production over the next 5 years. “We will invest 100 billion dollars ...
3 July 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Botswana prepares troops on the border with Zimbabwe
Harare (Agenzia Fides) – As the crisis in Zimbabwe becomes more complicated, its neighbor Botswana has decided to place troops on the border so as to face any military attack that could erupt due to political disorder ...
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