News
24 June 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Local authorities announce the reconstruction of the old church in Bai Lu, built by Foreign Missions Priests of Paris 100 years ago and later destroyed by the earthquake in 8-seconds’ time
Peng Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – According to the official government site of China, Xinhuanet, the Supervisory Department for Archeological Sites in Si Chuan has announced that it “will reconstruct (on the original site) ...
24 June 2008
OCEANIA/SAMOA ISLANDS - Samoan youth preparing for WYD in Sydney
Apia (Agenzia Fides) – The youth on the Samoan Islands are preparing with great enthusiasm to participate in World Youth Day 2008, supported and encouraged by the entire local Church. For many of them, this will be the ...
24 June 2008
ASIA/SRI LANKA - More fighting and victims in the North: the Church renews her appeal for an end to the violence
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – While the North of the country continues to face conflict and fighting, resulting in numerous victims, the Church in Sri Lanka is once again calling for an end to the hostility and for reconci ...
24 June 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - 26 - 30 June European Bishops' Conferences General Secretaries discuss religious situation on the continent
Oviedo (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of General Secretaries of the European Bishops' Conferences will be held this year in Covadonga, Oviedo, Spain, 26-30 June. General Secretaries of the following Bishops' Confer ...
24 June 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Opposition leader Tsvangirai takes refuge in the Dutch embassy: at stake the principle of elections in Africa
Harare (Agenzia Fides)- The Zimbabwean crisis heightens after Opposition leader Morgan took refuge at the Dutch Embassy in Harare on Sunday night 22 June to avoid being taken prisoner by the army. The leader of the Movem ...
24 June 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Guinea Equatorial comes to the aid of Mugabe
Harare (Agenzia Fides)- Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe are negotiating an oil agreement to help Zimbabwe face a serious fuel shortage.
Equatorial Guinea sources say the agreement is purely commercial, nothing to do wit ...
24 June 2008
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholic Bishops of the Brazil-Bolivia frontier region discuss drug trafficking, prison pastoral care, Great Continental Mission and the Amazon Region
Guajara Mirin (Agenzia Fides) –Catholic Bishops of Brazil and Bolivia met for the 10th Meeting of Bishops of the Brazil-Bolivia frontier region held in Guajara Mirin (Brazil), 17 al 19 June. Issues for discussion inclu ...
24 June 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - 1st Meeting of Bishops of Mexico, United States and Central America on the issue of illegal immigration and respect for the human rights of immigrants
Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) – Twenty Catholic Bishops from Mexico, United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Cuba, Guatemala and Honduras, reflected with lay people and experts in the field, on the need to work toget ...
23 June 2008
VATICAN - “Evil and the irrational do not have the last word, and Christ alone is the Lord of the world and life, the Incarnate Word of God,” the Pope said at the Angelus, encouraging all faithful “to celebrate with faith this Pauline Year”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The difference “between human fears and the fear of God” was the focus of reflection for the Holy Father Benedict XVI prior to the recitation of the Angelus with the faithful gathered ...
23 June 2008
VATICAN - The Pope tells directors of Catholic radio stations: “The radio participates in the mission and visibility of the Church, but it also creates a new way of living, of being and of making the Church.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Dear friends, as you work in Catholic radio stations you are at the service of the Word. The words that you broadcast each day are an echo of that Eternal Word which became flesh. Your ...
23 June 2008
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines; the Church’s aid efforts
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The victims’ toll for Typhoon Fengshen, that recently hit the western coast of the Philippines, continues to rise. There are over 1,000 dead, over 500 missing, and 65,000 have fled their home ...
23 June 2008
ASIA - Corruption is the continent’s “worst evil”: a Report from the United Nations Human Development Program
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Corruption, on all levels of society, is an extremely wide-spread evil on the Asian continent and forms the root and primary cause of the poverty in which millions of people live. Effectively ...
23 June 2008
VATICAN - Holy Father’s Letter to Cardinal Camillo Ruini, on his 25th anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father wrote a Letter to Cardinal Camillo Ruini, his Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, which was read during the Mass presided by Cardinal Ruini on the evening of Saturday, ...
23 June 2008
VATICAN - “Do not be afraid to preach Christ among your peers”: exhortation of the Holy Father in his video-message to the youth gathered at the International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I encourage you to continually meditate on this ‘great mystery of faith,’ as we proclaim it in every Mass, following the consecration.” This was the invitation of the Holy Father ...
23 June 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - March for Life: “True laicism is that which listens to reason, not one that is dominated by irrational imposition of a political nature.”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – “We place ourselves at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe to thank her for the gift of life and reaffirm the truth of human life, in a world that ignores what science has proven: that the ...
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