News
12 March 2008
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Government assessment of late-February fighting: 40 dead, numerous injured
Yaoundé (Agencia Fides) - 40 people were killed in the fighting that broke out in late February, between demonstrators and government forces of Cameroon (see Fides 26/2/2008), according to a press statement from Marafa ...
11 March 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop of Eshowe appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 11, 2008, appointed Fr. Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo, bursar of the diocese of Bethlehem, South Africa, as bishop of Eshowe.
The bishop-elect was born Jul ...
11 March 2008
AMERICA/PERU - Celebration of Unborn Child Day: “the unalienable right to life of the human being is a natural law written deep in the heart of every man.”
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Episcopal Conference’s Commission for the Family and Defense of Life invites all to join in celebrating, on March 25, Unborn Child Day, especially in our time, when “life is threat ...
11 March 2008
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “The Church is trying to respond to the present needs, by supporting support of farmers, working in favor of women, and education”: Interview with the Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Peten
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Ottavio Sassu, OP, Pro-Vicar Apostolic for the Vicariate of Peten, which depends from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was in Rome for his recent “Ad Limina Apostolorum” ...
11 March 2008
VATICAN - Youth from the Diocese of Rome accompany the Pope towards 23rd World Youth Day
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Angelus on March 9, the Holy Father invited the youth of Rome to a liturgical Penance Service in preparation for World Youth Day, to be celebrated on a diocesan level on Palm Sunday. ...
11 March 2008
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The Community of Sant’Egidio serving to mediate in the dialogue between the government in Kinshasa and Rwandan hutu rebels in east Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the Community of Sant’Egidio to sponsor an encounter in Rome, between representatives of the Congolese government and the leaders ...
11 March 2008
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Franciscans strengthen their commitment to the evangelize central Asia
Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Central Asia is, for various reasons, a territory yet to be explored, where word of the Good News has not yet arrived. That is why the Franciscan Family is strengthening its commitment to evangel ...
11 March 2008
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Number of Korean Catholics of the diaspora increases, a true evangelizing force
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean Catholic community of the diaspora continues to grow in number, according to statistics from the Office for Pastoral Care for immigrants and sojourners, led by Bishop Vicent Ri Pyung-ho ...
11 March 2008
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Encounter of Bishops and leaders of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in Oceania
Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and leaders of the Eastern Rite Catholic communities in Australia recently met in order to establish stronger ties of communion and cooperation. The Church in Australia (with about 5.1 ...
11 March 2008
EUROPE/ITALY - Opus Dei: Study Day for the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Prelature
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The only existing Personal Prelature in the Catholic Church celebrates is 25th anniversary as a prelature. Opus Dei is currently present in 61 countries in the world, with over 85,000 members. It w ...
10 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Angelus: Christ “is the image, indeed, the incarnation of God who is love, mercy, and paternal and maternal tenderness, of the God who is Life”; additional appeal for the Holy Land and Iraq
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The resurrection of Lazarus, narrated in the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Liturgical Cycle A, says Benedict XVI, is “the last great sign worked by Jesus, after which the high prie ...
10 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells participants of the Course from the Apostolic Penitentiary: “The heart of the sacrament’s celebration is not in the sin, but in the mercy of God, that is infinitely greater than any of our sins.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own ‘I’ and their hearts harden in sin. On the other hand, those who recognize themselves as w ...
10 March 2008
VATICAN - The Holy Father offers condolences for the death of Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery, retired archbishop of Tamale, one of the first Catholics of the northwestern region of Ghana
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery, retired archbishop of Tamale (Ghana) died March 6, at 89 years of age. The Holy Father Benedict XVI expressed his condolences and prayers in a telegram, sent to ...
10 March 2008
VATICAN - The Pope calls for “an untiring and generous mission to face, in the area of dialogue and in the encounter with the various cultures, preaching the Gospel and testimony, the concerning threat from secularism”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Secularization, which often leads to secularism when it strays from the positive acceptance of the secular, is an arduous trial for faithful and pastors in living their Christian life, ...
10 March 2008
VATICAN - Meeting for the commission established by Pope Benedict XVI to study life of the Church in China
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office has released the following communique: “The commission established by Pope Benedict XVI to study the most important questions concerning the life of the Church i ...
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