News
20 July 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Hostage Italian missionary released: news welcomed in the Philippines and all over the world
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Joy and relief: with these sentiments Catholics in the Philippines welcomed the new of the release on 19 July of the Italian PIME missionary Fr Giancarlo Bossi after 39 days of captivity. The mis ...
20 July 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic schools and professional training centres receive government acknowledgement
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Throughout India it is widely acknowledged that Catholic schools offer a qualified service highly appreciated by politicians, intellectuals, academics and families of many different religious ...
20 July 2007
AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - Pastoral Fund of Solidarity for the Church in Africa: US Catholics support 51 programmes in Africa
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Through its Pastoral Fund of Solidarity for the Church in Africa, in this month of July 2007 the Catholic Church in America will donate $ 628,000 to support 51 programmes on that continent. T ...
20 July 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops say Constitution must respect universal rights, values and principles shared by most Bolivians and recall National Day of Prayer for Peace 27 July
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "We Live in Hope" is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Bolivia in which they appeal to all Catholics to be the " the light of the world " at this time when the "state and s ...
20 July 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Individual registration for World Youth Day 2008 starts today 20 July
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - From today 20 July individual young people may register to take part in World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney.
Individual registration starts a year to the day when Pope Benedict XVI will preside the ...
20 July 2007
AFRICA/SOMALIA - UN World Food Programme says more food is needed in Somalia
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations World Food programme says it has urgent need of donations to avoid interruption of food programmes in Somalia, in view of expected poor harvests.
The growing need for food ...
19 July 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's telegramme of condolence following death of 200 people in air accident in Brazil
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a telegramme sent on his behalf by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI expressed condolences to Archbishop Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Pa ...
19 July 2007
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Many initiatives to prepare for Pope Benedict XVI visit in September: novenas of prayer, special Letter from the Bishops, youth pilgrimage, Pontifical Mission Societies prayer initiative: 4 September Fides Dossier on the Shrine of Mariazell
Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - To mark the 850th anniversary of the Austrian Marian Shrine of Mariazell, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to the country 7 to 9 September. “Contemplating Christ” is the motto cho ...
19 July 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Hungarian (3)
The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Hungary, a deeply Christian nation, was historically known as Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae "Kingdom of Mary the Patroness of Hungary". Its national anthem is "Isten, áldd meg a magyart" ...
19 July 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spain helps considerably to promote development in Africa: 2,300 missionaries in Africa, support for 460 projects
Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - Conscious of its missionary responsibility, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Spain never ceases to call attention to mission needs in Asia and in Africa, both in its Action Plan and through it ...
19 July 2007
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Cardinal Dias opens tomorrow assembly of Inter-Regional Association of Bishops of Southern Africa
Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Dias, will open tomorrow 20 July in Luanda, an assembly of the Inter-Regional Association of Catholic Bishops of So ...
19 July 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - No more permits for uranium mining in Uganda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Uranium mining in Uganda has been stopped. President Yoweri Museveni told the minister of energy not to stipulate any more agreements for the extraction of uranium and to open an agency for nucl ...
19 July 2007
ASIA/VIETNAM - 50 deacons ordained priests in northern Vietnam diocese of Bui Chu
Bui Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Good news continues to arrive from the Catholic Church in Vietnam. Recently 50 deacons were ordained priests in the diocese of Bui Chu (suffragan of the archdiocese of Hanoi), in Nam Dinh Provin ...
19 July 2007
ASIA/CHINA - “The Pope's Letter is a call to unity based on truth and charity. It is a source of light and strength” say Chinese priests
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “The Pope's Letter is a call to unity based on truth and charity. It is a source of light and strength” say Catholic priests in China referring to Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the bishops, ...
19 July 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Saint Filippo Smaldone Youth Centre in Anapolis: point of reference for formation, guidance and support for young people and pastoral care for deaf persons
Anàpolis (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 July in Anàpolis, in the Brazilian state of Goias, the Archbishop of di Lecce, Italy. Archbishop Cosmo Francesco Ruppi and Sr Maria Longo the Mother General of the Salesian Sisters of ...
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