News

• 30 October 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Apostolic Vicar of San Miguel de Sucumbios resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI, on October 30, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Miguel de Sucumbios (Ecuador), presented by Bishop Gonzalo L� ...
• 30 October 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Catechetical radio program marks 500th episode on World Mission Sunday Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – It is considered the symbol of evangelization through mass media in Taiwan: Catholic catechetical radio program titled "Life is Beautiful," which celebrated its 500th episode on World Mission ...
• 30 October 2010
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - 3,000 youth preaching the Gospel door-to-door for close of Month of the Missions Granada (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of Granada, Bishop Jorge Solórzano, Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Henryk Józef Nowacki, and the clergy of Granada, Rivas, and Boaco, will all be meeting today, October 30, along wit ...
• 29 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Funds dried up, refugees at risk say Oxfam and “Justice and Peace” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The funds are about to end and assistance to refugees is at stake: this is the alarm raised by Oxfam in Pakistan, which recalled how, three months after the floods, only 35% of the 2 billio ...
• 29 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 3,000 dengue cases, 29 resulting in death: testimony of a Camillian working on site Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – More than cholera (99 cases detected) it's the dengue fever that is worrying health professionals engaged in Pakistan among the displaced: "There are more than 3,000 reported cases with 29 d ...
• 29 October 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Mission Congress 2010 kicks off: “entrusted with a mission to bring all into the household of God” Albuquerque (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, October 28, marked the opening day for the US Mission Congress 2010 taking place in Albuquerque (New Mexico), October 28-31. A note sent to Fides by the United States Catholic M ...
• 29 October 2010
  VATICAN - “You must contribute to the purification of reason, and to the moral awakening of the forces necessary to build a just and fraternal society,” Benedict XVI tells Brazilian Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I wish to speak to you today about how the Church's mission to serve as the leavening of human society through the Gospel teaches human beings their dignity as children of God, and their ...
• 29 October 2010
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Presidential elections: “no to violence, not to systematic lying,” says Archibishop of Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Ivory Coast is preparing to vote, after several postponements, for the new head of state. The presidential elections, which were supposed to have taken place in 2005, will be held Sunday, Octo ...
• 29 October 2010
  MISSIONARY INTENTION - Pope's Intention for November 2010: “That the Churches of Latin America may move ahead with the continent-wide mission proposed by their bishops, making it part of the universal missionary task of the People of God.” Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From May 13-31, 2007, Aparecida (Brazil) hosted the Fifth General Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean, which was inaugurated by the presence and words of Pope Benedict XVI. Its th ...
• 29 October 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Christians invite everyone to live All Hallows' Eve in faith, thanksgiving, and holiness Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in Hong Kong invite everyone, especially young people, to live an experience of faith, a sense of thanksgiving, and of striving for holiness of life in the night preceding the fea ...
• 29 October 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Ethnic tensions heighten with vote only two weeks away Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – The situation is tense in the Republic of Guinea, where it was finally decided that November 7th would be Election Day after repeated delays in the presidential election run-off (see Fides 23/ ...
• 29 October 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops' Assembly: “An authentic humanism should exalt freedom and responsibility” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Venezuelan bishops, in their extraordinary Plenary Assembly, released a statement on the Catholic community to prepare for Advent and Christmas. It expressed the concern of the Church past ...
• 29 October 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Seeking an economic model oriented towards solidarity and generosity Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The eleventh edition of the National Social Week, sponsored by the Catholic Church, has managed to attract the attention of many specialists in the field of economics and politics, not only in Pe ...
• 29 October 2010
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic women across the world meet for 100th anniversary of the World Union of Organizations of Catholic Women Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic women from all over the world gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the World Union of Organizations of Catholic Women (WUCWO), founded in 1910 to coordinate " ...
• 28 October 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Tsunami in Sumatra, Bishop says “Catholic villages are the hardest hit” Padang (Agenzia Fides) – The most seriously affected population in the tsunami that hit the islands of Metawai (opposite the island of Sumatra) are the Catholic towns, Fides learns from Bishop Martinus Situmorang, Bish ...