News

• 28 June 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “A strategy for promoting media for indigenous peoples” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Third National Congress of Indigenous Communication, which seeks to structure a bill to recognize the right to information and communication of indigenous peoples, will be held June 29 ...
• 28 June 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Making room for dialogue means increasing options for the poor,” Final Declaration from Social Week in Mar del Plata Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) – "For us, as disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ, the great cause of social justice and social inclusion is fundamental mission, the central axis of the Pastoral Ministry." These w ...
• 28 June 2010
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A step forward in relations with Holy See: the fruit of 20 years' labor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The significant breakthrough in relations between the Holy See and Vietnam is "the fruit of twenty years of work, begun in 1990 by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray," says a source of Fides, comm ...
• 26 June 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI desires “for the Holy Land, Iraq and the Middle East the gift of a stable peace and solid coexistence” born from respect for rights and overcoming discrimination Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We all desire for the Holy Land, Iraq and the Middle East the gift of a stable peace and solid coexistence. These are born from respect of human rights, of families, communities and peop ...
• 25 June 2010
  ASIA/NEPAL - “Today in Nepal there is a Kyros for evangelisation”: a Maoist among the converts Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – “ For mission in Nepal the time is ripe. There is a real Kyros for evangelisation. We ask religious congregations all over the world to send missionaries to Nepal”, Fides was told by Fr. ...
• 25 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - In August, 8th National Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality Rome (Agenzia Fides) – 30 June is the closing date for registration to take part in Italy's 8th National Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality in Assisi, 26 - 31August. In a letter of invitation, Rev Gianni C ...
• 25 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young people “missionaries” to young people: 4th National Eucharistic Meeting Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Mission by young people for young people” centred around all night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: this 4th National Eucharistic Meeting will take place in Rome at the Circus Maximus durin ...
• 25 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Ordination or priests and deacons, from mission for mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Three priests and two deacons of the Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo will be ordained on Saturday 26 June in Rome at the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major. The ordination wil ...
• 25 June 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Serious outbreak of cholera in various parts of the country Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Kenyan Ministry of Health has announced that a serious outbreak of cholera in areas of Nairobi, the Rift Valley and the coastal is propagated by a scarcity of hygiene and sanitation and th ...
• 25 June 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux in South Africa: 10 July evening prayer vigil on the eve of the World Cup Final Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux arrive today 25 June, at the Carmelite Convent in Benoni, Johannesburg, where they will be welcomed by the clergy of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg, ...
• 25 June 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National meeting of vocation animators for religious life Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From 28 June to 3 July, in Cochabamba (Bolivia), consecrated persons, men and women religious, temporary and perpetual vows, novices, chaplains, spiritual directors, active in vocation disc ...
• 25 June 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appeal to new government: illegal immigrants must not be demonised or used as “ political capital” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In Australia on the occasion of the closing of a National Week for Refugees, Catholic realities, human rights activists and organisation and agencies for refugees appealed to the new prime minist ...
• 24 June 2010
  AFRICA - Disjointed economic growth benefits only a small minority Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “It is unquestionably true that Africa is growing, but also that it lacks the policies to turn this growth into financial policies which will promote the prosperity of the people ” Fides learne ...
• 24 June 2010
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Caritas Goma runs programmes for victims of a “forgotten war” in eastern Congo Goma (Agenzia Fides)- The silent victims of “forgotten wars” are mainly women and children. This is the case of women in north Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where bands of armed men, local an ...
• 24 June 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Churches, convents and homes under water but the faithful remain strong in faith and hope: 27 June Day of Prayer Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Due to burst dams in southern China because of torrential rains on 13 June in 10 provinces of China, churches, chapels, mission stations and other places of worship as well as homes, ar ...