News

• 5 June 2010
  OCEANIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 27 November 2009 appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in the Pacific Island ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Over 3,000 children attend National HCA Meeting despite rain San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, May 29, at the auditorium of the Don Bosco Citadel in Soyapango, San Salvador hosted the IX National Meeting of the Pontifical Missionary Society of the Holy Childhood Associati ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Lay missionary in prison ministry dies in the waters of Rio Negro Rio Negro (Agenzia Fides) – A prison ministry worker and lay missionary, Pedro Fukuyei Yamaguchi Ferreira of the Diocese of San Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the Amazon (Brazil), was found dead after he was reported missing ...
• 5 June 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The mission starts with the youth Goroka (Agenzia Fides) – "Papua New Guinea is a country with great variety: over 6 million people, 800 languages, dialects, cultures, and ethnicities. The mission takes into account this diversity, recognizing that the ...
• 5 June 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thousands of women trafficked, deprived of dignity and rights Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Each year, thousands of women from countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America are trafficked to Australia. For the privilege of migrating here, living in this country 'servicing' 6 or ...
• 5 June 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - In eastern Congo, gold likely to be a curse for local population says exclusive report sent to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The recent news that in Nigeria some 200 people have died in recent months due to mining a gold mine, is in addition to a series of complaints about environmental damage and human costs cause ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meetings with indigenous communities, to avoid repeating Bagua clashes Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos of Trujillo, has welcomed the attempt proposed by the Peruvian government to resolve the problems that exist in the A ...
• 4 June 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A “year of plenty” for priestly vocations Bafata (Agenzia Fides) – Deacons Admir Cristiano Barreiro, age 29, Francisco Fernandes, age 28, and Avito José Fernandes de Araújo, age 30, on Saturday, June 5 will be ordained priests in the Diocese of Bafata, Guine ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop of Hong Kong meets with Indonesian immigrants: pastoral care and solidarity of local Church Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Living far from home in itself is a challenge. We hope you find the peace given by Christ under the guidance of the Holy Spirit." With these words, Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, encouraged I ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "We should be the ones to offer that little or a lot we have to those who have lost everything": casualties mount from storm in Central America, Holy Father's appeal Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Dead, injured, and many left homeless, destroyed homes, roads covered with mud, isolated communities: there is still not yet an exact account of the damage left from Tropical Storm Agatha ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing the joy of being disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ”: Ad Gentes Course 2010 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Colombia, Fr. Mario Alvarez Gómez, has sent Fides a statement on the "Ad Gentes Course 2010," which began May 31 and ends June 25 ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/KOREA - Auxiliary Bishop of Pusan appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on June 4, 2010, appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Pusan (Korea), Fr. Joseph Son Sam-seok, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Major Seminary ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - New school hopes to promote education for local youth Metiyagane (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, June 5, is the day set for the opening of the Metiyagane “Don Bosco Residential Technical Center” (DBRTC), a new Salesian work in Sri Lanka. The event will also include the pl ...
• 4 June 2010
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Anti-drug operation between Liberia and USA leads to confiscation of 4 tons of cocaine; Liberian government says no to drugs Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) – A major drug operation conducted jointly by the United States and Liberian demonstrates, once again, how West Africa has become a strategic hub in the trafficking of South American cocaine to ...
• 4 June 2010
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Padovese, a great loss for the Church Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) – "The death of Bishop Luigi Padovese is a great loss for the Church in Turkey and for the Universal Church," Fides was told by Fr. Hanry Leylek OfmCap, a Turkish Capuchin friar based in Mers ...