News

• 7 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Summer camps for children in Indian villages Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Despite progress in the last thirty years, in India more than two million children die each year from preventable infections. Moreover, as regards education, the number of children not at sc ...
• 6 July 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI's trip to United Kingdom for Beatification of Cardinal Newman announced Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has announced that His Holiness Benedict XVI will make an apostolic trip to the United Kingdom from 16 to 19 September, for the occasion of the Beatification of ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary institutes in Italy reaffirm: “the culture of respect, equality and promotion of diversity, able to see migrants as bearers of values and resources” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "In the phenomena of migration as well, we missionaries propose a vision full of faith and hope because, beyond the dramatic implications that accompany the stories of immigrants, their faces and ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Personal encounter with God is the source of every vocation, especially the vocation to the priesthood Esztergom (Agenzia Fides) - “Come and See. The Priest: Witness and Servant of Vocations” was the theme for the annual meeting of the EVS (European Vocations Service), which was held in Esztergom, Hungary, July 1-4. I ...
• 6 July 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist reflect on the mission of the laity Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – In preparation for the Year of the Laity, the Diocese of Hong Kong opened in 2001, the Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist Group, which belongs to the Diocesan Liturgy Commission, organ ...
• 6 July 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 2.7 million children aged 6-14 working Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Ahmed Ramadan, aged 13, works 11 hours a day in a bakery in Cairo’s Kherbet Kheirala slum, where he says he works with hazardous machinery in unpleasantly hot surroundings, and is ill-treated ...
• 6 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Muhammadiyah hold congress, amidst politics and religion Yogyacarta (Agenzia Fides) – Over 2,000 executives of “Muhammadiyah,” the second Muslim organization in Indonesia, with about 40 million members, are meeting these days in Yogyacarta for the 46th Congress celebrat ...
• 6 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “We were politically persecuted in our homes,” say refugees from autonomous region of Somaliland in protesting Government declaration Hargesia (Agenzia Fides) - The announcement by the government of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland that there were no refugees in the region - only economic migrants from neighboring countries - has angered ...
• 6 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - PMS of Brazil launch missionary novena on DVD for October Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Each year, to animate the month of the missions, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) prepares various materials, like the missionary campaign, a printed version of the message of the Pope, ...
• 6 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Huancayo continues the Continental Mission, 100 “Missionary Disciples” in formation Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – On July 11, the Archdiocese of Huancayo will hold the Third Assembly of the "Missionary Disciples" of the Second Vicariate, to continue the Continental Mission in the parishes of the Mantaro ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The missionaries who work to bring together two great abandoned people: Jesus in the Tabernacle and man in the world" Malaga (Agenzia Fides) – The Eucharistic Missionaries are preparing to celebrate their 90th anniversary of foundation. Sister Antonia Moreno, Superior of the house in Marques Valdecañas in Spain, wrote to Fides, empha ...
• 6 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - No violence reported against Christians, “but the government should stop the Islamic extremists” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – "We have no news of imminent threats or violence against Christians. Bekasi Islamist groups have only launched a warning for now. Parliamentarians, civil society, and radical Muslim organizati ...
• 5 July 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Sulmona: “The characteristics of the brief and trying pontificate of Celestine V are also the characteristics of the missionary activity of the Church in every age.” Sulmona (Agenzia Fides) – St. Peter, although he lived as a hermit, was not “closed in on himself” but was filled with passion to bring the good news of the Gospel to his brothers. And the secret of his pastoral fr ...
• 5 July 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - 50th anniversary of “The Eucharistic Crusade” Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – Half a century ago, a priest from the Diocese of Shanghai launched the first "Eucharistic Camp" according to the style of Eucharistic Movement of Shanghai and obtained an immediate success. To ...
• 5 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Reawakening the missionary spirit: first Missionary Congress for seminarians in Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – With the Mass presided by the Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa, the first Missionary Conference for Seminarians began yesterday, July 4, i ...