News

• 11 November 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops' appeal for peace between Venezuela and Colombia Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Vice President of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Baltazar Porras of Merida, has launched an appeal for peace after the statements by the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, ...
• 11 November 2009
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Increasing outbreak of HIV, urgent need to focus on prevention Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - According to new estimates by the National AIDS Council in Zambia, there are about 82,700 persons tested HIV-positive in 2009, up compared with over 70,000 in 2007. The Zambia HIV Prevention Resp ...
• 11 November 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - New Dictionary of Pastoral Care for Health and Bioethics, first in Spanish Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – Pastoral Health of the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz (Bolivia) has recently published the first Dictionary for Health Pastoral Care and Bioethics in Spanish, with over 200 entries. The work has ...
• 11 November 2009
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Religious minorities under pressure and deprived of religious freedom,” Human Rights Watch reports Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - "We have documented many cases of intimidation and violence by security forces. Christian communities and other religious communities are in a state of obvious distress. This is why Human Rights W ...
• 10 November 2009
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida: national emergency, initial report from Caritas sent to Fides San Vicente (Agenzia Fides) – In the night between November 7-8, 2009 heavy rains fell on El Salvador, as a result of Hurricane Ida, and caused landslides from the volcano Chinchontepec and flooding of rivers in the mu ...
• 10 November 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Priest found dead in Brazil, the fourth in the last five months Maceio (Agenzia Fides) – Father Hidalberto Henrique Guimaraes, 48, is the fourth priest to be murdered in Brazil in less than five months. He was pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Grace in the town of Murici, on the ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - After the fall of the wall, with "Missio Pro Europe," the Pontifical Mission Societies of Austria continue building bridges between Western and Eastern Churches Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - To mark the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, "Missio Austria", Fr. Leo M. Maasburg, in a note sent to Fides, ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Vasai appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 10, 2009, appointed Fr. Felix Anthony Machado, until now Archbishop-Bishop of Nashik, as Bishop of Vasai (India). (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/11/2009) ...
• 10 November 2009
  VATICAN - VI World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees: "there can be no effective development if we do not encourage dialogue among peoples, dialogue among cultures, and respect for legitimate differences" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “While migration is as old as human history, it has never been so consistent and complex in its nature as it is today. It affects almost every country in the world and fits into the wid ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Bagnasco opens CEI General Assembly by recalling Synod for Africa, which saw the emittance of "strong words that may not have been heard so well" and "ad gentes dynamism" which “should mark all our pastoral work” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – Recalling the “shocking news” of the seven young Christians “horribly killed in southern Sudan in a grisly parody of crucifixion” and the recent Synod for Africa, which saw the emittanc ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandals break into Church of St. Anthony in Diocese of Bangalore; Archbishop Moras deplores "the apathy of government and police" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a very serious act that must be condemned without appeal” and that has led to confusion and bitterness in the local Church, Fides was told by the Church sources in Bangalore, where ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Catechists in Singapore at mass media school Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Use the mass media like TV, movies, music, and Internet in catechesis, to better adapt to the vocabulary of students: this is what catechists of the Archdiocese of Singapore are being called t ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparing for closing celebrations of 150th anniversary of evangelization in Taiwan: a series of initiatives at Sacred Heart Parish in Gu Ting Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – A seminar on the missionary vocation of the laity, catechism meetings on the origin of life, a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine, sharing the Word of God, prayer for the catechumens, getting to kn ...
• 10 November 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Preparations begin for Second National Family Pilgrimage Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for the Pastoral Care of the Family, in collaboration with the Committee in charge of Pastoral Region South-1 is starting the preparation of the Second National Family ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Revolutionizing volunteer training; inauguration of the 3rd cycle of the 4-year School of Italian NGO “Vosvim” for training agents of Life and Mission Development Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A completely new and revolutionary school for training is what is being offered by the Italian group “Associazione Italia Solidale” for training agents of Life and Mission Development. The goa ...