News

• 12 March 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Jesuits working in favor of the marginalized; Catholic “Manifesto” regarding general elections New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – In light of the upcoming general elections to take place between April 16 and May 13, 2009, in the various states of India, the Jesuits of India have issued a “manifesto” in defense of t ...
• 11 March 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Gospel and culture for a new Humanism”: St. Paul’s Jubilee of University Students Rome (Agenzia Fides) – March 12-15, Rome will host the St. Paul’s Jubilee of University Students, promoted and organized by the Vicarage of Rome – Office for University Pastoral Care, Congregation for Catholic Educ ...
• 11 March 2009
  VATICANO - AVE MARIA: Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - “ It is possible to speak to Providence ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - When we read the Gospel as believers, and faith tells us, we enter living history, the history of Salvation which is taking place epoch after epoch, from one person to the next, when with a ...
• 11 March 2009
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Solidarity Campaign for Lent 2009 Papeete (Agenzia Fides) – The small Catholic community of Tahiti is working on a solidarity campaign this Lent. “Let's offer a home to those in need,” says the slogan of the campaign that has been launched by Archb ...
• 11 March 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Army Chief of Staff who had launched 72-hour ultimatum to end political crisis, has been replaced Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - “The army seems to be divided amongst its petty officers, who are a majority and who have direct contact with troops, and a portion of higher-ranking officials, who supported the army's C ...
• 11 March 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Kukiele” radio and television stations, to “reawaken” Catholics and non-Catholics in the Diocese of Matadi Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “Our radio station hopes to reawaken the people of God, beginning with the Diocese of Matadi, and reaching out to the entire population,” said Fr. Philibert Mayengele, Director of the dioce ...
• 11 March 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Missionary Training School inaugurated as a fruit of CAM 3 Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Missionary Training School of the Archdiocese of Quito was inaugurated on March 7, a visible fruit of all the Archdiocese lived in preparing and celebrating the Third Missionary Congress (CA ...
• 11 March 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - “Young people: I tell you...the mission is now!” is the theme of the Missionary Youth Easter Campaign, in union with the Continental Mission Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Firm in their commitment to awaken the missionary youth spirit, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru (PMS of Peru), in their youth section (“Jovenes Sin Fronteras”), are organizing the 28 ...
• 11 March 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bethlehem Foreign Missions Society celebrates over 50 years in Taiwan Tai Dong (Agenzia Fides) – In 1953, upon the invitation of Bishop André-Jean Vérineux, MEP (1897-1983) of Hwalien, Fr. Giger Alfred (1919-1970), the first missionary of the Bethlehem Foreign Missions Society (SMB) fr ...
• 11 March 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Urgent need for political reform to protect religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Protection and respect for the rights of religious minorities in Pakistan is still one of the aspects of social and political life that shows signs of needing legislative reform. This is what a ...
• 10 March 2009
  Dossier - BENEDICT XVI - 11th international apostolic pilgrimage 2009 CONTENTS • THE PILGRIMAGE IS ANNOUNCED. Main events on the programme. - The Second African Synod. - Meeting with Bishops of I.M.B.I.S.A. • Africa after Vatican II from Paul VI to Benedict XVI. - The Catholi ...
• 10 March 2009
  AFRICA - Three Catholic priests murdered in one week: two in South Africa and one in Burundi Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Fr Lionel Sham, Parish Priest of Mohlakeng (Johannesburg Archdiocese) was killed on Saturday 7th March 2009, after being abducted from his home in Mohlakeng. This is what Agenzia Fides lea ...
• 10 March 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops denounce the use of tax dollars to destroy human lives in embryonic stem cell research Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has issued a statement calling President Obama's executive order on em ...
• 10 March 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Rome's Town Hall: “Rome must rediscover its most profound soul, its civil and Christian roots, if it wishes to promote a new humanism which focuses upon man, recognized in the fullness of his truth.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On the morning of Monday, March 9, the Holy Father Benedict XVI went to visit Rome's Town Hall. He was welcomed by the City's Mayor Gianni Alemanno and later entered the Mayor's Study where he we ...
• 10 March 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope's greeting to the people of Rome: “Rome is beautiful above all for the generosity and sanctity of so many of its sons and daughters, who have left eloquent signs of their passion for the beauty of God, the beauty of love that never fades or grows old.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, March 9, at the close of his visit to Rome's Town Hall, the Holy Father went out on the balcony of the Senate's Palace to greet the citizens who were gathered in the Plaza of the Town ...