News

• 17 April 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Elections to take place for 30 days New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – India has now entered the voting booths: citizens of the largest democracy are now voting for 543 members of the 15th legislature of Lokh Saba, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. The ...
• 16 April 2009
  VATICAN - Happy Birthday, Holy Father! And here's to many more! Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, April 16, is the birthday of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, who was born in Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on April 16, 1927 (Holy Saturday) and was baptized the same da ...
• 16 April 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Christians are called to renounce the world, even within the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There is a “file rouge” which connects the Holy Father's homily during the Easter Vigil and the now famous meditations for the Way of the Cross 2005, to that of the 22 February 2006 on ...
• 16 April 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “Let us allow ourselves to be enlightened by the Risen Lord. Let us receive Him with faith and generously adhere our lives to His Gospel, as did the privileged witnesses of His Resurrection.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “This year, Easter once more resounds ever the same and ever new, in every corner of the world with this great news: Jesus who was crucified has risen and He lives in glory because he has ...
• 16 April 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Place the Eucharist at the center of your faith life” Archbishop of Johannesburg tells the faithful Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg, President of the SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference) made a powerful appeal calling for the Eucharist to be placed at the cente ...
• 16 April 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Inauguration of the first Catholic university in South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, April 15, St. Mary’s University, the first Catholic university in South Sudan was inaugurated in the capital city of Juba. The ceremony was attended by the Security and Religious Aff ...
• 16 April 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - III National Encounter for the Holy Childhood Association: “Missionaries Today and Tomorrow!” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On May 2-3, Madrid will host the III National Encounter for the children participating in the Holy Childhood Association in the “Casa de Campo,” with the theme “Missionaries Today and Tom ...
• 16 April 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Unanimous denouncing of the attack on the home of Cardinal Terrazas, which “reflects an attitude of intolerance and violence that goes against the principals of democratic coexistence” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “The Catholic Church will continue carrying out her work as evangelizer and prophet, rejecting all forms of violence and upholding human and Christian values and principles that strengthen a ...
• 16 April 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church renews its Consecration to the Holy Spirit on April 20, “at this crucial time we are living” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM) announced that this April 20, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, there will be a Mass with all the Bishops and the Apostolic Nuncio to renew ...
• 16 April 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Priests in Shanghai are ready to respond to the Pope’s appeal for the Year of the Priest, with their commitment to spiritual renewal Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) – “The community of priests of Shanghai is ready to respond to the Pope’s appeal for the Year of the Priest, with their commitment to spiritual renewal.” These were the words of Bishop Ig ...
• 16 April 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic law in the Swat Valley causing concern and suffering among Christians Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – A concession made to the fundamentalist Muslims: this is how the Christians of Pakistan have defined the introduction of the sharia in the Swat Valley, officially established with the signin ...
• 16 April 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - 800 years later, Saint Francis' spiritual children gather in Assisi: over 2,000 Franciscans from 65 countries discuss faith, morals, peace, ecology, and fraternity Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – The “International Chapter of Mats” of the Franciscan Friars from all over the world opened on April 15 in Assisi (see Fides 8/4/2009). Representatives from the male branches of the four Fr ...
• 16 April 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Millennium News”: young journalists unveil the reality of poverty in Nairobi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “News for young people, written by young people; a direct voice from Africa giving an account of the poverty in Nairobi.” This could be the synthesis of the project “Millennium News, giving a ...
• 16 April 2009
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Easter, a time for prayer and celebration for the youth, in the spirit of WYD Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – The celebration of the Easter Triduum 2009 has been for the youth of the Solomon Islands, an opportunity to relive the spirit of intense prayer and joy that they lived in the recent World Yout ...
• 15 April 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop of Hong Kong resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 15 April 2008, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Hong Kong (China) presented by Cardinal Joseph Zen-Ze-kiun, SDB, i ...