News

• 24 July 2008
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New Rector of Holy Spirit Interdiocesan Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Port Moresby Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 18, 2008 appointed Fr. Peter Artiken, Rector of Holy Spirit Interdiocesan Major Seminary in the Ar ...
• 24 July 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Grave concern at the wave of violence and unrest in schools”: A Message from Kenya’s Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Kenya have expressed their “grave concern at the wave of violence and unrest in secondary schools” (see Fides 23/7/2008) in a Message signed by Bishop Maurice Anthony Crowle ...
• 24 July 2008
  AFRICA - Food emergency for 14.6 million people living in the Horn of Africa; 20 million people living in slums at the mercy of rising food prices Rome (Agenzia Fides) – 14.6 million people in the Horn of Africa now require humanitarian assistance due to poor rains, high food and fuel prices, conflict, and animal disease. The alarm has been launched by the World ...
• 24 July 2008
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A humble witness of Christian charity in the slums of Dacca Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – The people call them the “Blue Sisters” for their blue habit and they consider them their sisters and their friends, even if they are of a different religion. Impoverished families, unemploy ...
• 24 July 2008
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - “Let’s stop the violence and respect life” is the motto of the Church’s Campaign to stop violence in the country with the highest homicide rate in the world Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – There are many incidents of violence in Honduras that show a general lack of respect for life and human dignity. With that in mind, the Catholic Church in the country is working through th ...
• 24 July 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - First National Day for Health Pastoral Care for coordinating diocesan initiatives from the new 2008-2012 Pastoral Guidelines of the Chilean Bishops’ Conference. Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – The First National Day for Health Pastoral Care will be held in La Florida (Chile) on August 6-8. The general purpose of the encounter is “to present the diocesan experiences of ...
• 24 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Agenzia Fides interviews the Bishop of Cuenca: “The Church’s role in attending persons from the outside cannot be reduced to charitable services alone, although this is needed. The manner of confronting the immigration issue cannot be limited to Caritas. The Church’s mission is to evangelize.” Excerpt from the Encyclical Redemptoris Missio: “Among the great changes taking place in the contemporary world, migration has produced a new phenomenon: non-Christians are becoming very numerous in traditionally Chris ...
• 24 July 2008
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Two exemplary missionaries for the Church in Sri Lanka: Saint Paul and Blessed Joseph Vaz Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Two prominent figures offer a point of reference and an example for the missionary task of the Church in Sri Lanka, for all its members: priests, religious, and laity: Saint Paul and Blessed J ...
• 23 July 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - Seeing as Jesus “sees” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - How different is the Lord's way of looking at the earth and its inhabitants, compared with our way which rarely sees beyond appearances! Conversion of heart means learning from Jesus to see ...
• 23 July 2008
  VATICAN - At the Lambeth Conference, Cardinal Ivan Dias speaks on “Mission, Social Justice, and Evangelization”: today the world needs people who bear witness to “the beauty of the Christian faith without blushing or compromise.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the Lambeth Conference, the meeting every ten years of the Anglican Bishops of the world which took place in Canterbury (England) July 16 to August 3, Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of th ...
• 23 July 2008
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - The extraordinary WYD experience for the youth of Fiji: “A tsunami of faith and joy!” Suva (Agenzia Fides) – “It has been a tsunami of faith and joy.” This has been the most common reaction among the youth of the Fiji Islands when they returned to their homeland after the extraordinary experience of ...
• 23 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Church in Spain rejoices as Madrid is chosen to host WYD 2011: “it will place us in contact with the best of our tradition and the great ideals that have inspired us over the centuries and still do even now.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – “I wish to express my gratitude, on behalf of the entire Diocese of Madrid, for this honor” said Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco, Archbishop of Madrid and President of the Spanish Bishops’ C ...
• 23 July 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - On the way to CAM 3: “The Congress will give renewed strength to the evangelization effort, help us make deep reflections, and re-launch our mission as a Church with fidelity and audacity.” Quito (Agenzia Fides) – After a long and intense preparation, the Third American Missionary Congress (CAM 3) is steadily approaching. The event will take place in Quito (Ecuador) August 12-17. At the end of the Congres ...
• 23 July 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Students’ rebellion also affecting the Seminary in Nairobi: “The frustration of the young people is not the only excuse for the violence,” a local Church source informs Fides Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Over 300 secondary schools are in revolt in Kenya and in some cases, the students have sacked and burned the school buildings. The dormitories of Queen of Apostles Minor Seminary in the Archdi ...
• 23 July 2008
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan’s President on a “promotional” visit to Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – It is a “promotional” tour to show the world his own popularity, even in Darfur. This is how international analysts have interpreted Sudan President Omar al-Bashir’s visit to the turbul ...