News

• 19 June 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - This coming Sunday, March for Life - amidst the debate over the unconstitutional nature of the law decriminalizing abortion Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – While the National Supreme Court in Mexico decides on the constitutionality of the law decriminalizing abortion in Mexico City up to 12 weeks’ gestation period, thousands of lay faithful ...
• 19 June 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church in India making a film on the life of Saint Thomas the Apostle Madras (Agenzia Fides) – Saint Thomas the Apostle, the one who first brought the seeds of the Gospel to the Indian subcontinent, will be the main character in an upcoming film being put out by the Catholic Church in In ...
• 19 June 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - World Refugee Day: 11 million refugees and 26 internally displaced persons; the number of people fleeing their homes or country continues to grow New York (Agenzia Fides) – June 20 is World Refugee Day, declared by the United Nations. The annual Day coincides with a particularly delicate time in the conditions of millions of refugees and internally displaced per ...
• 19 June 2008
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Diocese of Kribi erected, first Bishop appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on June 19, 2008 erected the Diocese of Kribi (Cameroon), with territory taken from the diocese of Ebolowa-Kribi, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan c ...
• 19 June 2008
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A chapel and monument dedicated to John Paul II are erected in commemoration of his visit to Timor Dili (Agenzia Fides) – On the site where Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass with crowds of young people of East Timor, on October 12, 1989, bringing them a message of joy and hope, today there now stand a chapel and sta ...
• 18 June 2008
  VATICAN - Statement on the visit of a Holy See delegation to Vietnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office released the following communique on June 17, concerning the visit of a delegation of the Holy See to Vietnam. "The Holy See delegation - made up of Msgr. Pietro ...
• 18 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - June 21: priestly and deaconate ordinations for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, June 21, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, will preside the ordination Mass for four priests and two deacons of the Priestly Fraternity of the ...
• 18 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Second Course for Catechists, sponsored by the Seminary in central Mongolia Hu He Hao Te (Agenzia Fides) – 45 catechists from 5 dioceses of the province of central Mongolia will take part in the second Course for Catechists, promoted and organized by the central Mongolian Seminary, which began ...
• 18 June 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Diocese of Kao Hsiung prepares for the Pauline Year Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) – The inauguration of the Pauline Year will be characterized by indigenous elements in paying homage to the Apostle of the Gentiles, the great missionary: Saint Paul. According to a report fr ...
• 18 June 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops indicate grave errors in the “Curriculum Guidelines for Integral Sexual Education” approved in the country Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops’ Committee for Catholic Education (of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina) has published a statement in response to the approved use of “Curriculum Guidelines for Inte ...
• 18 June 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops’ Statement: “In the face of ominous forces that seek to destroy our country, we are called not to be overcome with hate, but to work together in building a peaceful future.” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM) “along with all Catholics and men and women of good will; reject the violence and manifest their condemnation of the kidnapping, killing, and acts ...
• 18 June 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Prayer and fasting to end fighting between government and farmers: “We will pray so as to remove the obstacles on the path to dialogue.” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – In facing the prolonged conflict raging between the rural sector and the government, the Church is making an appeal to pray for social peace and for a prompt solution to the conflict. Man ...
• 18 June 2008
  ASIA/MYANMAR - “Compassion is the common religion in Post-Nargis Myanmar,” the Archbishop of Yangon tells Agenzia Fides Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – After Cyclone Nargis, during the time of emergency aid rescue work and as people began returning to normal life, “the common religion that united Buddhists, Christians, and faithful of other ...
• 18 June 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Christian Brothers moving in new directions Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - At the first chapter of their newly created Oceania Province, from June 22 to July 2, the Christian Brothers will look to deepen their spirituality and commitment to their own charism within thei ...
• 18 June 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Initiatives of the Catholic Weekly “Niedziela” for the Pauline Year: publish 180,000 copies of the “Autobiography of Saint Paul,” a photo exposition, a new website Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In honor of the Pauline Year, the Polish Catholic Weekly, “Niedziela,” the most widely-read magazine in Poland with headquarters in Częstochowa, is proposing various different pas ...