News

• 14 April 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - New Kenyan government must face Mungiki violence in protest of the death of the leader’s wife Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “A government for peace,” read the front page article in the periodical “The Nation,” on the many-times reformed national constitution. On April 13, President Mwai Kibaki appointed oppos ...
• 14 April 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Youth from Laos at WYD: a great sign of hope Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The participation of youth from Laos is a great sign of hope for the universal Church and a sign of vitality for the smaller Churches throughout the world that live in communion and are ready to ...
• 14 April 2008
  ASIA - Food supply crisis: international institutions worried for the future of Asia and Africa’s poorest nations, on the road to “humanitarian catastrophe” Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) - The most important international institutions agree on the need to launch a warning regarding the food crisis that is occurring in various parts of the planet, especially in the continent ...
• 14 April 2008
  ASIA - Rice crisis falls hard on the fragile Asian economies, causing hunger and poverty New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the Asian countries, rice is the staple food source, especially among the millions of people that live on the border of survival. The crisis that is strongly affecting the continent due to ...
• 14 April 2008
  AFRICA - Two missionaries killed in Kenya and Guinea remembered by the Holy Father Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The two missionaries remembered by Pope Benedict XVI in the recitation of the Regina Caeli on Sunday, April13 are Fr. Brian Thorp, Mill Hill missionary of 77 years of age, whose lifeless corpse was ...
• 14 April 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Celebration for the 150th anniversary of PIME in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions (PIME) of Milano (Italy) celebrated its 150th anniversary of the mission in Hong Kong with a Mass, the unveiling of a “commemorative plaque” in ...
• 12 April 2008
  Dossier - THE MAP OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Introduction The Catholic Church in the History of the United States of America History of official relations between the Holy See and the USA The United States Catholic Bishops' Conference (USCCB) The Cat ...
• 12 April 2008
  Instrumentum mensis Martii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum On the first day of the month of March, the Holy Father presided a Prayer Vigil on the occasion of the 6th European Day for University Students, dedicated in particular this year to the continents of Europe and America. ...
• 11 April 2008
  VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations: Message from Benedict XVI: the “missionary dimension is associated in a special and intimate way with the priestly vocation.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Vocations at the service of the Church on mission” is the theme that was chosen by the Holy Father Benedict XVI for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations that will be celebrated on Apr ...
• 11 April 2008
  VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations - Increase in vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life in Africa and Asia, while other continents observe decrease Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life have steadily increased over the past few years in Africa and Asia, while a gradual decrease is being observed in Europe and on a lesser sca ...
• 11 April 2008
  VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle supporting 83,767 seminarians in 962 seminaries of the younger Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle, one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies, was founded in Caen (France) in 1889, by Ms. Jeanne Bigard and her mother, Stephanie. The main ...
• 11 April 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Pontifical Mission Societies launch celebration of the U.S. Church’s 100th anniversary of “missionary independence” Indianapolis (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor John E. Kozar, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States has officially launched the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Church’s � ...
• 11 April 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Mexican Church mourns the death of Cardinal Ahumada: “a man of convictions, of wise and firm decisions, who never hesitated in following the Lord’s call” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “His Excellency Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada departed from us physically at 5:30 this morning to enter into the Lord’s presence...after having suffered a long and painful Calvary in ...
• 11 April 2008
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Defense of life, critique of political corruption, announcement of the National Catechetical Year, “Guidelines for Evangelization”: among the themes for the General Assembly Itaci (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops gathered in Itacia for their 46th General Assembly have once again reaffirmed their position in defense of human life from conception until natural death with a “Note in De ...
• 11 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “We ask that a international mediator of the stature of Kofi Annan intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis”: appeal from Bishops of Southern Africa Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland (gathered at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference), in a statement issued immediately prior to the Summit meeting of Southern A ...