News

• 4 April 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops committed to fighting AIDS: “such a massive task demands unity of all possible efforts” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico, gathered for their plenary assembly, have issued a statement on Pastoral Care for brothers and sisters experience the tragedy of HIV/AIDS. This phenomenon, the stateme ...
• 4 April 2008
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Church takes measures to save the Marian Shrine of Madhu from the current conflict Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan Church has been concerned for the gunshots and violent threats that have arisen in recent weeks around the area surrounding the Shrine to Our Lady of Madhu. In efforts to preserve ...
• 3 April 2008
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops discuss: Pastoral Guidelines for next few years, Continental Mission, National Youth Day and participation at World Youth Day in Sydney Florida (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Uruguay (CEU) is holding its first plenary assembly of 2008, 2 - 9 April at the Jesus Good Shepherd Retreat House in Florida. The plenary opened with a spiri ...
• 3 April 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic and Anglican dioceses make history with ecumenical pact Broken Bay (Agenzia Fides) - Forget the divisions of the past and build a future of cooperation and collaboration in a spirit of genuine fraternity, charity and solidarity: in this spirit three dioceses in Australian rec ...
• 3 April 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Statement from San Marcos diocese after Bishop and several pastoral workers received death threats San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of San Marcos, which belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Altos (Guatemala), issued a statement addressed to the civil society of Guatemala and the international communit ...
• 3 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - It is official: the Opposition takes parliament. Uncertainty about Mugabe's next moves Harare (Agenzia Fides)- Zimbabwe's Opposition has taken parliament. The electoral Commission announced the results for the lower house of the Zimbabwean parliament. For the first time in 28 years the ruling party of Pres ...
• 3 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “If there is a change of regime the 800,000 Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa are ready to repatriate” a missionary in Cape Town told Fides Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - “If there is a change of government in Zimbabwe there will be a return en masse of about 700-800,000 Zimbabwean refugees presently in South Africa” said Scalabrinian missionary Fr. Mario T ...
• 3 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Natalia Dallapiccola, the first companion Chiara Lubich, also ends her earthly journey: it was she who promoted the Focolari Movement in eastern Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Natalia Dallapiccola, the first to join Chiara Lubich on earth in 1943, is the first to reach her, only a few days later, in eternal life. Natalia was 83. She died, due to weakening of heart and lu ...
• 3 April 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The urgency of ethics, the silence of politics Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the most elementary of moral distinctions, the distinction between the acts of man and human acts, it is said that only human acts can be properly considered moral acts. Human acts are ...
• 3 April 2008
  VATICAN - Grandparents: topic of 18th Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence and witness of grandparents in the family is the theme of the 18th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family being held in the Vatican from 3-5 April. More than ...
• 3 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Legion of Mary members in Taiwan join in celebrating the country’s 150th anniversary of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 members of the Legion of Mary in Taiwan, especially in Tai Pei, have participated in the annual Congress 2008 that took place on March 15. According to Christian Life Weekly, the weekly ...
• 3 April 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Summer formation courses on dialogue and peace in the Sisilah oasis Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - Learning about oneself, learning about others’ religious beliefs, studying, finding common ground, acting in a certain way in favor of dialogue, reconciliation, peace...these are the objecti ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - “Remembering Karol”: John Paul II, three years after his death Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the passing of our beloved John Paul II, and on the occasion of the publishing of the paperback version of the book, “A Life with Karol” written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Apostolic Exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis” is the theme of a permanent formation course in the Diocese of Chia Yi Chia Yi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Apostolic Exhortation “Sacrementum Caritatis” is an excellent theological work on the mystery of the Sacrament of Thanksgiving and for pastoral meditation.” These were the opening w ...
• 2 April 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New community of consecrated laity in Broken Bay Broken Bay (Agenzia Fides) - New religious and lay communities are springing up in the Australian Church; evidence of this is the new community of lay consecrated women that has been officially announced in the Diocese o ...