News

• 8 January 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Catholic priest found dead in his home in Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas has announced the tragic death of Fr Pedro Daniel Orellana Hidalgo, aged 50, found dead in his home early on Sunday January 6. The priest's body showed evident signs of ...
• 8 January 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - The Archbishop of Lima convokes “Great Mission of Lima”: to start on 27 April, feast of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, and to close in 2010 with a Eucharistic and Marian Congress Lima (Agenzia Fides) - During Mass on January 1st, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, announced the start of a Great Mission of Lima, an initiative to respond to the ca ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - On the solemnity of the Epiphany Pope Benedict XVI says “the Church is faithful to her mission only if she reflects the light of Christ the Lord, and thus helps all the peoples of the world on the path towards peace and true progress”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The arrival of the Three Wise Men in Bethlehem to adore the new born Messiah, is the sign of the manifestation of the universal King to all peoples and to all men and women in search of ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - The spiritual light of the star which guided the Three Wise Men “can guide every person to Jesus "the Pope says at the Angelus on the feast of the Epiphany and he thanks the children of Missionary Childhood who “ care for the needs of other children spurred on by the love brought on earth by the Son of God who became a child ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “After stopping ‘above the place where the child lay’, the star which guided the Three Wise Men ceased its function, but its spiritual light is always present in the word of the Gospe ...
• 7 January 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Rodè opens 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus: “maintain and develop your charisma, in order to be and to show yourselves to the world as contemplatives in action ” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, Monday 7 January, a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist in the Church of Gesù in Rome, presided by Cardinal Franc Rodé, Prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecra ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends a Letter to the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Kenya: “Violence is futile as a means of resolving problems… the country needs peace that is based on justice and brotherhood ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following tragic events in Kenya, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, asked Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to address a letter to Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nair ...
• 7 January 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Signs of hope: most Kenyans want peace and are praying incessantly for peace; criminal as well as political interests behind the clashes” a missionary tells Fides Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “There are small signs of hope which show that the majority of Kenyans want” Fr. Luigi Anataloni, a Consolata missionary told CISA Catholic News Agency in Nairobi. Calm has returned after tra ...
• 7 January 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan ordained (Ningsia) Yinchuan (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 21 December 2007, Rev. Joseph Li Jing was ordained coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan (Ningsia), principal city of the region of Ningxia, south west of Beijing. The Bishop was ordained with ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week 6 to 12 January: “If we fail to minister to the needs of these newcomers, we fail our Lord himself” Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “From many, one family of God” is the theme of 27th National Migration Week organised by Committee on Migration of the United States Catholic Bishops' Conference. In a letter for the o ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In a New Year Message Bishops' Conference President urges the people to be members of an “active, faithful and credible Church” to make the nation “an example of reconciliation, justice and peace” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In a new year message the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ecuador Bishop Néstor Herrera Heredia, called on the people to be members of “an active, faithful credible Church”, ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Volunteers Operation Colomba (Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII) solidarity with “Indigenous Communities of Peace” in Colombia San Josè de Apartadò (Agenzia Fides) - On January 4th three volunteers of Operation Colomba, Non Violent Peace Corps of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII founded by the late Rev Oreste Benzi, started a visit to Comuni ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Year of Health: increase awareness of difficult living conditions of 41% of the world's population with no access to basic medical care Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The New Year is time for making resolutions. The United Nations have chosen 2008 as the official year for a variety of initiatives. The year 2008 will be the International Year of Health, Planter E ...
• 7 January 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Benin City Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 24 December 2007, appointed as Archbishop of Benin City (Nigeria) Bishop Richard Anthony Burke, SPS, until now Bishop of Warri. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fide ...
• 7 January 2008
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Pope creates new diocese of Techiman and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 28 December 2007, created the diocese Techiman (Ghana) with territory taken from the dioceses of Sunyani and Konongo-Mampong, making it suffragan of t ...
• 29 December 2007
  Dossier: The names of pastoral workers, priests, men and women religious and lay catholics Killed during 2007 The names of pastoral workers, priests, men and women religious and lay catholics Killed during 2007 - Panorama of continents - A list which is never complete Biographical notes and circumstances of ...