News
4 July 2011
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-Shortage of priests: Mass every other Sunday for some parishes in the diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In some Catholic parishes in the diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Sydney, in the Australian Outback of New South Wales, Mass can be celebrated only once every two w ...
4 July 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - "I pray for reconciliation between the Libyans", says Bishop Martinelli from Tripoli
Tripoli (Fides Service) - "We need sincere dialogue to keep Libya united. I hope that the Libyans are reconciled. I hope in a sincere reconciliation between Tripoli and Benghazi, without prejudice and without special cla ...
4 July 2011
AMERICA/CHILE-Even students of Catholic schools demonstrate for a better education system
Santiago (Fides Service) - Sister Elizabeth Gonzalez, deputy director of the school "Santa Maria de la Providencia" in Renca and member of the Commission for the Continental Mission of the Archdiocese of Santiago, lived ...
4 July 2011
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-More than 200 000 Ivorian refugees: 15 000 in the Salesian mission of Duékoué
Abidjan (Fides Service) - During the last three weeks the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and partner agencies have registered 322,277 internally displaced persons in Côte d'Ivoire. The displaced p ...
4 July 2011
VATICAN-Statement of the Holy See: episcopal Ordination in the Diocese of Leshan (Province of Sichuan, Mainland China)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican press office issued the following statement today:
"With regard to the episcopal ordination of the Rev. Paul Lei Shiyin, which took place on Wednesday 29 June la ...
4 July 2011
ASIA/THAILAND - National reconciliation, fight against poverty, values: the priority of the first woman Premier
Bangkok (Fides Service) - "Everyone must accept the outcome of the democratic elections. In any case, the priority for the country is a genuine national reconciliation": is the immediate comment released to Fides by Fr. ...
4 July 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA-The Colombian Episcopate commemorates 25 years of the visit of Pope John Paul II
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 4 to 8 July the Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (ECC) will take place in Bogota. The meeting relies on the presence of 96 Bishops that represent the 76 ecclesial jurisdicti ...
2 July 2011
EUROPE/POLAND - School for Missionary Animators: enthusiasm and new ideas
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Training Center in Warsaw hosted the School for Missionary Animators, organized and promoted by the team of the National Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland from 26 to 29 ...
2 July 2011
VATICAN-Benedict XVI to the FAO, "even food has become object of speculation or it is related to financial market trends that is linked to the single objective of profit"
Vatican City (Fides Service) - "Poverty, underdevelopment and therefore hunger are so often the result of selfish attitudes that from the heart of man is manifested in its social action, in economic exchange, market cond ...
2 July 2011
ASIA/CHINA-The solemnity of the Sacred Heart celebrated in various continental communities
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - With the Holy Mass, Eucharistic adoration, the profession of religious vows, several Chinese communities celebrated the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which recurred yesterday, J ...
2 July 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA-The young people of Borneo ready for WYD and to build a better nation
Palangkaraya (Fides Service) - Prayer and listening but also creativity and looking to the future: these are the characteristics of the "Youth Day", a gathering of young Catholics of Indonesian Borneo (the region also kn ...
2 July 2011
ASIA/THAILAND - Corruption and Rule of Law: Challenges to the nation on the eve of elections
Bangkok (Fides Service) - The perennial problem of corruption, the gap between elites and masses of rural population; respect for the rule of law and freedom of expression: these are the most urgent challenges in the Tha ...
2 July 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - Tahrir Square fills up again with protesters. The opinion of a missionary to Fides
Cairo (Fides Service) - Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday, 1st July, in Tahrir Square in Cairo to ask the trials against those who ordered the violent suppression of the revolution of January and February to be ...
2 July 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Prime Minister meets religious minorities: "You will have a new Ministry"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, today met a delegation of representatives of religious minorities of Pakistan in Islamabad and has officially announced the upcoming creatio ...
2 July 2011
AFRICA/KENYA- 50 years of AMECEA celebrated in Nairobi
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), is celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year, founded in 1961. The anniversary coincides with the 17th Plenary Assembl ...
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