News
22 September 2010
EUROPE/SPAIN - Special issue of “Palabra” on the Church in Latin America
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – During an event held yesterday, September 21, organized by the magazine “Palabra” and Centro Accademico Romano Fundacion (CARF), a special issue on “The Church in Latin America, Two Hundr ...
22 September 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Diocesan newspaper “Mar Adentro” now available online
Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) – The newspaper of the Diocese of Chimbote "Mar Adentro" is available on the website of the diocese every month. Through a new system, visitors will have access to the contents of the newspaper ...
22 September 2010
ASIA/THAILAND - Buddhist and Christians working together for a just economy
Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) – A group of Buddhist and Christian representatives, who met recently at the Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand highlighted the need for faith communities to engage with the government ...
21 September 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Nuncio to Haiti tells Fides: “The humanitarian situation is still in an emergency phase. Over 1 million refugees are living in tents and the number is on the rise.”
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – "The humanitarian situation is still in an emergency phase. Over 1 million refugees are living in tents and, instead of diminishing, the number is on the rise. Even the poor who come fr ...
21 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Fear among Christians in Karachi, suffering “insecurity”
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – "There are no imminent threats, but there is still fear evident among the Christian community. In Pakistan, we Christians are in a precarious condition: we do not know what may happen in the n ...
21 September 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - Sr. Luzia Premoli, new Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries, first non-Italian
Verona (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Luzia Premoli, a Brazilian, is the new Superior General of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, elected September 20 in the 19th General Chapter of the congregation, which has been underway a ...
21 September 2010
AMERICA - Witnesses and prophets of hope in the region: Caritas's 17th Latin American/Caribbean Congress
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Following the motto "In Christ we build one America for all", organization has begun for the XVII Latin American/Carribean Congress for Caritas and the Fourth Continental Meeting of the P ...
21 September 2010
ASIA/TAIWAN - Commitment to Christianizing the family is a journey that should never end
Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – "The courses dedicated to Christianizing the family have ended, but the effort to Christianize the family is a journey that should never end." This was how Archbishop Peter Liu of the Dioces ...
21 September 2010
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Matadi resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on September 21, 2010, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Matadi (DRC), presented by Bishop Gabriel Kembo Mamputu, in conformity with ...
21 September 2010
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Decrease in the number of dengue cases in comparison with same time in 2009
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Health officials in Sri Lanka are reporting a significant drop in the number of reported dengue cases. According to the team of officials, 58 cases of the mosquito-borne disease occurred durin ...
21 September 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - Religious leaders develop peace strategy: reopen talks with the LRA and encourage guerrillas to desert
Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – Religious leaders from the four countries affected by the violent raids of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have signed a commitment to apply pressure locally and internationally to find a peac ...
20 September 2010
VATICAN - Benedict XVI beatifies Cardinal Newman: “The definite service to which Blessed John Henry was called involved applying his keen intellect and his prolific pen to many of the most pressing 'subjects of the day.'”
Birmingham (Agenzia Fides) - “It is right and fitting that we should recognize today the holiness of a confessor, a son of this nation who, while not called to shed his blood for the Lord, nevertheless bore eloquent wi ...
20 September 2010
VATICAN - Mass in Thanksgiving for the beatification of Cardinal Newman in the Propaganda Fide Chapel, where he was ordained a Catholic priest
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – It was in thanksgiving to God for the beatification of a former pupil of Propaganda Fide and the successful outcome of the apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in the UK that Cardinal Iva ...
20 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Trafficking of women and children refugees denounced by NGOs
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is a growing phenomenon, observed by local NGOs: among the flood refugees there are a rising number of cases of abductions and disappearances of women and children who are victims of huma ...
20 September 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary solidarity project: Brazil sends missionaries to Haiti
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – "Solidarity Between the Church in Brazil and the Church in Haiti" is the name of the missionary project (see Fides 04/03/2010) that has been undertaken by the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (C ...
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