AMERICA/CHILE - “Chile, a Place for Everyone”: Migrant Sunday in Chile
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday, September 5 is the day Chile celebrates Migrant Sunday. The Day's events program includes a Mass at 12:30pm celebrated by the Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, Bishop Cristián Contreras, ...
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Sisters of Charity in Australia launch website
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of Charity in Australia have just launched a site with information on their mission at present, in the past, and what it may look like for the future, with an archive, photo gallery, ...
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop's death mourned
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This past August 28, Archbishop John Yang Shudao, Archbishop Emeritus of Fuzhou, passed away in his hometown of Toubao, in the County of Lianjiang, at the age of 91. Archbishop Yang was a ...
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 30 Years of SVD Missionaries in the Amazon
Santarem (Agenzia Fides) – On January 26, 1980, the first priests from the Society of the Divine Word arrived in Santarem-Pará: Francisco Kom, José Gross, and Patricio Brennan. Thus, the Missionary Society of the Div ...
ASIA/INDIA - The Church's efforts in educating the “untouchables”
Bijnor (Agenzia Fides) – There were no Christians in the Diocese of Bijnor, in northern India, until three priests arrived in 1972. According to the provincial superior of the Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immacu ...
3 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society groups protest diverted flooding
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Civil society, politicians, and the media in Pakistan are raising their voices against the phenomenon of "diverted flooding" that has caused suffering and displacement for millions of poor. ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Hindu villages flooded intentionally
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is something that adds to the tragedy of suffering and frustration of the flooding: the poor villages, many of which are inhabited by Christian and Hindu citizens, are deliberately floode ...
ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic schools start academic year with a Mass
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic schools of the Diocese of Hong Kong have opened the new school year on September 1, with the celebration of Holy Mass. According to the results of a recent survey, the local Chu ...
2 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Diverted flooding”: poor and minorities suffer
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – "There are powerful and influential people with connections in government or who are in political parties: their territories have a 'priority' in being saved from the floods. The villages of t ...