News

• 9 July 2011
  VATICAN -The tourist visit "platform to realize the clear and explicit announcement of Jesus Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – It is on the importance of tourism for the encounter between different cultures of the world and as an opportunity for "clear and explicit announcement of Jesus Christ", that the Message ...
• 9 July 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A new Center for the dental care of children Humocaro (Fides Service) - A new children's dental center was recently inaugurated in Humocaro, a rural area in the state of Lara, Venezuela, where very humble people live. The new center was dedicated to the memory of M ...
• 8 July 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Awka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed His Exc. Mgr. Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor Bishop of the Diocese of Awka (Nigeria), on July 8, 2011 . He has so far been Titular Bishop of Tetci, Au ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH-Erection of the new diocese of Sylhet and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI has erected the new Diocese of Sylhet, in Bangladesh, for the dismantling of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see itself, on ...
• 8 July 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA-Appointment of the Bishop of Namibe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Namibe (Angola) Rev. Dionisio Hisiilenapo of the clergy of Ondjiva, Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Angola ...
• 8 July 2011
  AMERICA/TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO-Appointment of the Archbishop Coadjutor of Port of Spain Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Rev. Fr. Joseph Harris, C.S.Sp., on 8 July, 2011. He has been Pastor ...
• 8 July 2011
  AMERICA/S. VINCENT AND GRENADINES-Transfer of the Diocese of Kingstown and appointment of the Bishop of Bridgetown and Kingstown Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI transferred the Diocese of Kingstown, in S. Vincent and the Grenadines, from the ecclesiastical Province of Castries to the Port of Spain, in Trinidad and Tobag ...
• 8 July 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO- A new center for the treatment of HIV/AIDS opens tomorrow in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest UNAIDS report 2010, the world begins to register a reversal of the spread of the HIV epidemic. In recent years more than 5 million people in the southern countries of th ...
• 8 July 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Nearly a million requests of help to Caritas in 2010, the majority are families Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 950 000 people living in Spain went to the assistance Service of Caritas in 2010 to meet their basic needs, especially for food, 550,000 more over the past three years, according to th ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - "Transparency and reform": civil society is demonstrating, with their eyes towards the "Arab Spring" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The "Arab Spring" is coming to the East. The biggest event of the Malaysian civil society in the last 50 years is announced for tomorrow, July 9, which plans to bring together over 400 thou ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-The Trappist Cistercians of the Abbey of Our Lady of Joy have been in Hong Kong for 60 years Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Trappists (Cistercians of the Strict Observance, O.C.S.O) of the Trappist Abbey Our Lady of Joy celebrated their 60 years of service in Hong Kong on July 2, with a Mass presided by the Adm ...
• 8 July 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA-In the country people continue to die due to lack of basic medicines and anesthetics Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the lack of anesthetics, one person dies every week in Kenya, and the situation is particularly serious in rural areas. In areas such as Turkana in the Rift Valley, and Northeastern provi ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Surgery to change sex to female infants: the condemnation of the Church Bhopal (Fides Service) –What has taken hold in the state of Madhya Pradesh (central India) is an aberrant phenomenon: cases in which doctors practice surgery to change sex to female babies multiply, at the request of p ...
• 8 July 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE-On a mission in the coastal area, where you travel miles on foot to go to Mass Quilacahuín (Fides Service) - A priest and a religious of the Vincentian Lazarists (Congregation of the Mission), father Neftali Shaw and brother Jorge Hidalgo, have defined the ministry of pastoral missionary that the ...
• 7 July 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA-"It is urgent for human beings to regain respect and dignity " underline the Bishops on the occasion of the Bicentenary Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela, the Episcopal Conference of Latin American has published a document ...