News
4 May 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - White Fathers 27th General Chapter: topic "Our Mission in Africa and in the African world"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) will hold its 27th General Chapter from the 10th May till the 12th June 2010. According to a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Soci ...
4 May 2010
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - At the International Centre Scalabrini in Solothurn a new step in the formation on the principles of “living together among diversities”
“Living together with our diversities: which image of God and of man is behind?” was the topic of the annual Scalabrini-Fest of Spring, which took place from the 30th of April to the 2nd of May at the International F ...
4 May 2010
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - To end the crisis a neutral government may include a few army officers
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- It may take a “neutral” national-unity government, formed of “technicians” (representatives of the civil society, freelance professionals, etc…) to pull Madagascar from political ...
4 May 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - Catholic Bishop of Torit urges political leaders to reconcile after bitter electoral campaign
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek, the Catholic Bishop of Torit (Southern Sudan), called on the winners, in the recent elections to reconcile and unite to help in the healing of the political wounds the ...
4 May 2010
AFRICA - Climate change threatens food security in Africa
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) –Luanda, in Angola, is hosting a regional conference for Africa, organised by the Rome based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO, which will end on May 7. According to a new report “The im ...
4 May 2010
AFRICA/TANZANIA - New project meets maternity and neonatal emergencies in Tosamaganga village
Tosamaganga (Agenzia Fides) – A new project recently started in Tanzania by the Italian organisation CUAMM, Medici con l’Africa, (Doctors with Africa) aims to tackle maternity and neonatal emergencies in Tosamaganga, ...
4 May 2010
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad appeals for 'prayer and pardon' following Mossul murder
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Grief and mourning, but also hope and forgiveness are expressed in a heartfelt appeal entrusted to Fides Agency by the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad, His Eminence Cardinal Emmanuel De ...
4 May 2010
ASIA/NEPAL - As strikes paralyse the country: Christians pull out 'special weapon', the Holy Rosary
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – In a country paralysed by three days of general strikes, Christians pull out their "special weapon": the Rosary beads. “We pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede that peace may preva ...
4 May 2010
ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral care and vocations, the media and society, the main topics discussed by the Regional Bishops' Conference of Taiwan Spring Assembly
Hsinchu (Agenzia Fides) – Pastoral care and vocations, the media and society, were the main topics discussed by the spring meeting of the Regional Bishops Conference of Taiwan, held in April in the diocese of Hsinchu. ...
4 May 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Latin American Meeting for Continental Mission: mission progress and renewal from parishes outwards
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – From 3 to 6 May, the capital of Peru is hosting the Latin American meeting of Bishop delegated for the Continental Mission by the Bishops' Conferences of all Latin America and the Caribbean. The ...
4 May 2010
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Archbishop of San Salvador tells Fides: “Prison inmates have lost their right to freedom, but certainly not their rights as a person ”
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – After episodes of violence in two prisons in El Salvador, in which 2 prisoners were killed and more than 20 injured in the Penitentiaries of Cojutepeque (central) and Sonsonate (west), th ...
3 May 2010
EUROPE/POLAND - At the Marian Shrine of Jasna Góra a Book with the names of 3,000 Polish priests killed during World War II, under the Communist rule and in mission lands
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The presentation to the “Black Madonna” venerated at Jasna Góra Marian Shrine, of a Book, "The Priest's Vow" , containing the names of some 3,000 Polish priests killed during the Sec ...
3 May 2010
VATICAN - “May the process of reconciliation in justice and truth, produce lasting respect for all God-given human rights ”: the Pope addresses the Bishops of Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “ Through your teaching the Lord preserves your people from evil, ignorance and superstition, and transforms them into children of his Kingdom. Strive to build vibrant and expansive com ...
3 May 2010
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - After the failure of the Pretoria summit, will the military intervene directly in political life?
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- There is uncertainty in Madagascar after the failure of the meeting in Pretoria (South Africa) of the leaders of 4 “mouvances” who were to sign an agreement to bring the country out of a ...
3 May 2010
AFRICA/RD CONGO - Jobless minors learn to work the land in the mining province of Katanga
Likasi (Agenzia Fides) - The world financial crisis has swollen the lines of jobless people, increasing hunger and malnutrition in south-east Congo. The wake of the global financial crisis continues in the province of Ka ...
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