News

• 18 September 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Second national meeting of PMS Volunteers in Taiwan Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – The second national meeting of the Volunteers of the Pontifical Mission Societies was held September 11 and 12 in the city of Kaohsiung, in the south of Taiwan. Over 110 participants from al ...
• 18 September 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the United Kingdom: “cooperation and dialogue between religions calls for mutual respect, the freedom to practice one’s religion and to engage in acts of public worship, and the freedom to follow one’s conscience” London (Agenzia Fides) – “Ever since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has placed special emphasis on the importance of dialogue and cooperation with the followers of other religions.” These were the ...
• 18 September 2010
  VATICAN - Feedback from the Seminar for newly appointed bishops from mission territories: “It helped me see and live the Catholicity of the Church.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "It has been a wonderful initiative, very rich opportunity for sharing experiences and learning," Fides was told by Bishop Mario Flanders, SDB, Apostolic Vicar of El Petén, Guatemala, in ...
• 18 September 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishop of Zamora is “working for unity in the community” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In a pause in the proceedings of the Seminar organized by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples for Bishops ordained in the last two years, which is taking place in Rome (see Fides 0 ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian pastor wounded “for preaching salvation in Christ” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an attack on the religious freedom that the state should be protecting: this is what sources of Fides commented on the recent attack in Pakistan suffered by Pastor Emmanuel Beshir, of the " ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - National interreligious committee: an important step towards harmony Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an important step towards establishing interfaith harmony in Malaysia. It is a committee that will serve to meet, discuss, and address - government and religious communities – all ...
• 17 September 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the United Kingdom: “Let it not obscure the Christian foundation that underpins its freedoms...”; “the evangelization of culture is all the more important in our times” Edinburgh (Agenzia Fides) – Encouraging the United Kingdom, in its effort to become a modern and multicultural society, to “always maintain its respect for those traditional values and cultural expressions that more ...
• 17 September 2010
  VATICAN - Pope defines Cardinal Newman as “a figure of a doctor of the Church for us and for all, and a bridge between Anglicans and Catholics” Edinburgh (Agenzia Fides) – During his flight to the United Kingdom, for his 17th Apostolic Journey for the Beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, Pope Benedict XVI met with journalists aboard the papal aircraft. ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 5,000 faithful make pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Holy Cross in the Diocese of Zhou Zhi Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – More than 5,000 Chinese faithful on the mainland, from different dioceses, made a pilgrimage to the shrine dedicated to the Holy Cross, located in the district of Mei Xian, in the Diocese of ...
• 17 September 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - September 26 elections: “No one can abstain from voting. This is a chance to strengthen democracy and ensure the country's future,” says the Archbishop of Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, issued a statement on Thursday, September 16, highlighting the secrecy of the vote in the upcoming elections of September 26 and at the same ...
• 17 September 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombian Red Cross provides aid to 800,000 Haitian refugees Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Colombia's Red Cross has delivered aid to around 800,000 Haitians affected by the earthquake in January, which left over 200,000 dead and wounded, the news was released by the humanitarian orga ...
• 17 September 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Growing concern for security and human rights Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "We are still concerned about the escalation of armed conflict in Darfur, the post-election violence in South Sudan, and the ongoing political oppression in northern Sudan," say 27 NGOs for t ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 12.8 million children under 15 living in poverty Manila (Agenzia Fides) – A new study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) [ ] and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), estimates that 12.8 million children under the age of 15 are living in poverty, a ...
• 17 September 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic organizations collaborate for aid for development in Timor and Pacific Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic Religious Australia (CRA), Caritas Australia and Australian Catholic University (ACU) have established the Catholic Alliance for International Development (CAID). Sister Anne Derwin RS ...
• 16 September 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Missionary Workshops” continue to educate youth in Czestochowa, after 10 years Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In 2000, exactly 10 years ago, at the request of the Archbishop of Czestochowa, Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak, the Archdiocese began the "Missionary Workshops.” Organized each month (specif ...