News

• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastors authorized to cancel liturgical celebrations to protect population from violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM) has authorized the priests of the areas hardest hit by the violence plaguing the country to suspend celebrations or change Mass schedules in order to ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on November 13, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), presented by Archbishop Titianma Anselme ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Bishops appeal for respect for Sudanese rights Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The bishops of Sudan have called on members of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar ( ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian Missionaries spread the Good News in schools, at all levels (2) Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – We publish below the second and final part of the contribution from Fr. Gerardo Caglioni on the activity of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides 12/11/2010) and the 60 years s ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Central American University remembers Jesuits killed 21 years ago San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Salvadorans are paying tribute to the Jesuits killed 21 years ago at the hands of the military, with a series of cultural activities and the traditional parade of "Little Lanterns" (in Sp ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops of Pakistan make “appeal to the Pope and to all the mothers in Pakistan” for Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We make a heartfelt appeal to the Holy Father, asking him to pray, intercede, speak out in favor of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was wrongly sentenced to death for blasphemy. We ask that she ...
• 12 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' concern: a formal democracy devoid of values Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church has expressed its concern over the risk for democracy in Bolivia becoming "purely formal, without values and without ethical principles" due to the negative signs being ...
• 12 November 2010
  VATICAN - “We need, then, to discover ever anew the urgency and the beauty of the proclamation of the word for the coming of the Kingdom of God which Christ himself preached.” Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini published Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Synod of Bishops forcefully reaffirmed the need within the Church for a revival of the missionary consciousness present in the People of God from the beginning...Consequently, the Ch ...
• 12 November 2010
  VATICAN - Every Eucharistic Congress “bears in itself an evangelizing inspiration in a more strictly missionary sense,” Pope tells Pontifical Committee of International Eucharistic Congresses Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Task of the Eucharistic Congresses, above all in the present context, is also that of giving a peculiar contribution to the new evangelization, promoting mistagogic evangelization, which ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop of Semarang appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on November 12, 2010, appointed Bishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta, until now Bishop of Bandung, as Archbishop of Semarang (Indonesia). (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 12 November 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday, November 21, Day of Prayer for Christians in Iraq Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "All communities are invited to pray Sunday, November 21, Solemnity of Christ the King, for the Christians of Iraq, who suffer the terrible ordeal of a bloody witness to the faith”: declared by ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim lawyers and human rights activists rallying for Asia Bibi Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Civil society in Pakistan – not just the Christian community – is rallying in favor of Asia Bibi, the first Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. "We support Asia Bibi and we ...
• 12 November 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian Missionaries spread the Good News in schools, at all levels Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – On July 8, 2010, the Xaverian Missionaries celebrated the 60th anniversary of their arrival in Sierra Leone (see Fides 07/07/2010, 21/07/2010). In this reflection sent to Fides, Fr. Gerardo C ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Follow me” (Mk 1:17) is the theme of the Diocesan Year for the Laity, centered on its “Vocation, Communion, and Mission” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Follow me" (Mk 1:17) is the theme of the Year for the Laity 2011 organized by the Diocese of Hong Kong, under the subheading "Vocation, Communion, and Mission." At the official announcement o ...
• 12 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - We are all implied in the Continental Mission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Mexico have prepared the final document of the XC Plenary Assembly, which emphasizes the Church's involvement in the Continental Mission. "We come together to share the diff ...