News

• 15 May 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Missio” present at Ecumenical Day for Churches in Munich, with over 40 initiatives Munich (Agenzia Fides) - From May 12 to 16, Munich will be hosting the 2nd Ecumenical Day for Churches (Ökumenischer Kirchentag). The national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany, "Missio," is pres ...
• 15 May 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Fr. Salvador Martuccio, former PMS National Director passes away Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Friday, May 7 in San Camilo Clinic, in Buenos Aires, after battling with a long illness, Fr. Salvador Martuccio, who had served as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
• 15 May 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Marian Congress gathers 875 participants from various countries Loja (Agenzia Fides) – The Marian Congress, which closed yesterday at the Technical University of Loja, brought together 875 participants and experts from Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Spain, ...
• 15 May 2010
  ASIA/THAILAND - President of Bishops' Conference proposes uniting religious leaders for mediation effort Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – At this tragic point, while the sides have lost mutual trust and launch serious accusations at each other, while violence overtakes the streets of Bangkok, with deaths and injuries, "an interv ...
• 15 May 2010
  ASIA/THAILAND - Priest from Bangkok: “Government should be more patient to avoid bloodshed” Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Amidst growing tension and violence in Bangkok, emerges the death toll of urban warfare taking place between "Red Shirts" demonstrators (20 dead and 100 wounded in the past 24 hours), and ther ...
• 15 May 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Communicate and Preach Christ”: World Day for Communications Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Chilean Bishops' Conference has set up a website offering the Message of Pope Benedict XVI for the 44th World Day of Social Communications and other material for the celebration of this W ...
• 15 May 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Day for Journalists: the Church on an on-going mission, journalists in on-going communication La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Committee on Missions of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) sent a note to Fides on the "Journalist's Day" that was celebrated last May 10, in the context of World Communications Day. B ...
• 14 May 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic church damaged in attack by Hindu fundamentalists in Karnataka Karwar (Agenzia Fides) - In the Catholic community of Karwar in Karnataka, there is anger, fear, but also the firm conviction that "the answer is that of forgiveness and prayer." This is what Fides has been told by Monsi ...
• 14 May 2010
  VATICAN - May 17-21: Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – With a welcome greeting and a summary report from Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, Secretary Adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifica ...
• 14 May 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocesan Bishop of Xiamen in China ordained Xiamen (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, May 8, the Feast of Our Lady of China in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Xiamen hosted the episcopal ordination of Bishop Joseph Cai Bingrui of the diocesan clergy, 44 year ...
• 14 May 2010
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Archbishop of Ha Noi resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 13, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Hanoi (Vietnam), presented by Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, in ...
• 14 May 2010
  ASIA VIETNAM - Bishop of Vinh resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 13, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Vinh (Vietnam), presented by Archbishop Paul-Marie Cao Dinh Thuyen, MSC ...
• 14 May 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: “I have come to Fatima to pray, in union with Mary and so many pilgrims, for our human family, afflicted as it is by various ills and sufferings...in order to entrust to Mary’s maternal protection priests, consecrated men and women, missionaries...” Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - “I have come to Fatima, because today the pilgrim Church, willed by her Son as the instrument of evangelization and the sacrament of salvation, converges upon this place. I have come to Fatima ...
• 14 May 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The people of Brazil have always had great devotion to the Eucharist,” says Cardinal Hummes at opening of 16th National Eucharistic Congress Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The National Eucharistic Congress, which opened yesterday, May 13, is part of the celebrations for the anniversary of the Archdiocese and for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the ...
• 14 May 2010
  OCEANIA - Bishops: challenges for Church in Oceania are building communion, sharing resources, responding to secularism Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “We face many challenges in our dioceses and countries including political and economic tensions in some places and the spread of a secularist mentality that seeks to exclude Christianity. Yet, ...