News

• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Vasai appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 10, 2009, appointed Fr. Felix Anthony Machado, until now Archbishop-Bishop of Nashik, as Bishop of Vasai (India). (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/11/2009) ...
• 10 November 2009
  VATICAN - VI World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees: "there can be no effective development if we do not encourage dialogue among peoples, dialogue among cultures, and respect for legitimate differences" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “While migration is as old as human history, it has never been so consistent and complex in its nature as it is today. It affects almost every country in the world and fits into the wid ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Bagnasco opens CEI General Assembly by recalling Synod for Africa, which saw the emittance of "strong words that may not have been heard so well" and "ad gentes dynamism" which “should mark all our pastoral work” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – Recalling the “shocking news” of the seven young Christians “horribly killed in southern Sudan in a grisly parody of crucifixion” and the recent Synod for Africa, which saw the emittanc ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandals break into Church of St. Anthony in Diocese of Bangalore; Archbishop Moras deplores "the apathy of government and police" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a very serious act that must be condemned without appeal” and that has led to confusion and bitterness in the local Church, Fides was told by the Church sources in Bangalore, where ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Catechists in Singapore at mass media school Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Use the mass media like TV, movies, music, and Internet in catechesis, to better adapt to the vocabulary of students: this is what catechists of the Archdiocese of Singapore are being called t ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparing for closing celebrations of 150th anniversary of evangelization in Taiwan: a series of initiatives at Sacred Heart Parish in Gu Ting Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – A seminar on the missionary vocation of the laity, catechism meetings on the origin of life, a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine, sharing the Word of God, prayer for the catechumens, getting to kn ...
• 10 November 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Preparations begin for Second National Family Pilgrimage Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for the Pastoral Care of the Family, in collaboration with the Committee in charge of Pastoral Region South-1 is starting the preparation of the Second National Family ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Revolutionizing volunteer training; inauguration of the 3rd cycle of the 4-year School of Italian NGO “Vosvim” for training agents of Life and Mission Development Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A completely new and revolutionary school for training is what is being offered by the Italian group “Associazione Italia Solidale” for training agents of Life and Mission Development. The goa ...
• 10 November 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Inauguration of new Minor Seminary of “Opera Don Guanella” Vatluru (Agenzia Fides) – The new Minor Seminary of the “Opera Don Guanella” will be inaugurated on Saturday, 14 November, in Vatluru, Andhra Pradesh. The site opened on All Saints' Day 2008, with the laying of the ...
• 10 November 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Dengue and influenza A at the center of Day for Sick in the country Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Day of the Sick has just been celebrated in Argentina, where the focus this year was on influenza A and dengue. "Listen to him, love him, preach Christ, our hope," is the title of the d ...
• 9 November 2009
  VATICAN - “May the Church be a shining beacon of hope for humanity in the third millennium”: Benedict XVI on Pastoral Visit to Brescia to pay tribute to Paul VI Brescia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is a real spiritual body that prolongs in space and time the sacrifice of the Son of God, a sacrifice seemingly insignificant compared to the size of the world and of history, but a ...
• 9 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A century after the birth of Don Luigi Cocco, a missionary in the heart of the Amazon forest among the Yanomami Indians, who carried out "an impressive work of civilization and evangelization" Grugliasco (Agenzia Fides) - Salesian Missionary Don Luigi Cocco was born in Grugliasco (Turin) February 12, 1910 and died in Turin on 11 February 1980. He is remembered for his intense missionary work conducted among Ya ...
• 9 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Situation of Angolan refugees forced out of Democratic Republic of the Congo to be presented at the Sixth International Congress of Migration which opens today at the Vatican Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – The Commission for Migrants of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and Sao Tome and Principe (CEAST) will present the issue of Angolans refugees forced out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
• 9 November 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Addis Ababa Accord: the question on the actual powers of the two “co-presidents” at the center of political debate Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The agreement reached in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by the four political movements of Madagascar (see Fides 7/11/2009) is stirring hopes among the population of Madagascar, but also some appre ...
• 9 November 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Third training course for priests of the Diocese of Lan Zhou dedicated to the Sacred Scripture Lan Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – More than 200 priests, along with a group of nuns and some lay faithful of the Diocese of Lan Zhou, took part in the third training course for priests in this Year for Priests, following the ...