News

• 22 October 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - New General Superior elected for Comboni Missionaries: Fr. Enrique Sanchez Gonzalez Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 17th General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries, which was taking place in Rome, on October 21 elected a new Superior General: Mexican Father Enrique Sanchez Gonzales, who succeeds Fr. Teres ...
• 22 October 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Caritas International launches campaign for 35,000 drought and violence victims in South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas International has launched a campaign to feed 35,000 people threatened by drought and violence in South Sudan. The objective is to raise 3.4 million US Dollars (2.3 million Euros) to ...
• 22 October 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - “Indian Missionary Congress has been a new Pentecost to renew our commitment to evangelization,” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Ignaci Siluvai, tells Fides. Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “The great celebration of the Indian Missionary Congress has been a moment of grace for the Church in India. It has been an historical moment, a new Pentecost for the Catholics of India, who ...
• 22 October 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In this missionary month, Pakistani children pray for the Pope and with the Pope Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In this missionary month, Pakistani children are praying for and with the Pope. This has been the initiative launched by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Pakistan, in the Holy Childhood Asso ...
• 22 October 2009
  AMERICA/CHILE - “The Word of God encourages the missionary Church of today”: National Bible Day 2009 Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning today, October 22, until October 24, the Dominican Institute of Las Condes (Chile) will be hosting National Bible Day 2009, with the theme: “The Word of God encourages th ...
• 22 October 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The “indispensable service” of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Hong Kong “improves the quality of life of the elderly.” Bishop addresses order at celebrations for foundress' canonization Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The “indispensable service of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Hong Kong has improved the quality of life of the elderly. I hope that you may be blessed with many more new vocations.” T ...
• 22 October 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholic Church launches campaign against AIDS Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Brazil is preparing a campaign against AIDS which will also include testing and preventative measures. The President of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference, Bishop Gerald ...
• 21 October 2009
  VATICAN - Synod Fathers express their “deepest sentiments of fraternal communion” to the Bishops of the Dioceses of the Great Lakes Region, for the “inhuman suffering” suffered by innocent peoples, “imploring that the language of arms be replaced with that of dialogue and negotiation.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Synod Fathers have sent a Letter to the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences of Sudan, Uganda, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic, signed by th ...
• 21 October 2009
  VATICAN - October 28, inauguration of 2009-2010 Academic Year of the Urbaniana Pontifical University; address from Archbishop of Kinshasa on “Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa: Missionary Challenge for the Universal Church” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Grand Chancellor of the Urbaniana Pontifical University, will preside a Mass “De Spiritu Sancto” ...
• 21 October 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - “Best Evangelizers” awards distributed on Mission Sunday at the parish of Wu An, Diocese of Han Dan; missions mandate conferred in parish of Liu He, Diocese of Tai Yuan Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The awards for the “Best Evangelizers” and the conferring of the missions mandate to transmit the Light of evangelization of the Lord Jesus, were part of the celebrations that marked World Mi ...
• 21 October 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Let us go to the feast, Jesus awaits us”: on October 24, the Mass for Children in Buenos Aires concludes soup-kitchen campaign Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Let us go to the feast, Jesus awaits us” is the theme of the traditional Archdiocesan Mass for Children, which Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, will celebrat ...
• 21 October 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Jesus' message “is communicated to us and calls us to be messengers of God's love” - Bishop Oscar Aparicio's homily on World Mission Sunday La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - “We are called to fill ourselves with God's love so we can transmit it to others,” as it becomes “part of our nature.” This is what Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Aparicio of La Paz said in the h ...
• 21 October 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - E- Conference on Saint Luke prepares for a web audience of over 5,000 Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – Final preparations are underway for the upcoming E-Conference on Saint Luke, a sequel to the previous one on Saint Paul, which will bring together Catholics from all over Australia and all ov ...
• 21 October 2009
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “Forgiveness has a freeing effect, especially for the victims,” says Bishop Biguzzi of Makeni, describing the experience of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In the Seminar Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa, being held in Rome during the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops promoted by the “Giuseppe Toniolo” Instit ...
• 21 October 2009
  AFRICA - Example of the Gacaca Courts in Rwanda and the role of the Church in Burundi for reconciliation and peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The contribution of justice in the process of reconciliation in Africa was debated in the Seminar “Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa” held in Rome, during the Second Special Assemb ...