News

• 22 July 2009
  ASIA/THAILAND - Don Bosco Home for evangelizing youth of ethnic minorities Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Don Bosco Home, located in the Diocese of Chiang Mai, is finally a reality. The Salesians of Thailand have officially opened the multi-purpose pastoral center for youth from ethnic minority gr ...
• 22 July 2009
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on July 22, 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) presented by Bishop Paulino Do L ...
• 22 July 2009
  MISSIONARY INTENTION - Holy Father's Missionary Prayer Intention for August 2009: “That those Christians who are discriminated against and persecuted in many Countries because of the name of Christ may have their human rights, equality and religious freedom recognized, in order to be able to live and profess their own faith freely.” Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the Decree “Dignitatis humanae,” the Second Vatican Council declares that “ the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune fr ...
• 21 July 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Importance of reserves of coltan and other minerals being used to fuel the war in North and South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The mineral resources of North and South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) are what have been fueling a conflict that has been going on for over 12 years now. This is what is explai ...
• 21 July 2009
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Refugees return, but the operations are not enough Dili (Agenzia Fides) – The drama of those who have been forced to leave their homes, lands, and all they own, because of the violence and conflict, is all too familiar to the people of East Timor. The nation, from its ...
• 21 July 2009
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cardinal Jaime Ortega: “A mantel of sorrow and pain has covered our Archdiocese of Havana since we learned of the terrible assassination of Fr. Mariano Arroyo.” Havana (Agenzia Fides) - “A mantel of sorrow and pain has covered our Archdiocese of Havana since the morning of Monday, July 12, when we learned of the terrible assassination of Fr. Mariano Arroyo. The details of the ...
• 21 July 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Cardinal Cipriani, Special Envoy at the IV Centennial Celebration of the Diocese of Ayacucho, asks that foundational missionary spirit be maintained Ayacucho (Agenzia Fides) – This Monday, July 20, in Ayacucho's Plaza de Armas, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani presided as Pontifical Legate of Pope Benedict XVI, the Thanksgiving Mass in honor of the 400th anniversary of ...
• 21 July 2009
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Church in Egypt mourns the death of Mother Marie Georgette Habashy, a prominent figure in the local Catholic community Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Egypt has lost one of its leading figures: Mother Marie Georgette Habashy, former Superior General of the “Egyptian Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” who was the ...
• 21 July 2009
  AFRICA/ERITREA - 12 priests ordained: highest number in the history of the Church in Eritrea Asmara (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Eritrea is celebrating the ordination of 12 priests. According to a report sent to Agenzia Fides from Fr. Kibrom Tseggai, Director of the Office for Social Communications ...
• 21 July 2009
  ASIA/LAOS - Small Church in Laos remembers Bishop Vorachak, Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – A community in mourning, united in their sorrow but with a steadfast faith in the eternal embrace of the Father, has remembered the figure of Bishop Jean Sommeng Vorachak, Apostolic Vicar ...
• 21 July 2009
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Niamkey Konanko Health Center inaugurated, to serve 25,000 persons Niamkey Konanko (Agenzia Fides) – The Jesuits' information services have issued a statement saying that a new Health Center was recently inaugurated in Niamkey Konanko, Ivory Coast. Father Umberto Libralato, vice-presi ...
• 21 July 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - At the opening of the Year for Priests, prayer with photo of all the priests of the Archdiocese of Beijing distributed, to encourage daily prayer for priests Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The text of the prayer for priests for the Year for Priests, with photos and a brief biography of each of the diocese's 50 priests was distributed to all the faithful at the solemn celebration ...
• 21 July 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father sends greetings to Tour de France in Valle d'Aosta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has released the following statement today from Director Fr. Federico Lombardi: “On the occasion of the passing of the Tour de France through Valle d'Aosta, th ...
• 21 July 2009
  VATICAN - July 27-31, annual meeting of the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation's Administrative Council for financing projects for indigenous mixed race and Afro-American rural communities of Latin America and the Caribbean Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the administrative council of the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation is due to be held from 27 to 31 July at the Schwerte Catholic Academy in the archdiocese of Paderbo ...
• 20 July 2009
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - 150th anniversary of the death of the founder of the Society of African Missions: a missionary's testimony Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - “When this pilgrimage to Freetown for celebrating the 150th anniversary of the death of our founder and his first companions was first proposed, many of our brothers in the order thought that ...