News

• 24 June 2009
  VATICAN - Ave Maria: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The Year of the Priesthood Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of the Priesthood inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI is a great occasion of grace, above all for those of us who are priests, to rediscover and to reflect on our vocation as servants ...
• 23 June 2009
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Catholic Bishops of Vietnam begin Ad Limina to the Holy See - The situation of the Catholic Church in Vietnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Ad Limina Apostolorum Visit of the Bishops of Vietnam, 22 June, Fides will publish information on the life of the local Catholic Church, other religions present, th ...
• 23 June 2009
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - First Meeting for Novices, postulants and seminarians in Cambodia Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time, on Thursday 18 June, all the novices, postulants and seminarians of Cambodia gathered together for a day of pray and reflection organised by the Catholic Seminary of Phn ...
• 23 June 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Taiwan parish dedicated to the Apostle of the Nations, plans solemn celebrations to close the Year of St Paul Hsin Chuang (Agenzia Fides) – A great Concert dedicated to the closing of the Year of St Paul will be held on 28 June, vigil of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, at St Paul's Catholic Parish Church, archdiocese of Ta ...
• 23 June 2009
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “I am in my diocese. Shall I not share the plight of my children?”. The Catholic Church in Sierra Leone commemorates the first Vicar Apostolic on the 150th anniversary of his death Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- Catholics in Sierra Leone are commemorating Bishop Melchior de Marion de Brésillac, the country's Vicar Apostolic, who died 150 years ago. On the occasion of the anniversary Italian Xaverian mi ...
• 23 June 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Madagascar amidst hopes and uncertainties prepares to celebrate annual National Holiday, while the south continues to suffer hunger and thirst Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- While Madagascar waits anxiously for national dialogue to begin, the country is preparing to celebrate the annual National Holiday on 26 June. “The situation is calm, although both the pol ...
• 23 June 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase with string”: it is unacceptable that three women should be raped and forced into slavery and prostitution, it is unacceptable that people from a rich continent like Africa arrive in the north of the world along paths of blackmail and a thousand threats Rome (Agenzia Fides) - It is unacceptable that three women should be raped and forced into slavery and prostitution. It is unacceptable that that a girl of 15 should cross a desert alone, accompanied only by death. It is ...
• 23 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Circus Maximus in Rome to host Italy's third National Eucharistic Gathering, animated by young members of more than 100 different associative realities, Saturday/Sunday night 27 and 28 June Rome (Agenzia Fides) - During the night 27 / 28 June 2009 there will be the third edition of Italy's National Eucharistic Gathering, animated by young people in the nocturnal setting of Rome's famous Circus Maximus. Man ...
• 23 June 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Catholic weekly Niedziela opens new Year of the Priesthood web site with texts of the Magisterium and testimony on the part of members of faithful on priests whom they have encountered in their lives Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – “Fidelity of Christ, Fidelity of the Priest - Year of the Priesthood” is the title of a web site launched by Poland's Catholic weekly Niedziela, and inaugurated for the Year of the Pri ...
• 23 June 2009
  VATICAN - Closing Day of the Year of St Paul with Benedict XVI in St Paul's Basilica; Papal Letter appointing seven Cardinal Envoys to closing celebrations in 'St Paul' places Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 28 June at 6pm in St Paul's Basilica in Rome, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will preside solemn Vespers on the occasion of the closing of the Year of St Paul. Monday 29 June, at 5.3 ...
• 22 June 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Council of the Alcide De Gasperi Foundation: “may the memory of his experience of government and his Christian witness be of encouragement and impulse for those who have in their hands the destiny of Italy and other peoples ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Formed at the school of the Gospel, De Gasperi expressed the faith he professed with concrete and coherent action. Spirituality and politics were two dimensions which lived side by sid ...
• 22 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Because the food crisis over one million people in the world suffer from hunger, rich countries also affected Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Because of the present food crisis, hunger, which already affects large sectors of the world population, threatens to reach a new dramatic record level. One sixth of the people on our planet, tha ...
• 22 June 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase with string”: Mexicans abandoned as far as 600km away from their villages. And Mexican women! Deported at the age of 17. The most vulnerable, in places where there is no one to help them. Nogales Arizona (Agenzia Fides) – We are in Nogales Arizona, a city which borders on Nogales Sonora, another city in Mexico. Hundreds of migrants deported from the United States back to Mexico pass through here every d ...
• 22 June 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - “Today as the Year of the Priesthood opens, let us pray for all our priests”: crowds of faithful attend initiatives in dioceses and parishes; new web pages, publications Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Solemn Celebration of the Eucharist, Adoration, special prayers for priests all over the world, new pages on Catholic web sites, publications on the theme of the priesthood, marked the opening ...
• 22 June 2009
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Solemn opening in Yangon of the Year of the Priesthood Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – A great celebration of prayer and sharing among bishops and priests: this is how the Catholic Church in Myanmar, united heart and mind with the Holy Father, Benedict XVI and the universal Churc ...