News

• 24 November 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Participate in the vote, contribute to democratic debate: the Bishops of South Africa prepare for 2009 elections Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “For Democracy to live, we all need to participate. For Christian voters, this participation is a serious obligation,” this is how the South African Bishops are inviting local Catholics ...
• 24 November 2008
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Community of Saint Egidio calls abolition of the death penalty “a historic decision” Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “The Parliament in Burundi has abolished the death penalty in the country, adopting a new penal code with 90 votes in favor, none against, and 10 abstentions. Now that the Great Lakes Region ...
• 24 November 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - Bishops ask all faithful to learn from Fr. Olallo's example of charity, prayer, and service, as they celebrate his Beatification on November 29 Camagüey (Agenzia Fides) - “As we prepare for the Marian Jubilee Year, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the image of Our Lady of “La Caridad,” we hope that the example of holiness left by Fath ...
• 24 November 2008
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The VI Latin American and Caribbean Encounter on Prison Ministry seeks common guidelines, in the spirit of the Aparecida Document and the Continental Mission Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – From November 24-28, the city of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) will be hosting the VI Latin American and Caribbean Encounter on Prison Ministry, organized by the Department of Justi ...
• 24 November 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Church's appeal for the victims of the recent heavy rains. “Help Your Church” collection organized for November 29-30 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Venezuela, through Caritas Venezuela, has made an appeal to solidarity for those brethren suffering from the results of the recent heavy rains that have hit the country, ...
• 24 November 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops begin their Plenary Assembly on “Mission and Family,” in the Galapagos Islands, now raised to Apostolic Vicariate Galapagos (Agenzia Fides) – From November 24-28, the Ecuadorian Bishops will be holding their CCXI Plenary Assembly on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos, on the theme: “Mission and Family.” In the first part of the ...
• 24 November 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells members of the Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni: “May Saint Andrew help you to increasingly rediscover the importance and urgency of bearing witness to the Gospel in every part of society.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, November 22, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received a large representation from the Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni, who had come to Rome on a pilgrimage with the relic ...
• 24 November 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - The beatification of Fray Jose Olallo Valdes in Cuba, a call to “a more concrete commitment to serving those who suffer” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a cause for great joy among the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God, this discovery of another example of holiness right here among our own, a confirmation of the importance of the spir ...
• 24 November 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Grief and indignation at the murder of another Radio Okapi journalist Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) – Great grief and indignation arose in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), at the murder of Didace Namujimbo, a journalist of Radio Okapi, informational agen ...
• 21 November 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit of Taiwan, active in China since, celebrated Mission Sunday with the beatification of their co-foundress Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) – The community of Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit in Taiwan celebrated Mission Sunday on October 19, with the beatification of their co-foundress, Mother Josepha Hendrina Stenma ...
• 21 November 2008
  AMERICA/ANTILLES - “Pro Orantibus” Day - Nuns from the Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of the Assumption in Saint Lucia, go to Africa Saint Lucia (Agenzia Fides) – The Monastery of Coubaril is located on the island of Saint Lucia, in the Antilles, a former English colony that gained its independence in 1979, while remaining part of the British Common ...
• 21 November 2008
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - “Pro Orantibus” Day - In 45 years' time, the Redemptorists have opened two monasteries, with a positive response among Burkina's youth Diabo (Agenzia Fides) – The Redemptorist Sisters, founded in 1731 by Italian religious Mother Maria Celeste Crostarosa, are now present on all the continents of the world. In southern Africa, they are in Burkina Faso, ...
• 21 November 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - The Christians of Orissa make a plea for justice and security, as Christmas approaches New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Justice and security: these are the main requests being made by the Christian community in Orissa to the central government, two months following the outbreak of anti-Christian violence, as ...
• 21 November 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life: “Monasticism can, for all forms of religious and consecrated life, become a reminder of what is of essential and primary importance for all the baptized: seeking Christ and placing nothing before His love.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “By virtue of the absolute primacy reserved by Christ, monasteries are called to be which room is given for celebrating the glory of God, where the mysterious yet real divine presence in ...
• 21 November 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Heart of Jesus opens us the way to the mission, to become missionaries wherever we are.” The Archdiocese of Toledo prepares to renew its Consecration to the Heart of Jesus this Sunday. Toledo (Agenzia Fides) – This Sunday, November 23, Solemnity of Christ the King, the Archdiocese of Toledo (Spain) will renew its consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a Mass in the Cathedral, presided by the Ar ...