News

• 19 September 2008
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - UN confirms emergency situation caused by tensions on the Djibouti-Eritrea border Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The situation on the Djibouti-Eritrean border remains volatile after a flaring of tensions on the border in June left over 35 dead and dozens wounded (see Fides 12/6/2008). This is what has been ...
• 18 September 2008
  VATICAN - Pope speaks of his journey to France at the General Audience: “In reality, we are all pilgrims, we need Mary to guide us; and in Lourdes, her smile invites us to go forward with great confidence in the awareness that God is good, God is love.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On September 17, the General Audience was held in the Paul VI Audience Hall, where the Holy Father Benedict XVI, after arriving via helicopter from his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo ...
• 18 September 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - “Varanasi decided to send a peace mission... to spread the message of peace in Orissa.” An interview with the Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Varanasi. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – While there continues to be reports of anti-Christian violence in various Indian states such as Orissa, Karnataka, Madhya Pardesh, and Kerala, the Diocese of Varanasi has sent a peace mis ...
• 18 September 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - World Youth Day in Taiwan (October 9-12) on the themes from WYD in Sydney, with an emphasis on the missionary vocation Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – World Youth Day 2008 in Taiwan will take place October 9-12, taking up the themes addressed in the World Youth Day celebrated in Sydney: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come ...
• 18 September 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Educational training for working with children in the Vicariate of Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – “New wine cannot be poured into old wine skins.” This phrase from the Gospel has been at the heart of the reflection for the training seminar for preschool teachers at the Apostolic Vic ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishop of Colon-Kuna Yala tells Agenzia Fides: “The great challenge is trying to draw the people back into the Church and getting Catholics to live their faith with fidelity, so they can be true witnesses for the community.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The great challenge is that large number of people who live in indifference,” Bishop Ausilio Aguilar of Colon-Kuna Yala (Panama) told Agenzia Fides while he was in Rome, participating in a s ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA - Caritas of Latin America and the Caribbean sends a message of support to Bolivia: “The youth of Bolivia deserve a future full of peace, where harmony and fraternity are the trademark of our cities.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We are pained by the fact that a country of our America, with its poverty and its great faith, is now facing great difficulties in maintaining national unity.” With these words begins the ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops declare September 19 “National Day of Prayer for Peace”: “We hope that sadness and pain will cease to afflict our people and our nation.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We wish to reunite all the faithful for a National Day of Prayer for Peace on Friday, September 19, in which each community is called to pray and carry out a public activity, pilgrimage, com ...
• 18 September 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Over 5 million people at risk for starvation in Kenya, 923 million at risk worldwide Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – At least 5 million people could die of hunger. This is what has been declared by the Kenya Food Security Steering Group. The organization has found that at least 1.3 million people in rural ar ...
• 18 September 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - South Kivu students in eastern Congo protest against the war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The students of Bukavu (the capital of South Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo) have organized peaceful demonstrations protesting the war on the border between nor ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Crossing the desert on foot in search of a better life Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Veronica is 30 years old. She is from Puebla, Mexico and lives in New York with her husband. All day she works for a family living in Manhattan, where she earns 600 dollars a week. She take ...
• 18 September 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Pope and the message of Lourdes: a trustworthy hope interrogates secularism Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Anyone who imagines that a revolution will resolve the problems and the life of a people or a nation for centuries, must think again. France today – like the rest of Europe – is shaken ...
• 17 September 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Paris and Lourdes (7) - “After the example of the great evangelizers from your country, may the missionary spirit which animated so many men and women from France over the centuries, continue to be your pride and your commitment!” Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, September 14, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Holy Father Benedict XVI said Mass at 10am at the “Prairie,” on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the apparit ...
• 17 September 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Paris and Lourdes (8) - “As successors of the Apostles, you represent Christ at the head of the dioceses which have been entrusted to you... the Christian people must regard you with affection and respect.” Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of Sunday, September 14, the Holy Father met with the members of the French Catholic Bishops’ Conference at the Hemicycle Sainte-Bernadette in Lourdes. We offer several extr ...
• 17 September 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Paris and Lourdes (9) - “Within the smile of the Virgin lies mysteriously hidden the strength to fight against sickness and for life.” Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, September 15, at the end of his pastoral visit to Lourdes, the Holy Father visited the Oratoire de l’Hôpital (the Chapel where St. Bernadette received her First Communion), the F ...