News

• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Erection of the Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu and appointment of the first Metropolitan Archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 23, 2008, the Holy Father Benedict XVI created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia), separating it from the Ecclesiastical Province of Kuching. The new Eccle ...
• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Kumbakonam appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 31, 2008, appointed Fr. Francis Antonysamy, of the clergy of Tanjore and parish priest of the Basilica of Vailankanni, as Bishop of Kumbakonam (India). ...
• 3 June 2008
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishop of Yagoua appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 31, 2008, appointed Monsignor Barthélemy Yaouda Hourgo, of the clergy of Maroua-Mokolo and Apostolic Administrator of Yagoua, as Bishop of Yagoua (Ca ...
• 3 June 2008
  VATICAN - In the audience with pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Turin, the Pope announces another “solemn exposition of the Shroud” in 2010: “to contemplate that mysterious face which silently speaks to the hearts of men, inviting them to recognize therein the face of God.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On June 2, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received participants in a pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Turin, led by the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal Severin ...
• 3 June 2008
  VATICAN - “That a true pastoral care and welcome to families of migrants and itinerant people might be the hallmark of the attitude and praxis of the Church towards people in mobility.” Concluding Communiqué from the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The family is the way of the Church and pastoral care directed at the migrant’s and itinerant’s family particularly aims at the integration (which is not assimilation), and/or the ...
• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Returning from the earthquake zone, the first volunteers and religious sisters share their experience of faith lived in the midst of a desperate people Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics in He Bei have welcomed their “witnesses to the faith” with arms wide open: the first volunteers, including religious sisters who arrived on the site of the wreckage immed ...
• 3 June 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Biblical formation and pilgrimage in the footsteps of Saint Paul, in preparation for the inauguration of the Pauline Year Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Biblical formation and pilgrimage in the footsteps of Saint Paul, in Asia Minor, are the initiatives being promoted by the Diocese of Hong Kong in anticipation for the upcoming celebrati ...
• 3 June 2008
  AMERICA/CANADA - 49th International Eucharistic Congress: Youth Space, prayer vigil, Family Day, and Youth Service are among the activities planned for youth Quebec City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Marc Ouellet and the 2008 International Eucharistic Congress (IEC 2008) organizers invite young people aged 18 to 35 to take part in events to be held June 15 to 22. Youth Space, a ...
• 3 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - After two years, “Misión Joven” concludes in Madrid with a consecration to the Heart of Jesus in Cerro de los Angeles Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, June 6, the Ecclesiastical Province of Madrid (which includes the Dioceses of Madrid, Alcala de Henares, and Getafe) will celebrate the closing ceremony for “Misión Joven” (Yout ...
• 3 June 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Extraordinary meeting for the Bishops’ Permanent Commission, for the climate of hostility and the threat to social peace Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On June 5, the Argentinean Bishops’ Conference will hold an “extraordinary meeting” of the Permanent Commission, in efforts to face the climate of hostility and the threat to social ...
• 3 June 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI’s Message: “Hunger and malnutrition are unacceptable in a world which has, in fact, levels of production, resources and knowledge sufficient to put an end to such dramas and their consequences.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The growing globalization of trade markets does not always favor the availability of food and the systems of productivity are often conditioned by limited structures, as well as protec ...
• 3 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - FAO Conference: the alarming statistics on the world food crisis. Climate changes, rise in fuel costs and speculative activity are the central points of the meeting Rome (Agenzia Fides) – 862 million of the world’s poor suffer from malnutrition or live on less than two dollars a day, the majority living in developing countries. This is the dramatic starting point for the FAO’s ...
• 3 June 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Do not remain only on the aspect of security in order to understand migration,” said Cardinal Martino in the African Meeting on migration inaugurated in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Migration is “constantly on the policy agendas of governmental legislative bodies. There remains, however, the suspicion that the phenomena of migration may not be perceived in all their com ...
• 3 June 2008
  AFRICA - African programs for improving the continent’s food self-sufficiency Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To improve African small farmers’ access to the market and increase the use of better technologies in agricultural production. These are some of the measures being taken to reach food self-suff ...
• 2 June 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus invites all: “to renew his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Christ,” that expresses in a simple and authentic way the “glad tidings” of love and makes another appeal for the people of China and Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the first Sunday and first day of the month of June, the Holy Father Benedict XVI dedicated his address prior to the recitation of the Angelus with the faithful gathered in Saint Peter ...