News

• 19 May 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - First official gathering of Chinese Catholics in Italy scheduled for May 24 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in history, the Chinese Catholic community in Italy will meet, on the afternoon of May 24, 2008, following the liturgical celebration which will be presided by Cardinal Ivan Dias ...
• 19 May 2008
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop of Bandung appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 17, 2008, appointed Fr. Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta, as Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Semarang. The bishop elect was born December 27 ...
• 19 May 2008
  AMERICA/GUADELOUPE - Resignation of Bishop of Basse-Terre and Pointe-a-Pitre Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on May 15, 2008, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Basse-Terre and Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, presented by Bishop Ernest Mesmi ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - General Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: interview with Archbishop Henryk Hoser, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies is taking place in Rome from 5 to 21 May (see Fides 4/4/2008). The pastoral-formative session on the 15 and 16 May closed on ...
• 19 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops of Castilla-Leon defend the primordial right of parents to a conscientious objection to “Education for Citizenship” Valladolid (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidential Councilor and spokesman for the Castilla-Leon regional government declared that conscientious objections to the school course entitled, “Education for Citizenship” (EpC), ...
• 19 May 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Latin American Bishops ask that the fight against poverty become the focal point for cooperation between the European Union and Latin America/Caribbean Lima (Agencia Fides) - In honor of the celebration of the Fifth Summit Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean with the European Union, celebrated in Lima (Peru), May 13-17, a delegation from CELAM (Latin American Bis ...
• 19 May 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - State of emergency continues following the eruption of the Chaiten volcano in the country’s southern region Chaiten (Agenzia Fides) - Two weeks after the eruption of the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, uncertainty remains. The Church’s aid groups in Chile have raised over 61 million pesos to help victim families in the co ...
• 19 May 2008
  ASIA/QATAR - International Seminar on the Arab Family in the 21st Century: “The demographic winter is becoming the main problem for countries all over the world.” Doha (Agenzia Fides) - The International Seminar on the Arab Family in the 21st Century: Issues and Challenges,” commemorating the International Day of the Family (May 15) was held in Doha (Qatar), organized by the Doh ...
• 19 May 2008
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Conference on cluster bombs, “lethal devices,” begins today in Dublin Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 19, a Conference is being held in the Irish capital city of Dublin, on cluster bombs. It is a type of mechanism that causes grave humanitarian problems, whose consequences can last dec ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Pontifical Mission Societies: “The mission is a task and duty for all Churches, that as communicating vessels share the persons and resources for fulfilling it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 17, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received participants in the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies in an audience in the Clementine Hall (in the Vati ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “Each one of you, dear young people, if you remain united to Christ and the Church, can achieve great things.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, May 18, after his visit to the Gaslini Hospital, the Pope held an encounter with young people in Genoa’s Piazza Matteotti. “You are the youth of Genoa! I embrace you with the Heart ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “May the Gaslini Institute be an authentic ‘sanctuary of life’ and ‘sanctuary of the family,’ where along with the professionality of workers in every area, there is also affection and personal attention.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - At 9am on Sunday, May 18, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made a private visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Guard in Cerànesi-Campomorrone. After adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, the Pope ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “We need to cultivate the same missionary spirit that inspired Saint Paul, with a constant spiritual, ascetic, and pastoral formation.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - After the encounter with young people and the praying of the Angelus on Sunday, May 18, in Genoa's Piazza Matteotti, Benedict XVI went to the city's cathedral of St. Lawrence, where the relics of ...
• 19 May 2008
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Government promotes a conference for donating nations of southeast Asia; two million people still await aid, children among the disaster’s main victims Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Myanmar authorities are planning on organizing a conference in Yangon before the end of the month of May, perhaps even towards the end of this week, for the donating nations of southeast Asia ...
• 19 May 2008
  OCEANIA/NEW CALEDONIA - The first and new evangelization of New Caledonia Nouméa (Agenzia Fides) - There are nearly 8 million Catholics living in Oceania. Six million reside in the two most populated regions, Australia and New Zealand, while the rest are dispersed among the thousands of islan ...