News

• 6 May 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From the “Sisifo syndrome” to authentic peace: the future of Mindanao - Interview with Fr. Eliseo Mercado, missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A territory with endless possibilities that struggle to become a reality; a ball of complex conflicts; a refuge for rebels and terrorists; absolute dominion by the Filipino Islamic community; the ...
• 6 May 2008
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Funds and investments from all over the world: the chance of a lifetime Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The Democratic Republic of Congo has once more become respectable,” said an editorial in the Congolese periodical “Le Potentiel,” dedicated to the intensification of political, and abo ...
• 5 May 2008
  VATICAN - On the Solemnity of the Ascension, Benedict XVI recalls that “Jesus encourages us not to remain looking up at the sky, but to unite ourselves in prayer, invoking the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In His discourses to the disciples, Jesus often insisted on the importance of His ‘return to the Father,’ the crowning of His entire mission. Indeed he came into the world to bring m ...
• 5 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope tells Italy’s Catholic Action: “May you always know how to live up to the greatness of your Baptism, for the salvation of every man you meet and for a world that thirsts for peace and truth.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In a missionary Church, placed before an educational emergency like the one found in Italy today, you who love and serve it should be tireless announcers and prepared, generous educators ...
• 5 May 2008
  VATICAN - “The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice consigned to the past, as if it were an outdated prayer to be recalled with nostalgia. On the contrary, the Rosary is experiencing a new springtime,” the Pope affirmed at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice consigned to the past, as if it were an outdated prayer to be recalled with nostalgia. On the contrary, the Rosary is experiencing a new springtim ...
• 5 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope at the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “the responsibility of Christians to work for peace and justice, their irrevocable commitment to build up the common good, is inseparable from their mission to proclaim the gift of eternal life.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “How can solidarity and subsidiarity work together in the pursuit of the common good in a way that not only respects human dignity, but also allows it to flourish?” This is the central ...
• 5 May 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Four religious sisters from the Congregation of St. Joseph take perpetual vows on the Solemnity of the Ascension Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, May 1, the beginning of the month of Mary and the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, 4 religious sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph, in He ...
• 5 May 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 2,500 faithful attend the consecration of the new Cathedral of the Diocese of Nan Ning Nan Ning (Agenzia Fides) - Over 2,500 faithful from the Diocese of Nan Ning, in the province of Guang Xi, gathered from all over continental China -from Hong Kong to Vietnam- to participate in the solemn consecration and ...
• 5 May 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - “An opportunity for the world to rediscover China”: the China Philharmonic Orchestra pays tribute to the Holy Father with a Chinese note Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “It is...a great honor to be able to play for the Holy Father,” the Director of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Yu Long, told Reuters news agency, as he prepares for the Concert that will ...
• 5 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 3,000 Latin American residents living in Spain celebrate the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples in the Shrine of Torreciudad Huesca (Agencia Fides) - The Shrine of Torreciudad welcomed some 3,000 Latin America residents living in Spain, during the celebration of the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples. The event that takes place every fir ...
• 5 May 2008
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Leaders of seven Christian Churches write a letter of endorsement to the President for his veto of the “Reproductive Health Law” that favors abortion Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of seven Christian Churches (Anglicans, Apostolic Armenians, Baptists, Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Menonites, and Pentecostals), sent a letter to the President of Uruguay, Taba ...
• 5 May 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest murdered by two unidentified hitmen in Mexico City Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, May 2, Fr. Julio Cesar Mendoza Acuña, 33 year-old Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Mexico City, was killed by two unidentified hitmen, according to a report from “Agencia ...
• 5 May 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Norberto Rivera introduces the “Stable Ministry of the Catechist” in the Archdiocese, convinced that “the activity of the lay faithful is becoming increasingly more necessary and invaluable.” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, May 4, the Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, introduced “ad experimentum” for five years, the Ministry of the Catec ...
• 5 May 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Justice and Peace Commission confirms that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission can no longer be relied on as a “neutral and nonpartisan electoral umpire.” Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) can no longer be relied on as a “neutral and nonpartisan electoral umpire.” That was what the Justice and Peace Commission of the Zimbabwean Bishops’ ...
• 5 May 2008
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Crisis in Somaliland, an island of stability in the midst of the Somali chaos, endangers Western strategy in the area Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The violent confrontations carried out between the police and demonstrators last week in Hargeisa, capital city of Somaliland - a Somali region that declared itself independent in 1991 - has in ...