News

• 29 April 2008
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “The Holy Father’s words are an incentive for the international community to take greater interest in Burundi,” the country’s Apostolic Nuncio says. Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “We are very grateful to the Holy Father for the appeal for Burundi. It is a way to remind the international community of the country’s situation, so that they can make a greater effort in ...
• 29 April 2008
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Holy Father will deliver the homily for the closing Mass of the 49th International Eucharistic Congress on the 400th anniversary of Quebec City Quebec City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec, made a special invitation to the city’s inhabitants to participate in the closing ceremony of the 49th International Eucharistic Congress (IEC ...
• 29 April 2008
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Preparations for CAM 3 conclude in Costa Rica, after four years of hard work San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - The formation meetings for study of the CAM 3 Manual and the forming of the national delegation for the Congress, which will be celebrated in Quito in August of this year, concluded in Costa Ri ...
• 29 April 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Great Mission of Lima begins “to help all people to find and nurture a vital relationship with Christ, our hope.” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Great Mission of Lima began on Monday, April 28, feast of St. Toribio de Mogrovejo, with a Solemn Mass and procession with an image and relic of the saint. Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, A ...
• 29 April 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops speak out on the education system debate: “The education battle should not be won or lost by any party, because values and rights cannot be placed to a vote.” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference has issued a statement to the public in order to present its position on some of the aspects of education in the country at this time. “Education is a mat ...
• 29 April 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Laying of the cornerstone for the Saint Francis Institute for University Studies Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to an agreement signed between the Royal Agricultural University and the Catholic Church in Cambodia, a new Institute for University Studies named after Saint Francis of Assisi has beg ...
• 29 April 2008
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Crisis in Mogadishu continues to worsen Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Every day, the situation worsens in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city where fighting between military soldiers of the transitional government, supported by Ethiopian troops, and Islamic mili ...
• 29 April 2008
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Spring Scalabrini-Fest on “Let He who is ‘the first of all: Christ, the Head of the Body’ find us and send us” Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25-27, the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries hosted the Scalabrini Spring Fest, in the Swiss town of Solothurn, where they are based. The event was open to anyone interested in findin ...
• 29 April 2008
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Darfur drama so far: 300,000 dead; over 2,000,000 driven from their homes; 260,000 refugees in neighboring countries Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - A conflict that has been ongoing since 2003, claiming the lives of over 300,000 people. This is the drama of Darfur, a region of western Sudan, where since February 2003, a series of armed grou ...
• 29 April 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - The mission among the tribes in northeastern India, the Church offers the valuable service of education. Testimony from two Bishops to Agenzia Fides. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - They are small communities, that with very little resources, spread the Gospel with simplicity in remote and hard to reach areas. With silent dedication, priests, religious, missionaries, a ...
• 28 April 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI encourages the new priests to “spread the joy and hope that flow from the Gospel” and launches appeals for African nations Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Joy and hope for the newly ordained priests and for his apostolic journey to the United States of America, a greeting to the Eastern Churches celebrating Easter, and an appeal for Africa: t ...
• 28 April 2008
  VATICAN - Pope ordains 29 priests: “May the hope rooted in faith, be always and increasingly yours! May you be witnesses and be wise and generous givers, sweet and strong, respectful and confident.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the VI Sunday of Easter, April 27, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, during which 29 deacons (28 from the Diocese of Rome and 1 from Propaganda Fide ...
• 28 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Moving testimony of the life and faith of Cardinal Paul Shan in “A Timeless Dialogue - farewell parting from life (on the earth)” Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “I am like the Lord’s kangaroo, that hops to wherever he is needed,” “the tumor is my second guardian angel that reminds me to cherish every moment I have left in ‘my race,’ as Saint ...
• 28 April 2008
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Youth preparing for WYD Singapore City (Agenzia Fides) - There is a group of about 100 young pilgrims from among Singapore’s Catholic community that will attend World Youth Day in Sydney this year. As they are in need of material and spiritua ...
• 28 April 2008
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rector of the Philosophical Interdiocesan Major Seminary “George F. Singha,” in Brazzaville appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 22 February 2008, appointed Father Antonio Mabiala, of the clergy of the diocese of Pointe-noire, Recto ...