News

• 9 October 2007
  ASIA/JAPAN - Beatification of 188 Japanese martyrs in Nagasaki on 24 November will be presided by Cardinal Saraiva Martins Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Japan is waiting expectantly for the beatification of 188 Martyrs on 24 November. The Mass for the beatification will be presided by the Pope's representative Cardinal Jo ...
• 9 October 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cheongju diocese opens Synod on 50th anniversary of foundation Cheongju (Agenzia Fides) - Cheongju diocese opened a Diocesan Synod with a solemn Mass presided by Bishop Gabriel Chang Bong-hun. The diocese will celebrate the 50th anniversary of foundation in 2008. In a message “Jes ...
• 9 October 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Family Day part of traditional Chinese Autumn festival brings family members together Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - For the diocese of Hong Kong which has been celebrating 2007 as the Year of the Family, the traditional Autumn Chinese festival dedicated to family unity was also Diocesan Family Day, to stres ...
• 9 October 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Thousands take part in Pro Life and the Family March: many new laws have impoverished families and marriage and wormed their way into the conscience of the younger members of society Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of people said “Yes” to life and the family on Saturday October 6 taking part the Pro Life and the Family March organised by the Santiago de Chile diocesan Commission for ...
• 9 October 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Family Week presents true Catholic teaching on marriage and the family, the 'domestic church' Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - 'The Family transmitter of Life' is the theme of Family Days and Family Week organised by Bolivian Life and Family Foundation 8-14 October in the 14 dioceses in the regions of Santa Cruz, Oru ...
• 9 October 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Helping the Missions, Love in Action" theme of Mission Sunday in Argentina Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Helping the Missions, Love in Action" is the theme of Mission Sunday this year, which Catholics in Argentina celebrate on Sunday 14 October, Fr. Jairo Calderón Benavidez national director ...
• 9 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Sisters of Loreto work with poor young people in rural areas and on mission ad gentes in Vietnam Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to them young people in rural communities in Australia are able to study and grow in the faith; thanks to them young people of poor families in Vietnam have food, medical care and the ...
• 9 October 2007
  AMERICA/PANAMA - 15% of the world's population suffers from depression, an indisposition which is becoming a social evil in Panama Panama (Agenzia Fides) - During Sunday Mass Fr José Domingo Ulloa said depression had become a social evil in Panama. He said depression leads many to assume to dangerous attitudes putting their own lives and those of ...
• 9 October 2007
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Global Health panel discussion at Italian embassy in Washington Washington (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Global Health in the 21st century: a Road Map for International Collaboration’ is the theme of an international panel discussion at the Italian Embassy in Washington on 11 and 12 October ...
• 8 October 2007
  VATICAN - “Proclamation of the Gospel is still the first service that the Church owes humanity, to offer Christ's salvation to every man and woman of our day and to orient cultural, social and moral changes in a Christian sense” says Pope Benedict XVI at the midday Angelus prayer recalling the 50th anniversary of the Fide Donum Encyclical - He calls on Catholics to pray the Rosary for peace Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “This first Sunday in October offers us to motives for prayer and reflection: the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of the Rosary, which falls today, and missionary commitment to wh ...
• 8 October 2007
  VATICAN - “When at stake there are the fundamental demands of the dignity of the human person, of human life, of the institution of the family, the equity of social order, in other words fundamental human rights, no man made law can overturn the norms the Creator has inscribed on the human heart”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses International Theological Commission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Receiving in Audience in the Vatican in the late morning of 5 October the Members of the International Theological Commission on the occasion of the Commission's plenary session, the Holy F ...
• 8 October 2007
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias presides Mass De Spiritu Sancto for the inauguration of the new academic year at the Pontifical Urban University: “Without God's compassion and love for the poor, all science is useless” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We come from different countries but we are one family. Many bear the wounds of every country, wars, hunger, social problems, and we are here not to complain but to prepare to be mission ...
• 8 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Sunday 28 October in Rome, the most numerous beatification in Church history: about 500 martyrs killed in Spain's 20th century religious persecutions Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 28 October in St Peter's Square in Rome there will be the most numerous beatification in Church history during which almost 500 martyrs of religious persecution in Spain in the 1930s of l ...
• 8 October 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Water, petroleum, regional and global interests: Somalia's chaos derives not only from the activity of the local players Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- Uganda has announced a new peace initiative for Somalia while from the tormented Horn of Africa country reports of fresh clashes continue to arrive. Ngoma Ngime, special envoy of Ugandan presid ...
• 8 October 2007
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The UN denounces explosion of sexual violence in Kivu. A missionary says: “Congolese women, not resigned, struggle every day for their rights” Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)-“Sexual abuse as a weapon has been used for some time against civilians. As in every war women are the first victims. At last the world is talking about it” said a Missionary in the east of Dem ...