News

• 15 October 2007
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops appeal in view of elections on November 4: “May our country be ruled by Law and Justice, so we may walk towards sustainable and inclusive development to ensure everyone a more worthy life" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "We encourage citizens to participate with responsibility. The legitimacy of the presidential elections will depend on the percentage of voters who exercise their right to vote”: this ...
• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Love, the source of the missionary vocation” is the Mission Sunday theme in Poland chosen in keeping with the local Church's pastoral programme 2006/2007 Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland prepared material for animation and celebration of World Mission Sunday on the theme “Love, the source of the missionary vocation” which PMS nationa ...
• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni web site also in Spanish Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 October the feast day of St Daniele Comboni, the Comboni Missionary Sisters opened the Spanish page of the Institute's official web site www.comboniane.org. A statement sent to Fides said the ...
• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Bishops' Commission for the Evangelisation of Peoples and cooperation among Churches issues a statement on the 50th anniversary of the Fide donum Encyclical Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church in Italy gives thanks to the Lord for the hundreds of fidei donum priests and many lay men and women sent on mission in these past fifty years, and encourages those who are living thi ...
• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - First anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Filippo Smaldone, Apostle of the deaf: new missionary challenges for the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 17 October a delegation of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts founded by Saint Filippo Smaldone (1848-1923), accompanied by the mother general, Sr Maria Longo and Archbishop Cos ...
• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - National Youth Pro vita Congress discusses pro-life policies, bio-ethics, abortion and assistance for women: "We bet on real, positive change committed to protect life" Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 students from all over Spain will gather in Valencia, for a 3 day National Pro-Life Youth Congress to discuss discusses pro-life policies, bio-ethics, abortion and assistance for women ...
• 12 October 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Do not forget Southern Sudan. There is not only Darfur” says a missionary after southern Sudan ministers withdraw from national government Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “While then international community focuses on Darfur, they are forgetting Southern Sudan thinking that with the peace agreement in 2005 this region is now paradise on earth! They fail to real ...
• 12 October 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Precarious situation in north Kivu after rebel general Nkunda announced a cessation of hostilities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- There is a very precarious calm in the east of Democratic del Congo after a unilateral cease fire declaration was made by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. Although clashes between the army and Nkund ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Series of multimedia products for evangelisation in view of Mission Sunday and the 150th anniversary of the evangelisation of southern Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The executive Commission of the Voice of the Catholic Church Association of Taiwan, the Communications office of the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference, asked Kuangchi Program Service and Guan ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Web site in memory of Chaldean Catholic priest Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed recently, and to defend the presence of Iraqi Christians in their homeland Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraq's Chaldean Catholic community has announced the imminent opening of a web site in memory of Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed by insurgents in Mosul. The web site will also defend ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is now “de facto” abolitionist of capital punishment, to the satisfaction of Christians and civil rights associations Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Since there have been no executions in South Korea for ten years the Republic is now an abolitionist “de facto”, although officially the death penalty is still part of the country's juridical ...
• 12 October 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - 1st National Catholic Church Assembly: “let us reawaken missionary ardour in our Church in Latin America … like Juan Diego we must go out to evangelise with in one hand the Bible and in the other a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary " Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Some five hundred people are gathered for the 1st National Assembly of the Catholic Church in Chile which opened on Wednesday 10 October with a Mass presided by Cardinal Francisco Javier Erráz ...
• 12 October 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - With enthusiasm and spiritual preparation Salesian Youth Movement members prepare for World Youth Day next year Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - World Youth Day 2008 will be a meeting of different charisma in the Church, of young members of different lay associations and diverse spiritual paths. Besides sharing experience and ides with ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Pope appoints Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 12 October 2007, appointed Rev. Joseph Dang Duc Ngan, as Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Viêt Nam). Until now Rev Joseph Dang Duc Ngan was vicar ge ...
• 12 October 2007
  AMERICA/JAMAICA The Pope appoints Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston-in-Jamaica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 12 October 2007, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston-in-Jamaica (Jamaica) Bishop Donald Reece, until now Bishop of the diocese of Saint John’ ...