News

• 5 July 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Salvatorians celebrate 50 years serving the poor Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) - “Mission, spirituality and identity are the charisma of Salvatorian men and women religious and lay persons ”, says the Salvatorian Mission Association for Latin America started in Sp ...
• 5 July 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Neither politicians, nor legislators nor authorities can expect doctors to start practising abortion killing the smallest and most helpless of human beings ”: says Catholic Doctors Consortium Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides,) - "Abortion is always and without exception direct murder of a human person" the Buenos Aires Catholic Doctors Consortium CDC said in a statement issued to counter attempts by the public hea ...
• 5 July 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “It is time to put aside fear, indifference, selfishness which render us insensitive to the suffering of others ”: Colombian Bishops appeal against violence and hostage taking Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Colombia have condemned the killing of 11 members of parliament taken hostage by the FARC-EP five years ago. In the statement issued during their plenary assembly and sign ...
• 4 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Polish (2) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - History and geography. Poland, Rzeczpospolita Polska in Polish, is a central European country with a population of about 38 million and it has borders with the following countries Germany, ...
• 4 July 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - "The joy of following the Lord Jesus", Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The proverbial scene of the doubting Thomas that occurred eight days after Easter is very well known. At first he did not believe that Jesus had appeared in his absence and said: "Unless ...
• 4 July 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - October Mission Week 14 - 21: an opportunity for every baptised Catholic to give new impulse to prayer and offerings in support of the Church's missionary activity Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in France are preparing for 'World Mission Week' 14 - 21 October which culminates on Mission Sunday 21 October. Parishes and church movements all over the country, each according to its ...
• 4 July 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Enforced 50% cut in prime necessities prices could do more harm than good Harare (Agenzia Fides)- The government decision to enforce a 50% cut in retail prices has thrown Zimbabwe economy into chaos. Newspapers in Harare, the capital, describe a dramatic situation with foods shops with nothin ...
• 4 July 2007
  OCEANIA/ FIJI - Catholic Archbishop of Suva proposes “ social pact” to build a new democracy Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Archbishop of Suva Petero Mataca, writing in the Fiji Times, highlighted two fundamental questions in the life of Fiji as a nation: a government proposal to build a better country for ...
• 4 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Africa, a challenge for the world and for the Church” theme of 60th Burgos Missiology Week: 50 years since the publication of the Fidei Donum encyclical Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa, a challenge for the world and for the Church” is the theme of theme of 60th Missiology Week, 50 years since the Encyclical Fidei Donum, which will take place in Burgos 9 to 13 July. Th ...
• 4 July 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 2nd International Missiology Symposium in preparation for Third American Mission Congress - CAM 3 and the Great Continental Mission Quito (Agenzia Fides) - From 30 July to 3 August 3 the city of Quito in Ecuador will host the 2nd International Missiology Symposium “Anthropology and Pastoral of Mission": a new lap on the path of preparation for Thi ...
• 4 July 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Plenary assembly on 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida in the light of the Plenary Council of Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Venezuela are meeting for the 88th plenary assembly 2-7 July. The event is a "opportunity to meet and fraternal sharing of the mission which the Lord Jesus, through his Church, en ...
• 4 July 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Australia can do more for Sudan” says Sudanese Bishop Tombura-Yambio on a visit to Australia, where the Sudanese community is growing rapidly Adelaide (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Tombura-Yambio in Southern Sudan, Bishop Joseph Abangite Gasi, recently visited Adelaide to thank the Australians for their humanitarian aid. On his first ...
• 4 July 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Pope appoints Bishop of Dedza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 4 July 2007, appointed Rev. Emmanuele Kanyama of the clergy of Dedza, parish priest and teacher at the Kachebere Seminary for Philosophy, Bishop of De ...
• 4 July 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Pope accepts the resignation of the Bishop of Lilongwe and appoints successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 4 July 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Lilongwe (Malawi), presented by Bishop Felix Eugenio Mkhori, in confor ...
• 3 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Polish (1) The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The noble son of Poland, the venerated and venerable Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, successor of Peter with the name John Paul II, had at heart the Christian roots of Europe as it is seen from the ...