News

• 12 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - File - The Church, a precious resource for society (Rabaul) - The Catholic Church is a valuable resource for the society of Papa New Guinea. Over the past 165 years it has contributed to the development of Papua New Guinea by providing basic services to the population in ...
• 12 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops to the Prime Minister: fight against corruption and more collaboration between Church and state Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The Church and the state are called to work together for the common good: this is the approach of the Bishops of Papua New Guinea who yesterday, during their Plenary Assembly being held in Madang ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "I found signs of hope," said Bishop Bertin who has just returned from Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I found concrete signs of hope even if the new state institutions are not yet in full control of the situation," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apos ...
• 12 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The percentage of Christians in the Palestinian territories has halved over the last 13 years Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The percentage of Christians in the population of the Palestinian territories has halved since the year two thousand, from 2% to 1% over the last 13 years. And in Jerusalem, where in 1948, 27, ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops of Southern Africa demand free and transparent elections Harare (Agenzia Fides) -To ensure transparent elections that take place in a peaceful atmosphere away from violence. This is the request made by a delegation of IMBISA (Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Afric ...
• 11 April 2013
  ASIA/VIET NAM - Christian leader who died in prison: a victim of beatings, the faithful do not believe in suicide Dak Nong (Agenzia Fides) – There are suspicions concerning the death of the Christian leader of the Vietnamese Evangelical Church Hoang Van Ngai (also known as Vam Ngaij Vaj), who died on March 17 while he was in polic ...
• 11 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros II’s secretary: five guidelines to do away with religious conflicts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of palliatives. There is need for concrete measures." This is how Father Makari Habibi, personal secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, ruled in favor of the provisi ...
• 11 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "A missionary Church always communicates the truth": 95th Assembly of Bishops Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The welfare state in the nation, the permanent mission, social media: are, among other themes, at the centre of the 95th Ordinary Meeting of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, which opened ...
• 11 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A casino in front of the Church: the Bishop opposes Cancún (Agenzia Fides) - A casino, which encourages young people to gambling and attracts criminal organizations, was opened in front of a church: as reported to Fides, to block it from functioning and to ask for it to ...
• 11 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops bear witness to the faith on social networks Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands proclaim and bear witness to the faith on social networks, in response to the message for the World Day of Social Communications 2013, which de ...
• 10 April 2013
  VATICAN - The new challenges of evangelization in Africa at hte centre of the XX SMA Assembly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Society has left a profound impression, of which today we can see the fruits that the Holy Spirit has created for the generous contribution of Saint confreres," said Cardinal Fernando ...
• 10 April 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - OAS and government together in the peace process, the truce between the gangs is a first step Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of El Salvador signed a cooperation agreement and the creation of a mission of security assistance to support the process of socia ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Chaldean Bishop Audo: Aleppo is starving Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "One lives day by day. I have the impression that people are more and more exhausted. They have all become poor and everyone is always looking for something to eat for himself and his family. In ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA – Church insulted and defamed in a newspaper of Hindu fundamentalists Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is hell and nuns live a life of hell, abused and battered": are among the statements published yesterday by the newspaper "Charaiveti" (which in Hindi means "Go ahead") published in t ...
• 10 April 2013
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - The lack of clean water threatens the safety of women Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – In the Solomon Islands, there is one of the highest rates of urbanization in the region and infrastructure for basic services are not sufficient to cope with the influx of people moving from t ...