News

• 18 March 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Death of Bishop of Torit Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek, Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) died at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi on Sunday night, March 17. According to the Catholic Radio Network Mgr. Mutek was rushed to the ho ...
• 18 March 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Roman meetings between Patriarch Rai and political Lebanese leaders on the electoral law Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today consultations between the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Boutros Bechara Rai and political leaders of the Lebanese delegation, who arrived in the City to attend the opening Mass of the ...
• 15 March 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Pope Francis, we are looking forward to having you in China": Chinese Catholics welcome Pope Francis with great enthusiasm and happiness Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In communion with the Universal Church the Chinese Catholics welcome Pope Francis with great enthusiasm and happiness. At 5 am on March 14, the first masses of the parishes of Beijing ded ...
• 15 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Hope for a better future," the people gladly welcome the election of the newly elected Pope Francis Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The whole Christian community in Pakistan was very happy for the election of the new Pope, a man of God and a deeply spiritual person" This is what was reported to Fides Agency by father Mushtaq ...
• 15 March 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Pastoral Care of Migrants also involves the parishes Comayagua (Agenzia Fides) - There are 10 parishes involved in the Pastoral Care of Migrants (PMH in Spanish) in the Diocese of Comayagua. Sister Lidia Mara Silva de Souza, national coordinator of the PMH, attended the el ...
• 15 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Schools destroyed by bombs because they are considered a symbol of the State and of modern western education Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks on the school buildings by the Pakistani Taliban continue. Among the latest allegations a bomb exploded on February 16 in the village of Kadi, Swabi district, province of Khiber Pakhtu ...
• 15 March 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Coptic church in Benghazi set on fire Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic church in Benghazi was set on fire by unknown persons. The event took place yesterday, March 14. According to reports from the site of the "The Libya Herald" newspaper, unknown assail ...
• 15 March 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Why do so many by-elections deprive hospitals of the funds they need?" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – A new appeal on behalf of religious leaders of Zambia to stop political violence linked to the partial renewal of the Parliament. Like the previous one on 27 February (see Fides 28/02/2013), e ...
• 15 March 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nearly 800,000 people have been killed by gunfire in the last 30 years Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies (CeBeLa) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), presented a study on deaths caused by firearms in the last decades in Brazil ...
• 14 March 2013
  VATICAN - The Argentine Bergoglio elected Pope of the Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Argentine, 76, a Jesuit, is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is the first Pope to be called Francis and he is the first South American in the histor ...
• 14 March 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The joy and the prayer of Pope Francis’ compatriots Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz and President of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina (CEA), His Exc. Mgr. José Maria Arancedo sent a note to the newly elected Pope Francis, in ...
• 14 March 2013
  VATICAN - The missionary world celebrates the election of Francis, a Pope close to the poor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis is a man of great pastoral ability of strong faith, a man of prayer and very close to the priests, the elderly, the poor, and above all, a man who emphasized the missionary co ...
• 14 March 2013
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Enthusiasm for the new Pope and waiting for further progress against hunger and poverty Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The echo of the election of the new Pontiff, Pope Francis, is felt even among Catholic organizations. Among these, great joy was expressed by the NGO Manos Unidas of the Spanish Church, which exp ...
• 14 March 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - 70 000 Indian children exploited in 5000 coal mines Shillong (Agenzia Fides) – From a bamboo ladder children descend into humid wells up to 20 meters deep, they crouch to get into a hole 60 cm wide and crawl in the mud for 90 metres before starting their long day of wor ...
• 14 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - "We look forward to having Pope Francis in Africa," says the Bishop of Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to open a humanitarian corridor to get aid to the population and evacuate people in need of treatment" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangas ...