News

• 15 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Contraception is Corruption": Bishops’ Letter for the Christmas Novena Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Contraception corrupts the young" and is "the mother of abortion" says a pastoral Letter released by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, to offer the faithful a "compass" in the ...
• 15 December 2012
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "The attack on life harms development and peace," says the Apostolic Nuncio San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Every attack on life, especially in the beginning, inevitably causes irreparable damage to development, peace and the environment. False rights or freedoms, based on a narrow vision of the hu ...
• 15 December 2012
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Centenary of the Evangelization of Koudougou: an extraordinary opportunity to become more aware of the missionary mandate Koudougou (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time 100 years ago, in 1912, the Good News arrived in the region including the present diocese of Koudougou, in Burkina Faso, starting from the town of Réo, in the province of S ...
• 15 December 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Radical Buddhists attack the churches: Christians call for religious freedom Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Bewilderment in the Christian communities in Sri Lanka after the recent incidents of violence perpetrated by monks and lay radical Buddhists: as reported to Fides, Christians renew the governm ...
• 15 December 2012
  ASIA/IRAQ - Archbishop Sako says Premier al-Maliki is right: the West must not finance the flight of Christians Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The countries of Europe and the West "should help Iraqi Christians to remain in their homeland rather than investing resources in assistance programs that actually encourage their escape." The Ch ...
• 15 December 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in the diocese of Gulu: learn to "be with Him" in order to be his missionaries Arua (Agenzia Fides) - "What kind of priest do I want to be? A priest who testifies to Christ, because he believes, loves, and he shows it in his action and life? " Are some questions that Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefe ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Russian-American joint ultimatum to Assad? We urgently need a "political solution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Russia and the United States are getting ready to order a joint ultimatum to President Bashar Assad through the special envoy of the UN and the Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi, in order for him to ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Pontifical inter-diocesan Seminary "St. Joseph" in Alwaye Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 9, 2012 appointed Rev. P. Iames Prasad, of the diocesan clergy of Punalur (India) as Rector ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan Major Seminary "Holy Spirit" in Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 25 April 2012 appointed Rev. P. Emmanuel Kanon Rozario, of the diocesan clergy of Rajshahi (Bangl ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Christians contest the census of the government Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Nepal have rejected the latest figures released by the Government of Nepal on the religious composition of the population in the Himalayan country. The 2011 Census Report, publis ...
• 14 December 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the priests, religious men and women of Gulu "In your lives, I read the history of the Church in this land: a history of much faith, love and sacrifice" Arua (Agenzia Fides) - Two meetings were held this morning, December 14, by Cardinal Fernando Filoni reserved for priests, religious men and women of the ecclesiastical province of Gulu, as part of his pastoral visit to ...
• 14 December 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New support to Mgr. Casaldáliga from the Chamber of Deputies Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) - The Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil filed a motion of support for the Spanish Bishop Mgr. Pedro Casaldáliga, who last week had to leave the village of Sao Felix ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Christmas charitable activities of the Catholic Youth: to make experience of the encounter with Jesus and strengthen the faith Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The children of the poor families of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Hong Kong have anticipated the Christmas season by sharing the joy of the birth of Jesus with the young of the Catholic ...
• 14 December 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian Churches: no to the boycott of the constitutional referendum Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Christian Churches in Egypt will not support the boycott of the Referendum on the draft of the Constitution - scheduled on 15 and 22 December - at the center of political and so ...
• 14 December 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Reconciliation passes through respect for differences," say the Bishops in the 2013 elections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has committed herself so that the March 2013 elections are conducted peacefully and rejects being accused of having taken sides in the 2007-2008 post-election confrontation. ...