News

• 24 October 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "The State has an obligation to manage the resources of all for the good of all": statement from the Diocese of Colon Colon (Agenzia Fides) - As the Archbishop of Panama, Mgr. Ulloa, from Rome, calls for dialogue to solve the problems in the city of Colon, the statement of the Diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala is relaunched, in which the Bish ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - An Orthodox priest kidnapped in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Greek Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias in Qatana, a suburb of Damascus, was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group. According to information sent t ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Hina, another girl targeted by the Taliban. The Bishops: intolerance has grown Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Hina Khan is a teenager threatened by the Taliban as Malala Yousafzai, the girl hit by a bomb attack in the Swat Valley and now in hospital in the UK. Even Hina, a 17-year-old Muslim, who lives i ...
• 24 October 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope announces Consistory for the creation of six new Cardinals Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, the Holy Father Benedict XVI announced that he has called a Consistory for the creation of six new Cardinals to take place on 24 November, Solemnity ...
• 23 October 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Faith and Evangelization: Mission Day of the Diocese of Jing Xian Heng Shui (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Year of Faith one has to put into practice Charity for Evangelization and Faith and the spread of Hope": with this commitment, the parish of Fu Cheng of the diocese of Jing Xian (today ...
• 23 October 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The efforts of the Jesuit missionary Antonio Ruiz de Montoya for the Guarani Indians were recalled Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The "Real Academia de la Lengua" (RAE) recently paid a tribute to the Peruvian Jesuit Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (1585-1652), creator of the Guaraní language and a great promoter of the "Reducci ...
• 23 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two faithful kidnapped and killed. Patriarch Laham: "Christians are exploited in the conflict" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christians were kidnapped and killed yesterday in Damascus, while a car bomb exploded last night near the church of St. Abramo, in the area of Jaramana, in the north of Damascus. The two fa ...
• 23 October 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Popular support for the Commission "For Life and Water" in Tacuarembó increases Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - In order to prevent the implementation of mega mining projects in Tacuarembó, the local Commission "For Life and Water" (see Fides 27/09/2012) collected 1,500 signatures during the Fair "Exp ...
• 23 October 2012
  AMERICA - School Education: 22 million children do not go to school or drop out of school Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Although there are 117 million school age children in Latin America and the Caribbean, millions of them still do not have a chance to go to school. Over 22 million children and adolescents in fa ...
• 23 October 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A ransom for the three priests kidnapped has arrived; Bishops condemn the crime Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We received a phone call from a person claiming to belonging to the group that kidnapped the three religious, with a ransom note" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, ...
• 23 October 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is strengthened when it is announced" was the theme of the "missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith and Missionary Week, which took place on October 20 at the Metropolita ...
• 23 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Shaw: "The Synod will help the faithful of Asia to renew the message of Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The new evangelization is a long wave that will reach even the Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan. I am convinced that the peoples of Asia will benefit as much as those of the West ...
• 23 October 2012
  VATICAN - "New Evangelization in Islamic countries": a symposium at the Lateran Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The new evangelization and the Church in Pakistan", "Communion and Witness in Islamic countries", "Mystical Experience: meeting ground between Christianity and Islam": are some of the topics that ...
• 23 October 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The population is in favor of international military intervention to free the north Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the population is in favor of the proposed international military action to regain the north of Mali" says to Fides Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference o ...
• 22 October 2012
  VATICAN - May the intercession of the new Saints sustain the Church in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel to the whole world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "happy coincidence" between the Synodal Assembly on the New Evangelization and World Mission Sunday, were highlighted by the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the Mass he presided on Sund ...