News

• 26 September 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "To become active subjects in the transformation of the country": today the pastoral Letter of the Bishops Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua arrived yesterday, September 25, in Matagalpa (a city about 100 km north of Managua), which will host the meeting of the Episcopal Conference. In the note sent to Fide ...
• 26 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Together let us defend and respect human life" donation of the philanthropic governmental organization to Jinde Charities of the Catholic Church Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The first donation of 21 wheelchairs, offered by the Chinese Association of the Sick and by the Starlight Foundation of China Charities Aid Foundation for Children (government agency), wa ...
• 25 September 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Rosary, a help for the missions, especially in the Year of Faith: Congress of the Rosary of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Rosary is the school of faith" will be the theme of the Congress of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Rosary to be held on Saturday, October 6 at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary ...
• 25 September 2012
  EUROPE/MALTA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 20, 2012 confirmed Rev. Salvinu Micallef, of the archdiocesan clergy of Malta as National Di ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - 150 Greek-Catholic faithful kidnapped Homs (Agenzia Fides) – The kidnapping of 150 Greek-Catholic faithful, which occured yesterday September 24, has shocked the Christian community in the village of Rableh, between the Lebanese border and the city of Qusa ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Father Bossi, exemplary missionary, builder of bridges and... churches ... Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Bossi was a great example of missionary life lived to the end. He was motivated by an authentic missionary spirit, of simplicity and sharing with the poor. Everyone remembers him ...
• 25 September 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found murdered, violence does not spare the Church Los Mochis (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of a large number of worshipers, on Sunday, September 23, the Catholic community of the deanery of Sinaloa gave a final farewell to the priest Teodoro Mariscal Rivas, f ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - A great concert marks the "third season" of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Diocese of Tian Jin Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - The great concert held on September 22 marked the culmination of the "third season" ("season of life", from July to September) of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Diocese of Ti ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian and Muslim religious leaders reflect together on the Pope's visit Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon is increasingly shaping up as the potential beginning of a new season in the complex situation of the Lebanese nation. This is confirmed by the summit of the He ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Rableh: 280 Christians held hostage Homs (Agenzia Fides) – Christians kidnapped in the village of Rableh, on the border with Lebanon, in western Syria, spreads: after the maxi kidnapping which occurred yesterday, of 150 people (see Fides article 25/9), ...
• 25 September 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Bamako calls for a UN resolution that authorizes the deployment of ECOWAS troops Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Mali has officially requested a UN Security Council resolution that authorizes the sending of an international force to put the north of the Country under control, for months in the hands of a nu ...
• 25 September 2012
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Enhancing the Islam Maghreb to reject violence and intolerance Nouakchott (Agenzia Fides) - Facing violence and extremism by appealing to one’s cultural and religious values, based on dialogue and tolerance. This is what the Ministers of Religious Affairs of the Arab Maghreb Union ...
• 25 September 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In the town of Mazatlan 34 murders in one week; in 2012 there have already been more than a thousand victims in Mexico Michoacán (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican town of Mazatlan 34 murders were recorded only in the third week of September. A note sent to Fides Agency reports the statistics of the Attorney General of the State: in Septe ...
• 24 September 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope during the Angelus: "Continue to pray for the Christians of the Middle East, for peace and dialogue" Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - After the Angelus prayer at the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo yesterday, Sunday, September 23, the Holy Father Benedict XVI addressed the French-speaking pilgrims with these words: ...
• 24 September 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Episcopal Conference Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In a solemn Holy Mass presided by Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, which was concelebrated by all the Bishops of the Catholic Church in the Dominican ...