News

• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Too many Christian children victims of violence": appeal to the government and the UN Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The news, continually increasing, regarding violence against Christian children are really annoying, disturbing. For Christians, it seems that living in Pakistan is more and more difficult. Ther ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha: Hearing for the release, the focus is on the Medical Commission Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA), through the lawyer and Christian MP Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, today presented to a court of first instance in Islamabad a request for the release of ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The long trail of Christian children raped or killed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The last case reported to Fides happened a few days ago in Islamabad: the 14-year-old Christian Waiz Masih was killed by young Muslims, after a "discussion on religion." The boy was savagely beat ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Paul Shan "belongs forever to Christ": the funeral on 1 September Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) –There is deep emotion in the Chinese Catholic world, after the death of Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-Hsi, SJ, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung, who died yesterday afternoon in the Catholic hospital of G ...
• 23 August 2012
  OCEANIA - Year of Faith and new evangelization: the Bishops' Conference of the Pacific Paita (Agenzia Fides) - "In Australia and New Zealand Churches struggle to cope with the influence of secularism. But with the development of technology and communication information, even in other Pacific countries, suc ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church, Government, imam committed to save Rimsha, a Christian girl accused of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a joint effort of the Church, the government, religious leaders, NGOs, to save Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old Christian Protestant girl, suffering from Down syndrome, accused of blasphe ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two murders of Christians: "Isolated cases, but the pressure on believers is strong" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic child killed in Faisalabad, a Christian farmer killed in Kasur: Punjab, the province that is the heart of economic, social and cultural life of Pakistan, confirms being the "prohibiti ...
• 22 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Help vocations in Africa: Initiatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Sixty years ago, the funds to help the growth of vocations in Taiwan came from the Pontifical Mission Societies. Today we have the opportunity to help others, and so it is our duty to make a co ...
• 22 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Over 12 thousand Christian faithful "starving" in the village of Rableh: humanitarian law is invoked Rableh (Agenzia Fides) - Over 12 thousand faithful Greek-Catholics are trapped in the village of Rableh, west of Qusayr, in the area of Homs. Food is scarce, the faithful are living on "bread and water", medicine is lack ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A difficult phase for the succession of Premier Zenawi begins Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "After the death of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abuna Paulos (on 16August), the death of the Premier is a new shock to the Country," say local sources to Fides from Addis ...
• 21 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Thousands of faithful participate in the Eucharistic Congress of the Diocese of Feng Xiang Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful of the diocese of Feng Xiang of Shaan Xi province in mainland China took part in the diocesan Eucharistic Congress, which took place in past days. According to reports f ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Decisive moment to rebuild the Somali State," says the Bishop of Djibouti Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "In these 21 years (since the fall of Siad Barre, ed.) it seems that this is the best time for the rebirth of the Somali State. Certainly we are facing a critical phase in the history of Somal ...
• 20 August 2012
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - In the Jubilee Year of St. Clare, the Poor Clares of Polynesia are a story to tell Tahiti (Agenzia Fides) - Nineteen thousand kilometers from the Proto-Monastery of Assisi, in the heart of the South Pacific, with twelve time zones less than Rome, the Poor Clares of the only monastery in Polynesia, on A ...
• 20 August 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - With great joy and gratitude, love and faithfulness to the Lord, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Hong Kong celebrated the 140th anniversary of the foundation HongKong (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us celebrate the occasion with great joy and gratitude, love and faithfulness to the Lord," said sr. Yvonne Reungoat, Superior General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, who part ...
• 20 August 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The bishops contrary to defining Zambia in the constitutional preamble as a "Christian nation" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)-The Bishops of Zambia hope that the current process of constitutional revision is successful after the previous three unsuccessful attempts to write a new Constitution. In a document sent to the t ...