News

• 28 May 2012
  VATICAN - Pope at Pentecost: "Jesus sends his Spirit to the Church so that every Christian can become his effective witness in the world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus, risen and ascended into heaven, sends his Spirit to the Church, so that all Christians can participate in his divine life and become his effective witness in the world. The Holy Spi ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Authority and population are contrary to an Islamic State in the north; all faiths pray for peace Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Both the political authorities and the people have reaffirmed that Mali is one and indivisible. The same original inhabitants of the north that are located in Bamako, are contrary to the secessi ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayer and Fasting in the hell of battle: the experience of a Catholic priest Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of massacres, rape, shootings, kidnappings, vendettas, a small flame of faith and love is kindled in the city of Qusayr (near Homs), one of the places where the war rages more violen ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Jesuit vocations flourish Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnam is fertile ground for the Society of Jesus: as Fides learns from the Jesuits in Vietnam, in recent years the vocations of the congregation founded by St. Ignatius have multiplie ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Instability in the east, even Ituri in ferment: Gold and oil are at stake Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - After North Kivu, another area in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ituri district, is likely to burst out again. According to the press in fact 4 Congolese armed groups in the reg ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - A survey shows that the Church is the institution which is most trusted by Panamanian Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is the institution that enjoys credibility among Panamanians, while the opposite is the National Assembly of Deputies, according to results of a survey published by the firm U ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/SINGAPORE-Pentecost: a "Spring of the Spirit" for the new evangelization Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The theme for the celebration of the day of Pentecost will be the new "Spring of the Spirit", which takes place tomorrow, May 27, at the Church of Christ King in Singapore. The island's Cathol ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Firing on Christians: Three injured in Karachi, threats to a Christian MP from Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A group of extremists raided the Christian neighborhood of Essa Nagri, in Karachi, firing wildly and injuring three Christians: Aftab Bhatti Khairat Masih, 40 years old, the 22-year-old Khurram ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mother's Day against Domestic Violence Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Mother's Day, which the population of the Dominican Republic celebrates on the last Sunday in May is an opportunity to relieve the longstanding problem of domestic violence: S ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Emmaus community" in Mindanao: women consecrated to the service of dialogue with Muslims Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and Muslims in Mindanao, the largest island in the southern Philippines, call them "maidens of Providence", "poor sisters", "flames of dialogue": they are the women of the "Emm ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The Day of Holy Childhood Association for the poor children in the world Lima (Agenzia Fides) - To arouse in children a universal missionary awareness, encouraging them to share their faith, love, hope and material goods with the poor and abandoned children in the world: this is the aim of th ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA -Bishops to the government: "Stop corruption, we need to fight poverty" Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Argentina asks the government increased efforts to stop corruption and fight poverty. On the occasion of Argentina's national day of independence, on May 25, during the celebrati ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-Instability and violence, appeal of the Apostolic Nuncio: "Enough with atrocities" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Instability, insecurity, violence, massacres: the scenario in Syria today is bleak. According to the "Syrian National Council", which leads the opposition in Houla, in the province of Homs, 88 ...
• 25 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-"How to help the Christians in Syria?": we are waiting for the Pope's words in Lebanon Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "How to help the Christians in Syria and the Christians in the East? We are waiting for prophetic words from the post-synodal exhortation that Pope Benedict XVI will officially deliver in Lebanon ...
• 25 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "A transparent Church, formed by men acting under the protection of Jesus" Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - A year after his appointment as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali will present to his community the figures that the universal Church, national and ...