News

• 4 May 2012
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of the Bishop of Khulna Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 4, 2012 appointed Rev. James Romen Boiragi, former Vicar General of Khulna as Bishop of the Diocese of Khulna (Bangladesh), . Rev. James Romen Boiragi w ...
• 3 May 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In three months 241,000 other displaced from North Kivu: the complaint of a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the first quarter of 2012, in North Kivu alone, displaced people increased by 241,000 units" this is the complaint made to Fides by Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary animator of "Pea ...
• 3 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Copiapo in the celebration of May 1, calls for "a decent wage and respect for the environment" Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) - During the celebration of Labor Day weekend, on May 1, the Bishop of Copiapo called for a revision of the minimum wages and a solution to the problems of the population of Freirina, about 500 km ...
• 3 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than 30 people died in the attack at a livestock market in the north-east of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 34 people died caused by a bomb in a cattle market which took place yesterday afternoon, May 2, in Potiskum, in the north-east of Nigeria. According to agency sources, the toll of the att ...
• 3 May 2012
  VATICAN - From May 7 to 12 the annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday May 7 the Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) begins. In the House of the Salesians, in via della Pisana 1111 in Rome, the Directors of the national ...
• 3 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - More than 1,200 new missionaries: the first fruits of the Year of the Mission Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 1,200 new missionaries, including religious and lay people, especially young people in Pakistan: there are all those who, on the occasion of the Year of the Mission, underway in t ...
• 3 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic youth volunteers at the service of the Marian shrines for the month of May Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They serve the Mass, receive the pilgrims, direct the traffic, help the elderly to climb to the shrine, they meet every logistic need: they are young Catholic volunteers who have chosen t ...
• 3 May 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - No agreement on the Constitution: instability is the spectre Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Constituent Assembly of Nepal, four years after its creation, has not yet reached an agreement on the drafting of the new Charter, as the deadline for the completion, May 27 next approache ...
• 3 May 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "Religious freedom at risk, Hindu extremism grows" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the work on the new Constitution are completed. We appeal to the responsibility and good will of all political forces. We ask, for the future, full respect for religious freedom ...
• 3 May 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the priest seriously stabbed last week is still in critical condition, violence increases in the area Culiacan (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Culiacan Mexico, His Exc. Mgr. Jonás Guerrero Corona, has again deplored in an interview with journalists, the fatal attack suffered by Mgr. Simon Garcia Casas, p ...
• 2 May 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Funeral and burial in Brazil for the Italian missionary Fidei Donum found dead Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian Fidei Donum missionary found dead last Sunday, Father Luigi Plebani (see Fides 05/30/2012) will be buried in Brazil, according to his desire. Yet there is currently not an official re ...
• 2 May 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the foundation: a film on the expansion of the Missionary Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Born in 1872, the International Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) celebrates its 140th anniversary this year. To celebrate the anniversary, the Institute has made a film c ...
• 2 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - May 1 marked by a strong Marian devotion, from commitment to evangelism, to the diaconal ordinations and confirmations Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of May Day in the Catholic community in mainland China was marked by numerous initiatives, characterized by a strong Marian devotion for the beginning of the month of Mary ...
• 2 May 2012
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Gweru and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on April 28, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Gweru in Zimbabwe by Bishop Martin Munyanyi, in accordance with canon. ...
• 2 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - At least ten victims in the clashes in front of the Ministry of Defence in Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - At least ten people have died in the clashes in Cairo, in front of the Ministry of Defence, at dawn today. A group of armed men, nicknamed "Baltajiya", attacked a sit-in organized by Salafis demon ...