News

• 11 April 2012
  VATICAN - Pope's Easter Message: "Christ is hope and comfort to the Christian communities suffering most for their faith on account of discrimination and persecution ... is close to all human situations of suffering and injustice" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If Jesus is risen, then - and only then - has something truly new happened, something that changes the state of humanity and the world. Then He, Jesus, is someone in whom we can put absolu ...
• 11 April 2012
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "A peaceful transition which confirms the spirit of reconciliation typical of Malawi," says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "With the swearing in of the new President, Joyce Banda, before the Chief Justice, Lovemore Munlo, to the representatives of the Judicial Court and Parliament, and after 26 rounds of cannon and ...
• 11 April 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops meet in plenary Assembly: among the main themes: the Year of Faith and the Synod Florida (Agenzia Fides) - The Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay begins today, April 11, in Florida. According to information Fides received by the Episcopal Conference, the work will begin with a ha ...
• 11 April 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The number of victims caused by the attack during Easter increases Kaduna (Agenzia Fides) – There are 41 victims of a car bomb explosion which took place on Easter Sunday in Kaduna, in north-central Nigeria. The attack has not been claimed, but appears to be the work of the Boko Haram ...
• 11 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Education opens the door of progress:" Inauguration of the St. Camillus English Medium Primary School in Okara Okara (Agenzia Fides) - The community Bhatta, Chak 14/4-L, in Okara, in the Pakistan province of Punjab, is composed of about 400 families and is part of the St. Anthony of Padua Parish. The residents of this place, esp ...
• 4 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- The road to protect Pakistani women from all kinds of violence and discrimination is still long Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistani women, throughout history, have suffered discrimination on the basis of gender, experienced the high risk of rape, and faced brutal deaths. Incidents of this nature abound in the cou ...
• 4 April 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA- Apostolic Vicar’s appeal: "Cease-fire for an Easter without violence" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo for the Latins, Monsignor Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM launches through Fides an appeal to an "immediate cease-fire in Syria, for an Easter without violence". Mgr. Nazzaro ...
• 4 April 2012
  ASIA/INDIA-Easter Pilgrimage and the Way of the Cross in the tribal areas of the Northeast Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - With Easter approaching, the Church in Northeast India – an area troubled by tribal conflict - shows its closeness to the tribal people, who have embraced the Christian faith. For the past fe ...
• 4 April 2012
  AFRICA - The north of Mali like the east of the DRC? The question of the press in Kinshasa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The north of Mali like the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo? Is what the Congolese newspaper "Le Potentiel" asks in an article entitled "Est de la RDC, Nord du Mali: des Similitudes frappantes" ...
• 4 April 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time the Pope's Holy Week will be broadcast on tv across the country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Peru informs, through a joint statement to Fides, the extensive media coverage, that the Holy Week celebrations presided by the Holy Father, will have this year in Peru. ...
• 4 April 2012
  VATICAN - Christians and Buddhists: common responsibility able to guide the young people to become instruments of justice and peace Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The message that the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent to Buddhists on the occasion of Vesakh, which commemorates the principal events of Buddha's life, is dedicated to ...
• 4 April 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops advise moderation and caution with regards to dialogue with the guerrillas; without the will on behalf of the parties true peace will never be reached Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Colombian area "eje Cafetero" (Pereira, Armenia and Manizales), so named for the particular coffee production, consider that the decision of the government of a possible dialo ...
• 4 April 2012
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS -Deaths, thousands displaced, severe flooding: Tropical Depression brings down the Fiji to their knees Suva (Agenzia Fides) - At least seven peole have died, including a 3-year-old child, and almost 12 000 people displaced due to the flooding caused by the cyclone Daphne that hit the Fiji islands, in the South Pacific Acc ...
• 3 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Education without hatred or prejudice: Commission's appeal "Justice and Peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - No to bigotry in schools, no to the imposition of Islamic studies to non-Muslim students: is the appeal launched by the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of Pakstan focus ...
• 3 April 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA- FARC-10 hostages have been released, the Church welcomes the gesture, but asks for more Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia expressed their satisfaction with the release of ten people (including members of the police and army) who had been kidnapped by the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces o ...