News

• 23 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nearly a thousand women were killed in 2011, accused of "crimes of honor" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by an organization for the defense of human rights, almost a thousand women were killed in 2011 in Pakistan accused of "crimes of honor", very common in South Asia ...
• 23 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Civil society and tribal people demonstrate Orissa for the release of the Italian hostages Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – Tribal people, women, civil society associations, priests, religious demonstrated peacefully today in different places of Orissa for the release of the two Italian hostages, Paolo Bosusco ...
• 23 March 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU- The results of the first round of presidential elections have been challenged Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is evolving, because candidates who did not accept the results of the first round present today the appeal to the Supreme Court claiming that the elections were marred by fraud. Th ...
• 23 March 2012
  AMERICA - Water is a human right that many still fail to conquer Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The World Water Day was celebrated yesterday, March 22, also in Latin America with several demonstrations in defense of this natural asset. In South America for the indigenous water is a sacred, f ...
• 22 March 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics bear witness to faith, dedicating themselves to social voluntary Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - The 60 young Catholic volunteers from the parish of Nan Tang of the Archdiocese of Xi An, in the province of Shaan Xi, have renewed their commitment to devote themselves to volunteering in the yea ...
• 22 March 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-The Episcopal Conference has posted a website and through the website one can connect to Facebook with details on the Pope’s trip New York City (Agenzia Fides) - Benedict XVI’s visit in Mexico and Cuba will also be posted by the American Episcopate website and social networks. In a note sent to Fides, the United States Conference of Catholic Bish ...
• 22 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "Full support for the UN plan to end violence" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The UN document on the conflict in Syria "is very good in content and should be fully supported as it is really urgent to put an end to violence": is the assessment of the Apostolic Nuncio to S ...
• 22 March 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-Dominican Sisters of Maryknoll: 100 years of foundation, and 70 in Bolivia Riberalta (Agenzia Fides) - The community of the Dominican Sisters of Maryknoll celebrate 100 years since the founding of the congregation and 70 years of their presence in Bolivia. The missionaries are in the poorest ar ...
• 22 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-Melkite Patriarch Laham calls for "dialogue and unity in the country" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue, reconciliation, unity in the country is the appeal launched by the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, Gregorios III Laham, who spoke at a prayer meeting held yesterday in the church of St. ...
• 22 March 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA-"Come to Libya to help us, the situation is not as tragic as some describe it to be", said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "I am sorry to see that only negative news is spread concerning the Libyan situation. I continuously meet many Libyans who have a positive attitude and are confident about the future of their co ...
• 22 March 2012
  AFRICA/MALI-Sporadic gun shots in Bamako, Mgr. Zerbo invites all to prayer and solidarity Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We hear gun shots in the center of Bamako. From time to time we see military vehicles circulating on the main roads, from where shots fired in the air are heard. But in several districts of the ...
• 22 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Orissa, imminent negotiations for the Italians kidnapped: pressure of the Church and civil society Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) - Negotiations for the release of the two Italians kidnapped in Orissa, Francesco Colangelo and Paul Bosusco, are imminent: "It could start tomorrow, as both parties, the government and rebel ...
• 22 March 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - "The expectation that I hear in all the Christian communities for the arrival of Benedict XVI is the same as 14 years ago, for John Paul II’s visit," says Fr. Raul Rodriguez Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "Hopefully it is a time of blessing of the Lord for these people, who need the saving and liberating message of Jesus. Let us hope it is a moment of unity among all Cubans, wherever they are, whe ...
• 21 March 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - 24 March-XX Day of Prayer and Fasting for Missionary Martyrs Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Founded in 1993 by the Missionary Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies, on the anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (Marc ...
• 21 March 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A nun and a lay healed through the intercession of Cardinal Van Thuan Hue (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese Church is working to gather evidence relevant to the cause of beatification of Vietnamese Cardinal Francis Xavier Van Thuan, promoted by the Pontifical Council "Justice and Peace", of ...