News

• 18 January 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Confusing situation among politicians, but the defense of the family is always a priority Piribebuy (Agenzia Fides) - With the presence of hundreds of faithful, the feast of the National Shrine Ñandejára guasu or Sweet Name of Jesus was celebrated. His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Gimenez, Bishop of the Diocese of Ca ...
• 17 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The baptized should have greater participation in the social context": Cardinal Rivera during the XVI pilgrimage of the Archdiocese of Mexico Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico, encouraged all the baptized, especially the laity to participate in the elections to be held July and to take a leading role because b ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - A disabled Catholic who died to defend a girl, among the ten people who gave a heroic example in the province of He Bei Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Wu Wen De, a disabled Catholic who sacrificed his life to defend a girl from a robber, was chosen by the major Chinese media as one of ten people who moved to tears the province of He Bei, stro ...
• 17 January 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-With a missionary spirit at the service of children, "treasures of the Church" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) -The "School of the IAM Animators" (Missionary Childhood and Adolescence) was opened yesterday in Buenos Aires, two levels (children and teenagers) will be held at the headquarters of the Ani ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church ransacked and Christian children beaten: a Muslim blogger defends them Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Muslim intellectual and blogger took to the streets to defend the Christian children beaten in an episode that has recently shaken the Christian community in Karachi, the capital of Sindh: In ...
• 17 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The killing of the coordinator of AMREF in South Sudan is probably due to the consequence of a robbery which degenerated into murder Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have learnt that the local police have arrested a person found driving the car that AMREF had removed from our manager. We do not have information about its investigations and interrogations", ...
• 17 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus": Sunday 22 Day of Missionary Childhood Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus", the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain are organizing the National Day of Missionary Childhood which will be held on ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti’s Murder: the "main person behind the crime" has been killed, the perpetrators are being chased, but ambiguity remains Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - With the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the "Pakistani Talibans", the militant movement which is the most serious threat to national security, "who was the man behind the killing of the ...
• 17 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Do not be afraid: another Nigeria is possible", says the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid". This is the sense of Archbishop Matthew Hassah Kukah’s pastoral Letter, Bishop of Sokoto, the capital of the homonymous State in the north-west of Nigeria, of which a copy wa ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is open to dialogue and to aid towards the North; for the Bishops "it is the good path" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea is ready to hold talks at the highest level and to provide large-scale food aid to North Korea, even if Pyongyang has not "officially apologized" after the two military attacks in 2010 ...
• 16 January 2012
  VATICAN - Pope: "Migrants are not only recipients but are also witnesses of proclaiming the Gospel in the contemporary world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Millions of people are involved in the phenomenon of migration, but they are not numbers! They are men and women, children, the y ...
• 16 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Childhood: thousands of boys and girls have brought the Good News to 142thousand families in Tarnow Tarnow (Agenzia Fides) - Children and the young people of Missionary Childhood of the Diocese of Tarnow, in Poland, met in Nowy Sącz, at the Shrine of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Saturday, on January 14, to end the ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - More prayer, reflection and action in the new year after 150 years of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial entitled "Let’s move forward in 2012", Catholic Weekly, the weekly Catholic bulletin of the Archdiocese of Taipei in Taiwan invites the faithful to pray, reflect and act more i ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than 160 indicted and 9 killed for "blasphemy" in 2011; 1,800 Christian and Hindu girls converted to Islam by force Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan, while religious minorities suffer from rampant extremism. In 2011, because of the "black law" (composed of the articles 295 ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-8 million religious minorities: a special Commission is urgently needed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government has released new figures which are not official (the last official census dates back to 1998) regarding the composition of Pakistani society: according to recent sociological resea ...