News

• 24 November 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "We Bishops must be witnesses of the kingdom of justice": the work of SEDAC General Assembly Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Bishops' Secretariat of Central America (SEDAC) is being held, in the municipality of Valle de Angeles, in Honduras. This assembly is held every year to evaluate and ...
• 24 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Defending creation fighting greenhouse gases": the request of the Bishops of Southern Africa on the eve of the UN Conference on climate change Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Our beloved world and the entire creation - that God has given us - are threatened by climate change", write the Bishops of Southern Africa in a Pastoral Letter published on the eve of the ...
• 24 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The mission of the Church in a changing country: at the centre education and social services Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church's mission is to help people realize their potential. We can help provide quality education to society. Our strength is in services, education and health care, which we want to put at ...
• 23 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The parish news, tools of evangelization, promote a sense of belonging to the community Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - For the pastors of Hong Kong, the faithful involved in the drafting and publication of parish newsletters, both papery and online, show a strong sense of belonging to the community. Consequent ...
• 23 November 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The New Executive Director of the the United States Catholic Mission Association USCMA Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Catholic Mission Association, USCMA has a new Executive Director: Fr. John Richard Nuelle, member of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette (MS), elected by the Board of ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Three Capuchin missionaries and a volunteer die in a car accident Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Three Capuchin missionaries and a lay volunteer, all Italian, from Tuscany, died in a car accident yesterday in Dar es Salaam, while they were visiting the Capuchin missions in the African ...
• 23 November 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The U.S. Bishops approve the funding for the reconstruction projects in Haiti and 174 of solidarity in Latin America Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has approved the funding for 174 projects, worth over 2.7 million dollars to help the Churc ...
• 23 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Ok for the word Jesus Christ in text messages": the intervention of the Minister for Harmony closes the case Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The incident has been overcome and the case is officially closed: as reported to Fides by political sources in Pakistan, the word "Jesus Christ" has been permanently deleted from the list of p ...
• 23 November 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Superior General of the Redemptorists, "Justice, peace, human rights for the church of Thai Ha" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We admire the commitment of the Redemptorist Province of Vietnam for justice and for peace in Vietnam, especially for those who suffer violence and injustice, because of the efforts of those who, ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA-Rains bring relief but also damage: report of Caritas Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The rains that began to fall on Somalia are having positive and negative aspects. According to what is stated in the Situation Report sent to Agenzia Fides by Caritas Somalia, the rivers are i ...
• 23 November 2011
  ASIA/TURKEY - Land confiscated: the Orthodox monks of Mardin resort to the European Court of Human Rights Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - Exhausted for a story that seems to have no end, unable to get justice from local courts, the Christian monks of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of Mor Gabriel Mardin (in Southeast Turkey province) ...
• 23 November 2011
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The celebration of the Bicentennial marked by the testimony of the Catholic faith and the commitment to human dignity Florida (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Uruguay has published, on account of the celebration of the Bicentennial, a document titled "Our Homeland: gratitude and hope". The letter is addressed "to all the fa ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Real bullets, plastic bullets in the face, people die for gases": a testimony from Tahrir Square Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The battle is still continuing in Tahrir Square. It is a small civil war", a source of the Church of Cairo tells Fides, which for security reasons does not want to be mentioned. "The paradox is t ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ondjiva and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 23, 2011 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Ondjiva (Angola), presented by Archbishop Fernando Guimaraes Kevanu ...
• 23 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sherry Rehman Ambassador in the U.S.A: satisfaction and hope for religious minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "We call on the new ambassador Sherry Rehman - and we are confident she will do it - to speak out to defend human rights and religious minorities to work for peace and harmony, to become the v ...