News

• 21 September 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL-The preparation for the First Missionary Congress of Mariana begins Itabira (Agenzia Fides) - In the ecclesiastical province of Mariana (which includes, in addition to the archdiocese of Mariana, the dioceses of Caratinga Governador Valadares and Itabira-Coronel Fabriciano). On Septembe ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Support for vocations is the mission of the parish of Bei Tang in the archdiocese of Xi An Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - To support and accompany vocations, both materially and spiritually, especially the seminarians of the Minor Seminary: this is the imperative mission of the parish of Bei Tang, in the archdiocese ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishop of Vasai: "The Church responds to violence with forgiveness and doing good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Towards the attacks by Hindu extremist groups, who "have their own agenda", the Christians respond by "doing good": more than 33% of social services in India, in the field of education and ...
• 21 September 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The opposition decrees 3 days of protest; even the Church is in the system’s sights Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in Malawi has ordered as from this evening (September 21), three days of "dead city" across the Country, urging people to stay indoors and not to go to work. The initiative was t ...
• 21 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Bishops after the 18 September massacre: "May these moments of trial do not become an occasion of hatred that threatens to plunge Burundi in a spiral of revenge" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Burundi expressed "dismay and sorrow" for the victims of the attack in a bar in Gatumba, in the municipality of Mutimbuzi in the province of Bujumbura, carried out by unknown as ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic fundamentalists are ready to send militia to the Moluccas Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Islamic group "Front Pembela Islam," FPI has announced that it "is ready to send militia to fight a holy war against Christians in the Moluccas" as refered by Fides sources in the In ...
• 20 September 2011
  VATICAN -"To promote the well-being of Indian society through continued attention to the promotion of basic rights": the exhortation of the Pope to the Indian Bishops Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - "As part of its ancient heritage, India has a long and distinguished Christian presence which has contributed to Indian society and benefited your culture in innumerable ways, enriching ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Earthquake in the Northeast, floods in Orissa: Caritas in the forefront New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas India is at the forefront in the emergency aid after two catastrophic events that, almost simultaneously, have hit two areas of the country: the earthquake in the northeast (in the Him ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Mgr. Tong urges a group of religious to unity and communion, and to re-read Benedict XVI’s letter to the Chinese Catholics Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Unity and communion of the Church, the consolidation of religious life and spirit of evangelization, the Pope's letter to the Chinese Catholics in 2007: these are the themes His Exc. Mgr. Joh ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "We are ready to cooperate with the authorities for the sake of Libya", said Mgr.Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We have sent a verbale note to the new Libyan authorities with which we declare our availability to cooperate for the good of the country", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to F ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Church: "No" to nuclear power, solidarity with the nonviolent who fast in Tamil Nadu New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Immediate closure of the plant in Koodankulam (in Tamil Nadu) and the gradual disposal of all existing plants in India; a moratorium on all nuclear projects; a decisive shift towards alternati ...
• 20 September 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - African refugees ask the Brazilian government for asylum São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - Since 2010 about 30 displaced people from Africa have asked the Brazilian government for asylum. They live in the states of the Amazon jungle. They come from Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea Bis ...
• 20 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - ITNPIS: new appeal on behalf of the Bishops to "continue the path of dialogue, genuine and constructive" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia has launched a new appeal to the areas in contention for the case concerning ITNPIS (Indigenous Territory National Park Isiboro Secure), calling for a sincer ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 13, 2011 confirmed Rev. Gaspard Mengata Nka, of the archdiocesan clergy of Yaounde as Nati ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Presidential elections in a climate of tension: the Christian Churches call for peace Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - About 5 million voters are called today, September 20, to elect the new President of Zambia. The contenders are the outgoing Head of State, Rupiah Banda, and the main opposition leader Michael Sa ...