News

• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appeals from religious leaders and NGOs: transparency, peace, legality in the Moluccas Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) –It is urgent to protect peace by protecting legality, transparency concerning government action, impartiality of the police, dialogue between religions: this is what is said by religious lead ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Perpetual vows for four religious women Missionaries of Our Lady of Sorrows Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Four diocesan religious women of the congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Sorrows of the diocese of Tai Yuan, mainland China, professed their perpetual vows on the Feast of the Nativ ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Monsignor Martinelli: "I am eager and anxious to return to Libya" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am eager and anxious to return to Libya to continue my mission", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli after spending a period of convalescence in Italy, and is now preparing to retur ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA - In the midst of difficulties and persecution "it is the time for mission in Asia" Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - Amid the difficulties, poverty or persecution, the Christians of Asia "are called to renew the proclamation of the Word, mission, evangelization", says His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Menamparampil SDB, I ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nine million people risk starvation Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The drought in northern, northwestern and western Afghanistan, is putting other 1.5-2 million people at the risk of starvation, in addition to the seven million around the country who already live ...
• 13 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A course on popular religiosity for new missionaries Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The department of Evangelization of the Commission for the missions of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, with the coordination of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), has organized a co ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Orders to demolish churches in Orissa have been cancelled Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - It is a victory for the Catholic Church in Orissa: the local government of Kandhamal district, the scene of anti-Christian violence in 2008, announced the cancellation of the demolition orde ...
• 12 September 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The attack on the Israeli embassy is a clear act of breaking with the past", says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a proof of strength, a gesture of breaking with the past. A 'sacred' place was violated, which under Mubarak’s regime would never have been attacked in that way", says Fr.Giovanni to Fid ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic university students launch a new website dedicated to their peers to deepen the meaning of life, values and faith Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Catholic university students of the diocese of Han Dan, in He Bei province, mainland China, launched a new website for evangelization titled "The Choir of Angels", to offer their peer ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Clashes between Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas. The Bishop: "Religious leaders peacemaker operators" Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes between Christians and Muslims which occured yesterday, September 11, shocked the town of Ambon, the capital of the Moluccas, the islands in eastern Indonesian archipelago. As local source ...
• 12 September 2011
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Schools and parishes involved in the preparation for Mission October Wellington (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission of New Zealand have just concluded their annual meeting, held in Wellington, under the leadership of the National Director, Fr. Paul Shannahan ...
• 12 September 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Witnesses of the Word, Missionaries of the Gospel": XV Meeting of the Missionary Union of the Sick Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The department of Missions of the Episcopal Commission for prophetic Pastoral, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Mexico and the diocese of San Juan de los ...
• 12 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - An "emergency forum" has been called on behalf of the Governors of northern Nigeria with regards to the violence in Plateau state Jos (Agenzia Fides) - New violence in Plateau state, in north-central Nigeria, where in the last two weeks, 70 people have been killed in inter-community clashes. The last attack was last weekend, when an armed group (su ...
• 12 September 2011
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI renewed the invitation "to always reject violence as a solution to problems" Ancona (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Holy Mass celebrated in the Shipyard of the city of Ancona, on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the end of the XXV National Eucharistic Congress, Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled the tenth ...
• 12 September 2011
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga denounces: the country experiences great moral crisis San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of violence that has steeped the country with blood has been severely condemned by Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, who stressed: "The crisis ...