News

• 27 July 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 July 2011, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Fr. Manuel Antonio Lopes Batista, of the Society of the Divine Wo ...
• 26 July 2011
  "May Western Christians, compliant to the Holy Spirit, rediscover the freshness and enthusiasm of their faith" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for August 2011 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the primitive Church, due to persecution and the evangelical zeal of the first disciples, the apostles and their collaborators spread throughout the land known at the time. St. Paul eva ...
• 26 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Faith celebrates twenty years since its Foundation and awards 20 "examples of evangelization today" Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The 20 "Models of evangelization today" elected by mainland Chinese Catholics through Faith in He Bei, were awarded on July 13 at the Major Seminary in He Bei. The initiative is part of ...
• 26 July 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Even a truck can become a classroom Manila (Fides Service)- A truck has been turned into a classroom so that it can accommodate up to 25 students at once and will offer lessons from Monday to Friday for four hours a day for children and street children lef ...
• 26 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Seven million young people who do not study and do not work, are easy prey for criminal organizations (Mexico City Fides)- Seven million young people do not study and are unable to find a job, and risk being sucked into the criminal organizations that perfection their networks to recruit more and more young people who li ...
• 26 July 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Izabal and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on July 26, 2011 accepted the resignation of the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal (Guatemala), by His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez B ...
• 26 July 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Food stores are hit, but with what right?" Complains Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Fides Service) - "They are hitting civilian targets such as food stores" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to Fides. "A few days ago, NATO warplanes hit a food s ...
• 26 July 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Maiduguri to Fides: "an intolerable climate of violence, the attacks continue almost every day" Maiduguri (Fides Service) - "At the moment I cannot confirm the reports of Amnesty International with regards to the indiscriminate killing of civilians by the forces of antiterrorism", says His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe D ...
• 26 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Medical facilities in the northwestern areas of conflict are on the brink of collapse Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - In the last three years, doctors and nurses at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, have been particularly busy. The hospital, one of the largest in the country, moni ...
• 26 July 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Church proposes dialogue on an issue which is still open: Public education Santiago (Fides) – The Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati, has stressed his appeal to put a stop to violence and seek solutions through dialogue, after talking for about an hour and a half with ...
• 26 July 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Humanitarian emergency: the Church's commitment Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Church to assist the Somali people fleeing from hunger and war who have taken refuge in neighboring states continues, particularly in Kenya. His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, ...
• 25 July 2011
  VATICAN-The Pope renews the appeal "to abandon forever the path of hatred and to escape from the logic of evil" Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again, unfortunately, we hear news of death and violence - said Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, July 24, after the Angelus prayer he recited from the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandol ...
• 25 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-The Catholics of Wen Zhou give aid to the wounded and pray for the railway accident victims Wen Zhou (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics were among the first volunteers to help the injured and yesterday during the mass prayed for the railway accident victims. Those who are helping are from the Diocese of Wen Zh ...
• 25 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The Christian outcasts are organizing protests and hunger strike for equal rights New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) Thousands of Dalits, Christians and Muslims, known as the "untouchables" of India, gathered in the streets of New Delhi to protest in favor of equal rights within society. In India, the Dalits ...
• 25 July 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Crisis in Malawi: does the history of 1992 repeat itself? Testimony of a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The situation remains tense in Malawi the day after the national protest held on July 20 which degenerated into accidents provoking deaths and injuries (see Fides 20/7/2001, 22/7/2011). Fr. Pie ...