News

• 16 June 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA-Mgr. Martinelli notes "a sincere desire for dialogue to restore peace" after a meeting with the Islamic Call Society Tripoli (Fides Service) - "There is a sincere desire for dialogue and to bring back peace", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to Fides, who yesterday, June 15, met the manager ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-One person arrested for the murder of Shabhaz Bhatti; for the Christian community it is "urgent to do justice" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A man suspected of being involved in the murder of the Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, was arrested by the police in Karachi. The man admitted, in a wiretap, that he took part in the pl ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Six years after the tsunami, 170 families still live in unhealthy shacks Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - After more than six years after the devastating tsunami that struck Indonesia in December 2004 hundreds of residents of the city of Banda Aceh in northwestern Indonesia, are still living in " ...
• 16 June 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-The prizes of communication have been awarded between journalistic works from around the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The International Communication Awards "Centinelas of mañana" (Morning Sentinel) have been awarded, promoted by the Spanish Foundation "White Report" on the occasion of World Youth Day (WYD), to ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kohima Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2011, the Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Kohima (India) Rev. Sac. James Thoppil of the clergy of Kohima, Rector of Oriens Theological College in Sh ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR-A priest in the North: "due to the civil war more than 2,000 Kachin refugees, many in the churches" Myitkyina (Fides Service) - A furious civil war is underway in northern Myanmar. "The clashes between the national army and the militia of the ethnic Kachin are creating great suffering to the civilian population: there ...
• 16 June 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-A missionary from South Kordofan: "I saw an air raid from Khartoum", the local people ask me "where is the international community?" Juba (Fides Service) - Fighting in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan, on the border between north and south Sudan, between the northern and southern army continues. "On the Nuba Mountains, schools are closed and te ...
• 16 June 2011
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New support program for 5 and a half million orphans in the country Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - Millions of Ethiopians who look after the orphans in a country where, in May, annual inflation exceeded 34%, are forced to sell their belongings or to send the children to beg. Fortunately a ...
• 15 June 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-Over 2 million children at the Childhood Congress in Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid to be saints": this expression of Blessed John Paul II was the theme of the Second Congress of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese in Czestochowa, which was held on Jun ...
• 15 June 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-A Center of Evangelization in the Cathedral of Beijing to respond to the Year of Evangelization of the Lay Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen and better coordinate the activities of evangelization thus responding to the needs generated by the Year of Evangelization of the Lay promoted by the diocese, the Cathedral of Bei ...
• 15 June 2011
  AMERICA/PERU '-The Church and the natural resources: development, law and quality of life Chaclacayo (Agenzia Fides) - "The issue of natural resources and the mission of the Church": this is the theme of the international seminar on mining industry (mining and hydrocarbons) and natural resources that takes p ...
• 15 June 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-General Assembly of Catholic Bishops in the United States Seattle (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of the United States of America gather for the Spring General Assembly from 15 to 17 June, in Seattle. Among the measures scheduled on the agenda: discussion and vote on a document ...
• 15 June 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO-"The LRA could offer its cooperation to Al Qaida": the alarm of the Archbishop of Kisangani Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "If you do not put an end to the regionalization of the crisis, the LRA will geographically expand its danger and may even attack the interests of the nations beyond the borders of Africa, offe ...
• 15 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-The Vatican Observer at the United Nations: the case of Farah-only a UN intervention Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Farah Hatim, the Christian girl kidnapped and forced into marriage and conversion to Islam "is an abuse of freedom of conscience and religion", so "an intervention of UN High Commissi ...
• 15 June 2011
  AFRICA-File: the regional threat of the LRA Rome (Fides Service) - The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was born in 1987 in northern Uganda, on the basis of a previous insurrectionary movement. In the early 90s it begins to install some bases in the south-east of Suda ...