News

• 12 May 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-After the attacks against the Cathedral of Mexico City and other places of worship, a law on religious freedom is urgent Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Desde la Fe, a weekly Catholic magazine widespread in Mexico, has called for a law that protects the religious freedom of Mexicans. In recent months the country has been the scene of numerou ...
• 12 May 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Mexican Episcopate website off-line for cyber attack Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Paola Rios, head of the digital Communication and Press Office of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), reported that the site of this organism is off-line due to a massive cyber attack su ...
• 12 May 2011
  VATICAN-Visit to Japan of the President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum two months after the earthquake Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Two months after the terrible earthquake that struck the Japanese people, Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, from May 13 to 16 will go on behalf of the Pop ...
• 12 May 2011
  VATICAN-Assembly PMS : convert the decrease of economic resources in a training process, says the General Secretary of PMPF Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Last year, the fund available decreased, and this trend is expected to continue, despite the commitment and creative work of the national Directors to guarantee the same contribution and f ...
• 12 May 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Kwangju Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 12, 2011 the Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kwangju (Korea), the Rev. do Simon Ok Hyun-jin, of the clergy of Kwangju, Professor at the Cat ...
• 11 May 2011
  VATICAN-" Mission is not our project, we should feel servants of God's mission, not protagonists": said Archbishop Vacchelli at the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " Mission is not our project, we should feel servants of God's mission, not protagonists. To the whole Church and to us in particular we are asked to choose and live the main priorities of ...
• 11 May 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA-Fighting against corruption for authentic progress Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa, a developing continent, is in difficulty because of the many social, economic and political problems caused by its very often corrupt leaders. " In a note from the Executive Director a ...
• 11 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-The Catholic communities celebrate the Marian month preparing for May 24, World Day of Prayer for the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - According to information provided by Faith (the most popular Catholic website in Chinese language) to Fides, the Chinese Catholic communities of the continent are celebrating the Marian month wa ...
• 11 May 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-"Christian`s responsibility in social commitment": The social Week in Gualeguaychú Gualeguaychú (Agenzia Fides) - Friday, May 13, at the hall Juan Pablo II (Leguizamon 269, Concepción del Uruguay, 40 km. from Gualeguaychú), the First Social Week of the Diocese of Gualeguaychú will open, with the sl ...
• 11 May 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-Scalabrini missionaries and evangelization in Asia and Australia Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Guided by the theme "Called to be a missionary community, the Scalabrini missionaries working in Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam, gathered in Sydney from May 2 to ...
• 11 May 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-Bishops' Message to the People of God: " Risen Christ, our great hope" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The 91st Assembly of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, (BEC) (see Fides 05/05/2011, 10/05/2011) ended with the reading of a message to the people of God announced by His Exc . Archbishop Os ...
• 11 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-False accusations against Christians: a pretext for the massacres in Orissa and Karnataka New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian police has proved beyond doubt that accusations against the Christians were totally false, a pretext to launch a massive attack that provoked the massacres in the states of Orissa a ...
• 11 May 2011
  EUROPE/TURKEY-More investments, not charity, to turn around the poor countries in the world Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The least developed countries do not need the charity of the richest, they require major and more intelligent investments. This is the starting point of the Fourth United Nations Conference for ...
• 11 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The new Ministry of Harmony and Religious Minorities is without any funds Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The new Federal Minister for inter-faith Harmony and Minorities, announced in past days by the Pakistani government (see Fides 09/05/2011), was born "poor", as it has no allocation of funds ...
• 10 May 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Opening of the XII general Chapter of the Consolata Missionaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) -, The opening of the XII General Chapter of the Consolata Missionaries was held yesterday, May 9 in Rome . The General Superior, Father Aquileo Fiorentini, welcomed participants and explained the ma ...