News

• 11 March 2011
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Famine and drought afflicting thousands of Ugandans Agago (Agenzia Fides) – Thousands of people who live in 36 of the 112 districts of Uganda are in grave danger of famine due to the drought linked to the La Niña weather phenomenon. Health workers issued an epidemic wa ...
• 11 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The European Parliament: “Shed light on the crime, continuing the work of Bhatti” Strasbourg (Agenzia Fides) – Shed light on all aspects of Pakistani Minister Shahbaz Bhatti's murder; bring the perpetrators of the crime quickly to justice; quickly appoint a new Minister for Religious Minorities and, ...
• 11 March 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Follow the outstanding example of the first disciples!: Pastoral Letter from the Bishop of Hong Kong for Lent Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – “Follow the outstanding example of the first disciples” is the title of the Pastoral Letter from Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, published at the beginning of Lent in Kong Ko Bao (the dio ...
• 11 March 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Seventh Continental Meeting for PMS: Analysis of pastoral care and missionary work, preparation for CAM 4 Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – There will be 22 countries represented at the Seventh Continental Meeting of PMS National Directors in America, to be held in the city of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), from 14 to 19 March at the Jo ...
• 11 March 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A two month “humanitarian visa” for Central American migrants: proposal by the Bishop of Saltillo and other bodies Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Saltillo, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Centre for Human Rights, the Rafto Foundation (Norway) and the Pastoral Care Commission for Human Mobility of the Mexican Episcopal Co ...
• 10 March 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The situation is tense and confusing” following the clashes in Cairo, PMS National Director speaks to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is still tense. Yesterday, 14 young Christians were killed in Moqattam. There are also tensions in Giza. The protest by the Copts is also still going after four days in front of t ...
• 10 March 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - “The sense of Tunisian solidarity with the Libyan refugees is amazing,” says the Bishop of Tunis Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - “The sense of Tunisian solidarity with the Libyan refugees is amazing. They are the ones providing food to the 10,000 people amassed in Ben Gardane, the border crossing between Tunisia and Liby ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Official recognition of Shahbaz Bhatti by institutions Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Streets that lead to the village of Kushpur, in Punjab, will be named after Shahbaz Bhatti; the President of Pakistan Ali Zardari – by request from the executive, led by Premier Gilani – ha ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani priests meet the Pope: “From him, words of hope” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We explained to the Pope the situation of Christians in Pakistan, where to witness to the faith can sometimes lead to death. The Holy Father seemed very concerned. He expressed his solidar ...
• 10 March 2011
  VATICAN - “We Christians must be a living message; indeed, in many cases, we are the only Gospel that the men and women of today still read” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Everyone can open themselves to the action of God, to His love; with our evangelical testimony, we Christians must be a living message; indeed, in many cases, we are the only Gospel th ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop John Tong announces that at Easter 3,400 catechumens will receive the Sacraments of Christian Initiation Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, during the Annual Assembly of the Association of Lay Catholics in Hong Kong announced that “at Easter 3,400 catechumens will be baptised - a noteworthy incre ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian violence in Karnataka: judge informs the Governor Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians viciously attacked in 2008 are still victims of Hindu militants and police brutality, said Judge Michael Saldanha, now retired, presenting the new Report on anti-Christian vio ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - We thank those in Illinois who “took the time to reflect, study and act in merit of the sanctity of every human life”:Governor signs decree abolishing death penalty Springfield (Agenzia Fides) – After years of debate, beginning in 1999, the Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, signed the decree abolishing the State's death penalty and substituting it with life imprisonment. Catholic o ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Violence on the rise in Mexico: appeal by Bishop of Campeche for conversion Campeche (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ramón Castro Castro, Bishop of Campeche, has appealed to members of criminal organisations involved in narcotics trafficking, during Lent , “to repent and take account of the fact t ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - A video for the Continental Mission: 2011 in Chile is the Year of Missionary Communion Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Commission for the Continental Mission in Chile has prepared a video and other AV material for the missionary campaign for the new pastoral care year beginning in South America. The mate ...