News

• 5 March 2011
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “Water and peace” campaign begins at Lent Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – For World Water Day on 22 March, the Ecumenical Network for Water has launched the “water and peace” campaign. Over a seven week period, beginning Monday, 7 March, weekly Lenten reflections ...
• 5 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 90,000 malnourished children in the province of Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A study conducted by the Pakistani provincial government of Sindh, with support from UNICEF, reveals a serious nutrition crisis among children. There are an estimated 90,000 children under fiv ...
• 5 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic community of Tang Shan supports victims of the New Zealand earthquake, “because we experienced the same tragedy” Tang Shan (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community of Tang Shan, in the province of He Bei, led by their Bishop, Bishop Fang Jian Ping, prays for the earthquake victims of Christchurch in New Zealand. According to info ...
• 5 March 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - Catholic Church announces release of other prisoners Havana (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church announced yesterday evening, 4 March, the release of eight prisoners at the conclusion of its dialogue with the Government of President Raul Castro. Among the released detai ...
• 5 March 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of Bishop of Bafoussam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 5 March 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Bafoussam (Cameroon), Bishop Dieudonné Watio, until now Bishop of Nkongsamba (Cameroon). (SL) (Agenzi ...
• 5 March 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of Bishop of Lodwar and Appointment of his Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 5 March 2011, accepted the resignation of the pastoral care of the Diocese of Lodwar (Kenya), presented by Bishop Patrick Joseph Harrington, S.M.A., in conf ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “He was a man who did the will of God,” said the Archbishop of Islamabad at the Memorial Mass of Minister Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Shahbaz Bhatti was a man who followed God's plan in his life. He was a man who did the will of God, with faith, obedience, hope and certainty in the Kingdom”: with these words the Archb ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecumenical funeral celebration for Minister Bhatti Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – It was not a Catholic Mass but an ecumenical celebration of prayer, in the presence of other religious leaders, to give the final goodbye to Minister Shabhaz Bhatti, and which accompanied h ...
• 4 March 2011
  VATICAN - Lineamenta presented for 2012 Synod on the New Evangelisation Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, this morning presented in the Holy See Press Office the “Lineamenta” (Guidelines) for the XIII General Ordinary Assembl ...
• 4 March 2011
  VATICAN - “Dialogue with other religions remains a high priority, especially in the southern areas of your Country,” states the Pope to the third group of Bishops from the Philippines Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Dialogue with other religions remains a high priority, especially in the southern areas of your Country,” emphasised the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 3 March, receiving a group o ...
• 4 March 2011
  VATICAN - Holy Mass for Pakistani Christians in Rome to remember Minister Bhatti Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, sisters and Pakistani laity who live in Italy and work in various offices of the Holy See will unite in Rome, on Sunday, 6 March 2011, at 4.30 pm, for a Memorial Mass for Ministe ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholic Immigrant workers search for work with a nearby church to continue to live their faith Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – In view of Lent, the mainland Catholic community is intensifying its youth ministry. According to information furnished by “Faith” of He Bei to Fides, “the Church invites young pe ...
• 4 March 2011
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Two minutes of silence for the earthquake victims ; thousands of people still in grave difficulty Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – At exactly 12.51 on Wednesday, 2 March, all the cities in New Zealand stopped for two minutes of silence in memory of all those, last week, who lost their lives in the terrible earthquake which ...
• 4 March 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Initiatives by the Guanellian family for the canonisation of the “father of the poor” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming Canonisation of Fr Luigi Guanella, Founder of the Order of the Servants of Charity, on 23 October in the Vatican, various initiatives have been organised in Bogotà. On ...
• 4 March 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bible in the K’iché language, the most widespread Mayan language Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – During the study of the post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, Bishop Julio Cabrera of Jalapa, presented the recent publication of the Bible translated into K'iché, the most ...