News

• 4 March 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The impression left in Colombia 25 years ago by Pope John Paul II Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – On 3 March the Forum on “John Paul II and his mark on Colombia 25 years later” was held in Bogotà, to remember the significance and teachings from the Papal Visit to Colombia from 1 to 7 ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Closed schools, prayer and Christians protesting about Bhatti's murder, tomorrow the funeral Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian community in Pakistan, convulsed by grief after the murder of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, is reacting to the event with spontaneous demonstrations of peaceful protest, with vigil ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti “killed for religious hatred” which is being fueled in public schools: missionary's analysis Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Shahbaz Bhatti was killed “because he was a Christian, an infidel and a blasphemer.” His assassination is part of a “religious war to eliminate those who wish to amend the blasphemy la ...
• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Three Catholic sisters on the border, helping mothers flee from Libya Tunis (Agenzia Fides) – Three Catholic nuns who work in collaboration with a group of Protestant laity left this morning for the border between Tunisia and Libya to assist foreign workers fleeing Libya. Archbishop Maro ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: need to reform security forces and cleanse them of extremists Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – In what may be defined as “a dark day for the nation's history,” civil society in Pakistan raises the burning question of the complicity by some of the State apparatus with extremist for ...
• 3 March 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Twenty years after the first landing of Albanian refugees on the Italian coast Otranto (Agenzia Fides) – On 3 March 1991 the first ship docked in the port of Otranto, carrying many desperate escapees from the Albanian coast. The local community, at all levels of society, immediately responded to ...
• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Satisfaction for the close cooperation between Church and State in Burundi Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “The aim of this visit is to express my respect and my support for all that is being done to rebuild the Country. I am also here to bring the greeting, blessing and prayer of the Holy Father ...
• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Divine Providence Hospital: point of reference for a million residents on the outskirts of the capital Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – Years of devastating conflict, demographic changes and economic decline have reduced the people of Angola to a state of poverty and deprivation among the worst in the world. The unhealthy envir ...
• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Aqueduct in operation for the 28,000 inhabitants in the district of Gicumbi Gicumbi (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the topography of the area, the lack of hydrolic facilities capable of delivering water and the absence of water filtration systems, Rwanda is a country that has always encountered di ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Lucas Li: “St Joseph is a model even for immigrant workers today” Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “St Joseph is Patron Saint of the Universal Church, Patron Saint of China, an excellent model of a good Catholic, a good father, a good citizen, but also an exemplary model for immigrant ...
• 3 March 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Religious education is a right to defend,” affirm the Bishops of Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador issued a statement to Fides on public education in the Country, and specifically on religious education. The document gives special r ...
• 3 March 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New portal for the Archdiocese of Mexico: not just news but also audio and video in service of the Gospel Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after its creation, the Information System website of the Archdiocese of Mexico (SIAME) has modernised its portal for the benefit of visitors, because every day the number of user ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minister Bhatti killed, a “martyr of the blasphemy law” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Grief and terror within the Christian community in Pakistan: the Federal Minister for Religious Minorities, Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, was killed this morning in Islamabad. Fides' local source ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops on Bhatti's murder: “A tragic example of the intolerant climate in which we live” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “We condemn the assassination of the Catholic Minister for Religious Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti. We are devastated and deplore this anti-life gesture. This is a perfectly tragic example of th ...
• 2 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “The Countries that claim to respect human rights welcome Eritrean refugees from Tripoli”: new appeal from the Apostolic Vicar to Fides Eritrea (Agenzia Fides) - “Help us to get the Eritrean refugees out of Libya. They are just people who want to live in peace” Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli in Libya tells Fides, mak ...