News

• 23 March 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “I hope to be able to contribute to the mission with humility,” says the new National Director of the PMS of Brazil Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – Fr Camilo Pauletti, 25 years a priest and 51 years of age, recently assumed the role of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil (see Fides 22/1/2011). Even tho ...
• 23 March 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church launches signature campaign to protect the family Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On 25 March the Catholic Church in Argentina's campaign will begin to collect signatures in support of a “Law for the complete protection of the Family”. For its approval, the bill, s ...
• 22 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “What do you want to achieve with these bombings?”, asks the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “From last night to tonight we heard several very loud explosions, albeit in the distance, with the counter-attack by the Libyan anti-aircraft artillery, says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martine ...
• 22 March 2011
  VATICAN - “The Holy Land expects the brotherhood of the universal Church” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “the Holy Land expects the brotherhood of the universal Church and desires to reciprocate it in sharing the experience of grace and suffering that marks her journey.... The Christians o ...
• 22 March 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - The affection and closeness of the Pope to the Vicariate of Aysen to “build a strong Christian community” Aysen (Agenzia Fides) – A message of faith and hope was delivered to the people of Aysén by the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto, and by the Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peop ...
• 22 March 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - Towards civil war to the indifference of the international community; damage to a convent in Clarisse Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Côte d'Ivoire is sliding into civil war,” reveal local Church sources to Fides, who for security motives wish to remain anonymous. “The fighting in Abidjan, the administrative and econom ...
• 22 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious minorities “urge an independent Commission of inquiry to investigate Bhatti's murder” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Religious minorities in Pakistan call on the Government to institute a independent Commission of inquiry, directed by a Supreme Court Judge, to investigate the homicide of the Federal Minist ...
• 22 March 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Second round of elections, relative calm returns to Country, first results 31 March Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Haiti experienced a period of quiet the day after the presidential and legislative elections, held on Sunday 20 March. Meanwhile counting of the votes has begun, which will culminate on ...
• 22 March 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Card. Pengo calls for greater commitment to evangelisation in Africa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Symposium for the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Card. Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, issued an appeal to all the African Episcopal C ...
• 22 March 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Rising recruitment of child soldiers Mogadiscio (Agenzia Fides) – There is some uncertainty about the number of children involved in armed conflicts throughout Somalia. It is estimated that there are two or three thousand, spread among several opposition ...
• 22 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The first priestly ordination for parish of Ding Hai in the Diocese of Ning Bo, 160 years after its formation Ning Bo (Agenzia Fides) – More than 2,300 of the faithful took part in the solemn celebration of priestly ordination for Fr Tang Hai Zhou, celebrated on the Solemnity of St Joseph, 19 March, at the parish of Ding Hai i ...
• 22 March 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - “The momentum by young people in solidarity is moving,” says a Salesian Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – “In this tragedy, one of the most moving aspects is the momentum of solidarity shown by young Japanese,” explains Japanese Salesian priest Fr Yasutaka Muramatsu, in an interview with Fides. ...
• 22 March 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Preparing for CAM 4: secularization is a reality that we should recognise as present but that must be addressed Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – One of the goals of the Continental Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of America, from 14 to 19 March in Bolivia (see Fides 11/3/2011; 15/3/2011; 17/3/ ...
• 21 March 2011
  EUROPE - Crucifixes in schools: “the culture of human rights of course must not exclude Christian civilisation,” declares Card. Erdő St Gallen (Agenzia Fides) – Satisfaction was expressed by Card. Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), about the verdict from the Grand C ...
• 21 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “War does not solve anything,” says Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, where the people are fleeing Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “We heard a heavy bombardment on the outskirts of the city. Tripoli is emptying, the population fleeing from fear of being bombed,” says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar ...