News

• 18 March 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Report on the increasing violence against priests in Mexico Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Last year more than one thousand priests were victims of attempted extortions (for their “protection”, amounts ranging from ten thousand to two million Mexican pesos have been demanded ...
• 18 March 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Spirituality centre becomes reception centre for the displaced following floods Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Home Fund of the Australian Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) recently funded a new spiritual centre for Aboriginal refugees in the remote region of the East Kimberley in Western Australia ...
• 18 March 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Bauchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 18 March 2011 appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Bauchi (Nigeria), Father Malachy John Goltok, Parish Priest and Treasurer of the Archdiocese of Jos. ...
• 18 March 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Archbishop of Benin City Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 18 March 2011 appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Benin City (Nigeria), Bishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze, until now Bishop of Uromi (Nigeria). (SL) (Agen ...
• 17 March 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - PMS National Director of Mexico: “the laity is the cornerstone of the mission Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) National Director of Mexico, Fr Guillermo Alberto Morales Martínez, who attended the continental meeting of PMS Directors of American countries in S ...
• 17 March 2011
  EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Card. Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 January 2011, appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies of England and Wales for ...
• 17 March 2011
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Card. Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 28 February 2011, appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies of Bosnia-Herzegovina f ...
• 17 March 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - Caritas: “We are ready to work side by side with the Government during the emergency and the reconstruction” Rome (Agenzia Fides ) – Caritas Japan, with the support if the Caritas Internationalis network, is ready to work side by side with the Government during the emergency and in the rehabilitation of the people struck by t ...
• 17 March 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - “Our presence serves to give some serenity to the population”: the testimony of a sister from one of the combat areas in Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “In our part of Abobo, the situation is a little calmer, even if the area is controlled by the so-called 'invisible commando',” says Sister Rosaria to Fides, from the Congregation of the Hol ...
• 17 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - New or restored churches for some mainland communities in view of Easter Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – If all the Catholic mainland communities are intensely going through Lent with prayer, fasting and alms-giving, in communion with the universal Church, some, in a certain way, have a fo ...
• 17 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian is Minister for Finance in the Government of Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides ) – In Punjab, the most important province of Pakistan, a Christian politician, Kamran Michael, is playing an increasingly important institutional role, report local Fides sources. Michael has jus ...
• 17 March 2011
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - More than a thousand people expected from around the world for Peace Sunday, 22 May Kingston (Agenzia Fides) – During a recent ceremony in Kingston, Jamaica, organised by the Councils of Churches of Jamaica and of the Caribbean, the Antilles was chosen as the host of the imminent International Ecumeni ...
• 16 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic accused of blasphemy died in prison: not convinced about a heart attack, the Church calls for clarity Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – Regarding the case of Qamar David, the Catholic condemned to life in prison for blasphemy was found dead yesterday, 15 March, in the Karachi jail (see Fides 15/3/2011). The Catholic Church is ...
• 16 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “The World Islamic Call Society invites the Holy See to contribute to finding a peaceful solution,” says the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) – “Yesterday I had a fruitful meeting with the Secretary General of the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), an institution funded by Libya, which is involved in interreligious dialogue and the ...
• 16 March 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - An “Emergency Centre” for helpers in Sendai, deaths also among Christians Sendai (Agenzia Fides) – “There have been deaths among the Christian faithful, but we do not have precise numbers yet. We are shocked, but today we received comforting support from the Japanese Bishops who are meetin ...