News

• 3 February 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Justice and Peace”: the blasphemy law gives power to Islamic extremists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The blasphemy law transfers the power of the State into the hands of Islamic extremists, Fides was told by the Episcopal National Commission for Justice and Peace in Pakistan, issuing “the al ...
• 3 February 2011
  VATICAN - “Consecrated men and women are in fact given the chance to express primacy of God and passion for the Gospel, practised in life and announced to the poor and to the weakest of the earth” Vatican (Agenzia Fides) – “The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is an eloquent symbol of complete donation of life, for all those men and women who are called to reproduce, in the Church and the world, via the eva ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation of Missionary Youth also via the internet Brasilia-Fortaleza (Agenzia Fides) – February is a summer month in Brazil, and also a month dedicated to the initiative of preparation and formation of many Catholic groups. The national headquarters of the Pontifical ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Do not accept “drug-handouts” asks the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – The violations of human rights suffered by Central American migrants in Mexico on their way to the border with the United States “is outrageous,” said the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbi ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 85 years of life, forming the priests of Tachira, Venezuela San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) – On the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, 2 February, the church of San Cristóbal celebrated the Day of Consecrated Life and 85 years since the foundation of St Thoma ...
• 3 February 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Web Retreat”, evangelisation through the mass media and formation for the “Christian Life Community in Hong Kong” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The “Web Retreat”, evangelisation through the mass media and formation are the action areas that marked the successful work done by the “Christian Life Community Hong Kong” (CLC) dur ...
• 3 February 2011
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The North African Bishops recognise in recent events “a vindication of freedom and dignity” Algeria (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of North Africa “recognize in events that are shaking Tunisia and Egypt... a claim to freedom and dignity, in particular by the younger generations, resulting in the desire that al ...
• 3 February 2011
  ASIA/IRAQ - Projects for a new hospital and university: signs of hope for Catholics in the country Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – In a recent statement issued by the Pontifical Legal Society “Aid to the Church in Need”, Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, announced a plan to build a new Catholic hospital and a universi ...
• 3 February 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The diocese of Mannar: “The government must be committed to the truth about human rights abuses” Mannar (Agenzi Fides) – The Sri Lankan Government “must publicly demonstrate the commitment to the truth about the events recorded during the decades of civil conflict. This commitment is a important prerequisite to ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Burned effigies of the Pope and Minister Bhatti: dismay of Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The radical Islamic groups gathered in the “Tehrik Tahaffuz Namoos-i-Risalat network” (TTNR, “Alliance to defend the honour of the Prophet”), burned effigies and mannequins representing ...
• 2 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A missionary among the protesters in Cairo tells Fides: “I have not experienced a climate of fanaticism, but one of joy and celebration” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “Internet connections have just been restabilised,” Father Luciano Verdoscia reports to Fides. Fr Verdoscia is a Comboni missionary who has worked for years in Cairo, in contact with the child ...
• 2 February 2011
  VATICAN - Pope's Message: “The great task of evangelisation requires an ever increasing number of people to respond generously to the call of God” Vatican (Agenzia Fides) – “The Church, in its depths, has an implicit vocational dimension in its etymological meaning: 'assembly convoked' by God. The Christian life takes its turn in the same vocational dimension w ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops-Government: dialogue on pro-life policies must continue Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The Aquino Government has expressed its desire to continue dialogue with the Bishops on the controversial bill on family policy and population control that is before Parliament. Fides sources i ...
• 2 February 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Rising number of child landmine victims in Somaliland Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) – Recently Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland has experienced an increase in landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO). In a note from Ahmed Ali Maah, director of the Somalil ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Campaign for signatures to halt the Document on Reproductive Health Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Pro-life activists in the Philippines have launched a campaign for signatures in parishes, schools and streets, to stop the approval of the “Document on Reproductive Health” (or under its n ...