News

• 29 January 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Archbishop of Manila: “To respect life in family policies and in society is the correct path for the Country” Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “To promote respect for life at levels throughout the Country: both in family policies, which should be based on the values of unborn life and responsible parenting; and in the daily pattern ...
• 29 January 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops ask Spanish Government to unite with Europe's call to stop violence against Christians Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – In the final note of the CCXVIII meeting of the Standing Committee of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, held on 26 and 27 January 2011, the Bishops asked the Spanish Government to join the call ...
• 29 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - The Archbishop of Lima officially opens RPP TV headquarters: “communication aids in the progress of the human family” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, officially opened the headquarters of the new television station RPP TV (television from the Catholic radio station “Radio Programas Peru”). T ...
• 29 January 2011
  MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - Holy Father's Missionary Intention for February 2011: “That Christian communities may witness to the presence of Christ in serving those who suffer from disease in those mission territories where the fight against disease is most urgent”. Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During his earthly life, Jesus was always close to human suffering. The experience of healing the sick occupied a great part of his public mission. They brought Him the sick, the crippled ...
• 28 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops pray for Mandela “Father of the Nation” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “On behalf of the Bishops, Clergy, Religious Sisters and Brothers as well as the Catholic Church in Southern Africa, the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa extend to President Mandela an ...
• 28 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Preparing a terrorist attack to eliminate Catholic Minister Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Terrorist organizations in Pakistan are preparing an attack to eliminate Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Religious Minorities: the alarm was issued to Fides by the “All Pakis ...
• 28 January 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Obstacles to evangelisation and human promotion in Africa: FIAC meeting concludes Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty and social injustice, bad governance, the persistent insecurity, the bad start to democracy in many Countries, the corruption, the urgency of reconciliation and the integral formation of t ...
• 28 January 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Prayer published for the Year for the Laity Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – After having published the 2011 Pastoral Letter dedicated to the Year for the Laity, entitled “Walking together to man, living for the Lord” (see Fides 10/1/2011), the Regional Episcopal C ...
• 28 January 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Talks resume for peace in Mindanao: hopes of the missionaries Cotabato City (Agenzia Fides) – Everyone is hoping that it is a real breakthrough: peace talks resume resume between the new Filipino government and representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to addres ...
• 28 January 2011
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - From Jerusalem “the message of hope needs to be sent that peace is possible and God will achieve it”: 2,000 cities around the world pray for peace in the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On 29 and 30 January 2011 the third International Day of Intercession for Peace in the Holy Land will be celebrated, a prayer initiative which arose from the desire of various associations o ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Climate of violence continues: another two young priests assassinated in Bogotà Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – Another two priests were killed in Bogotà on Wednesday evening, 26 January. According to the message from the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the murder of the two priests occurred in the q ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - “At the service of human dignity and common good”: Bishops in the context of the April elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of its Plenary Assembly the Peruvian Episcopal Conference issued a document that presents a reflection for the community, in the context of the election for President of the Republic w ...
• 27 January 2011
  VATICAN - The Message of the Pope for World Mission Day 2011 in various languages Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the website of Agenzia Fides (www.fides.org), the Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Day, to be held on 23 October 2011, may be found in various languages: Italian, E ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Missionary Society Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 5 May 2010, appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Society in Guinea from 2010-2 ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Missionary Society Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 27 May 2010, appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Society in Equatorial Guinea ...