News

• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “The referendum was held peacefully but we fear a food shortage,” Bishop of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “Based on initial counts of the votes, more than 80% of the voters of West Equatoria have voted for independence” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussaka of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides, from southern S ...
• 17 January 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Number of deaths reaches 600, collecting aid continues Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – According to information send to Fides from the Archdiocese of Rio, the number of deaths due to the torrential rains in recent days has already risen above 600 and is so elevated that t ...
• 17 January 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Little damage to Brisbane Catholic schools who will reopen shortly Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – The floods in Brisbane appear to have caused limited physical damage to Catholic schools, said Brisbane Catholic Education. “There has, of course, been a significant impact on the homes of ...
• 17 January 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Online school to achieve high school diploma Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) – In recent days the most recent project initiated by the Guanellian missions in Colombia has taken off: an online school to achieve an high school diploma. “The project,” says Father Co ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Rector of the inter-diocesan “Good Shepherd” Major Seminary in Kaduna Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 13 April 2010, nominated as Rector of the inter-diocesan “Good Shepherd Major Seminary” in Kaduna ...
• 15 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: President Zardari is the hope for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – While the nation, society and politics are ever more polarised and divided amongst those openly in favour of the law against blasphemy (fundamentalists) and those (liberals) who would like to m ...
• 15 January 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The tragedy of Rio mobilizes the Church to accommodate the homeless; image of the Patron Saint of Rio on a train collecting aid; Bishops launch a solidarity campaign Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – The State of Rio de Janeiro is experiencing the worst climatic tragedy ever recorded in the Country. The latest developments, sent to Fides by the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, speak o ...
• 15 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Chipata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 15 January 2011, appointed as the Auxiliary of the diocese of Chipata (Zambia) Father Benjamin Phiri, of the clergy of Chipata, currently Rector of the Na ...
• 15 January 2011
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Creation of the new diocese of Bo and the election of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 15 January 2011, created the new diocese of Bo, in Sierra Leone, for the dissembled Archdioceses of Freetown and Bo, making it a suffragan of the same met ...
• 15 January 2011
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Five days of meetings, spirituality and celebration for 520 young people in Vanimo Vanimo (Agenzia Fides) – A great rally of young Catholics concluded this morning, Saturday, 15 January, in the coastal area of the diocese of Vanimo, in the St John Maria Vianney Minor Seminary. According to informatio ...
• 15 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - John Paul II, Witness to the Divine Mercy: the impressions of the Archbishop of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “The news of the Beatification of John Paul II is a story full of joy. It is a great thing that the Beatification will take place on the Feast of the Divine Mercy,” Archbishop Stanislaw ...
• 15 January 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Archbishop of Yangon: religious freedom and peace are crucial for the future of Myanmar Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Religious freedom and peace are crucial elements and values to ensure the prosperous future of Myanmar: affirmed Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon to Fides, commenting on the Message by the Holy ...
• 15 January 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - the first multimedia and interactive missionary museum dedicated to the Amazon Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, 4 February, in Assisi, the new Missionary Museum of the Capuchin Brothers of Umbria will be inaugurated. It is called MUMA (Amazonian Missionary Museum), and it will be the first mus ...
• 15 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - International pressure is growing against Gbagbo Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Pressure is growing for the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to recognise the victory of Alassane Ouattara in the vote at the end of November and leave power. The European ...
• 15 January 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Diocese of Kaohsiung celebrates 50 years, Bishop's pastoral letter Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – A series of celebrations which will be celebrated in turn in the nine deaneries, one a month, from January to September, to intensely pray for the Country, the people, for the diocese and al ...