News

• 19 January 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - An “ecumenical” commitment to help the flood victims Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – Church and ecumenical groups in Brazil are working side by side to help the thousands of people affected by the devastating floods and mudslides near Rio de Janeiro (see Fides 15/1/2011 ...
• 19 January 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - IV continental FIAC Meeting for Western Africa opens today Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – The West African Continental Meeting of the International Forum for Catholic Action (FIAC) opens today, on the theme: “Life, bread, peace and liberty. For a prosperous, peaceful, reconciled Af ...
• 19 January 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Pilgrimage of Don Bosco's relics reawakens youth faith Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) – “I have come to visit you and I will remain with you”: this is the theme chosen by the Salesian Province in Vietnam to prepare for the visit of Don Bosco’s Casket in the extrem ...
• 18 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new prison or court hearing: serious dangers (and private convoys) for Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Asia Bibi will have a private convoy if she has to move in order to be transferred to a new jail or for her hearing in the appeal process in the High Court of Lahore: as reported to Fides by Ha ...
• 18 January 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The diocese of Kaohsiung prays for Christian unity, in communion with the universal Church Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 18 January, even the diocese of Kaohsiung in Taiwan begins a Week of prayer for the unity of Christians in communion with the universal Church. Archbishop Peter Liu of Kaohsiung, has ...
• 18 January 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Rector for the diocesan St Paul's Major Seminary in Tiruchirapalli Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 16 April 2010, appointed as Rector of the diocesan St Paul's Major Seminary in Tiruchirapalli (Nigeri ...
• 18 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Floods: serious damages to farms and to housing in northern zones Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Serious damage to farms has been caused by heavy summer rains affecting South Africa and which have destroyed numerous houses. The province most seriously affected is the Northern Cape, ...
• 18 January 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - An ancient Latin-Malay Dictionary is the litmus test to allow Christians to use the word “Allah” Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – An ancient Latin-Malay Dictionary, edited by the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith in 1631, represents for the Catholic Church in Malaysia “the litmus test” in the question ...
• 18 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - The international community continues to mediate, but also prepares for military intervention in the end Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Between attempts at dialogue and signs of a possible military intervention, the international community continues to add pressure to relieve Côte d'Ivoire from the political-institutional cri ...
• 18 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Sister Jeanne Yegmane was the victim of a street ambush,” the Bishop of Doruma-Dungu tells Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Sister Jeanne Yegmane was killed in a street ambush. It does not appear to be a targeted killing,” Bishop Richard Domba Madiy of Doruma-Dungu, in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, te ...
• 18 January 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope sends 200 Neo-Catechumenal families out on mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I am especially pleased today to be able to send out in various parts of the world, more than 200 new families, who with great generosity have made themselves available and are leaving ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - The crisis of the “Tunisian model” and the world of the Middle East Tunisi (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Tunisia remains tense and uncertain, especially in the capital city of Tunisi, after President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali left the country in the wake of a popular protest which b ...
• 17 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic fundamentalism: the root of the problem is youth education Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – At the root of increasing intolerance and the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan is the vexing problem of the education system and of the teaching given to children and youth, upholds ...
• 17 January 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant pastor killed in Orissa “because he was a man of reconciliation” Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – “This was murder. My brother had blood oozing out of his mouth, hands and legs tied in an unnatural way and his clothes were torn,” Fides was told by Dushashan Pradhan, brother to Pent ...
• 17 January 2011
  VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope recalls that even “the Son of God was a refugee” and prays for the people affected by floods in Australia, Brazil, Philippines and Sri Lanka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the World Day for Migrants and Refugees, Sunday, 16 January, the Holy Father Benedict XVI invited all to reflect on his prior Address at the Angelus, on the experience “of many men a ...