News

• 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 ...
• 14 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protest against the Pope: a flop thanks to interreligious dialogue Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – A word of mouth campaign implemented by the diocesan interreligious Commission in Faisalabad has effectively defused the planned protest against Pope Benedict XVI by an alliance of extremis ...
• 14 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Students in revolt in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is not yet under control because it is still marked by clashes,” say sources of Fides from the local Church in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republis of Congo, where a ...
• 14 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: Supreme Court and Government block Islamic extremists Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Civil society in Pakistan is appealing to the Supreme Court to block Islamic extremists, who are rampant at all levels, and to protect the rule of the rights and constitutional freedoms of a ...
• 11 January 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The celebration of the Epiphany as a mark of evangelisation and of mission Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The celebration of the Epiphany in the mainland Chinese Catholic community has been characterized by a strong missionary dimension, in the sign of evangelisation and by the collection o ...
• 11 January 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - One year on after the earthquake: five priorities for the Jesuits Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 20 Jesuits who live in Haiti, the majority of them being Haitian, all very committed to the reconstruction of the Country. According to information provided to Fides by t ...
• 11 January 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope to the Diplomatic Corps: “that Catholic communities everywhere be guaranteed full autonomy of organization and the freedom to carry out their mission” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The religious dimension is an undeniable and irrepressible feature of man’s being and acting.... Consequently, when the individual himself or those around him neglect or deny this fu ...
• 11 January 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Reconstruction still far away, one year on from the earthquake; fear of attacks and blocked roads for the ballot Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A year on after the repercussions of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January, 2010 continue to be felt especially in rural areas, aggravated by the running epidemic o ...
• 11 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We are here to express our solidarity with the Church in the south and in the north of Sudan” said a spokesperson of the SACBC Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “Things are going incredibly well. Most of the population has voted and the situation is very calm,” Father Chris Townsend tells Fides, a spokesperson for the SACBC, located in Juba (south Suda ...
• 10 January 2011
  VATICAN - The pope encourages all the faithful “to rediscover the beauty of being baptised” and recalls the earthquake in Haiti and the commitment to religious freedom Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I would like to encourage all the faithful to rediscover the beauty of being baptised and belonging to the great family of God, and to give joyful witness of their faith, that they may g ...
• 10 January 2011
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Dodoma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on 9 January, 2011, appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Dodoma (Tanzania), Father Gervas John Mwasikwabhila Nyaisonga of Mbeya, Assistant Professor at St Augusti ...
• 10 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Vote calm, people participate en-masse,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The people are voting en-masse and so far the voting procedures have taken place in calm,” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio told Fides, in southern Sudan, where yesterday, 9 ...
• 10 January 2011
  Africa/Kenya - More than 150,000 people at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- More than 150,000 people are at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya. According to the Kenyan daily, “The Nation”, “children under five years of age, pregnant women and elderly people a ...
• 10 January 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral Letter for 2011 by the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – “Walking together to man, living for the Lord – To be fulfilled and to fulfil others in holiness, to the full”, is the title of the 2011 Pastoral Letter of the Regional Episcopal Confere ...