News

• 10 January 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another Bishop takes up Twitter: presence of the Church increases in social networking sites Durango (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Durango, Archbishop Héctor González Martínez, opened a Twitter account in the last few days. Including him, there are now five members of the Mexican ecclesial hierarchy w ...
• 8 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The independence of southern Sudan is at risk due to the tragedy of millions of displaced people from the north, denounces Sudanese Bishop Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “Following the euphoria of independence now they must deal with the harsh reality of the thousands and thousands of southern Sudanese who have returned to the south and who have nothing. Ther ...
• 8 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO - A new law to protect the rights of indigenous peoples Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – The Republic of Congo is destined to become the first country in Africa to provide special legal protection to its indigenous peoples. In a declaration by Jean Ganga, president of the Asso ...
• 8 January 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Communion and prayer are the beginning of true unity” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “Communion and prayer are the beginning of true unity”, is the title of the message sent by Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong of Kwangju and President of the CBCK Committee for Promoting Chr ...
• 8 January 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Step by step towards peace”: a march to stop the violence against migrants Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) – Dozens of central American immigrants and activists from Mexico began a march in south-east Mexico on the afternoon of 7 January to protest against the violence suffered by clandestine migran ...
• 8 January 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Thousands of displaced people thanks to floods and landslides Manila (Agenzia Fides) – More than 4,500 people have been affected by heavy rains that have battered the east coast of the Philippines and there are about 10,00 that are seeking refuge. According to relief officials, a ...
• 4 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Star Singers” in Czestochowa help children in Uganda Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The “Star Singers” initiative, which began over 50 years ago in Germany as an initiative of solidarity by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, has spread to several other nati ...
• 4 January 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The mainland community reaps vocational fruits at the start of the new year Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The Chinese Catholic community on the mainland has already reaped its first vocational fruits at the beginning of new calendar year. According to information received by Fides, on 1 January, S ...
• 4 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “They want to destabilize Nigeria, with attacks on Christian places of symbolic importance,” says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “It was an attack on places symbolic of Christianity. Unlike other incidents in the past that had other causes, the attacks at Christmas have a clear religious motivation,” Fides was told by A ...
• 4 January 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - Support lacking for psychiatric disorders: 7,300 cases of suicide in less than 10 months Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – According to the Government of Nepal, in 2010 more than 6,000,000 inhabitants of the Country, about one-third of the population, suffered from mental illness, but despite the emergency the p ...
• 4 January 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Auxiliary of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 4 January, 2011 accepted the resignation from the office of Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Bombay (India), presented by Bishop Percival Joseph Fernandez, T ...
• 4 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Church multiplies initiatives for the peaceful conduct of the referendum on 9 January Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Even the Catholic Church is mobilizing to ensure that the referendum on the independence of South Sudan occurs peacefully. Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro of Juba, announced the extension to ...
• 3 January 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Christians do not feel adequately protected, but they understand the difficulties in preventing acts of terrorism,” reveals Nuncio in Egypt to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “I have expressed to Pope Shenouda III my condolences and sorrow for the victims of the 31 December attack,” said Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, to Fides. “I ...
• 3 January 2011
  VATICAN - “Humankind must not resign itself to the negative power of selfishness and violence; it must not become accustomed to conflicts which cause victims and put the future of peoples at risk” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Humankind must not resign itself to the negative power of selfishness and violence; it must not become accustomed to conflicts which cause victims and put the future of peoples at risk. ...
• 30 December 2010
  THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2010 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost their lives in a violent manner over the course of the last 12 months. According to informati ...