News

• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops of Pakistan make “appeal to the Pope and to all the mothers in Pakistan” for Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We make a heartfelt appeal to the Holy Father, asking him to pray, intercede, speak out in favor of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was wrongly sentenced to death for blasphemy. We ask that she ...
• 12 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' concern: a formal democracy devoid of values Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church has expressed its concern over the risk for democracy in Bolivia becoming "purely formal, without values and without ethical principles" due to the negative signs being ...
• 12 November 2010
  VATICAN - “We need, then, to discover ever anew the urgency and the beauty of the proclamation of the word for the coming of the Kingdom of God which Christ himself preached.” Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini published Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Synod of Bishops forcefully reaffirmed the need within the Church for a revival of the missionary consciousness present in the People of God from the beginning...Consequently, the Ch ...
• 12 November 2010
  VATICAN - Every Eucharistic Congress “bears in itself an evangelizing inspiration in a more strictly missionary sense,” Pope tells Pontifical Committee of International Eucharistic Congresses Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Task of the Eucharistic Congresses, above all in the present context, is also that of giving a peculiar contribution to the new evangelization, promoting mistagogic evangelization, which ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop of Semarang appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on November 12, 2010, appointed Bishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta, until now Bishop of Bandung, as Archbishop of Semarang (Indonesia). (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 12 November 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday, November 21, Day of Prayer for Christians in Iraq Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "All communities are invited to pray Sunday, November 21, Solemnity of Christ the King, for the Christians of Iraq, who suffer the terrible ordeal of a bloody witness to the faith”: declared by ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim lawyers and human rights activists rallying for Asia Bibi Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Civil society in Pakistan – not just the Christian community – is rallying in favor of Asia Bibi, the first Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. "We support Asia Bibi and we ...
• 12 November 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian Missionaries spread the Good News in schools, at all levels Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – On July 8, 2010, the Xaverian Missionaries celebrated the 60th anniversary of their arrival in Sierra Leone (see Fides 07/07/2010, 21/07/2010). In this reflection sent to Fides, Fr. Gerardo C ...
• 12 November 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Follow me” (Mk 1:17) is the theme of the Diocesan Year for the Laity, centered on its “Vocation, Communion, and Mission” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Follow me" (Mk 1:17) is the theme of the Year for the Laity 2011 organized by the Diocese of Hong Kong, under the subheading "Vocation, Communion, and Mission." At the official announcement o ...
• 12 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - We are all implied in the Continental Mission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Mexico have prepared the final document of the XC Plenary Assembly, which emphasizes the Church's involvement in the Continental Mission. "We come together to share the diff ...
• 11 November 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Post-flood rebuilding: Christian refugees ignored by government Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – "The post-flood reconstruction has begun, but there are about 20,000 displaced Christian families being completely abandoned by the government. Discrimination continues. There are only a few C ...
• 11 November 2010
  VATICAN - Coadjutor Bishop of the Archdiocese of Nanchang ordained Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, October 31, the Cathedral Church of the Immaculate Conception hosted the ordination of Bishop John Baptist Li Suguang as Coadjutor Bishop of Nanchang in the Jiangxi Province (M ...
• 11 November 2010
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Necessary and urgent” need for commitment to ad gentes mission in younger Churches, e.g. Africa: SECAM/CCEE Seminar begins Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Not only ourselves as bishops, but also priests, religious, and laity are all disciples that the Lord sends out today to go beyond their world to bring Jesus Christ to all people. Everyone has ...
• 11 November 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Nashik appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on November 11, 2010, appointed Bishop Lourdes Daniel, until now Bishop of Amravati and Apostolic Administrator of Nashik, as Bishop of Nashik (India). (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
• 11 November 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudanese Bishops and the rest of Africa say: keep the peace Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) – The bishops of Africa are calling on the people of Sudan to persevere in their commitment to peace in light of the upcoming referendum on independence for the southern part of the country, in J ...