News

• 7 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - the urgency for reform of the criminal justice system: Asia Bibi is just the latest victim Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, has highlighted the urgency of a comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system in Pakistan. Today the Interna ...
• 7 December 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Maternal and infant mortality rates are improving but there is still a long way to go for health care in the Country Gicumbi (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda, one of the countries with the worst indicators in the world for maternal and child mortality, the government is working to ensure access to lifesaving medical care for mothers and the ...
• 7 December 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Sisters' “Ashram”, to enter into dialogue with non-Christians Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in India have opened a Christian “Ashram”, to enter into relations and dialogue with non-Christians, especially with Hindu believers. The Ashram is in f ...
• 6 December 2010
  VATICAN - At the Angelus Benedict XVI's invitation to pray “for all situations of violence, of intolerance, of suffering in the world” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Marian prayer of the Angelus, recited with the faithful and pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square on Sunday, 5 December, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made the following appeal: � ...
• 6 December 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - On the Feast of St Francis Xavier, revival of the missionary commitment by the parish of Wu Qiao in the diocese of Zhou Cang Zhou Cang (Agenzia Fides) - “Following the example of St Francis Xavier, we all need to intensify and deepen the meaning of missionary, the sense of Christian identity, to revive the mission of evangelization.” This ...
• 6 December 2010
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Two Presidents and two Governments: Côte d'Ivoire on the verge of chaos; the Church appeals for “sensibleness” Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Côte d'Ivoire has two different Presidents and Governments. Alassane Ouattara, who according to the Independent Electoral Commission and the international community won the presidential ballot ...
• 6 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas in jail for Asia Bibi: sliding processing time Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Lahore High Court today extended the suspension of sentence for Asia Bibi - the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy - until 23 December, the same day the Court should then announ ...
• 6 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bibi Asia: solidarity from Italy and the Philippines Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign of international solidarity for Bibi Asia continues to grow with new shows from Italy and the Philippines. Over 100 members of the Italian Parliament from all parties and orientatio ...
• 6 December 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Cardinal Monsengwo Pasinya: “Power that is not used for the common good is power without a purpose” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal to politicians to respond to the expectations of the population and a call to end the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are two of the most significant passage ...
• 6 December 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 100 bishops from Southern Africa meet in Pretoria Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - About 100 Bishops from Angola, São Tomé e Principe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland are in Pretoria (South Africa) from 6 to 13 December, for the inter-regi ...
• 6 December 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - An association to promote women engaged in agricultural activities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India, 72% of women are engaged in agriculture. Often, however, these small farmers face numerous economic constraints, have no access to any type of training, to markets and to production ...
• 6 December 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Archdiocese of Melbourne welcomes asylum seekers into church properties Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report from the Archdiocese of Melbourne sent to Fides, asylum seekers will be moved into presbyteries and other church-owned properties in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne befo ...
• 6 December 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - National Award to the Archbishop of Huancayo, defender of the cause of the weak Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The National Coordinating Association for Human Rights (CNDH, in Spanish) will award the annual Prize for Human Rights, “Angel Escobar Jurado”, to Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancay ...
• 6 December 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “The Church can not make the mistake of evangelizing with old structures or ignore the media and new technologies” San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - At the House of the Poor Clares in San Jose de Costa Rica, on 1, 2 and 3 December 2010, the Presiding Bishops and Executive Secretaries of the Commissions for communication, the media and those ...
• 6 December 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian families are fleeing all over the world thanks to the communities in diaspora Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – In the exodus of Christians from Iraq - who after the recent violence seek refuge in Europe, America and Oceania - hundreds of Chaldean Catholic families have taken refuge in Turkey in recent ...