News

• 15 November 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Pontifical Council of Culture: “We need men and women who speak with their lives, who know how to communicate the Gospel, with clarity and courage, with the transparency of their actions, with the passionate joy of charity.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The lives of the saints and martyrs reveal a singular beauty that fascinates and attracts, because a Christian life lived to the full speaks for itself. We need men and women who speak w ...
• 15 November 2010
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “The Church in Africa still needs missionaries and should be missionary to herself”: Final Message from the SCEAM/CCEE Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “We are therefore grateful to God today that Africa, thanks to the many centuries of selfless sacrifice by hundreds of thousands of missionaries from Europe and elsewhere, has a vibrant Church ...
• 15 November 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 40,000 e-mails and an anti-blasphemy law petition to save Asia Bibi Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The international effort for the cause of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, is giving the first results: through the efforts of Christian associations, human right ...
• 15 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - 200,000 people showing signs of cholera: added tragedy for suffering Haiti Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After almost 11 months after the greatest tragedy that the island has seen and that according to the official estimate has caused 230,000 deaths, the epidemic of cholera now threatens some 200,000 ...
• 15 November 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Archbishop of Kisangani tells Fides about city's role in peace efforts Kisangani (Agenzia Fides) – "I'm ready to take up the pilgrim's stick as defender and herald of peace," Archbishop Marcel Utempi Tapa, Archbishop of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said in an interview wi ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Prayer Service held in New York for victims of October 31 attack in Baghdad New York (Agenzia Fides) – Ambassadors and diplomats attended an Evening Prayer Service for the victims of the ferocious 31 October attack on the worshipers of Our Lady of Deliverance Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghd ...
• 13 November 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Holy Father's Message to participants in seminar on Sacred Scripture in the Chinese language Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI has encouraged the participants to the ninth seminar of Sacred Scripture in Chinese (see Fides 11/10/2010) to promote Bible reading. According to reports from the Kong Ko B ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan Bishops say “Let's work to improve the Constitution” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Kenya have reaffirmed their opposition to the part of the new Constitution that “poses a threat to life, family, marriage, equality or traditional Christian values,” but dec ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastors authorized to cancel liturgical celebrations to protect population from violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM) has authorized the priests of the areas hardest hit by the violence plaguing the country to suspend celebrations or change Mass schedules in order to ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on November 13, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), presented by Archbishop Titianma Anselme ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Bishops appeal for respect for Sudanese rights Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The bishops of Sudan have called on members of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar ( ...
• 13 November 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian Missionaries spread the Good News in schools, at all levels (2) Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – We publish below the second and final part of the contribution from Fr. Gerardo Caglioni on the activity of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides 12/11/2010) and the 60 years s ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Central American University remembers Jesuits killed 21 years ago San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Salvadorans are paying tribute to the Jesuits killed 21 years ago at the hands of the military, with a series of cultural activities and the traditional parade of "Little Lanterns" (in Sp ...
• 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 ...