News

• 1 September 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Meeting Jesus on the internet, E-Conference: “Jesus the Christ: Fully Human, Truly Divine” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Gerald O'Collins SJ will be the headline speaker at the Broken Bay Institute's next National E-Conference, 'Jesus the Christ: Fully human, Truly divine', on Thursday 16 September 2010. The ...
• 1 September 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Healthcare workers of the Church: “unsung heroes” in the fight against HIV Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) – Half of the hospitals and healthcare services present in the country are run by Christians and one-fourth of them are run by the Catholic Church. Carol Kidu, PNG Minister for Community De ...
• 31 August 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Waters diverted, Christian village flooded on purpose Multan (Agenzia Fides) – Local NGOs have reported to Fides on the building of a dam to save some land and divert floodwater towards other areas inhabited by Christian citizens, in Punjab, near Multan, where inhabitants ...
• 31 August 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Local Fides sources tell of a new rebel group in Central Africa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A newly formed rebel group has appeared in the southeastern Central African Republic, according to a report in the international press. Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, sen ...
• 31 August 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 1,261 missionaries from Madrid active in 91 countries Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Madrid currently has 1,261 missionaries working in 91 countries on five continents. They belong to 158 congregations and religious institutions. Others are members of the dio ...
• 31 August 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - On the feast of the Queenship of Mary, Sacraments of Confirmation and Baptism administered in several communities Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community on the mainland solemnly celebrated the Feast of the Queenship of Mary on Sunday, August 22, a very specially celebrated feast on the mainland, where the local Catholic co ...
• 31 August 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Archbishop Escobar, following massacre of 72 in Mexico: “Migrants should be guaranteed rights.” San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador has strongly condemned the massacre that occurred in the rural area of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where 72 migrants from Central and South America ...
• 31 August 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Missionary School for Teens: future guides for their peers Oruro (Agenzia Fides) – The "Mission School for Teens,” for young adults with a missionary spirit who want to become “guides” for other missionary teens, begins September 2 and goes until September 5. In fact, th ...
• 31 August 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Dengue: 26,824 infected, entire population in serious danger Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – It was reported that around 192 people have died from dengue fever in the first seven and a half months of this year. The total number of infected people came to more than 26,824 and there can ...
• 31 August 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Sharp increase in child malnutrition in north Kousseri (Agenzia Fides) – In northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa’s western Sahel band, there is an unusually high child malnutrition rate. Six children died from malnutrition in Kousseri hospital, northern Camer ...
• 30 August 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three volunteers killed were Americans from one of the 1,500 foreign NGOs Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The three aid workers killed in the Swat Valley between August 24 and 25 by an attack waged by Islamic fundamentalist groups (see Fides 27 and 28/8/2010) are American citizens local sources ...
• 30 August 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Xi Ning celebrates first baptisms with 5 Tibetan catechumens Xi Ning (Agenzia Fides) – Over 700 faithful of the Catholic community of the Diocese of Xi Ning, in the Province of Qing Hai attended the first baptism to take place in their community. The five Tibetan catechumens wer ...
• 30 August 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Formation course for 20 new missionaries concludes; first Guinean priest ordained for the PIME Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The sessions of the Missionary Training Course begun August 2 ended on August 27 with a Mass presided by two bishops of Guinea Bissau. According to information sent to Fides from the Curia of B ...
• 30 August 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - Nearly 200,000 refugees following severe flooding Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Af ...
• 30 August 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishop of Wollongong calls for tolerance towards refugees Wollongong (Agenzia Fides) - Wollongong's Bishop Peter Ingham has celebrated Refugee and Migrant Sunday at his diocese with a call for openness and tolerance towards new arrivals. “Today is a time to remember the many ...