News

• 15 July 2010
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Local Catholic Church receives official government recognition Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) – “We have received official recognition as the ‘Catholic Church in Turkmenistan’. We are filled with great joy and great hope”: Fr Andrzej Madej, Superior of the Catholic Mission in T ...
• 15 July 2010
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - “Religious freedom is the nucleus and the foundation of peace”, says the Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) – The theme chosen by the Pope for the next World Day for Peace 2011, “is especially important today when, in so many parts of the world, religious freedom is violated or limited. With great ...
• 15 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Angry Muslims stage protest, a hail of stones hits local Catholic church Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – “About a hundred Islamic militants marched in protest calling for the death of two Christians accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed. A little Catholic church was battered by a ...
• 15 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - New burial for the earthly remains of a young Belgian missionary and a consecrated lay woman remembering “their missionary example” Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) – “We have come here today not only to give new burial and to inaugurate this beautiful plaque in memory of Scheut missionary Fr. Jozef Leemans, (CICM), and Yan Francesca Chiara, but also to r ...
• 15 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - 'Debt2Health agreement': history making agreement between Australia, Indonesia and the Global Fund to Fight TB Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Australia, Indonesia and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and malaria reached a history making agreement to support health programmes to treat and prevent TB in Indonesia. The 'Debt2 ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ Evangelisation is not just planning, it is doing ”: reflections after First National Mission Congress for Seminarians Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – “This meeting has been an important experience of missionary commitment. Prayer, conferences, group discussion, hymns have had one same goal: how to prepare future priests to be shepherds a ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The greater the obstacles the greater still must be our efforts for reconciliation, peace and solidarity”: Assembly of Bishops concludes Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “The great majority of our people desires Venezuela to be ‘a home for all’ the dream of those who founded our Republic: a home of acceptance, tolerance, peace and brotherhood. One great ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Pope appoints National Director of the PMS auxiliary Bishop of El Alto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, appointed today, 15 July, as Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto (Bolivia), Rev. Eugenio Scarpellini, of the diocesan clergy of Bergamo (Italy), assigning him the ...
• 14 July 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Religions against discrimination and defamation on religious grounds Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) – As part of a second series of seminars on 'Islam, Christianity and Europe', today, 14 July, in Brussels, a study meeting on the theme on the theme “The role of religious actors in the fig ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: “Fundamentalism and anti-conversion laws are contrary to religious freedom ” Bombay (Agenzia Fides) – “Religious freedom is the only authentic path to peace. The theme is most important for India and for the whole world: a decisive reflection on the world today and respect for basic human rig ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “The Pope's message will help dialogue ” says Archbishop of Jakarta Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – “Religious freedom is a fundamental human right. We are grateful to the Holy Father for choosing to offer us some reflections on this question: this will be most useful for Indonesia”: Spe ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Ordination of Bishop of Linhai (Taizhou) mainland China Taizhou (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 July Mgr Anthony Xu Jiwei, aged 75, with 25 years of priesthood, was ordained Bishop of Taizhou, in the province Zhejiang (mainland China). Since 1999 he had served as Diocesan Ad ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Monsoon floods leave 600,000 people stranded Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangladesh floods have left 600,000 stranded and submerged thousands of hectares of crops. Torrential rains crossing the Himalayan mountains cause rivers to flow southwards and overflow in Bang ...
• 14 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - On line Catholic Bible in Hindi, especially for young people Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Bible in Hindi, a complete edition, can be read on line at www.biblemitr.com a site created by the Catholic archdiocese of Bhopal, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The local Chur ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Concern for the most vulnerable of refugees and migrants: women, children and the elderly Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The 6th National Meeting of Protection Networks promoted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Institute for Migration and Human Rights (IMDH) is being held in Br ...