News

• 23 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious leaders tell Parliament leader in Punjab to “work for harmony starting with the education system” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Political leaders must be "active promoters of social and interreligious harmony, helping to build bridges between believers of different religions in Pakistan and establishing education progra ...
• 23 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CIMI document on “indigenous peoples, a situation of misery and lack of assistance” Campo Grande (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning March 15, the national leadership of the Missionary Indigenous Council (CIMI) and members of various regions in which the institution operates, met in Campo Grande (Mato Grosso ...
• 23 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Healthcare needed, cholera risks spreading across country Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – According to the latest findings of the Ministry of Health in Kenya, there are now 15 districts severely affected by cholera in the country, with 663 confirmed cases since January, and some 15 ...
• 22 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Hotline” for religious minorities with President Zardari: Christians report two serious cases of violence Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The President of Pakistan, Ali Zardari, said he would set up a “hotline” to report directly to its officers the most serious cases of violence against religious minorities in Pakistan. Z ...
• 22 March 2010
  VATICAN - Vatican meeting for Commission on Catholic Church in China Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The commission that Benedict XVI established in 2007 to study questions of importance to the life the Church in China will meet today, March 22, at the Vatican. According to a press state ...
• 22 March 2010
  VATICAN - Pope tells Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger on Ad Limina visit: “May a new missionary zeal enliven your community, so that the Gospel message is fully accepted and faithfully lived!” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “After more than a century, evangelization has already borne abundant fruit, visible through many signs of the vitality of the Church-God's family in your countries. May a new missionar ...
• 22 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Feng Xian Parish remembers Canadian missionaries killed in World War II for defending thousands Xu Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – The Parish of Feng Xian in the Diocese of Xu Zhou, Jiang Su Province, has paid tribute to three Canadian Jesuit missionaries killed during the Second World War, with testimonies of several wit ...
• 22 March 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - March 25: International Day for Life Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Following a survey conducted worldwide, during the first International Pro-Life Congress, held in Madrid in 2003 which involved over 20,000 groups and associations in over 20 countries across E ...
• 22 March 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - First National Day for Youth dedicated to Archbishop Romero: “His words still resound today.” San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of young people gathered from the early hours of Saturday, March 20 in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador to celebrate the First National Youth Day dedicated to ...
• 22 March 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Church in Mission”: new radio program in Chile to support Continental Mission Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – The challenges of this missionary time after the anguish of the earthquake, were the first topic addressed by the new radio program "Church on Mission”, which opened March 18. The ...
• 22 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Archdiocese of Sydney gives grant for adult stem cell research Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Sydney has just awarded a grant to Dr. Carl Walkley to support and foster research on the therapeutic potential of adult stem cells. Dr. Walkley is from the St Vincent's Inst ...
• 22 March 2010
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops of Malawi work for equal opportunities for men and women Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – "Women have the right to equal opportunities in education, training, employment, remuneration, inheritance and owning property," says a note from the Bishops' Conference of Malawi, reported b ...
• 22 March 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Significant geopolitical maneuvers taking place as Mogadishu awaits government operation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The Somali capital of Mogadishu lives awaiting the announced offensive attack of government troops on the Shebaab militias, considered sympathetic to the international Jihad movement. The of ...
• 20 March 2010
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - “The mission is at the heart of the Church's pastoral activity.” Fides interviews the President of the Bishops' Conference of Burkina Faso-Niger Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "Our Church is strongly oriented towards the mission and committed to helping create a cohesive and united society," Fides is told by Archbishop Seraphin Rouamba, Archbishop of Koupéla and Presi ...
• 20 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Auxiliar Bishop of Lodwar appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on March 20, 2010, appointed Dominic Kimengich, Vicar of the Tribune of the Diocese of Nakuru, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Lodwar (Kenya), assigning him the t ...