News

• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/TOGO - Presidential elections begin Lome (Agenzia Fides) – Seven candidates are running for Head of State in the elections that open today, March 4, in Togo. There are little more than 3 million voters called to the polls. The strongest candidates are th ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Violence of Ugandan LRA guerillas: Bishop of Bangassou tells Fides his experience Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The LRA rebels have caused serious damage but it is mainly the psychological and human losses that sadden me most," Fides was told by Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangassou, whose ...
• 4 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Xenophobic attack on Salesian school in Beluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) – The Salesians of Quetta, in the Baluchistan region - the area bordering Afghanistan - is still traumatized from attack xenophobic that hit their schools. As Fides learns from missionaries worki ...
• 4 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian religious working to help maimed children in Haiti Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Recently, the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) accepted and unanimously approved the "Project of the Church of Brazil, in Solidarity with Haiti,” presented to the Permanent Council of t ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in preparation for elections, amidst fears and hopes Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – A flyer was posted yesterday on the door of Christians in Mosul: "Do not go to vote and do not elect Christians or you will die." In this climate of fear and tension, as local sources told Fides ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Extended Eucharistic Adoration in the parish of Wa Gou in Xin Zhou, to start off Chinese New Year Xin Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic faithful of the parish of Wa Gou in the city of Xin Zhou, Shan Xi Province, celebrated Chinese New Year in a special way, intensely focused on the Eucharist. During the two-week ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Building a more mature nation, where Christians are acknowledged and respected - Interview with Fr. Bashar Warda, CSSR, Rector of the Chaldean Seminary of Ainkawa Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is difficult. But Iraqi Christians do not lose hope and are helping to build the new Iraq. The country and Iraqi society at large are more mature than in the election four years a ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Blasphemous image of Christ: Police defend Hindu extremists in Punjab Jalandhar (Agenzia Fides) – Things could worsen following the violence that broke out on February 20 in the town of Batala in Punjab (Northwest India), and in some neighboring villages, after the publication of blasphe ...
• 3 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Over 80 dead and 400 missing following landslide on Mount Elgon; missionary station destroyed Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – More than 80 are dead and 400 are missing according to an initial report on the landslide caused by heavy rains that fell in Uganda, in the District of Bududa, on the slopes of Mount Elgon loc ...
• 3 March 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Sunday, March 7 is Hispano-American Day: "Our gaze returns to Latin America as a land of mission." Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday, March 7th, Spanish Dioceses celebrate Hispano-American Day, promoted by the Ibero-American Association for Priestly Cooperation (OCSHA), of the Spanish Bishops' Conference. Coinciding wit ...
• 3 March 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Recent violence is no threat to peace talks between government and main rebel group in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – “The news from Darfur on new fighting comes as no surprise. It was sadly predictable that groups excluded from the agreement under Doha would try to be make their presence known in this way ...
• 3 March 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The priest and the digital world, theme for encounter led by CELAM Communications Department Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Today in Bogota (Colombia) marks the opening of the continental meeting of the Chambers of Social Communication of the Episcopal Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean with the Communic ...
• 3 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - New manual to enhance mother and child health in sub-Saharan Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Sub-Saharan Africa will soon have a manual on mother/child healthcare, that will help reduce deaths of these two groups and enhance healthcare for mothers, infants, and children in general. T ...
• 3 March 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - From Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital on Mission to Haiti: “I left my heart in Haiti; they were two weeks that will mark my life forever.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On January 30 of this year, the first doctor from Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital went to Haiti to meet the health needs of earthquake survivors. Michael Salata, a pediatrician, worked for the H ...
• 2 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ugandan Bishops' Conference President launches appeal to help rebuild north: “millions of people have been living for 20 years in refugee camps” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "The Church in Uganda is growing, as evidenced by the many priestly and religious vocations" Fides was told by Archbishop Matthias Ssekamanya of Lugazi, President of the Uganda Bishops' Conferenc ...