News

• 25 March 2010
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Over 100 Church development organizations unite in an important humanitarian alliance Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – The ACT Alliance, which unites more than 100 organizations supported by the Church for assistance in worldwide development, was formally launched on March 24 with celebrations in Geneva and aro ...
• 25 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Jos: “It was politics rather than religion that caused the fighting for years. They fought not because they wanted to be holy Catholics or Protestants but because of political power. It is time to liberate religion from the manipulative hands of people who when they fail, use religion as an excuse for their failure.” Jos (Agenzia Fides) - “Since 1994 the wind of ethnic, political, social and religious discord has blown throughout Plateau State resulting in depressing loss of lives and properties. Is God testing our faith so as to p ...
• 25 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Turkson, representing the Holy Father, joins local Church in commemorating victims of the Plateau State clashes Jos (Agenzia Fides) – On March 21, a Mass was celebrated at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, at Dogon Na Hawa (about 20 miles from Jos, capital of Plateau State, central Nigeria), where Fides has learned from Archbishop Ig ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “LRA should be considered a terrorist group,” Bishop of Dorma-Dungu in northeast Congo tells Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – During the night between March 20 and 21, the Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked the town Bamokandi, near the town of Dungu, 780 km north-east of Kisangani, the capit ...
• 24 March 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Making God Present”: yearly gathering for volunteers in Diocese of Tai Chung Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) – "The Catholic volunteers are working to participate more in the district where they live, to expand their services and make the Gospel spirit of charity present, thus making God present." Wi ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop of Gurue appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on March 24, 2010, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Gurue (Mozambique), Fr. Francisco Lerma Martínez, IMC, Provincial Superior of the Consolata Missions Institute ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA - Increasing prices, lack of infrastructure, closing borders affect 10 million in Sahel Region Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – West Africa can meet its food needs through regional trade, most agricultural experts say, if countries keep their borders open for the free flow of staple grains, especially in times of ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - 25th Anniversary of World Youth Day in Ziguichor: a special event for Catholics of Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, and Senegal Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Pedro Zilli of Bafatá will attend the celebration of World Youth Day 2010 being held in Ziguichor (in Casamance, Senegal), March 26 to 28. This is what was stated in a note sent to Fide ...
• 24 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians being “treated like animals”: international intervention urgently needed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "In Pakistan, Christians suffer and see their lives in danger every day. In some areas, believers are treated like animals, in slavery or subjected to harassment, violence, and forced conversio ...
• 24 March 2010
  ASIA/THAILAND - Tension rises, “domino effect” on tourism feared Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Tension is rising in Thailand where the government, fearing the outbreak of widespread violence, has made a one-week extension of the application of the Internal Security Act, which strengthen ...
• 24 March 2010
  AMERICA - “My life belongs to the poor.” Archbishop Romero, 30 years later San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday, March 20, in the capital city of San Salvador to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, known a ...
• 24 March 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Youth from the PMS make an invitation to a Missionary Easter: “sow hope and proclaim love” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Enthusiastic in their efforts to awaken the missionary spirit of their peers, members of the movement "Jóvenes Sin Fronteras" are preparing the Youth Missionary Easter, which annually brings tog ...
• 23 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops' Conference President tells Fides: action, not words, from the government in defending Pakistani Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "We condemn the recent incidents and violence against Christians. We ask the government for justice and legality, so that such acts do not go unpunished. We demand that the rights of Christians ...
• 23 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Bishop of Bangassou describes most recent Ugandan rebel attack as “unprecedented violence” in correspondence with Fides Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - "The rebels used an unprecedented level of violence on the poor defenseless civilians. They hurt the people first and then ended their lives with machetes," Fides is told by His Excellency Bis ...
• 23 March 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Bagnasco recalls: “those who suffer because their fundamental human rights, above all religious freedom, are trampled” and expresses his closeness to missionaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Among the "painful situations" that have recently affected many people in different parts of the world, like the earthquake in Haiti and Chile, there is also "that of the people who suffer becaus ...