News

• 25 February 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Nuncio Montemayor to visit Guinea Bissau March 6-12 Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, Papal Representative in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Mauritania and Senegal (where he resides), is scheduled to visit Guinea-Bissau March 6 to 12. During the v ...
• 25 February 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “The Doha Agreement is an important yet incomplete step towards peace,” the Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "It is an important yet incomplete step towards peace. It is still too soon to claim that peace has returned to Darfur," Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid told Fides in commenting on the f ...
• 25 February 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops of Kenya in Lenten Message: rediscover the community spirit to address food shortage Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Food shortage and recalling the idea of “Harambee” (Swahili for “together”), community effort in resolving problems are the focus of the reflection issued in this first week of Lent by ...
• 25 February 2010
  AMERICA - Debate over homosexual unions and their adoption of children reignited Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The debate over so-called "marriage" between homosexuals is has re-emerged recently in several Latin American countries. Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote, His Excellency Luis Bambaren, also former pre ...
• 25 February 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Mary is the great missionary and the missionaries' teacher” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – For the whole Church, "Mary is the great missionary who continues the mission of the Son and is the missionaries' teacher,” which is why on February 23 the Parish of St. Mary of Bethany ...
• 25 February 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Bishops launch blog Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Since February 23, the blog of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) has been up and running on the Internet. Encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI in his Message for the 44th World Communicatio ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against Christians in Karachi, working to return to calm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – There is calm on the streets, but tension remains high in the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan, where Sunday, February 21 a group of 150 Muslims attacked Christian churches, shops, and hom ...
• 24 February 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Guanellians open new missionary office in Tiefenbronn: former students and collaborators support projects for missions in Africa and Asia Tiefenbronn (Agenzia Fides) – It is a project that involves about 200 alumni of the Guanellian houses of Naro and Ceglie (Italy), along with some 20 German collaborators: the Guanelliani Missionary Office opened in Tie ...
• 24 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal from Nuncio in Haiti: “The seminaries and the seminarians lost everything...putting them back to "normal" life is a priority.” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, has sent a report on the present situation of the seminarians and an appeal made to the Pontifical Mission Societies of Englan ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Public press coverage of Fr. Matteo Ricci exhibition in Beijing Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Matteo Ricci – A Meeting of Civilizations in Ming China," the exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of death of the Italian Jesuit missionary, was opened in Beijing with ample covera ...
• 24 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Claretians in Haiti rebuilding Parish of St. Anthony Maria Claret in Nazon Jimani (Agenzia Fides) – Monday, February 15th an "historic" meeting took place, which was attended by the Claretian Missionaries in Haiti (Fathers Joachim, Beauplan, and Anistus), those in Jimaní in the Dominican Rep ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Thanks to dialogue, the Catholic community is opening new churches, hospitals, and social centers,” Indonesian Bishop tells Fides Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – His diocese includes over more than a thousand small islands: Bishop Hilarius Moa Nurak, missionary of the Divine Word, is Bishop of the Diocese of Pangkal Pinang, in the South China Sea. ...
• 24 February 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “A very significant agreement, an important step to restore peace in Darfur” Doha (Agenzia Fides) – "The agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the JEM is important because it is the strongest and most capable military group operating in Darfur," Fides was told by Vittorio Scelzo, ...
• 24 February 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: main points of the Doha Agreement Doha (Agenzia Fides) – Amin Hassan Omar, chief negotiator of the Sudanese government and Ahmed Tugud, leader of the delegation of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM, the strongest rebel movement in Darfur) on Febru ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops call for peace and write Minister for Education in response to blasphemous image of Christ New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Indian Bishops are launching an appeal for peace and will write a formal letter of protest to the Federal Minister for Education, asking them to supervise publishing houses and the education ...