News

• 16 February 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Popular Mission and preaching the Gospel in “Wutung” Vanimo (Agenzia Fides) – The "fire mission" in Wutung, seaside town of Papua New Guinea, in the province of Sandaun, on the border with Indonesian Papua, is being consumed. Wutung is the name of the village which took ...
• 16 February 2010
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - To avoid another epidemic: vaccination campaign against measles for 20 million children Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – In Bangladesh, thousands of health workers and volunteers have been sent across the country to immunize 20 million children against measles. The campaign was launched with the vaccination of 2.5 ...
• 15 February 2010
  VATICAN - “Where the poor are consoled and admitted to the banquet of life, there God's justice is manifested.” Pope at Angelus offers Lunar New Year's greetings for China and Vietnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Where the poor are consoled and admitted to the banquet of life, there God's justice is manifested. This is the task that the Lord's disciples are called to undertake even now in the pres ...
• 15 February 2010
  VATICAN - Pope at Caritas Shelter: “The witness of charity belongs to the mission of the Church together with the proclamation of the Gospel.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Know that the Church loves you deeply and will not abandon you, because it recognizes in the countenance of each of you that of Christ.” This is what the Holy Father Benedict XVI said ...
• 15 February 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Jesus' parables still speak today, theme of spiritual retreat for Taipei priests Taipei (Agenzia Fides) – "The parables of Jesus" was the theme of the annual spiritual retreat for priests of the Archdiocese of Taipei held at the end of January. According to information received by Fides, in five da ...
• 15 February 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Cholera epidemic seriously threatening the country; 45 dead in February alone Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) – No case of cholera had been reported in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for 50 years. However, as of today, 45 people have died from the disease and since its first recorded case in August 2009, o ...
• 15 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic family home set on fire, threatened by three Muslims; police ignore claim Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Another episode of violence in recent days has targeted a Catholic family in Pakistan, as Agenzia Fides is informed by local Catholic sources. This time, it is the family of Walayat Masih, a re ...
• 15 February 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' Conference call State of the Nation Address a disappointment to South Africans Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – “Flat and uninspiring” was how the Parliamentary Liaison Office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) described the State of the Nation Address given by South A ...
• 15 February 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops express concern for moral failings of leaders Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of South Africa express their “strongest concern of the scandalous behavior of leaders who shamelessly flout the norms of morality and decency, accepted and expected by the ...
• 15 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Revision" or "withdrawal”? - “Blasphemy law" ignites public debate Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Some would like to see a “revision,” such as the Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti. Others call for their immediate cancellation, such as the Archbishop Lawrence Saldanh ...
• 15 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Brief Overview of Recent Cases of Christians Targeted by “Blasphemy Law” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to data from the “Christian Study Center” in Rawalpindi and the Justice and Peace Commission of the Bishops' Conference, Agenzia Fides has compiled a list of the most recent serious ...
• 15 February 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Annual Assembly for coordinating missionary activity in the country Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador, members of the National Missionary Center (Cemin) of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, and representatives of major religious ...
• 15 February 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Australian youth on the missions in Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young Australians of the Christian Life Movement (MVC) have crossed the Pacific to arrive in Peru, where they have been carrying out an intense work of solidarity and evangelization th ...
• 15 February 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church using “Facebook” to evangelize Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Meet young people, encourage dialogue, and exchange on issues of morality and social themes, show the Catholic Church as an institution that is "close" to people using new media for evangelizat ...
• 13 February 2010
  VATICAN - Mass for Haitian earthquake victims, presided by Cardinal Sodano at Saint Mary Major Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The devastating earthquake which hit Haiti on January 12 caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, including Haitian Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot. On Tuesday, February 16th at 18, ...