News

• 11 January 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Bishops' Conference calls for the need to “defuse the conflict that fundamentalist groups are trying to ignite in the nation” Johor (Agenzia Fides) – The Malaysian Church is "concerned and did not expect that the question of the use of the word 'Allah,' would be followed by a reaction of this kind, with attacks against churches and Christian ...
• 11 January 2010
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nearly 1,050 children die from armed conflict in 2009 Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Armed conflict killed hundreds of children and adversely affected many others in 2009 - the deadliest year for Afghan children since 2001. This is what the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM), a Kabu ...
• 11 January 2010
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Cardinal Razafindratandra, “a prince of the Church who love the poor and lived like them” Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – "The Cardinal was the moral authority of the Malagasy nation, recognized by all, even by non-Catholics," Fides learns from Fr. Cosimo Alvati, a Salesian with a long experience in Madagasc ...
• 11 January 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Increased concern for President's uncertain health conditions Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is experiencing increased concern about the lack of information concerning the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has spent about 50 days in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. According to ...
• 9 January 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - “Christians are praying and not responding to the provocations,” Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur tells Fides, following attacks on churches Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Church hopes to be in Malaysia "a presence of dialogue and peace" and the legal case over the use of the word "Allah" is part of the “normal right that all citizens have to clarify a ...
• 9 January 2010
  VATICAN - “Whenever our Christians suffer unjustly it is a wound to the Body of Christ in which all believers share.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has sent the following message to His Holiness Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of ...
• 9 January 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Seminarians and catechists respond to non-Christians' questions about the faith during Christmas season Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - The 5 seminarians of the Seminary of St. John of Montecorvino in Tai Yuan, along with catechists and volunteers from the Catholic Cathedral of the Diocese of Tai Yuan, accompanied university s ...
• 9 January 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Security has improved and the situation is calm, but I ask all the Christians of the world to remember us and to pray for us,” Bishop of Luxor tells Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “We are grateful to the authorities for what they are doing to ensure security for Christians and Muslims and to restore peace in our community,” Agenzia Fides was told by Archbishop Youhannes ...
• 9 January 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - First Missionary Congress in Aiquile: “Let's go on missions!” Aiquile (Agenzia Fides) - “Let's go on missions!” sound's like a song refrain, but instead it is the clear shout raised y over 300 children participating in the First Missionary Congress taking place in the Prelature ...
• 9 January 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - 5th National Convention for Animators and Leaders of the Holy Childhood Association Iquique (Agenzia Fides) - About 200 people attend the Fifth National Conference of Animators and Leaders of the ministry of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood Association, held from Friday, January 8 to Monday, Jan ...
• 9 January 2010
  ASIA/LAOS - Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on January 9, 2010, appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet (Laos), Fr. Jean Marie Vianney Prida Inthirath, parish priest and Rector of the Major Seminar ...
• 9 January 2010
  AFRICA/CHAD - “Religions should work for peace and reconciliation,” Bishops of Chad say N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) – An invitation to all religious leaders to engage in the search for peace and national reconciliation has been made by the Bishops of Chad. "Through the Synod of Bishops for Africa, we became ...
• 9 January 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - On the outskirts of Sao Paolo, amidst unemployment and insecurity, the Missionaries of the Immaculate are at work São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – Unemployment, insecurity, lack of health care, illiteracy...all of these things are are present in many of the “favelas” of São Paulo, Brazil. Sister Annamaria Fornasiero, Missionary o ...
• 9 January 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Care centers for street children, a home for disabled children, a farming colony:initiatives of the Opera Don Guanella Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – There are many centers in Congo being run and activities being organized by religious Opera Don Guanella, to meet some of the emergency needs facing the country. Among these are the Limete Wo ...
• 8 January 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Star Singers” of the Holy Childhood Association of Czestochowa conclude Christmas activities in an encounter with the Archbishop Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation of children from the Archdiocese of Czestochowa who are part of the “Star Singers” of the Holy Childhood Association met with Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak of Czestochowa, in ...