News

• 5 March 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Religious Minorities under attack, the indifference of the government: a new Report Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Indonesian government fails to protect religious minorities in front of the growing religious intolerance and violence, which caused 264 attacks in 2012: says a new Report published by the N ...
• 5 March 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Bishops: "the respect for the constitutional order must be observed by all" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congolese Bishops say they are opposed to the revision of Article 220 of the Constitution which prohibits changes in the shape of the State. In a Memorandum to the President of the Republic ...
• 5 March 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "Do not give support to candidates who do not sign the Electoral Ethics Pact" insists the Church Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has re-launched its appeal to all political parties to sign the Panamanian electoral ethical pact to prevent violence and ensure peaceful and transparent elections in May 2014 ...
• 4 March 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - With faith and the Word of God, the Diocese of Bao Ding lives Lent in the Year of Faith Bao Ding (Agenzia Fides) - With faith and the Word of God, the Diocese of Bao Ding of He Bei province of mainland China lives Lent in the Year of Faith. According to what Faith of He Bei reported, the Diocese of Bao Ding ...
• 4 March 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Catholic priest attacked in Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest in Tripoli was attacked by armed militia men. This was reported by local sources Fides Agency according to which the fact happened on Saturday, March 2. "The situation is not g ...
• 4 March 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – The activist killed in Boracay was a lay Catholic of the Vincentian Family Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Dexter Condez was a lay Catholic and belonged to the religious Family of the Society of St. Vincent de 'Paul (Religious Vincentian Family) he was a 26-year-old activist who was killed with eigh ...
• 4 March 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO – A 13-year-old hired assassin killed: the local Bishop’s appeal to families Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - "The State must do its part as well as the Church and especially the family must sow values," said Mgr. Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, Bishop of the diocese of Zacatecas. "In these times of chang ...
• 4 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and activists commemorate Shahbaz Bhatti and demonstrate against sectarian violence Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Commemorate the "martyr" Shahbaz Bhatti, on the second anniversary of his death on March 2, 2011; condemn sectarian violence and terrorism that cause so much bloodshed and innocent victims, such ...
• 4 March 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR – Deep emotion for the killing of a nun Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The murder of a French nun caused deep emotion in Mandritsara in the north-east of Madagascar. Sister Marie Emmanuel Helesbeux was killed on 1 March in a village in Madagascar. "The nun was ...
• 4 March 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Do not forget the poor," the church calls for new social order Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty should be regarded as a social evil that demeans the person. Even more serious, in Honduras, poverty, leading to the "manipulation" and the "enslavement" of the people," said the ed ...
• 4 March 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Catholic Bishop Fahim Hanna: U.S. politicians do not understand what is happening in Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The invitation to find an agreement to ensure the success of the Egyptians elections by the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to the North African country "cannot be regarded as ...
• 1 March 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The conflict over the land is also ruining our culture," say the indigenous communities Luziânia (Agenzia Fides) - The question of land ownership was the focus of traditional communities, which was held from February 25 to 28 in Luziânia (in the State of Goias in central Brazil). The event was attended by ...
• 1 March 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Faith, Creed and Evangelization: theme of fraternity and communion of priests, men and women religious and consecrated laity of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith, Creed and Evangelization" was the theme of fraternity and communion of priests, men and women religious and consecrated laity of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung led by Mgr. Peter Lui, arch ...
• 1 March 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Cardinal Naguib will attend the Conclave Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria of the Catholic Copts, confirms to Fides Agency his participation in the Conclave, so far uncertain for health reasons. Hemorrhagic cereb ...
• 1 March 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The defense of human dignity is an obligation of faith," say the Bishops Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The defense of human dignity is an obligation of faith and every action committed against it is an act against God. This is what the Bishops of Nigeria said in a statement issued at the end of the ...