News

• 12 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New violence against Christians in Punjab, while Fouzia Bibi’s rapists go unpunished Pattoki (Agenzia Fides) - Intimidation and violence against Christian families in Punjab: the last episode registered by Fides Agency happened in the village of Pattoki, in the district of Kasur, which had already record ...
• 12 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two priests kidnapped by the rebels. Archbishop Marayati: let us wait to know what they want Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The fate of the two priests Michel Kayyal (Armenian Catholic) and Maher Mahfouz (Greek Orthodox) kidnapped by a group of armed rebels on Saturday, February 9 on the road that leads from Aleppo to ...
• 12 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - World Day of the Sick: "Take care of the sick and preach the Gospel" Okara (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11 the World Day of the Sick was celebrated. Worldwide several initiatives were promoted, among them the Lay Camillian Family (LCF) together with the group of charismatic prayer St. Ca ...
• 12 February 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Burmese people entrusts the peace of the country to the Virgin Mary Nyaunglebin (Agenzia Fides) - The pilgrimage of over 70 thousand Catholic faithful and non, to the Marian Shrine of Nyaunglebin (the most famous in Myanmar), on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, was an opportunity to ent ...
• 12 February 2013
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: "my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of some Blessed, held on Monday morning, February 11, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made this announcement to the Cardinals present ...
• 12 February 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For almost a year, the Church cannot enter prisons Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral of Prisons denounced that the country's political ideology takes priority over religious assistance. In the tragic events that happened in the detention center of Uribana on January ...
• 12 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese New Year lived in the spirit of evangelization Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Welcoming the Chinese New Year by committing to a project of evangelization and spiritual prayer, Bible reading, meditation, spreading the faith and active participation in the life of th ...
• 4 February 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Risk of explosive devices scattered throughout the country continues to be high Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of land mines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) scattered in different parts of Somalia during the last decades of conflict are creating a new source of threat to the security achi ...
• 4 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian minor raped and tortured by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian minor girl was kidnapped, raped and tortured by two influential Muslims. Fouzia Bibi, 15 years old, and a resident of the village of Roday, near Kasur (in Punjab), comes from a very p ...
• 4 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The religious in India between prophecy and mystic Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - To be prophets and witnesses in society, among the challenges of modernity, but at the same time be "mystical", men and women of prayer, a sign of the transcendent: is the commitment of the co ...
• 4 February 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The situation is improving but the crisis is not over; Bishop of Mopti’s appeal for the displaced Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is improving gradually, but the crisis is not over," says to Fides Agency Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali. "There is in particular an improveme ...
• 4 February 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Prison is a rehabilitation center, not a warehouse of people sentenced to death," said Cardinal Urosa Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, called on Venezuelans not to get used to the idea that the country's prisons are warehouses of people destined to die. "On the contrary, t ...
• 4 February 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Religious leaders call for a truly independent Electoral Commission Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An Election Commission that is indeed "independent, autonomous and neutral" is what the religious denominations of the Democratic Republic of Congo through their spokesman, don Donatien Shole, ...
• 4 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - New protests of the Christians of Mesopotamia against the scourge of kidnapping Hassake (Agenzia Fides) - In the province of Jazira, in the Sirian upper Mesopotamia, the exponential increase in kidnappings - side effect of the Syrian conflict - continues to flog the civilian population even in areas ...
• 4 February 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - "We are all missionaries": the way of WYD in Hong Kong sponsored by the Youth Pastoral Commission of the Diocese begins Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all missionaries": with this invitation the way of the youth of the Diocese of Hong Kong has begun, sponsored by the Youth Pastoral Commission of the Diocese, towards World Youth Day t ...