News

• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for a Christian woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Another Christian victim of the controversial "blasphemy law" asks for bail – risking death: we are talking about Ruqqiya Bibi sentenced in 2010 by the court in Kasur (in Punjab) to 25 years in ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 13 priests killed in Mindanao; the Church to the government: "The culture of impunity urgently needs to be tackled" Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – Out of 13 priests killed on the island of Mindanao since 1970, only one case has been resolved (that of the PIME missionary Father Tullio Favali), with the investigation of the responsibles o ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The list of priests killed in 40 years of mission in Mindanao Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - There are 13 priests who have been killed on the island of Mindanao since 1970 to date: 4 of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, three of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), a Cla ...
• 29 October 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - "The Church lives a new relationship with the state and the people": Cardinal Ortega confirmed as Archbishop of Havana Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The dialogue with the government of Raul Castro remains open, and touches all sectors of national life, including the process of economic reforms on the island, the Catholic Church is experiencin ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Inquiry into the abuses of military and paramilitary", the forum asks "Justice for Fr Pops" Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - While the Special Task Force, which is inquiring into the murder of Fr. Fausto Tentorio explains it is looking into "at least three angels, as possible motives for the investigation of the Ital ...
• 29 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops are the "best available witnesses" for the elections on November 6 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - To monitor the upcoming elections and to ensure transparency, the Bishops are the "best possible witnesses": this is why the organization "Ethics and Transparency," which has the task of monitor ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - The number of torture and abuse that goes unpunished on juvenile detainees is still high Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - In Nepal, the threats to the victims and the absence of mechanisms of protection for witnesses have hindered access to justice for thousands of people and fed impunity towards perpetrators of ...
• 28 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - An online survey on the support for the Church's missionary activity Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - On the Occasion of Missionary Week, the most popular Catholic weekly in Poland, "Niedziela", based in Czestochowa, has published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online su ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Sacred art, instrument of catechesis at the College of St. Francis Xavier Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - During the month of the Rosary, the College of St. Francis Xavier of the Marist Brothers in Hong Kong, has dedicated an exhibition of religious paintings to the Madonna, to allow the students ...
• 28 October 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope in Assisi: "Struggle for peace must engage us all in a new way" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five years have passed since the blessed Pope John Paul II first invited representatives of the world’s religions to Assisi to pray for peace, "unfortunately we cannot say that fr ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Joseph" in the Archdiocese of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. John Saw Yaw Han, of the archdiocesan clergy of Yangon as Rector of the Theological ...
• 28 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "The military offensive in Kenya aggravates the humanitarian situation of the Somali" denounces the head of Caritas Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent war events aggravate an already very difficult and complex situation", says Suzanna Tkalec to Fides, operator of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), head of Caritas Somalia, in Dad ...
• 28 October 2011
  AMERICA - Violent deaths: 9 out of 10 occur in situations that are not declared war Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Armed violence is both a cause and a consequence of underdevelopment says the report entitled "Global Burden of Armed Violence in 2011" published yesterday, 27 October, in Geneva, which was prepa ...
• 28 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Torit sends a delegation to resolve the community conflict in Magwe County Juba (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Akio Johnson Mutek, Bishop of Torit, in Southern Sudan, has announced that he has sent a delegation to mediate in the conflict between two communities in Magwe County, in the Easter ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Imminent and inevitable disaster in the capital because of heavy monsoon rains Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The National Rescue Centre in Thailand has predicted that four hundred million cubic meters of water will flood the capital, where the system is able to drain only small fractions of daily water ...