News

• 23 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "With regards to forced conversions, the Supreme Court upholds human rights" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Forced conversions to Islam is a matter of such seriousness that it "requires immediate action on behalf of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a firm stance in defense of justice, human rights, r ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Education and technical formation for deaf children and young people: a new facility Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) –Laying the foundation stone of a new facility for the care of children and deaf young people in the city of Cochabamba has recently taken place. The new facility will be called "Don Bosco Sa ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/PERU-Caritas Peru will help over 5 thousand people with the promotion of local products Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Peru has signed a cooperation agreement with the company "Sierra Exportadora" to enhance and better commercialize the production of the inhabitants of the Peruvian highlands. The agreement ...
• 23 April 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN-The Christians of Khartoum concerned about the clashes between Sudan and South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting between northern and southern Sudan are having serious consequences on the Christian community living in Khartoum and other Sudanese areas. "Christians are afraid because two days ago, ...
• 23 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The President of the Episcopal Conference: "Equal rights for religious minorities" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "As Christians and as members of religious minorities in Pakistan we demand equal rights and opportunities, full dignity and freedom": is what Mgr. Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi and Presi ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Year of Faith and the defense of life, two central issues for the Assembly of Bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - From now until April 28, at the house of spiritual retreat "El Cenaculo", in Buenos Aires, the 103rd Plenary Assembly of the Argentina Episcopal Conferencewill take place, the first of 201 ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mother Maria Ines beatified, founder of a missionary institute present in 14 countries Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "I am pleased to recall that yesterday, in Mexico, María Inés Teresa of the Blessed Sacrament, foundress of the Clarissan Missionary Sisters of the most Blessed Sacrament was beatified. Le ...
• 23 April 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA-New manual for the early diagnosis of leprosy Rongo (Agenzia Fides) - The meetings for formation and distribution of a new manual for the medical staff of the Country, for the early diagnosis of leprosy has just concluded in Rongo, South Nyanza, Kenya. The text was ...
• 23 April 2012
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The political turning point has taken place, now we are waiting for economic reforms," said Fr. Gamba Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - " A moment that was very negative at a political and economical level comes to an end" says to Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary who has been working in Malawi for 30 years, c ...
• 23 April 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Agreement between the Community of St.Egidio and the Islamic organization Muhammadiyah Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - An important bilateral agreement will be officially signed tomorrow in Jakarta between the Community of St.Egidio and the "Muhammadiyah", an imposing Islamic organization in Indonesia which has ...
• 20 April 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - At Easter more than 22 000 baptisms were administered in the continental Catholic community Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - According to statistics that the Study Center of Faith in He Bei managed to collect up to 19 April, which was sent to Fides, during Easter 2012, a total of 22,104 baptisms were administer ...
• 20 April 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Still serious humanitarian problems in the "forgotten areas" of the country: report of the ICRC Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia presented in Bogotá and in nine other Colombian cities where it works, its annual report containing serious reports on the growing ...
• 20 April 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians handing out pamphlets: two believers arrested in Kashmir Jammu (Agenzia Fides) - Police in the Indian state of "Jammu and Kashmir" have arrested a Christian couple in the town of Bandipora on charges of "promoting hatred", while they were just handing out pamphlets about the C ...
• 20 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Grief and joy in Quetta: a Christian killed, a new priest ordained, the first in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Feelings of grief, fear and consternation, mingle with the joy and hope in the Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta, a Christian outpost in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. The two episodes that g ...
• 20 April 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Agreement on the transition between the coup leaders and parties; international condemnation and the population’s adversity Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Since Tuesday, April 17 the Catholic radio station in Guinea Bissau, Radio Sol Mansi, was allowed to resume broadcasting. "The military junta authorized private radio stations, including ours, ...