News

• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Orissa: "an isolated case, not motivated by religious hatred" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Rev. Jiban Masi, a 70-year-old Protestant pastor, was killed on Sunday, October 9 by a psychopath in the village of Bada Raksi, in Sundergarh district, in Orissa. The district is located in ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - A special Mission Day, with the relics of St. Teresa at the headquarters of the PMS and the first "virtual Campaign" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru always celebrate with immense intensity the month of October and World Mission Sunday. This year in particular there is even another reason of joy: t ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - A school for the poorest of the poor San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 boys and girls, who mainly come from poor families, attend St. Louise School in El Salvador. It is an oasis of peace away from the city drowned by drugs, violence and rebellio ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Threats cannot intimidate the Nicaraguan Church", said the Bishop of Matagalpa Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua) made a complaint to the local press that he received threats over the phone. One of his family answered the call and he ...
• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Still no school for children in the areas hit by the earthquake in 2005 Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - According to the estimates recorded by Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) after the earthquake that devastated Pakistan in 2005, in the district of Shangla 204 schools were d ...
• 11 October 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Voting in Liberia for the election of the President and the renewal of the House and Senate Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Urns are open today, October 11th in Liberia for the three elections involving the election of the President, senators and deputies. The voters are 1.8 million, while there are 16 candidates f ...
• 11 October 2011
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The mission "for the sanctity of the family", following the example of the Blessed Peter To Rot Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) - The family is called to be "domestic Church", a place where you breathe and live holiness: is the invitation of the Archbishop of Rabaul, His Exc. Mgr. Francesco Panfilo sdb, addressed to the fai ...
• 10 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The fund raising of the "Star Singers" is destined to South Sudan: in June, the National Congress of Missionary Childhood Niepokalanów (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of Missionary Month, from September 26 to 28, the meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary organizations in Poland took place, in ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - In preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress, the Church of Taiwan announced the National Eucharistic Congress, November 19 Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In order to accommodate and prepare for the International Eucharistic Congress - which is "a blessing for the Church in Taiwan" in the words of Archbishop John Hung, Archbishop of Tai Pei and Pr ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Mission with mass media and social networks, to speak the language of the youth Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The mission in the Philippines travels on blogs, social networks, with new technologies and new channels, because it aims to "speak the language of the youth": is what Fr. Socrates Mesiona, Natio ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The Word of God is the engine of the mission: the new Bible in kashmiri has been presented Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) – To render the Word of God the engine of the mission; renew the efforts for dialogue and cooperation with the Muslim majority: in this spirit and with these intentions the small Christian comm ...
• 10 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Representative of UNICEF visited the headquarters of the PMS Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Argentina, Father Osvaldo Pablo Leone, received on Friday, October 7 the visit of a UNICEF Representative in Argentina, Mr ...
• 10 October 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - Two million people with disabilities still hampered by lack of infrastructure and architectural barriers Accra (Agenzia Fides) - In Ghana, according to estimates by the World Health Organization, there are 2 million disabled people, between 7 to 10% of the population of the country. Five years after the approval of the 'Per ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: yes to legality, but "no one touches the murderer Mumtaz Qadri" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes" to justice and legality, "no" to death penalty, even for Mumtaz Qadri, who killed the governor of Punjab Salman Taseer and has become for radical Islamic groups, "the hero of blasphemy". Th ...
• 10 October 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Missionary Month begins with the sending of 150 catechists Miranda (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo García Naranjo, Bishop of the Diocese of Guarenas, in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, celebrated a Mass of the sending of 150 missionary catechists from different paris ...