News

• 10 March 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - “The sense of Tunisian solidarity with the Libyan refugees is amazing,” says the Bishop of Tunis Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - “The sense of Tunisian solidarity with the Libyan refugees is amazing. They are the ones providing food to the 10,000 people amassed in Ben Gardane, the border crossing between Tunisia and Liby ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Official recognition of Shahbaz Bhatti by institutions Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Streets that lead to the village of Kushpur, in Punjab, will be named after Shahbaz Bhatti; the President of Pakistan Ali Zardari – by request from the executive, led by Premier Gilani – ha ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani priests meet the Pope: “From him, words of hope” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We explained to the Pope the situation of Christians in Pakistan, where to witness to the faith can sometimes lead to death. The Holy Father seemed very concerned. He expressed his solidar ...
• 10 March 2011
  VATICAN - “We Christians must be a living message; indeed, in many cases, we are the only Gospel that the men and women of today still read” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Everyone can open themselves to the action of God, to His love; with our evangelical testimony, we Christians must be a living message; indeed, in many cases, we are the only Gospel th ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop John Tong announces that at Easter 3,400 catechumens will receive the Sacraments of Christian Initiation Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, during the Annual Assembly of the Association of Lay Catholics in Hong Kong announced that “at Easter 3,400 catechumens will be baptised - a noteworthy incre ...
• 10 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian violence in Karnataka: judge informs the Governor Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians viciously attacked in 2008 are still victims of Hindu militants and police brutality, said Judge Michael Saldanha, now retired, presenting the new Report on anti-Christian vio ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - We thank those in Illinois who “took the time to reflect, study and act in merit of the sanctity of every human life”:Governor signs decree abolishing death penalty Springfield (Agenzia Fides) – After years of debate, beginning in 1999, the Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, signed the decree abolishing the State's death penalty and substituting it with life imprisonment. Catholic o ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Violence on the rise in Mexico: appeal by Bishop of Campeche for conversion Campeche (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ramón Castro Castro, Bishop of Campeche, has appealed to members of criminal organisations involved in narcotics trafficking, during Lent , “to repent and take account of the fact t ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - A video for the Continental Mission: 2011 in Chile is the Year of Missionary Communion Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Commission for the Continental Mission in Chile has prepared a video and other AV material for the missionary campaign for the new pastoral care year beginning in South America. The mate ...
• 10 March 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Presidential candidates speak on migration Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Less than 15 days out from the second round of elections on 20 March, the two presidential candidates are intensifying their political campaign, both also speaking about the problems of ...
• 10 March 2011
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Card. Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 14 January 2011, appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Croatia, for the ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - New wave of anti-Christian violence in Orissa: the nightmare returns for faithful Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – A new wave of anti-Christian violence has once again plunged the local faithful into terror, local Fides' sources report, alarmed that tribal Christians in the district of Malkangiri, Ori ...
• 9 March 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Clashes in the neighbourhood of Cairo's garbage collectors: missionary who works there gives testimony to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “We hope that these remain isolated incidents, because we are seeing what I have been saying for some time, namely that all the sins of Egyptian society will come to the surface,”says Fr Lucia ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Zardari meets with family of Shahbaz Bhatti: his brother Paul close to becoming Minister for Minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Paul Bhatti, the oldest brother of Shabhaz, the Minister for Minorities who was killed on 2 March, seems close to taking his brother's position as the new Federal Minister for Religious Mino ...
• 9 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “I trust that something will give way to a peaceful solution,” the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “There is complete calm in Tripoli. The city appears tranquil and silent. There are no cars on the streets,” Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, in Libya, tells ...