News

• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Satisfaction for the close cooperation between Church and State in Burundi Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “The aim of this visit is to express my respect and my support for all that is being done to rebuild the Country. I am also here to bring the greeting, blessing and prayer of the Holy Father ...
• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Divine Providence Hospital: point of reference for a million residents on the outskirts of the capital Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – Years of devastating conflict, demographic changes and economic decline have reduced the people of Angola to a state of poverty and deprivation among the worst in the world. The unhealthy envir ...
• 3 March 2011
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Aqueduct in operation for the 28,000 inhabitants in the district of Gicumbi Gicumbi (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the topography of the area, the lack of hydrolic facilities capable of delivering water and the absence of water filtration systems, Rwanda is a country that has always encountered di ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Lucas Li: “St Joseph is a model even for immigrant workers today” Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “St Joseph is Patron Saint of the Universal Church, Patron Saint of China, an excellent model of a good Catholic, a good father, a good citizen, but also an exemplary model for immigrant ...
• 3 March 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Religious education is a right to defend,” affirm the Bishops of Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador issued a statement to Fides on public education in the Country, and specifically on religious education. The document gives special r ...
• 3 March 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New portal for the Archdiocese of Mexico: not just news but also audio and video in service of the Gospel Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after its creation, the Information System website of the Archdiocese of Mexico (SIAME) has modernised its portal for the benefit of visitors, because every day the number of user ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minister Bhatti killed, a “martyr of the blasphemy law” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Grief and terror within the Christian community in Pakistan: the Federal Minister for Religious Minorities, Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, was killed this morning in Islamabad. Fides' local source ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops on Bhatti's murder: “A tragic example of the intolerant climate in which we live” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “We condemn the assassination of the Catholic Minister for Religious Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti. We are devastated and deplore this anti-life gesture. This is a perfectly tragic example of th ...
• 2 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “The Countries that claim to respect human rights welcome Eritrean refugees from Tripoli”: new appeal from the Apostolic Vicar to Fides Eritrea (Agenzia Fides) - “Help us to get the Eritrean refugees out of Libya. They are just people who want to live in peace” Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli in Libya tells Fides, mak ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Breakdown of Christians in Pakistan Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Of the population in Pakistan of 185 million inhabitants, 96% are Muslims, and 2% are Christians. Among these, Catholics are slightly more than one million. Christians, with Hindus and Sikhs (the r ...
• 2 March 2011
  VATICAN - Statement by the Director of the Press Office of the Holy See on the murder of the Pakistani Minister for Minorities Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In response to questions by journalists, the Director of the Press Office, Fr Federico Lombardi, issued the following statement this morning: “The murder of the Pakistani Minister for Min ...
• 2 March 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - New Missionary and Marian Centre for the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – At the desire of Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak, Metropolitan Archbishop of Czestochowa, the Missionary and Marian Centre of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa will be built in Myszków – Mrzygl ...
• 2 March 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - The parishes of Abidjan welcome displaced people fleeing the fighting Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – “At the moment we are not hearing any more gunshots coming from the districts of Abobo and Adjamé, in Abidjan, where security forces loyal to the outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo and forme ...
• 2 March 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - One hundred years of Women's Day: in Kenya thousands of women live in acute poverty, without rights Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – In view of the upcoming International Day for Women (IDW), on 8 March, the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya's Justice and Peace Commission (AOSK-JPC), organised a series of events for the p ...
• 2 March 2011
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Church, guarantor of the dialogue in the conflict in the mining sector Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has been proposed by the High Commission as a guarantor appointed by the executive and the representatives of the “Coalition for the Defence of Natural Resources and the Rig ...