News

• 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 ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protest by Pakistanis in Rome: Catholics grateful to the Pope, disassociate from protest Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Groups of Christian Pakistanis in Italy have announced a protest in Rome tomorrow, 10 March, from 3.00 – 5.00 pm, in front of the Embassy of Pakistan to Italy. Some politicians and unionists ha ...
• 8 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “We need to avoid more bloodshed. There are better ways than with violence,” the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “I pray that there will be no further spilling of blood. I don't believe that it is appropriate to step in with force, because there will be more bloodshed. So declared Bishop Giovanni Innocen ...
• 8 March 2011
  ASIA - Urgent measures to counter violence against women in Asia Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against women in Asia is a widespread phenomena that affects the whole continent and that the governments must face and counter with urgent measures: So affirms the Asian Human Righ ...
• 8 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi speaks about Minister Bhatti: we need to protect religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Asia Bibi, from her isolation cell in jail in Sheikhupura, Punjab, expresses her “pain and concern for the death of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti”. Her lawyer, seeing her yesterday, reported this ...
• 7 March 2011
  VATICAN - Card. Tauran: “We remember in Shahbaz Bhatti the authentic hope of the Cross” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “We give thanks to God for having placed an authentic martyr in our path, a witness to Christian faith, who was able to 'say' and 'do'. Shahbaz Bhatti is a reminder that in the Cross we ...
• 7 March 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Internal divisions in Egyptian society will eventually need to be addressed,” says Fr Verdoscia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “In Egypt there are various issues which will need to be addressed sooner or later, one of which regards relations between Christians and Muslims,” Fr Luciano Verdoscia tells Fides, the Combon ...