News

• 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 ...
• 2 March 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pro-life initiative by various parliamentarians, to complement Article 11 of the Constitution Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church wishes to encourage a petition throughout Colombia to support the request by various senators and representatives who wish to present a piece of pro-life legislation to the ...
• 2 March 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Women for peace and social progress: Catholic Mission celebrates the International Women's Day Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Australian Pontifical Mission Societies (Catholic Mission), on International Women’s Day (March 8), celebrates the role women play in securing peace and social progress in our world. “W ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Even the Catholic community of Shaan Xi is praying for the earthquake victims in Christchurch, remembering their own similar tragic experience Xi An (Agenzia Fides) – In spiritual support for those who survived the earthquake which hit Christchurch in New Zealand and for emergency workers, prayer, the Rosary, Holy Mass and fundraising for the victims (and the ...
• 1 March 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - Civilians abandoning their houses in the districts of Abidjan victims of the fighting Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Clashes continue in the districts of Abobo and Adjamé, Abidjan, where a curfew has been imposed for at least another two days. People from the two districts, Abobo in particular, are leaving ...
• 1 March 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The mission Ad gentes is a healthy stimulus for the mission of youth: Cardinal Rouco Varela opens Plenary Assembly of Spanish Bishops Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – “As we walk the path of preparation for the big meeting in Madrid in 2011, we turn our gaze to Jesus Christ, who revealed to all people the truth of love which is God, the true meaning of voc ...
• 1 March 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Calm in Kinshasa after an attempted attack on the Head of State's residence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Congolese authorities have arrested about 30 people in the ranks of the security forces after two simultaneous attacks on Sunday, 27 February on the residence of President Joseph Kabila, in t ...