News

• 3 February 2011
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The North African Bishops recognise in recent events “a vindication of freedom and dignity” Algeria (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of North Africa “recognize in events that are shaking Tunisia and Egypt... a claim to freedom and dignity, in particular by the younger generations, resulting in the desire that al ...
• 3 February 2011
  ASIA/IRAQ - Projects for a new hospital and university: signs of hope for Catholics in the country Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – In a recent statement issued by the Pontifical Legal Society “Aid to the Church in Need”, Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, announced a plan to build a new Catholic hospital and a universi ...
• 3 February 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The diocese of Mannar: “The government must be committed to the truth about human rights abuses” Mannar (Agenzi Fides) – The Sri Lankan Government “must publicly demonstrate the commitment to the truth about the events recorded during the decades of civil conflict. This commitment is a important prerequisite to ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Burned effigies of the Pope and Minister Bhatti: dismay of Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The radical Islamic groups gathered in the “Tehrik Tahaffuz Namoos-i-Risalat network” (TTNR, “Alliance to defend the honour of the Prophet”), burned effigies and mannequins representing ...
• 2 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A missionary among the protesters in Cairo tells Fides: “I have not experienced a climate of fanaticism, but one of joy and celebration” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “Internet connections have just been restabilised,” Father Luciano Verdoscia reports to Fides. Fr Verdoscia is a Comboni missionary who has worked for years in Cairo, in contact with the child ...
• 2 February 2011
  VATICAN - Pope's Message: “The great task of evangelisation requires an ever increasing number of people to respond generously to the call of God” Vatican (Agenzia Fides) – “The Church, in its depths, has an implicit vocational dimension in its etymological meaning: 'assembly convoked' by God. The Christian life takes its turn in the same vocational dimension w ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops-Government: dialogue on pro-life policies must continue Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The Aquino Government has expressed its desire to continue dialogue with the Bishops on the controversial bill on family policy and population control that is before Parliament. Fides sources i ...
• 2 February 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Rising number of child landmine victims in Somaliland Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) – Recently Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland has experienced an increase in landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO). In a note from Ahmed Ali Maah, director of the Somalil ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Campaign for signatures to halt the Document on Reproductive Health Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Pro-life activists in the Philippines have launched a campaign for signatures in parishes, schools and streets, to stop the approval of the “Document on Reproductive Health” (or under its n ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Pastoral ministry in this continent “has more of a future than a past” San José (Agenzia Fides) - Work is continuing at the Second Latin American Continental Congress on Vocations, promoted by the Department for Vocations and Ministries of the Latin American Episcopal Conference, currently ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary work requires qualified formation: MCC course to commence Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On 27 February, at the Missionary Cultural Centre in (MCC), in Brasilia, a new course will commence for foreign missionaries, composed of Portuguese language lessons, an introduction to the p ...
• 2 February 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - 2011 Lunar New Year message from Religious Leaders in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – As is the usual case, in view of the 2011 Lunar New Year, the Colloquium of Six Religious Leaders of Hong Kong issued their good wishes, hoping for prosperity for the land, progress and deve ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of Apostolic Vicar in Iquitos and appointment of Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 2 February 2011 accepted the resignation from the pastoral care ministry of the Apostolic Vicar in Iquitos (Peru), presented by Bishop Julián García Ce ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mission in the family: the experience of the Schoensttat Movement Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) – There were 68 missionaries, for most part members of the Schoensttat Apostolic Movement, who, for the third consecutive year, gave life to the Missionary Families in the town of Cabrero, Ch ...
• 1 February 2011
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - “The elections are valid, even if biased by irregularities” affirms the Commission for Justice and Peace Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “The elections are valid, even if biased by irregularities” affirms the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Episcopal Conference of Central Africa, defining the presidential and legislati ...