News

• 4 January 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The mainland community reaps vocational fruits at the start of the new year Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The Chinese Catholic community on the mainland has already reaped its first vocational fruits at the beginning of new calendar year. According to information received by Fides, on 1 January, S ...
• 4 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “They want to destabilize Nigeria, with attacks on Christian places of symbolic importance,” says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “It was an attack on places symbolic of Christianity. Unlike other incidents in the past that had other causes, the attacks at Christmas have a clear religious motivation,” Fides was told by A ...
• 4 January 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - Support lacking for psychiatric disorders: 7,300 cases of suicide in less than 10 months Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – According to the Government of Nepal, in 2010 more than 6,000,000 inhabitants of the Country, about one-third of the population, suffered from mental illness, but despite the emergency the p ...
• 4 January 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Auxiliary of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 4 January, 2011 accepted the resignation from the office of Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Bombay (India), presented by Bishop Percival Joseph Fernandez, T ...
• 4 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Church multiplies initiatives for the peaceful conduct of the referendum on 9 January Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Even the Catholic Church is mobilizing to ensure that the referendum on the independence of South Sudan occurs peacefully. Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro of Juba, announced the extension to ...
• 3 January 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Christians do not feel adequately protected, but they understand the difficulties in preventing acts of terrorism,” reveals Nuncio in Egypt to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “I have expressed to Pope Shenouda III my condolences and sorrow for the victims of the 31 December attack,” said Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, to Fides. “I ...
• 3 January 2011
  VATICAN - “Humankind must not resign itself to the negative power of selfishness and violence; it must not become accustomed to conflicts which cause victims and put the future of peoples at risk” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Humankind must not resign itself to the negative power of selfishness and violence; it must not become accustomed to conflicts which cause victims and put the future of peoples at risk. ...
• 30 December 2010
  THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2010 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost their lives in a violent manner over the course of the last 12 months. According to informati ...
• 29 December 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - No priests killed during clashes at Christmas in Nigeria Jos (Agenzia Fides) - “No priest in Jos or Maiduguri was killed during the Christmas attacks” in Nigeria, revealed Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama of Jos to Fides, regarding reports in the media which announced that a ...
• 29 December 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Children with disabilities at the centre of 53rd Campaign by Star Singers (Sternsinger) who have chosen Cambodia as the symbolic country Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 53rd time, around the time of 6 January, the “Star Singers” (Sternsinger) of the German Mission of Childhood, will be on the streets of Germany with their Christmas carols. “Childre ...
• 29 December 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Large statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus unveiled in front of the Cathedral of Lan Zhou Lan Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - An impressive two and a half metre high statue, made with the best quality marble, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was inaugurated recently. It is located in the plaza of the Cathedral ...
• 29 December 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Bulletin for the Study of Catholicism” launched by the Chinese University Catholic Studies Centre Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The “Bulletin for the Study of Catholicism” has been created by the Chinese University Catholic Studies Centre. According to reports from the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version of the dioc ...
• 29 December 2010
  Holy Father's Missionary Intention for January 2011: “That Christians may achieve full unity, witnessing to all the universal fatherhood of God”. Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly announced that one of the main aims of his Pontificate is to work for ecumenism, to continue to make progress towards achieving the unity that Christ desire ...
• 29 December 2010
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Situation still blocked, meanwhile Gbagbo plays the media card Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met yesterday, 28 December, for three hours with the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to renew their ...
• 29 December 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - “The level of development of a community is measured by the ability to take care of the weak” declare the Bishops of Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Chile (CEC) published a statement entitled: “Cry for innocent lives” in which everyone is invited to protect unborn human life, offering useful in ...