News

• 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 ...
• 1 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Demonstrators intend to head towards the presidential palace,” local source tells Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “Tahrir Square is full. The crowd is swarming and you can sense a certain tension, also because if anything happens that forces people to flee, many people risk dying of being crushed,” the mi ...
• 1 February 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - Missing cemeteries: Christians ready to demonstrate for minority rights Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – There is disappointment and indignation in the Nepalese Christian community at the lack of land to bury their dead in Kathmandu. Faithful Christians, after months of waiting, “are ready to ...
• 1 February 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - All absolved: Report on anti-Christian violence “dishonest and full of prejudices” Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Praise from Hindu militant fundamentalists, strong protests from Christian leaders: these are the reactions recorded by Fides after the publication of the Report on anti-Christian violence t ...
• 1 February 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In rural areas, 23 health workers per 10,000 people: doctors prefer clinics and hospitals in cities or they emigrate Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – At the recently held UN World Health Organization (WHO) second forum on human resources for health in Bangkok (25-29 January), experts sought new strategies to attract and retain health workers ...