News

• 18 January 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope sends 200 Neo-Catechumenal families out on mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I am especially pleased today to be able to send out in various parts of the world, more than 200 new families, who with great generosity have made themselves available and are leaving ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - The crisis of the “Tunisian model” and the world of the Middle East Tunisi (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Tunisia remains tense and uncertain, especially in the capital city of Tunisi, after President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali left the country in the wake of a popular protest which b ...
• 17 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic fundamentalism: the root of the problem is youth education Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – At the root of increasing intolerance and the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan is the vexing problem of the education system and of the teaching given to children and youth, upholds ...
• 17 January 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant pastor killed in Orissa “because he was a man of reconciliation” Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – “This was murder. My brother had blood oozing out of his mouth, hands and legs tied in an unnatural way and his clothes were torn,” Fides was told by Dushashan Pradhan, brother to Pent ...
• 17 January 2011
  VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope recalls that even “the Son of God was a refugee” and prays for the people affected by floods in Australia, Brazil, Philippines and Sri Lanka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the World Day for Migrants and Refugees, Sunday, 16 January, the Holy Father Benedict XVI invited all to reflect on his prior Address at the Angelus, on the experience “of many men a ...
• 17 January 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Apostolic Exhortation “Verbum Domini” theme of corse for priests in the diocese of Feng Xiang Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “Verbum Domini”, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Holy Father Benedict XVI on the Word of God in the life and the mission of the Church was the principal theme for the cou ...
• 17 January 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Christian charity has a great evangelising force in the measure in which it leaves the sign of God's love among men Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - “Human mobility and evangelization: challenge of a new millennium” was the theme addressed yesterday by the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “The referendum was held peacefully but we fear a food shortage,” Bishop of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “Based on initial counts of the votes, more than 80% of the voters of West Equatoria have voted for independence” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussaka of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides, from southern S ...
• 17 January 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Number of deaths reaches 600, collecting aid continues Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – According to information send to Fides from the Archdiocese of Rio, the number of deaths due to the torrential rains in recent days has already risen above 600 and is so elevated that t ...
• 17 January 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Little damage to Brisbane Catholic schools who will reopen shortly Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – The floods in Brisbane appear to have caused limited physical damage to Catholic schools, said Brisbane Catholic Education. “There has, of course, been a significant impact on the homes of ...
• 17 January 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Online school to achieve high school diploma Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) – In recent days the most recent project initiated by the Guanellian missions in Colombia has taken off: an online school to achieve an high school diploma. “The project,” says Father Co ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Rector of the inter-diocesan “Good Shepherd” Major Seminary in Kaduna Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 13 April 2010, nominated as Rector of the inter-diocesan “Good Shepherd Major Seminary” in Kaduna ...
• 15 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: President Zardari is the hope for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – While the nation, society and politics are ever more polarised and divided amongst those openly in favour of the law against blasphemy (fundamentalists) and those (liberals) who would like to m ...
• 15 January 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The tragedy of Rio mobilizes the Church to accommodate the homeless; image of the Patron Saint of Rio on a train collecting aid; Bishops launch a solidarity campaign Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – The State of Rio de Janeiro is experiencing the worst climatic tragedy ever recorded in the Country. The latest developments, sent to Fides by the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, speak o ...
• 15 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Chipata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 15 January 2011, appointed as the Auxiliary of the diocese of Chipata (Zambia) Father Benjamin Phiri, of the clergy of Chipata, currently Rector of the Na ...