News

• 13 October 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - A trip to the missionary world, thanks to the Xaverian Missionaries' new site Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Xaverian Missionaries have recently launched a new website at: http://www.saveriani.com. According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, “the General Direction thus intends to present the m ...
• 13 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rape and murder of Christian girls Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Brutal violence has been committed against two Christian girls: Lubna Masih, age 12, was raped and murdered by a group of Muslims in Rawalpindi and Kiran Nayyaz of Faisalabad, a 13-year-old ...
• 13 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence Against Women - Brief Overview Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against women in Pakistan, especially against Christian workers, is a phenomenon that is ascertained, but often met with indifference or impunity. According to the Pakistani NGO “A ...
• 13 October 2010
  AFRICA - Several African oil-producing countries are at the bottom of the list in transparency of oil revenues Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Some of the major African oil-producers are among the countries with the least amount of transparency regarding use of oil revenues, according to the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI), a non-profit i ...
• 13 October 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Church in Chile praying for miners' rescue Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) – The main streets of Copiapo, some 830 kilometers north of Santiago, have been overrun by motorists sounding horns and trumpets. The city, located in the Atacama desert, with over 200,000 inhab ...
• 13 October 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social-Pastoral program in Patagonia working for common good and defense of human rights Rawson (Agenzia Fides) – Rawson, located in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina, recently hosted the Eleventh Meeting of Pastoral/Social Formation of the region Patagonia-Comahue, whose main theme was "The comm ...
• 13 October 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese priests and religious recall Abbot Timothy Thomas Kelly, OSB, great benefactor of the Catholic community on the mainland Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The priests and religious of mainland China have recalled Abbot Thomas Timothy Kelly, OSB, Abbot of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA), with deep emotion as a benefacto ...
• 13 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Child labor emergency for minor flood victims Jacobabad (Agenzia Fides) - Flood victims across Pakistan have been returning home to villages where houses have been reduced to piles of mud and brick, farmland ravaged and streets reduced to swamps. Some families are h ...
• 12 October 2010
  VATICAN - Pope's reflection at opening of Synod: “faith is the foundation, and, undoubtedly, the foundations of the earth cannot be shaken if they remain close to the faith, to true wisdom” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During the First General Congregation of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops, on Monday, October 11, the Holy Father Benedict XVI gave the meditation followin ...
• 12 October 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Possibility of national unity government after presidential ballot is good news Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – "This is good news, because Guinea needs to continue on the road of national unity, which has until now been well managed by the National Transitional Council (CNT),” Fides learned from a lo ...
• 12 October 2010
  VATICAN - Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization instituted: “The whole Church presents herself to the contemporary world with a missionary thrust capable of promoting a new evangelization.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church has the duty to proclaim always and everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” These are the opening lines of the Apostolic Letter written in “motu proprio” entitled “Ubi ...
• 12 October 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Christian leaders in Sudan warn UN of risk for war if people are left unheard Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The people of southern Sudan expect to fulfil their right of self-determination on the 9th of January 2011. Denial of this right, for whatever reason, represents a fundamental denial of thei ...
• 12 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Refugee Card” amidst chaos, corruption, nepotism, and favors Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Chaos and corruption are impairing the project of "Watan Card," the so-called "Refugee Card" assigned by the government to displaced people. This is what local NGOs engaged in the field for ...
• 12 October 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Feast of Our Lady of Aparecida, broadcast on Internet worldwide Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) – The Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida de Bauru today celebrates its feast with five Masses, a parade, and a procession, in honor of Our Lady, who is the patron saint of Brazil. October 12 mark ...
• 12 October 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Aparecida and its Shrine - Brief Overview Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) – In 1717, the governor of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais, Don Pedro de Almeida e Portugal, Count of Assumar, was passing through Guaratinguetá and was on his way to the city of Villa Rica. For t ...