News

• 19 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Police release two Christians accused of blasphemy, but the Christian community still lives in fear Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – After suffering from threats and violence in the past few days, Christians in Faisalabad are breathing a sigh of relief: two brothers arrested on charges of blasphemy have been released. Pa ...
• 19 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Ordained new Coadjutor Bishop of Yan’an in mainland China Yan’an (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 15 July Mgr John Baptist Yang Xiaoting, age 46 with 19 years of priesthood, was ordained coadjutor Bishop of Yan’an (Yulin), in the province of Shaanxi. He had been officially ap ...
• 19 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Sister Nancy Pereira, the sister of the “Bank for the Poor” dies Bangalore (Fides) – Sister Nancy Pereira, a member of the Daughters of Maria Auxiliatrix (FMA), died on 14 July at her FMA community Home in Bangalore (India). She was born at Pudukkuruchy, in the Indian state of Keral ...
• 19 July 2010
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Learning the “values of life” from early childhood: Catholic campaign reaches out to 250,000 children Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Aimed at teaching the principal values of life to youngsters from an early age this year's annual 'Children's Campaign', promoted by the Catholic Church in Honduras is reaching out to thou ...
• 17 July 2010
  AFRICA - Mobility of Africans must be an opportunity for human promotion rather than exploitation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Africa today is home to almost one billion people, (14.8% of the entire world population). According to the United Nations, by 2050 Africans will number almost 2 billion, a little less than one qua ...
• 17 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic nurse raped: the Church defends the rights of women Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – Magdalene Ashraf, a 22 year old Catholic student nurse, was raped on 13 July by a Muslim doctor. After a fall from a window at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, in Karachi, where she was ...
• 17 July 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “We are confident about the government's commitment for human rights ”, says a Jesuit priest Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have called once again on President Benigno Aquino to intensify commitment to promote respect for human rights dismantling counter-power apparatus ...
• 17 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics of Shan Tou diocese train for Summer Camp service Shan Tou (Agenzia Fides) – Holy Scripture, the Sacraments, Catechism, the Liturgy, Sacred Music, were the subjects studied during the 11th Pastoral Formation Course for young people in the diocese of Shan Tou, Guangdon ...
• 17 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Callao city in a state of Permanent Mission Callao (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, Sunday 18 July, missionaries in Callao will live another intense moment of the journey of the Great Continental Mission. For the past two years they have been engaged in 'Operation Co ...
• 17 July 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - CatholicCare and Lebanese Muslim Association first joint agreement for helping families in difficulty Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - An agreement to help families in difficulty in the south west district of Sydney has just been signed by CatholicCare Sydney and Lebanese Muslim Association at Lakemba Mosque. The first joint pro ...
• 16 July 2010
  VATICAN - Administrative Council of the Populorum Progressio Foundation in Santo Domingo: 230 projects in support of indigenous, mixed race, African-American communities Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Administrative Council of the Populorum Progressio Foundation will meet from 20 - 23 July to deliberate the financing of projects in support of poor indigenous, mixed race, African-Amer ...
• 16 July 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - 18th International Conference on AIDS: Rights Here, Right Now Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – The 18th International Conference on AIDS with the theme: 'Rights Here, Right Now' will begin on 18 July in Vienna. Some 25,000 participants at AIDS 2010, legislators, programme leaders, scie ...
• 16 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - This coming Sunday, in churches across the country, special prayers will be said for the victims of the July 11 bomb blasts Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “ We appeal to all aggrieved parties in our society to renounce violence as a means of solving conflicts and whenever there are misunderstandings, let people embrace dialogue in the resoluti ...
• 16 July 2010
  ASIA - Peoples in conflict can learn, beginning with young people, to live side by side Arezzo (Agenzia Fides) – The Associazione Rondine Cittadella della Pace has begun its “Viaggio di amicizia” ,Journey of Friendship, in the South Caucuses and Turkey. From the Caspian Sea the participants will cross ...
• 16 July 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Chinese language edition of “The joy of loving: a guide to daily living with Mother Teresa” marks the 100 anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Taipei (Agenzia Fides) – With the publication of 2,000 copies of a new Chinese language edition of the book “The joy of loving: a guide to daily living with Mother Teresa”, the Daughters of St Paul in Taiwan wish ...