News

• 30 March 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Remembering the witnesses to the faith in our time Rome (Agenzia Fides) – At the beginning of Holy Week, the Community of Sant'Egidio promotes a prayer meeting in Rome and in several other countries around the world to remember the faith of the witnesses who gave their ...
• 30 March 2010
  ASIA/LAOS - Process of beatification for 15 missionary martyrs Nantes (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Nantes, France recently concluded the diocesan process for the beatification of 15 missionaries, including religious and laity, killed in hatred of the Christian faith between 19 ...
• 30 March 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Peace at risk in Sudan, says report from Denis Hurley Peace Institute Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Is peace at risk in Sudan? This is the question posed by the report presented today, March 30, by the Denis Hurley Peace Institute, sponsored by the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Confere ...
• 29 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian child killed in attack on Mosul; word of the day is “hope” Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – A 3-year-old Christian child died after a bomb attack on a Christian home in Mosul. This is what Fides sources in Mosul said, noting that "there is still fear amongst the Christian community." T ...
• 29 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Council of Christian Church Leaders: “We ask the government for peace and security” Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – "We're waiting to see which direction and what guidelines the new government will follow. We hope that the government's plans call for peace and security.” This is what Fides learned from Ar ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Warri appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 29, 2010, appointed as Bishop of Warry (Nigeria) Bishop John Oke Afareha, now Titular Bishop of Mina and Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese. (SL) (Agen ...
• 29 March 2010
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Auxiliary Bishop of Hung Hoa appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 29, 2010, appointed Fr. Jean Marie Vu Tat, of the clergy of Hung Hoa and Vice-Rector of the Major Seminary in Hanoi, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese ...
• 29 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Perpetual vows, church consecrated, and pilgrimage characterize Solemnity of Annunciation of the Catholic community on the mainland Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – A ceremony of vows, the consecration of a church, a pilgrimage, and celebrations for patronal feasts marked the great celebration of the Solemnity of the Annunciation for the Catholic communit ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “It is a serious investigation, conducted with interviews with victims and rescuers," says Bishop of Doruma-Dungu on the report on LRA atrocities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – "The Human Rights Watch report is important because it demonstrates the level of the atrocities committed by the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army)," said Bishop Richard Domba Mady of Doruma-Dungu, ...
• 29 March 2010
  MISSIONARY INTENTION - Holy Father's Missionary Intention for April 2010: “That Christians persecuted for the sake of the Gospel may persevere, sustained by the Holy Spirit, in faithfully witnessing to the love of God for the entire human race.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Lord himself announced the persecution of his disciples, and this has been a constant characteristic in the history of the Church. Insofar as Christians are faithful to Christ's messa ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - LRA atrocities in Central Africa: Bishop of Bangassou tells Fides his testimony Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) – The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the Ugandan group which has been accused in Human Rights Watch's recent report of grave atrocities in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is also ...
• 29 March 2010
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Indian Jesuits working on progress and development Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – The work of education of young people is one of the basic ways to ensure progress and development of a nation, especially in an Afghanistan for decades plagued by wars and internal conflicts, wh ...
• 29 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Clean Card” voting for April 7 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Michel Temer, recently announced that he had put on the agenda for April 7 the "Clean Card" project (PLP 518/09), and urged leaders to make ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Schools closed in several coastal areas due to severe cholera epidemic Msambweni (Agenzia Fides) – About 11,000 students from different schools in the districts of Kwale and Msambweni, in the coastal area of Kenya, were forced to leave school before the Easter holidays following a severe ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Northeastern region suffering famine: nearly 1 million people at risk Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) sent to Fides, there are about 900 thousand people in the region of Karamoja, northeastern Uganda, who are facing a ...