News

• 4 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Brief Overview: 2,000 deaths and 600,000 Christian refugees in 7 years Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The following figures compiled by Fides, through local Church sources in Iraq, provide a comprehensive picture of the suffering of Iraqi Christians. - Since 2003: about 2,000 Iraqi Christia ...
• 4 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - A decade later, Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei's testimony is still relevant today Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In 1991, the affectionate embrace between Pope John Paul II and his Cardinal “in pectore” announced in the Consistory of 1979, His Eminence Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Bishop of the Diocese of Sha ...
• 4 March 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Salesians website gets a 2.0 makeover: www.sdb.org Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In these past hours the site of the Salesian Congregation - sdb.org – has moved to Web 2.0. A new interface which is a new way of communicating with and linking the Salesian world. This change of ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Five-year campaign to fight violence against women launched Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the World Cup 2010, which will be held in South Africa from June 11 to July 11, a five-year campaign to stop violence against women (VAW) and girls will be launched. Or ...
• 4 March 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Church will not embark on legal pursuit of two Muslim journalists who profaned the Eucharist Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church does not intend to legally pursue the two Muslim reporters that desecrated the Eucharist with a news report, although it demands a public apology from the perpetrators ...
• 4 March 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Diocese of Malaga, “faithful to its missionary vocation,” after 56 years of sending missionaries to Venezuela Malaga (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday, March 7, Spain celebrates Hispano-American Day (see Fides 3/3/2010) and the Diocesan Mission Sunday, in which the Diocese of Malaga (Spain) has been chosen as the focal point, with the sl ...
• 4 March 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Catholic Action renews its commitment to the mission, starting in each parish Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On March 6 and 7, Mother of Mercy School will host the Annual Diocesan Assembly of Catholic Action for the Diocese of Avellaneda-Lanús. According to organizers, over 150 diocesan leaders ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/TOGO - Presidential elections begin Lome (Agenzia Fides) – Seven candidates are running for Head of State in the elections that open today, March 4, in Togo. There are little more than 3 million voters called to the polls. The strongest candidates are th ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Violence of Ugandan LRA guerillas: Bishop of Bangassou tells Fides his experience Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The LRA rebels have caused serious damage but it is mainly the psychological and human losses that sadden me most," Fides was told by Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangassou, whose ...
• 4 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Xenophobic attack on Salesian school in Beluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) – The Salesians of Quetta, in the Baluchistan region - the area bordering Afghanistan - is still traumatized from attack xenophobic that hit their schools. As Fides learns from missionaries worki ...
• 4 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian religious working to help maimed children in Haiti Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Recently, the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) accepted and unanimously approved the "Project of the Church of Brazil, in Solidarity with Haiti,” presented to the Permanent Council of t ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in preparation for elections, amidst fears and hopes Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – A flyer was posted yesterday on the door of Christians in Mosul: "Do not go to vote and do not elect Christians or you will die." In this climate of fear and tension, as local sources told Fides ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Extended Eucharistic Adoration in the parish of Wa Gou in Xin Zhou, to start off Chinese New Year Xin Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic faithful of the parish of Wa Gou in the city of Xin Zhou, Shan Xi Province, celebrated Chinese New Year in a special way, intensely focused on the Eucharist. During the two-week ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Building a more mature nation, where Christians are acknowledged and respected - Interview with Fr. Bashar Warda, CSSR, Rector of the Chaldean Seminary of Ainkawa Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is difficult. But Iraqi Christians do not lose hope and are helping to build the new Iraq. The country and Iraqi society at large are more mature than in the election four years a ...
• 3 March 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Blasphemous image of Christ: Police defend Hindu extremists in Punjab Jalandhar (Agenzia Fides) – Things could worsen following the violence that broke out on February 20 in the town of Batala in Punjab (Northwest India), and in some neighboring villages, after the publication of blasphe ...