News

• 24 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal from Nuncio in Haiti: “The seminaries and the seminarians lost everything...putting them back to "normal" life is a priority.” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, has sent a report on the present situation of the seminarians and an appeal made to the Pontifical Mission Societies of Englan ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Public press coverage of Fr. Matteo Ricci exhibition in Beijing Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Matteo Ricci – A Meeting of Civilizations in Ming China," the exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of death of the Italian Jesuit missionary, was opened in Beijing with ample covera ...
• 24 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Claretians in Haiti rebuilding Parish of St. Anthony Maria Claret in Nazon Jimani (Agenzia Fides) – Monday, February 15th an "historic" meeting took place, which was attended by the Claretian Missionaries in Haiti (Fathers Joachim, Beauplan, and Anistus), those in Jimaní in the Dominican Rep ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Thanks to dialogue, the Catholic community is opening new churches, hospitals, and social centers,” Indonesian Bishop tells Fides Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – His diocese includes over more than a thousand small islands: Bishop Hilarius Moa Nurak, missionary of the Divine Word, is Bishop of the Diocese of Pangkal Pinang, in the South China Sea. ...
• 24 February 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “A very significant agreement, an important step to restore peace in Darfur” Doha (Agenzia Fides) – "The agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the JEM is important because it is the strongest and most capable military group operating in Darfur," Fides was told by Vittorio Scelzo, ...
• 24 February 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: main points of the Doha Agreement Doha (Agenzia Fides) – Amin Hassan Omar, chief negotiator of the Sudanese government and Ahmed Tugud, leader of the delegation of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM, the strongest rebel movement in Darfur) on Febru ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops call for peace and write Minister for Education in response to blasphemous image of Christ New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Indian Bishops are launching an appeal for peace and will write a formal letter of protest to the Federal Minister for Education, asking them to supervise publishing houses and the education ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Menamparampil, on the eve of the Bishops' Assembly, tells Fides: Hindu people respect religious symbols, youth are key to harmony Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, Salesian, could not be happier: his Diocese of Guwahati - in a peripheral territory (state of Assam, in India in the Northeast), troubled by internal problems ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Council of Christian Church Leaders in Iraq: government should do its duty; Churches of the world, please help us Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – All the Christian leaders in Iraq, on an ecumenical level, are united with deep sympathy for the sufferings of Christians in Mosul, and call for a global mobilization of churches on an interna ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - As New Year kicks off, ecclesial base communities relaunch initiatives for growing in the faith Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – With the start of the new year, a number of ecclesial base communities have launched training courses to help the faithful deepen in their faith life and be authentic witnesses of Christ in th ...
• 23 February 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Church leaders say they welcome President's call for a national moral dialogue Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “We welcome the prospect of a national dialogue on morality and morals in our country. President Zuma's proposal is a timely one. It is for all South Africans to participate in a collecti ...
• 23 February 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Bishop of Budjala calls for government intervention for refugees from the Equateur Province Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Philibert Tembo Nlandu of Budjala (Democratic Republic of the Congo) has requested the support of the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of basic social needs, Nzanga Mobutu, for the retu ...
• 23 February 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops call for dialogue in resolving health emergency in Santiago del Estero Santiago del Estero (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Francisco Polti, Bishop of Santiago del Estero, his Auxiliary Bishop Ariel Torrado Mosconi, and Bishop Adolfo Uriona of Añatuya, have prepared a joint message to express thei ...
• 23 February 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Car accident leads kills Cleric of Saint Viator, wounds two others Reyes (Agenzia Fides) – On the morning of Saturday, February 20, on the provincial highway Rurrenabaque-Yucumo, two priests and a religious of the Parish of Popoy, who were returning from the funeral of Bishop Roger Au ...
• 23 February 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishop Aubry remembered: the mission was the most important part of his life Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – A few days after the death of Bishop Roger Emile Aubry, Redemptorist (see Fides 19/02/2010) Fides has received a very significant testimony entitled: "The Gift of Fidelity,” in thanksgivi ...