News

• 25 February 2010
  AMERICA - Debate over homosexual unions and their adoption of children reignited Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The debate over so-called "marriage" between homosexuals is has re-emerged recently in several Latin American countries. Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote, His Excellency Luis Bambaren, also former pre ...
• 25 February 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Mary is the great missionary and the missionaries' teacher” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – For the whole Church, "Mary is the great missionary who continues the mission of the Son and is the missionaries' teacher,” which is why on February 23 the Parish of St. Mary of Bethany ...
• 25 February 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Bishops launch blog Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Since February 23, the blog of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) has been up and running on the Internet. Encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI in his Message for the 44th World Communicatio ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against Christians in Karachi, working to return to calm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – There is calm on the streets, but tension remains high in the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan, where Sunday, February 21 a group of 150 Muslims attacked Christian churches, shops, and hom ...
• 24 February 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Guanellians open new missionary office in Tiefenbronn: former students and collaborators support projects for missions in Africa and Asia Tiefenbronn (Agenzia Fides) – It is a project that involves about 200 alumni of the Guanellian houses of Naro and Ceglie (Italy), along with some 20 German collaborators: the Guanelliani Missionary Office opened in Tie ...
• 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 ...