News

• 25 February 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Rich 20% of population silent to plight of 80% poor Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Malawi have expressed gratitude for the solution to a serious two week tug of war between the government and civil servants demanding a 67% pay rise. Protests caused ...
• 25 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Gregory III appeals: "the sending of arms to Syria must be stopped": Damasco (Agenzia Fides)-"We appeal to the whole world to stop arms from being sent to Syria". This call was part of a statement sent to Fides by His Beatitude, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham following ...
• 25 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We must all support efforts to continue the dialogue for peace” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – “We must all support and defend efforts to promote peace” the national director of Social Pastoral of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia , Mgr. Héctor Fabio Henao, told the pr ...
• 23 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Terror attacks in Hyderabad, Christian defend local Muslims: “they are not terrorists” Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – No hasty conclusions, no labelling Muslims “terrorists”: the call comes from Indian lay Catholic church groups, following violence in Hyderabad, in India’s southern eastern state of A ...
• 23 February 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Social inclusion and “unity in diversity”: a challenge for the Church Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – Building a society where no one is excluded, no one is marginalised, where diverse social and religious components work together for the common good, is a challenge for the Church: this is ...
• 23 February 2013
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The “righteous” in the Armenian genocide Erevan (Agenzia Fides) – The Armenian authorities have decided to dedicate a section of the museum of the Armenian Genocide in Erevan to the memory of those Turks and Kurds who helped Armenians during the massacre whic ...
• 23 February 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - Bishops tell Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “No arms, no nuclear power, the Constitution cannot be changed” Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgently necessary to safeguard article 9 of Japan’s Constitution which declares “explicit and absolute renouncement of war” on the part of the government. A clear “no” must be ...
• 23 February 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity and sobriety: the solution to the crisis Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – The solution to the economic crisis is greater solidarity and greater sobriety of life style: this was said by the Catholic Archbishop of Huancayo, Archbishop Mons. Pedro Barreto Jimeno SJ, ...
• 23 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Elections at Easter: Copts protest, possible postponement Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The decision taken by President Morsi to hold parliamentary elections in Egypt on a date which would coincide with Coptic Easter celebrations may be reconsidered, following a protest by Egyptian ...
• 22 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Say NO to the dirty money of drug traffickers": Bishop Sandoval urges his diocese Guachochi (Agenzia Fides) – The government is absent and in its place bands of drug traffickers keep capillary control of the territory: in this situation Bishop Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, Bishop of Tarahumara diocese, ...
• 22 February 2013
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Government tells Churches "homosexuals must not be discriminated against in social service" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The approval of the "Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill", intended to include and harmonise existing anti-discrimination legislation in society could backfire on Christian Churches and C ...
• 22 February 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Education in the faith in schools: commitment of teachers Rosario (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Rosario, Archbishop José Luis Mollaghan, has urged the local community of teachers and educators to give special attention "to education in the faith in schools in the archd ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN -Infant Jesus of Prague soon to have a Shrine in Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague has arrived in Pakistan, in the diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab, and a Shrine dedicated to the Infant Jesus is to be a centre of pilgrimage for Catholics ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Greek-Orthodox Patriarch: Help us help the Syrian people Damasco (Agenzia Fides) – The Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East , through his department for ecumenical relations and development (DERD), has so far distributed 75 thousand survival kits and offered ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/HONGKONG - Pilgrimage with relics of St Vincent de Paul Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics in Hong Kong, particularly members of the St Vincent de Paul Society, welcomed the relics of the Founder as part of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Fe ...