News

• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistanis in Europe are mobilizing for Rimsha Masih Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us save Rimsha Masih": is the campaign launched by Pakistani Christians in Europe to save the Christian girl falsely accused of blasphemy and currently in a juvenile prison in Islamabad (see F ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Greek Catholic Archbishopric of Aleppo violated Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Metropolitan Archbishop of Aleppo, His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Clément Jeanbart’s residence was broken into and looted during clashes between militiamen and loyalist troops. The Archbishop, his Vic ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - "To be a happy youth": World Youth Day in Hong Kong responds to the Pope's exhortation, "Be glad in the Lord always!" Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Day Day Run Run – to be a happy youth" was the theme of World Youth Day celebrated at a diocesan level by the diocese of Hong Kong on 18 and 19 August, which was organized by the Commission ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Hue and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on August 18, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the archdiocese of Hue in Vietnam by His Exc. Mgr. Etienne Nguyen Nhu The, in accord ...
• 24 August 2012
  VATICAN - Pope and the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples condole death of Cardinal Shan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI sent a telegram of condolences to the Bishop of Kaohsiung, His Exc. Mgr. Peter Liu Cheng-Chung, for the death of Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, SJ, Bishop emeritus ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Too many Christian children victims of violence": appeal to the government and the UN Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The news, continually increasing, regarding violence against Christian children are really annoying, disturbing. For Christians, it seems that living in Pakistan is more and more difficult. Ther ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha: Hearing for the release, the focus is on the Medical Commission Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA), through the lawyer and Christian MP Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, today presented to a court of first instance in Islamabad a request for the release of ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The long trail of Christian children raped or killed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The last case reported to Fides happened a few days ago in Islamabad: the 14-year-old Christian Waiz Masih was killed by young Muslims, after a "discussion on religion." The boy was savagely beat ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Paul Shan "belongs forever to Christ": the funeral on 1 September Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) –There is deep emotion in the Chinese Catholic world, after the death of Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-Hsi, SJ, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung, who died yesterday afternoon in the Catholic hospital of G ...
• 23 August 2012
  OCEANIA - Year of Faith and new evangelization: the Bishops' Conference of the Pacific Paita (Agenzia Fides) - "In Australia and New Zealand Churches struggle to cope with the influence of secularism. But with the development of technology and communication information, even in other Pacific countries, suc ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church, Government, imam committed to save Rimsha, a Christian girl accused of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a joint effort of the Church, the government, religious leaders, NGOs, to save Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old Christian Protestant girl, suffering from Down syndrome, accused of blasphe ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two murders of Christians: "Isolated cases, but the pressure on believers is strong" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic child killed in Faisalabad, a Christian farmer killed in Kasur: Punjab, the province that is the heart of economic, social and cultural life of Pakistan, confirms being the "prohibiti ...
• 22 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Help vocations in Africa: Initiatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Sixty years ago, the funds to help the growth of vocations in Taiwan came from the Pontifical Mission Societies. Today we have the opportunity to help others, and so it is our duty to make a co ...
• 22 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Over 12 thousand Christian faithful "starving" in the village of Rableh: humanitarian law is invoked Rableh (Agenzia Fides) - Over 12 thousand faithful Greek-Catholics are trapped in the village of Rableh, west of Qusayr, in the area of Homs. Food is scarce, the faithful are living on "bread and water", medicine is lack ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A difficult phase for the succession of Premier Zenawi begins Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "After the death of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abuna Paulos (on 16August), the death of the Premier is a new shock to the Country," say local sources to Fides from Addis ...