News

• 1 September 2012
  VATICAN - Seminar for 92 new Bishops of Countries reliant on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There are 92 Bishops appointed in the last two years in the ecclesiastical districts that depend on the CEP and will participate at the Seminar organized by the Congregation for the Evangel ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Release Rimsha": U.S. Senators' Letter to President Zardari Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A bipartisan group of six U.S. senators wrote a letter to President Asif Ali Zardari, demanding the release of the Christian Rimsha Masih, the minor arrested on charges of blasphemy, and more ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 5,000 Christians take to the streets in Orissa to demand justice Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - About 5,000 Christians took to the streets in Orissa staging a peaceful demonstration to demand justice, on the anniversary of the massacres that hit the Christian community in Kandhamal dis ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Rimsha is innocent and will soon be free": also Muslim lawyers in her defense Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Rimsha is innocent, there is no evidence against her. She will soon be free." Paul Bhatti, Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Harmony and president of the "All Pakistan Minorities All ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Land mafia behind Rimsha's case Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The charges against Masih Rimsha are completely false and made up: behind her case there is land mafia. Unscrupulous criminals intend to wrest land from Christians and drive them out from Mehrab ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Communion of the community to glorify God and promote evangelization: the Diocese of Zhou Zhi celebrates 80 years of foundation Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 2,000 faithful celebrated the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Zhou Zhi in the Shaan Xi province in mainland China on August 22, feast of the patron of the diocese, ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Director of the PMS: "If Rimsha becomes a symbol, everything will be more difficult" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "If Rimsha becomes a symbol for her release everything will be more difficult. Today and tomorrow we will pray in all churches for her and her family ": is what Fr. Mario Rodrigues, national Dir ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in the Christian area: one victim and two injured in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The young Christian Faisal Masih was killed two days ago in shots fired in the attack of an Islamic extremist group in the Christian suburb of Essa Nagri, on the outskirts of Karachi. This is co ...
• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Rural clinics to save the lives of many mothers and their unborn Kigoma (Agenzia Fides) - The region of Kigoma, Tanzania, has become one of the first places in East Africa able to train health workers in rural clinics operating in the country. These centers are able to offer assistanc ...
• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Calm situation, but we are waiting for the conclusion of the Friday prayers," said the Archbishop of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, at least for now. We have to wait the end of the Friday prayers in the mosques of the city to see if there are any new demonstrations" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Bonifac ...
• 31 August 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - One child out of 10 is compelled to forced work: they are the restavek, invisible and vulnerable victims Port au Prince - With 225,000 working children, mainly girls between 5 and 17 years of age, child labor, a form of modern slavery, is unfortunately a very common practice in Haiti and is continually increasing since the ...
• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 270 miners have been incriminated in the deaths on August 16, "there is a risk of new protests," said the local Bishop Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is very strange that miners are incriminated in the deaths on 16 August and not the police officers who fired real bullets against demonstrators" said to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Dowli ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - "The anti-conversion law violates the Constitution": landmark ruling for Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-conversion law passed in the state of Hhimachal Pradesh (in northern India) is, in some parts, "unconstitutional". In fact, "a person not only has the right to freedom of conscience, ...
• 30 August 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Next Sunday there will a collection in all the churches for the victims of the explosion at the refinery in Amuay and of natural disasters Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd September, all the churches in Caracas will become centers for food, medicine and equipment to be sent to those who in recent weeks have been the victims of natu ...
• 30 August 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope: "Prayer is not time wasted, nor is it time robbed from activities, including apostolic, rather it is exactly the opposite" Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In his speech at the General Audience on Wednesday, August 29, held in the square in front of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Father Benedict XVI based his discourse on ...