News

• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda denies supporting the Congolese guerrilla Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Rwanda has denied with a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, the allegations contained in a confidential report of the United Nations on the recruit ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON-Appointment of Bishop of Nkongsamba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 26, 2012, appointed Rev. Dieudonné Espoir Atangana of the clergy of Obala as Bishop of the Diocese of Nkongsamba Cameroon, he was the former rector of t ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Erection of the Diocese of Bafang and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 26, 2012 established the new Diocese of Bafang in Cameroon (from the Diocese of Nkongsamba), making it a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Douala, and appo ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-Many believers received Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion at Pentecost Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The continental Catholic community celebrated the feast of Pentecost with the administration of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion to many of the faithful, and ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Church must be present in working panel discussions with indigenous communities Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Manuel Camilo Vial, underlined that the Church must participate in working panel discussions with indigenous communities, announced by President ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christian family murdered in Punjab Okara (Agenzia Fides) – An entire Christian family was brutally killed in Punjab. Four people were slaughtered in the Christian colony of Muhala Ahmad, in the city of Okara, in the south of Lahore, capital of Punjab. T ...
• 28 May 2012
  VATICAN - Pope at Pentecost: "Jesus sends his Spirit to the Church so that every Christian can become his effective witness in the world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus, risen and ascended into heaven, sends his Spirit to the Church, so that all Christians can participate in his divine life and become his effective witness in the world. The Holy Spi ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Authority and population are contrary to an Islamic State in the north; all faiths pray for peace Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Both the political authorities and the people have reaffirmed that Mali is one and indivisible. The same original inhabitants of the north that are located in Bamako, are contrary to the secessi ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayer and Fasting in the hell of battle: the experience of a Catholic priest Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of massacres, rape, shootings, kidnappings, vendettas, a small flame of faith and love is kindled in the city of Qusayr (near Homs), one of the places where the war rages more violen ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Jesuit vocations flourish Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnam is fertile ground for the Society of Jesus: as Fides learns from the Jesuits in Vietnam, in recent years the vocations of the congregation founded by St. Ignatius have multiplie ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Instability in the east, even Ituri in ferment: Gold and oil are at stake Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - After North Kivu, another area in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ituri district, is likely to burst out again. According to the press in fact 4 Congolese armed groups in the reg ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - A survey shows that the Church is the institution which is most trusted by Panamanian Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is the institution that enjoys credibility among Panamanians, while the opposite is the National Assembly of Deputies, according to results of a survey published by the firm U ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/SINGAPORE-Pentecost: a "Spring of the Spirit" for the new evangelization Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The theme for the celebration of the day of Pentecost will be the new "Spring of the Spirit", which takes place tomorrow, May 27, at the Church of Christ King in Singapore. The island's Cathol ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Firing on Christians: Three injured in Karachi, threats to a Christian MP from Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A group of extremists raided the Christian neighborhood of Essa Nagri, in Karachi, firing wildly and injuring three Christians: Aftab Bhatti Khairat Masih, 40 years old, the 22-year-old Khurram ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mother's Day against Domestic Violence Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Mother's Day, which the population of the Dominican Republic celebrates on the last Sunday in May is an opportunity to relieve the longstanding problem of domestic violence: S ...