VATICAN - 25 pastoral care workers killed around the world in 2010
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As always, at the end of ever year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost their lives in a violent manner over the course of the last 12 months. In addit ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: we ask for Bhatti to be proclaimed “martyr”
Multan (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan, which will meet for its General Assembly in Multan, Punjab, from 20 to 25 March, will examine the proposal to formally submit the request to the Hol ...
EUROPE/SPAIN - Studying new ways to support missionary work
Burgos (Agenzia Fides) – The main goal of the XXV Symposium of Missiology in Burgos, Spain, from 2 to 4 March, was to find new ways to support missionary work: so said the director of the Institute of Missiology for th ...
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “Water and peace” campaign begins at Lent
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – For World Water Day on 22 March, the Ecumenical Network for Water has launched the “water and peace” campaign. Over a seven week period, beginning Monday, 7 March, weekly Lenten reflections ...
5 March 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - 90,000 malnourished children in the province of Sindh
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A study conducted by the Pakistani provincial government of Sindh, with support from UNICEF, reveals a serious nutrition crisis among children. There are an estimated 90,000 children under fiv ...
AMERICA/CUBA - Catholic Church announces release of other prisoners
Havana (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church announced yesterday evening, 4 March, the release of eight prisoners at the conclusion of its dialogue with the Government of President Raul Castro. Among the released detai ...
5 March 2011
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of Bishop of Bafoussam
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 5 March 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Bafoussam (Cameroon), Bishop Dieudonné Watio, until now Bishop of Nkongsamba (Cameroon). (SL) (Agenzi ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecumenical funeral celebration for Minister Bhatti
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – It was not a Catholic Mass but an ecumenical celebration of prayer, in the presence of other religious leaders, to give the final goodbye to Minister Shabhaz Bhatti, and which accompanied h ...