News

• 17 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus": Sunday 22 Day of Missionary Childhood Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus", the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain are organizing the National Day of Missionary Childhood which will be held on ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti’s Murder: the "main person behind the crime" has been killed, the perpetrators are being chased, but ambiguity remains Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - With the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the "Pakistani Talibans", the militant movement which is the most serious threat to national security, "who was the man behind the killing of the ...
• 17 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Do not be afraid: another Nigeria is possible", says the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid". This is the sense of Archbishop Matthew Hassah Kukah’s pastoral Letter, Bishop of Sokoto, the capital of the homonymous State in the north-west of Nigeria, of which a copy wa ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is open to dialogue and to aid towards the North; for the Bishops "it is the good path" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea is ready to hold talks at the highest level and to provide large-scale food aid to North Korea, even if Pyongyang has not "officially apologized" after the two military attacks in 2010 ...
• 16 January 2012
  VATICAN - Pope: "Migrants are not only recipients but are also witnesses of proclaiming the Gospel in the contemporary world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Millions of people are involved in the phenomenon of migration, but they are not numbers! They are men and women, children, the y ...
• 16 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Childhood: thousands of boys and girls have brought the Good News to 142thousand families in Tarnow Tarnow (Agenzia Fides) - Children and the young people of Missionary Childhood of the Diocese of Tarnow, in Poland, met in Nowy Sącz, at the Shrine of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Saturday, on January 14, to end the ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - More prayer, reflection and action in the new year after 150 years of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial entitled "Let’s move forward in 2012", Catholic Weekly, the weekly Catholic bulletin of the Archdiocese of Taipei in Taiwan invites the faithful to pray, reflect and act more i ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than 160 indicted and 9 killed for "blasphemy" in 2011; 1,800 Christian and Hindu girls converted to Islam by force Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan, while religious minorities suffer from rampant extremism. In 2011, because of the "black law" (composed of the articles 295 ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-8 million religious minorities: a special Commission is urgently needed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government has released new figures which are not official (the last official census dates back to 1998) regarding the composition of Pakistani society: according to recent sociological resea ...
• 16 January 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-After the violence in the town of Yapacaní, the Bishops call for "dialogue, respect for the dignity and sacredness of human life" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Bolivia have expressed their regret for the violent events that occurred in the municipality of Yapaní, which caused deaths and injuries, through a statement signed by Mgr. Oscar ...
• 16 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-The President cuts the price of petrol, but the protest continues; the Bishops: "we think of the nation’s welfare" Abijah (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, announced today, January 16, the reduction of the price of petrol from 141 to 97 naira per litre, although it has not re-introduced the old price of 6 ...
• 16 January 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Still no celebrations in the Cathedral occupied by the former combatants San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – One day to go to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the 20th "Peace Accords" in El Salvador (see Fides 04/01/2012) and the main church of this country, the Metropolitan Cathed ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and a pastor’s finger was cut off in an attack by Hindu extremists Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty Christians were attacked and beaten, the Protestant Pastor Srirangam Shanthakumar of the "Agape Church", was wounded and his finger was cut off. This is the toll of the final attack car ...
• 16 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between Sudan and South Sudan to resolve the issues of oil and citizenship Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan will meet tomorrow, January 17, in Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, for a new round of negotiations to resolve the issues left pending after the independence of ...
• 14 January 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resignation of the Archbishop of Beira and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 14, 2012 the Holy Father Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Beira (Mozambique) presented by His Exc. Mgr. Jaime Pedro Gonça ...