News

• 31 October 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Whoever governs, will have to deal with the people’s high expectations," says the Archbishop of Tunis to Fides Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "For being the first truly free elections in the history of Tunisia, held on October 23, it was a success", says His Exc. Mgr. Maroun Elias Lahham, Archbishop of Tunis to Fides. In the elections f ...
• 31 October 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Millions of children immunized against polio Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of health workers went on foot, by bike, boat or car, to vaccinate at least 14 million children across the country against polio. UNICEF’s objective, promoter of this initiative wit ...
• 31 October 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope to the Angolan Bishops: "We are strongly committed to continuing the proclamation of the Gospel to the people of Africa" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are committed to continue vigorously the proclamation of the Gospel to the peoples of Africa, because 'life in Christ is the primary and most important factor of development ... In fact ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Open letter from the ruling party: "Guarantee justice for minorities" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After the first-rate murders of Judge Arif Iqbal (who in 1997 had acquitted a Christian accused of blasphemy), of Governor Salmaan Taseer and the Minister Shahbaz Bhatti (2010), who had the coura ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for a Christian woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Another Christian victim of the controversial "blasphemy law" asks for bail – risking death: we are talking about Ruqqiya Bibi sentenced in 2010 by the court in Kasur (in Punjab) to 25 years in ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 13 priests killed in Mindanao; the Church to the government: "The culture of impunity urgently needs to be tackled" Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – Out of 13 priests killed on the island of Mindanao since 1970, only one case has been resolved (that of the PIME missionary Father Tullio Favali), with the investigation of the responsibles o ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The list of priests killed in 40 years of mission in Mindanao Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - There are 13 priests who have been killed on the island of Mindanao since 1970 to date: 4 of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, three of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), a Cla ...
• 29 October 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - "The Church lives a new relationship with the state and the people": Cardinal Ortega confirmed as Archbishop of Havana Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The dialogue with the government of Raul Castro remains open, and touches all sectors of national life, including the process of economic reforms on the island, the Catholic Church is experiencin ...
• 29 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Inquiry into the abuses of military and paramilitary", the forum asks "Justice for Fr Pops" Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - While the Special Task Force, which is inquiring into the murder of Fr. Fausto Tentorio explains it is looking into "at least three angels, as possible motives for the investigation of the Ital ...
• 29 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops are the "best available witnesses" for the elections on November 6 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - To monitor the upcoming elections and to ensure transparency, the Bishops are the "best possible witnesses": this is why the organization "Ethics and Transparency," which has the task of monitor ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - The number of torture and abuse that goes unpunished on juvenile detainees is still high Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - In Nepal, the threats to the victims and the absence of mechanisms of protection for witnesses have hindered access to justice for thousands of people and fed impunity towards perpetrators of ...
• 28 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - An online survey on the support for the Church's missionary activity Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - On the Occasion of Missionary Week, the most popular Catholic weekly in Poland, "Niedziela", based in Czestochowa, has published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online su ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Sacred art, instrument of catechesis at the College of St. Francis Xavier Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - During the month of the Rosary, the College of St. Francis Xavier of the Marist Brothers in Hong Kong, has dedicated an exhibition of religious paintings to the Madonna, to allow the students ...
• 28 October 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope in Assisi: "Struggle for peace must engage us all in a new way" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five years have passed since the blessed Pope John Paul II first invited representatives of the world’s religions to Assisi to pray for peace, "unfortunately we cannot say that fr ...
• 28 October 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Joseph" in the Archdiocese of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. John Saw Yaw Han, of the archdiocesan clergy of Yangon as Rector of the Theological ...