News

• 24 October 2011
  ASIA - Floods simultaneously in six countries: 700 dead, 8 million people affected, the intervention of Caritas Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the first time that six Southeast Asian countries are affected simultaneously by powerful floods. It is a great emergency, the worst in 50 years, and Caritas of different countries are be ...
• 24 October 2011
  AFRICA/HAITI - Cholera continues to make victims among Haitians: in a year 6,500 infected people have died Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the population is still threatened by the deadly disease. Since the first cases which occured in October 2010, more than 450 th ...
• 24 October 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - Meeting of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The second annual meeting of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) is taking place in Accra, Ghana, from October 23 to 26. A statement sent to Agenzia Fides r ...
• 22 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Mission Sunday: The Apostolic Nuncio visits the national headquarters of the PMS; "missionary workshops" restart in Czestochowa Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, His Exc. Mgr. Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, visited the headquarters of the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PM ...
• 22 October 2011
  AMERICA/CANADA - "We are witnesses, builders!": PMS Video for World Mission Day Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Day, Father André Gagnon, SJ, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the French-speaking Canada, addressed a message to all in French through ...
• 22 October 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "I am optimistic about the future of Tunisia" says the Archbishop of Tunis on the eve of the vote Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is very calm. Last night, the campaign ended without any incidents and now we are living in the expectation of the vote" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Maroun Elias Lahham, Archbishop ...
• 22 October 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Paul Biya re-elected President of Cameroon Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The outgoing President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, was re-elected the Head of State for the sixth time in the elections held on 9 October (see Fides 10/10/2011). This was announced on October 21 by ...
• 22 October 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Resignation of Archbishop of Dhaka and succession Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on October 22, 2011 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Dhaka (Bangladesh), presented by His Exc. Mgr.Paulinus Costa, in ...
• 22 October 2011
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A chain of prayer broadcast by radio Haja prepares World Mission day in the Diocese of Antsirabé Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Antsirabe in Madagascar celebrates World Mission Sunday preceded by weeks of preparation marked by moments of prayer and missionary animation. This is what Fr. Serge Faraklin ...
• 21 October 2011
  VATICAN - World Mission Day: Catholic Church Statistics Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, October 23 this year, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panorama of the missionary Church all over the world ...
• 21 October 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The death of Colonel Gaddafi, "a tragic epilogue, which one cannot rejoice over, but we must work to build peace and harmony" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "When faced with the death of a man, sentiments of Christian piety, besides human sentiments must always prevail. One cannot therefore rejoice over an epilogue, the death of Colonel Gaddafi, th ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Churches seized, civilians beaten, women raped: abuse of the military on Kachin Christians Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese military army continues violence against civilians and do not spare the churches: this is what Fides sources denounce in the diocese of Banmaw in northern Mynamar, where a bloody war ...
• 21 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - First Missionary Congress of Higher Education: "Apostles of a new evangelization" Santiago (Agenzia Fides ) - Today, Friday October 21, from 9 am to 6pm at the headquarters of the Pontifical University of Chile, the first Missionary Congress of Higher Education will be held. The Congress is organized ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Association of the Rosary spreads, "to draw strength and wisdom from evangelization" Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of St. Luke, 18 October, during the month of the Rosary and Missions, the Association of the Rosary in parish of Xi Ling, in the diocese of Wen Zhou was born. According to reports ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - For the first time the Mass for World Mission Day will be celebrated in Russian Astana (Agenzia Fides) - There are many initiatives for World Mission Day in Kazakhstan, where the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) were established in 2008 and since then continue to work in order to raise the Kazakhs ...