News

• 27 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - A life for the Gospel: Farewell to Fr. Luigi, "recordman" 75 years of mission Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - A community mourns, but praises the Lord for the extraordinary life of Father Luigi Gobetti, Salesian missionary who died on Sept. 22, aged 91, in Bandel (Diocese of Calcutta), after 75 years o ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Lay Scalabrinian killed "for her work in the media" Nuevo Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of Scalabrinian Lay Movement (SLM) is mourning over the terrible violent death of a member: Maria Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39, known as Marisol, who worked for a newspaper in ...
• 26 September 2011
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - CCEE Plenary Assembly on the New Evangelization in Europe Tirana (Agenzia Fides) – The next Plenary Assembly of the Council of European Bishops’ conferences (CCEE) will take place, from September 29 to October 2. The central theme of the assemblt will be the New Evangelizat ...
• 26 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Laity, witnesses of faith in different areas of commitment Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Witnessing faith and to be "signs" of faith through commitment on behalf of the laity (extraordinary ministers of communion, pastoral workers, catechists ...); to analyze the biblical, liturg ...
• 26 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Alert in Abuja for possible suicide bombings during the celebrations for independence Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Islamic Boko Haram sect is planning suicide bombings in the federal capital, Abuja, to disrupt the celebrations of national independence on 1 October. This is what the Nigerian press ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Valparaíso, "we must not accept any attack on the life of an unborn child for allegedly therapeutic reasons" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gonzalo Duarte García, Bishop of Valparaiso, in Chile, has recently launched an appeal to the Christians of his country so that they oppose to the laws that allow abortion or are likely ...
• 26 September 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Presidential elections in November: the Church lines up 30,000 electoral observers Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 30,000 electoral observers that the Catholic Church is preparing to line up to help ensure the regularity of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "We urgently need to break the chain of violence", Nunzio's appeal Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, stressed the urgent need to break the chain of violence and death that affects the Dominican Republic and asked ...
• 26 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - After the bomb in a church, interfaith prayer in Solo to say "No" to violence Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - There is concern and confusion among Christians of the diocese of Semarang (Central Java) after the suicide attack which occurred yesterday, on Sunday, Sept. 25, in a Protestant Christian churc ...
• 26 September 2011
  AFRICA - An agreement to control child trafficking between Benin and the Congo has been signed Pointe-Noire (Agenzia Fides) - Benin and the Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to control the trafficking of children between the two countries. From some recent data it is clear that 1800 children from Benin, m ...
• 24 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Forthcoming visit of the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo, Apostolic Nuncio to Malta and Libya, should come to Tripoli on September 28 for a courtesy call" says Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to Fides, Apostolic Vicar of Tr ...
• 24 September 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aquinas" in the Archdiocese of Bamenda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 2011 Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the Theological inter-diocesan Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aq ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The phenomenon of "missing girls" continues to increase Dehradun (Agenzia Fides) - India is the fourth country in the world most at risk for the female gender, after Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan, and the widespread practice of selective abortion of female fetuses makes the ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - To further strengthen evangelization: the exhortation on behalf of Mgr. Tong to the Legion of Mary Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "A competent force of the diocesan evangelization": this is the appreciation and consideration shown by Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, to the 1,500 members of the Legion of Mary who came ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Statistics on communal violence: debate on the law for the protection of minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,000 episodes of violence in four years, 648 people died and 11 thousand were injured in the 24 states of the Indian Federation: these statistics released by the Indian Bishops on v ...