News

• 22 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - A dozen people have been arrested in connection with the massacre of Gatumba Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Burundian authorities announced the arrest of a dozen people in connection with the September 18 massacre, which occurred in a bar in Gatumba (see Fides 21/09/2011), whose toll has risen t ...
• 22 September 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dengue continues to alarm the local health authorities San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Cases of dengue in El Salvador continue to increase and the local health authorities are alarmed. Every week there are at least 200 new people infected, and although fortunately the figur ...
• 21 September 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Abortion, euthanasia and in vitro fertilization: warning on behalf of the Mexican Bishops Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Mexico issued a statement stressing that society now should no longer marvel at the violence carried out when unborn children are being aborted. "The many expres ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 55 anti-Christian attacks in 2011; for the Bishops a legislation to protect minorities is urgently needed" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A church was attacked and damaged in Karnataka two days ago; a prayer meeting was interrupted and stopped by extremists in Madhya Pradesh; 7 Christians were arrested in Andhra Pradesh and a Pr ...
• 21 September 2011
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - A "missionary bridge of prayer" and a video clip for World Mission Day Prague (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Day 2011, the national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the Czech Republic, have launched the initiative to create a "missionary bridge of ...
• 21 September 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL-The preparation for the First Missionary Congress of Mariana begins Itabira (Agenzia Fides) - In the ecclesiastical province of Mariana (which includes, in addition to the archdiocese of Mariana, the dioceses of Caratinga Governador Valadares and Itabira-Coronel Fabriciano). On Septembe ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Support for vocations is the mission of the parish of Bei Tang in the archdiocese of Xi An Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - To support and accompany vocations, both materially and spiritually, especially the seminarians of the Minor Seminary: this is the imperative mission of the parish of Bei Tang, in the archdiocese ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishop of Vasai: "The Church responds to violence with forgiveness and doing good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Towards the attacks by Hindu extremist groups, who "have their own agenda", the Christians respond by "doing good": more than 33% of social services in India, in the field of education and ...
• 21 September 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The opposition decrees 3 days of protest; even the Church is in the system’s sights Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in Malawi has ordered as from this evening (September 21), three days of "dead city" across the Country, urging people to stay indoors and not to go to work. The initiative was t ...
• 21 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Bishops after the 18 September massacre: "May these moments of trial do not become an occasion of hatred that threatens to plunge Burundi in a spiral of revenge" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Burundi expressed "dismay and sorrow" for the victims of the attack in a bar in Gatumba, in the municipality of Mutimbuzi in the province of Bujumbura, carried out by unknown as ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic fundamentalists are ready to send militia to the Moluccas Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Islamic group "Front Pembela Islam," FPI has announced that it "is ready to send militia to fight a holy war against Christians in the Moluccas" as refered by Fides sources in the In ...
• 20 September 2011
  VATICAN -"To promote the well-being of Indian society through continued attention to the promotion of basic rights": the exhortation of the Pope to the Indian Bishops Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - "As part of its ancient heritage, India has a long and distinguished Christian presence which has contributed to Indian society and benefited your culture in innumerable ways, enriching ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Earthquake in the Northeast, floods in Orissa: Caritas in the forefront New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas India is at the forefront in the emergency aid after two catastrophic events that, almost simultaneously, have hit two areas of the country: the earthquake in the northeast (in the Him ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Mgr. Tong urges a group of religious to unity and communion, and to re-read Benedict XVI’s letter to the Chinese Catholics Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Unity and communion of the Church, the consolidation of religious life and spirit of evangelization, the Pope's letter to the Chinese Catholics in 2007: these are the themes His Exc. Mgr. Joh ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "We are ready to cooperate with the authorities for the sake of Libya", said Mgr.Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We have sent a verbale note to the new Libyan authorities with which we declare our availability to cooperate for the good of the country", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to F ...