News

• 14 September 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Appeal during the International Meeting Man and Religions: "It is time to change, the world needs more hope and more peace" Munich (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time to change. The world needs more hope and more peace. We can learn again to live, not against each other, but with each other. We are aware of the responsibilities of religions in enda ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Duc in altum": the theme of 'Year of the Mission for the Church in Pakistan Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Church of Pakistan, Duc in altum" This is the theme of the Mission and Evangelization, which will be launched by the Church of Pakistan, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Pontifical Miss ...
• 14 September 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Maybe the truth is round the corner": Mgr. Rosa Chavez on the death of Mgr. Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez confirmed to Fides what he said at a press conference on Sunday, September 11, with regards to the recent publicatio ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Institutional meetings for Mgr. Martinelli before returning to Libya Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I had the pleasure to meet Mgr. Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with the States, together with the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya, His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops' appeal: "No to death penalty and execution of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " As Church of India we are against death penalty and we ask for the salvation of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins. We hope that our country will firmly take the road of abolishing capital punish ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church must make a significant contribution to the peaceful development of the 20 forthcoming African elections Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We must ensure that by December 2011, the Catholic Church can claim to have made a significant contribution to peace in Africa through interventions that have ensured the peaceful and fair develo ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Most African countries have serious difficulties in the health care of pregnant women Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Studies carried out by the Institute for African Development Policies (AFIDEP) in East, West and Southern Africa, showed that most countries have great difficulties for universal access to repro ...
• 14 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The march of the indigenous towards La Paz stops, waiting for dialogue Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Santa Cruz has publicly complained about the fact that the government does not show any openness to dialogue with the natives who march towards the city of La Paz to de ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Post-flood trauma: 600 displaced have committed suicide, but "in the disaster the country finds unity" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – It is a tragedy within the tragedy" for over a week heavy rains have not stopped in Thailand and have caused flooding in 21 provinces in central-south part of the country, provoking 87 deaths ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Inauguration of the largest square in the inner Mongolian steppe dedicated to "Our Lady of Mongolia" Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The largest and the most beautiful square in the inner Mongolian steppe, in the diocese of Bao Tou, was inaugurated a few days ago and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Over three thousand faithful ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - High risk of mental health problems for refugee children Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - About 18 million children around the world have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict, one third of these are refugees whose families have crossed international borders. To explain ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - A new program for the mobile phone, iBreviarium, to pray the Liturgy of the Hours Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Paul Leung, SDB, a Salesian from Hong Kong, has invented a program for the mobile phone called iBreviarium, to encourage the faithful to join in the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours thr ...
• 13 September 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A few hours after the end of the Week of Peace, another priest was killed, the sixth in 2011 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia have expressed their deep sorrow and concern over the murder of don Gualberto Oviedo Arrieta, priest of Our Lady of Carmen in Capurganá (10 kilometers from the border wit ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND-Denied access to public information for "security reasons" Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Many public officials in Swaziland do not believe that access to information is a right for everyone but a privilege that can be withdrawn at any time. If it is diffult for adult citizens to get ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Heavy floods in Pakistan; for Caritas, "the government has failed in prevention" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an emergency that overlaps on another emergency. While the reconstruction after the epochal 2010 flood was still being dealt with, new major floods have hit southern Pakistan in recent day ...