News

• 18 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "You cannot suffocate civil society and democracy", warns the President of the Episcopal Conference Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The police have intensified controls in the major cities in Malawi although the protest planned for yesterday, August 17 was postponed (see Fides 17/8/2011). Opposition parties have given the g ...
• 18 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic girl, kidnapped and falsely converted to Islam, death threats after her escape from her torturer Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Another case of a Pakistani Christian girl kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam was reported to Fides by the Pakistani Christians Association in Italy. Alfred Arifa is a 27-year old Cath ...
• 17 August 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - World Youth Day is also a missionary event Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - This week Madrid is "the world capital for the youth" gathered from all over the world to attend World Youth Day and to show their love to God and the Church. If most of them come from countries ...
• 17 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The national demonstration of protest planned for today has been called off Lilongwe (Fides Service) - The demonstrations planned for today, August 17, in Malawi have been called off. The organizers have announced that "demonstrations have been postponed and not canceled to allow the High Court ...
• 17 August 2011
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Rabaul and appointment of successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), on behalf of His Excellency Most Reverend Mgr. Karl Hesse, MSC, in A ...
• 17 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Golden Jubilee of the Shrine of Mugera and the consecration of Burundi to the Virgin Mary Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Burundi coincided with the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Marian Shrine of Mugera, located in the Arc ...
• 13 August 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Five southern African countries create a common area of sustainable development Luanda (Fides Service) – The creation of an ecologically protected area in the Kavango Zambezi Transfontier region (Kaza-ATFC) is becoming more and more concrete. As reported in the Angolan newspaper "Apostolado", thi ...
• 13 August 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - In the State of Kogi sermons are under the control of the security forces Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the Nigerian State of Kogi (north-central Nigeria), the agents of the State Security Service (SSS) have begun to monitor sermons in mosques and churches, to prevent the spread of speeches that ...
• 13 August 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - The relics of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, arrive in Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) – In the context regarding the celebrations of 100 years of presence in Peru (1911-2011) of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, the visit of the relics of St. Therese of Liseaux comes from the initi ...
• 12 August 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Week for Peace sponsored by the Episcopal Conference has started Bogota (Fides Service) - On August 11, 2011 the Week for Peace sponsored by the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, through the National Secretariat for Social Pastoral and REDEPAZ (National Network for Peace initiatives) ...
• 12 August 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas provides its network to pay Catholic school teachers’ salaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the Congolese State have reached an agreement to facilitate the payment of Catholic school teachers’ salaries in the vast territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
• 12 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - New interventions on behalf of the international community regarding the somali drama Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Guinean general Sékouba Konate, High Representative of the African Union at the African Force in standby, went to Somalia to inspect the troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia. ...
• 11 August 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - On the occasion of the national independence Cardinal Terrazas invites everyone to live forgiveness Santa Cruz (Fides Service) - Bolivia celebrated 186 years of national independence and on this occasion, Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz, celebrated the Te Deum. The Cardinal invited the community to l ...
• 11 August 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The country cannot go on like this": Bishops' appeal for dialogue between students and authorities Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The country cannot go forward under the pressure of demonstrations or police repression, and neither under threat or provocation. In this decisive hour, dialogue is the key to objectively eval ...
• 11 August 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - South Kordofan: the new "hot spot" of the region Khartoum (Fides Service) - South Kordofan, in the north region of Sudan on the border with South Sudan (has recently become independent ) seems to have become the new "hot spot" that threatens the stability of the regi ...