News

• 2 July 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA- 50 years of AMECEA celebrated in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), is celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year, founded in 1961. The anniversary coincides with the 17th Plenary Assembl ...
• 1 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Annual report of "Aid to the Church in Need": 5,587 projects funded in 153 countries Rome (Fides Service) – The 2010 Annual Report of the Work of Pontifical Right "Aid to the Church that Need" (ACN), founded by Father Werenfried van Straaten in 1947 has been published: in 2010 ACN raised a total of do ...
• 1 July 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Okogie: "No to Islamic Banking, because it is a plan to subjugate Christians" AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Okogie: "No to Islamic Banking, because it is a plan to subjugate Christians" Lagos (Fides) - Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Archbishop of Lagos, has expressed his opposition to the proposal ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minority rights and the future of Christians: the Catholic minister is "confident" Islamabad (Fides Service) - Although the Federal Ministry that presided has just been "dissolved" - after a Provincial decentralization plan approved by the Parliament - the Catholic Akram Gill, until yesterday Minister ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Caritas, the only organization committed to the humanitarian emergency in the scene of war Banmaw (Fides Service) - To meet ongoing humanitarian emergency in northern Myanmar - scarred by civil war between the army and rebels of the Kachin Independent Army (see Fides 06/30/2011) - Caritas has put into the fiel ...
• 1 July 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Mothers forced to give birth on the roadside: "the situation of displaced people of Abyei is still dramatic," says the Apostolic Administrator of Malakal Juba (Fides Service) - "The situation of displaced people of Abyei remains dramatic, despite the arrival of some humanitarian aid", said Mgr.Roko Taban Mousa to Fides, Apostolic Administrator of Malakal in southern Sud ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-Proclamation and testimony, the two recommendations from Mgr.Tong to catechists Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Proclamation and testimony to fulfill the mission of evangelization. This is what His Exc. Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, recommended to the catechists in Hong Kong during the awards cer ...
• 1 July 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-Third Workshop of the Missionary Groups; on October 1 the opening of the October missionary in the coastal region Funes (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 and 26 June, the laboratory of the Missionary Groups for the coastal region was held in the town of Funes, Archdiocese of Rosario. There were 29 participants belonging to the dioceses of Ros ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence in Gujarat, all evidence have been destroyed. A Jesuit, "injustice is done" Ahmedabad (Fides Service) - The Government of Gujarat state in western India, admitted that all evidence relating to the massacres of 2002 - when about 2,000 Muslim citizens were killed, attacked by thousands of militant ...
• 1 July 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence against the indigenous people of Brazil is increasing: new complaint by IMIC Brasilia (Fides Service) - Murder, death threats, lack of health care and education, delays in the regularization of land, exploitation of natural resources: this is the picture of the violence the indigenous people of B ...
• 30 June 2011
  VATICAN-Benedict XVI: "The Lord challenges us to move beyond the boundaries of our own world and to bring the Gospel to the world of others, so that it pervades everything" Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Wednesday, June 29, Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, and the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of His priestly ordination, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided in St. Peter's B ...
• 30 June 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA-Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Cuba for the years 2011-2016, the R ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Devolution approved: the Federal Ministry for Religious Minorities has been abolished Islamabad (Fides Service) - Pakistan has abolished the Federal Ministry for religious minorities. This was confirmed to Fides by the Catholic Akram Gill, Minister of State for Religious Minorities, in what is, in fact, t ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Priests and nuns help 20 thousand Kachin refugees, victims of indiscriminate repression Myitkyina (Fides Service) - "Ethnic cleansing" and "humanitarian emergency" is what is happening in the Kachin State in northern Myanmar, where a conflict is raging between the Burmese army, and the Kachin Independent Ar ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "My brother Shabhaz killed by Al Qaeda Shabhaz: investigations finally on the right track" Islamabad (Fides Service) - "The investigations into the murder of my brother Shabhaz are finally on the right track: it is the work carried out by the Taliban and Islamic fanatics. Now we are waiting for the capture of ...