News

• 12 October 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope will celebrate the bicentenary of the independence of Latin American Countries at St. Peter's Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Commission for Latin America announced that "the Holy See wishes to join in the celebrations of the bicentenary of Latin American countries with an important initiative. Pope ...
• 12 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The role of Catholic intellectuals in the life of the Church Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "The role of Catholic intellectuals in the life of the Church" was the theme of the 9th Meeting of Catholic Intellectuals in the province of Zhe Jiang held from October 7 to 9 in the diocese of ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Despite the crisis, there is great generosity and sensitivity towards the Church's missionary activity", says the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Secretariat of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith works all year round on the organization of World Mission Day, and during the National Assembly of Diocesan Directors, wh ...
• 12 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Land grabbing", an instrument of oppression against religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is another subtle instrument of oppression against religious minorities in Pakistan: "land grabbing". It is based on rent, purchase or expropriation of large plots of land, and in Pakistan ...
• 12 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The Bishop of Djibouti" satisfied with the response of the Catholic world to the tragedy in the Horn of Africa" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very pleased with the response of the Catholic world to the Holy Father’s appeal for Somalia and other countries in the Horn of Africa", says in an interview with Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giorgi ...
• 12 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Governor Taseer’s murderer’s death sentence has been suspended, the path towards "Islamic forgiveness" is open Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Court of Appeal in Islamabad declared the admissibility of the appeal prepared by Mumtaz Qadri’s lawyers, the self-confessed murderer of the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, who had defen ...
• 12 October 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - The Liberians voted en masse, the Bishops hope ethnic divisions can be overcome Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - The electoral process to elect the new President of Liberia and the renewal of the House of Representatives and the Senate were carried out peacefully (see Fides 11/10/2011). Voters flocked to ...
• 12 October 2011
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Food prospects have improved in the Karamoja region although the rate of malnutrition is still very high Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - The region of Karamoja, northeast Uganda, is often associated with chronic food shortages, malnutrition and poverty. However, according to humanitarian agencies, it is unlikely that in the coming ...
• 12 October 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Amnesty for 6 000 prisoners, among them "prisoners of conscience" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, has granted amnesty to about 6,300 detainees, and some of them are political prisoners or of conscience: this is what Fides learned from sources in Myanmar. ...
• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Girl raped, and converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Kidnapped and raped repeatedly for eight months by a gang of Islamic militants. Devastated and traumatized, was converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim. The story of Anna (fantasy name), ...
• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The vows of the religious women from different congregations and a diaconal ordination bear witness to the missionary vitality of the continental Catholic community Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The vitality and missionary aspect of the continental Catholic community continue to manifest itself in the month of October with the vows of the religious women from different congregations an ...
• 11 October 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "A crisis which has its roots in the past": reflections of a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "During Mubarak’s years division and hatred among the various factions deepened", says Fr. Luciano Verdoscia to Fides, a Comboni missionary who has been living and working in Cairo for many year ...
• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Every year, one thousand girls from religious minorities are kidnapped, raped and converted to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - About 1,000 Christian and Hindu girls are kidnapped and raped by Muslim radicals, forced to Islamic marriage, sometimes killed in Pakistan every year: Fides sources in the Catholic Church and ci ...
• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Orissa: "an isolated case, not motivated by religious hatred" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Rev. Jiban Masi, a 70-year-old Protestant pastor, was killed on Sunday, October 9 by a psychopath in the village of Bada Raksi, in Sundergarh district, in Orissa. The district is located in ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - A special Mission Day, with the relics of St. Teresa at the headquarters of the PMS and the first "virtual Campaign" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru always celebrate with immense intensity the month of October and World Mission Sunday. This year in particular there is even another reason of joy: t ...