News

• 1 October 2011
  ASIA/LAOS-New "Community of the Word" to relaunch the mission, among obstacles and hopes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – There are 30 young people - 20 seminarians at the Major Seminary and 10 committed in the preparatory Year in Pakse - the hope and the future of the Church in Laos, says Fr. Adun Hongsapho ...
• 1 October 2011
  VATICAN-With the Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Patroness of the Missions, Missionary October starts today Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today's feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus (1873-1897), proclaimed Patroness of the Missions in 1927 with St. Francis Xavier, marks the beginning of Missionary October, which will culm ...
• 1 October 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-The Catholic Church in the country is in good health, the number of missionaries is always high Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the Catholic Church in Spain seems positive, where over three quarters of the population, ie 76.4% of Spanish, declare themselves a Catholic, for a total of 35,924,068 people. Th ...
• 1 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA-Children emergency, the victims mostly affected by food crisis Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Somali children are the victims mostly affected by the food crisis in the Horn of Africa. The latest estimates indicate that people under 18 represent 80% of the 121 000 refugees housed in ...
• 1 October 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL-Sharing the Gospel, communicating the good news: the original contribution of Christians in Senegal and Mauritania to the construction of their Countries Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The Missionary Month is a renewed commitment of all Christians of our two Countries to witness the Gospel in the wake of the new evangelization. A commitment of our Churches to make the Good News ...
• 1 October 2011
  VATICAN - Archbishop Hon Tai-Fai calls for religious freedom, justice and peace in Pakistan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pakistan needs "respect for freedom of religion and of conscience, which is the hallmark of justice and peace": says Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, Secretary of the Congregation for the Ev ...
• 1 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Year of the Mission, among the obstacles of extremism and Islamization Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of the Mission" in Pakistan was launched today in Karachi. As reported to Fides, the local Church has started the initiative, focused on the theme "Duc in Altum", at the conclusion of ...
• 1 October 2011
  VATICAN-"To be the heart that generates love for Evangelization": the appeal of Archbishop Filoni, Prefect of the missionary Dicastery Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, making St. Therese of Lisieux’s intuition its own , patroness of missions, wants to be in the body of the Church, the heart from which ...
• 1 October 2011
  VATICAN-"The proclamation of the Gospel brings solidarity, dignity, justice, ecology", says Archbishop Filoni at the beginning of missionary month Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Development of peoples, solidarity, dignity of life, moral support, promotion of justice, knowledge of peoples and ethnic groups far away, respect for creation: are the fruits that the proc ...
• 1 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Governor Taseer's murderer sentenced to death, the Christians: "Courageous decision, but No to capital punishment " Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri to death, former Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer’s murderer. He had fought to defend Asia Bibi, a Christian woman ...
• 30 September 2011
  "So that the celebration of World Mission Day may increase in the People of God the passion for evangelism and support to the missionary activity through prayer and economic aid to the poorest Churches" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for October 2011 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Church celebrates World Mission Day. It is a day destined to revive in all the faithful, even the pastors, the awareness that the Church is by her very nature missionary, bec ...
• 30 September 2011
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Cardinal Erdo: "We ask the democratic governments and the European Union to be more demanding towards the governments of countries where religious freedom is not respected" Tirana (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, all experts who check the situation of religious freedom in the world agree that Christians are those most persecuted because of their faith. This worries us very much. There is no real s ...
• 30 September 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The government stop-work of the dam on the Irrawaddy: civil society celebrates, the Bishops are satisfied Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In an unprecedented decision that surprised observers, the government of Myanmar has announced the stop-work of the Myitsone dam on the Irrawaddy River in the north of the country. President Thei ...
• 30 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA -Multiple threats between different extremist groups on the eve of Independence Day Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Tension on the eve for the celebrations of national Independence which will be celebrated tomorrow, October 1, in Nigeria. Both the Islamist Boko Haram sect, originally from the north of the Cou ...
• 30 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Thousands of people infected by an epidemic of dengue Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Over one thousand people have been infected by an epidemic of dengue outbreak in the town of Mandera, in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. The Ministry of Public He ...