News

• 15 April 2011
  VATICAN - Commission for the Catholic Church in China: Message to Chinese Catholics Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 11 – 13 April, the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Commission, instituted by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 to study the questions of major importance concerning the life of Church in China, ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA / RWANDA - In the rural area of Muhura 40,000 people can now take advantage of the electricity power Muhura (Agenzia Fides) - According to the estimates conducted by FAO , two billion people, mostly in rural areas of developing countries, are still living without electricity. This means living in a never-ending state ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The survivors of a boat adrift of desperate people describe a mysterious helicopter that flew over them throwing water and food”, said Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday we received some survivors who had been brought by the stream on the beach in Tripoli", said Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli to Fides. "There are ...
• 15 April 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Suspect census of Christians in Madhya Pradesh, attacks in Delhi: the Church in alarm New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A "strange" census regarding Bishops, priests, the homes of individual believers, Christian schools and institutions, is currently in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India, conducted by ...
• 15 April 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Pilgrimage of the Cross of Evangelization to raise awareness of the faithful on their missionary responsibility Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - With the blessing of the Cross given by Bishop John Tong, the diocesan Bishop, the pilgrimage of the Cross of Evangelization in the diocese of Hong Kong officially began on April 3. Accord ...
• 15 April 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Thousands of displaced people, six months after the eruption of the volcano Merapi Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The majority of the 130 thousand displaced people who have lost their homes after the eruption of the volcano Merapi in Central Java, are still homeless and in need of assistance. This is wha ...
• 15 April 2011
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on April 15, 2011 has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica), presented by Archbishop Donald ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA - About 2.64 million fetuses die after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, especially in poorer countries Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The annual number of stillbirths in the whole world is twice the number of people who die from diseases associated with HIV. According to the weekly science magazine The Lancet, about 2.64 mil ...
• 15 April 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Increase of violence against religious minorities”, comments the "State of Human Rights 2011" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "A few positive developments and many worrying signs for many religious minorities in Pakistan”, says the Report "Status of Human Rights 2011", published by the Human Rights Commission of ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Tension is high in Ouagadougou for the military revolt Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – Uncertain situation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, where a military revolt forced President Blaise Campaoré to take refuge in his native village (Ziniaré, about thirty mile ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Religious freedom denied, over 50 thousand Christians in prison camps Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Human rights trampled and denied freedom of religion, more than 50 thousand Christians in prison camps for their faith, victims of a judicial system based strictly on ideology of the regime: this ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Christian missionary in prison, "Week of Prayer for Freedom" in North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian missionary, an American citizen, will be put on trial in North Korea for "crimes against the nation": this is Jun Young-Su, a lay missionary of the Church of Orange County, California ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Providing weapons just means extending the war, " says Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, or rather a way to lenghthening it, " says Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Trip ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - "People need help, we must intervene: 25 000 refugees in the parish of the Salesians in Duékoué Duékoué (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast who does not recognize the election of his successor, Alassane Ouattara, does not put an end to the tragic situation tha ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Profession of the Rule for 5 members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Five members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong have made a profession of the Rule on April 3. Among them was Don Francis Tam Kam Wing, the Hong Kong diocesan priest, who said that th ...