News

• 4 April 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Campaign by Christian organisations to defend expelled missionary Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) – Fr Jim Borst is a Catholic missionary who has been working for nearly 50 years on human development for the people of Kashmir. The accusations against him (based on 'conversions') are entirely ...
• 4 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “Strengthen the will for peace” says Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who adds: “the Church appeals for mediation” Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “There haven't been any bombs in Tripoli for two days. The situation is dire due to the lack of food and petrol but at least things are a bit calmer. Perhaps they realised that however much th ...
• 4 April 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - the Diocese of Le Shan takes a Christian formation course into the Tibetan zone Le Shan (Agenzia Fides) – The 57 faithful Tibetans in the autonomous area of Tibet from the province of Si Chuan were able to participate in a 13 day Christian formation course which just concluded, fighting the bitte ...
• 4 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - “A disquieting calm reigns, just like before the storm,” the Archbishop of Abidjan tells Fides Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is calm in the sense that the shootings have reduced, but it is a disquieting calm, not at all reassuring. It is very tense. The people are barricaded in their homes. In some di ...
• 4 April 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - An NGO coalition seeks a “permanent humanitarian channel” between South and North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Some hope is rising for relations between North and South Korea. In recent days the Government in Seoul authorised lifting the block on the first load of humanitarian aid prepared by charity org ...
• 4 April 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Government: Yes to the Bible in all languages, but for Christians they remain controversial points Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – Malaysian authorities have announced in a 10-point document, that they will allow the diffusion of over 30,000 Bibles which had been stopped at customs. This will circulate the Bible in a ...
• 4 April 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Legislative, presidential and local elections postponed; Cardinal Okogie calls on voters to remain calm but laments authorities' decision Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – The Nigerian authorities have postponed the legislative, presidential and local elections to 9, 16 and 26 April respectively. The legislative elections (for the Senate and the House of Represent ...
• 4 April 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - “The practice of democracy must respect the ethical principles linked to promoting the common good”: Bishops remind people one week out from elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) – One week out from the 2011 elections, to be held on 10 April, when Peruvians will elect their next President and Members of Congress for the Republic, the Bishops of Peru wish to remind the faith ...
• 4 April 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Compartir 2011”: campaign by the Diocese of Los Teques and Caritas to confront the emergency Los Teques (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Los Teques, in Venezuela, together with the health program of Caritas, has begun its annual fundraising campaign known as “Compartir 2011”. The goal this year is to bring ...
• 2 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - More civilian victims and thousands of Libyans taking flight, reports the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who still sees “glimmers of peace” Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “Yesterday, April 1, in Sirte, eight civilians, mostly women and children were killed by bombs released by the international forces,” Nishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of ...
• 2 April 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Fear not, little flock”: Pastoral Letter from Bishops to comfort the faithful Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians in Pakistan are going through Lent “with faith, in prayer, in sharing and in charity, seeking to prepare for Easter in the best way possible, at spiritual, liturgical and pa ...
• 2 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Clashes in Abidjan near national radio-television network headquarters; damages to Church buildings in Duékoué Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Violent clashes with heavy artillery continue in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire, among the Republican Forces of President-elect Alassane Ouattara and the Security Forces who r ...
• 2 April 2011
  EUROPE - CCEE Presidency: solidarity of all peoples and European institutions for African refugees St Gallen (Agenzia Fides) – Confronted with the mass of African refugees who are reaching Europe via Italy's coasts, we need “the solidarity, and institutional solidarity, too, of all peoples on the European continen ...
• 2 April 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Communion, vocations, mission: the greatest fruits of Card. Varkey Vithayathil's work Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “the greatest fruit of Card. Varkey Vithayathil, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India, is communion, within the community, with other Indian Bishops and wi ...
• 2 April 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - Fires in two refugee camps: over 5,000 civilians without assistance Jhapa (Agenzia Fides) – Many questions have been raised about what occurred in Nepal in recent days: two refugee camps in the eastern part of the country were set alight, with a hefty toll of over 700 homes destroyed a ...