News

• 23 March 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - Churches open to displaced, young Christians at work cleaning up houses after the tsunami Sendai (Agenzia Fides) – Young Catholics begin their volunteer mission in Sendai. There are already about ten on the ground and the number will reach up to 30 by next week. In addition, other volunteers are arriving wi ...
• 23 March 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - “Human rights are not being respected. The poorest are paying the price for everyone. How can we stop this massacre?”, asks a sister from Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – The confrontation between the armed forces of Côte d'Ivoire, who support the incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, and the supporters of President-elect, Alassane Ouattara is becoming increasi ...
• 23 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic communities continue their commitment to Lenten spiritual journey Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The intense Lenten journey towards Easter continues for the Chinese continental Catholic communities, in spiritual communion with the universal Church. According to information sent to Fides, ...
• 23 March 2011
  VATICAN - Special fund established by Apostolate of the Sea to assist seafarers, fishermen and their families in Northern Japan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, which is responsible for overseeing the direction of the Apostolate of the Sea, has launched a campaign of s ...
• 23 March 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - Missionaries of Guadalupe call for solidarity for earthquake victims of Japan Sendai (Agenzia Fides) – Fr David Uribe, MG, Superior of the Missionaries of Guadalupe operating in Japan, spoke to Fides about the Country's situation after the earthquake which has annihilated the area of Sendai. On ...
• 23 March 2011
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - New website for the Custody of the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans in the Holy Land, who've been charged by the Vatican with preserving Catholic sanctuaries in the area throughout the last 800 years, have launched a new website offering more i ...
• 23 March 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Come and get to know the PMS in Brasilia: Society of the Holy Childhood and Missionary Adolescence promotes a drawing contest Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil, through the National Secretary of the Society of the Holy Childhood and Missionary Adolescence (SCMA), has launched a drawing contest. Childr ...
• 23 March 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “I hope to be able to contribute to the mission with humility,” says the new National Director of the PMS of Brazil Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – Fr Camilo Pauletti, 25 years a priest and 51 years of age, recently assumed the role of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil (see Fides 22/1/2011). Even tho ...
• 23 March 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church launches signature campaign to protect the family Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On 25 March the Catholic Church in Argentina's campaign will begin to collect signatures in support of a “Law for the complete protection of the Family”. For its approval, the bill, s ...
• 22 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “What do you want to achieve with these bombings?”, asks the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “From last night to tonight we heard several very loud explosions, albeit in the distance, with the counter-attack by the Libyan anti-aircraft artillery, says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martine ...
• 22 March 2011
  VATICAN - “The Holy Land expects the brotherhood of the universal Church” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “the Holy Land expects the brotherhood of the universal Church and desires to reciprocate it in sharing the experience of grace and suffering that marks her journey.... The Christians o ...
• 22 March 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - The affection and closeness of the Pope to the Vicariate of Aysen to “build a strong Christian community” Aysen (Agenzia Fides) – A message of faith and hope was delivered to the people of Aysén by the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto, and by the Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peop ...
• 22 March 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - Towards civil war to the indifference of the international community; damage to a convent in Clarisse Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Côte d'Ivoire is sliding into civil war,” reveal local Church sources to Fides, who for security motives wish to remain anonymous. “The fighting in Abidjan, the administrative and econom ...
• 22 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious minorities “urge an independent Commission of inquiry to investigate Bhatti's murder” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Religious minorities in Pakistan call on the Government to institute a independent Commission of inquiry, directed by a Supreme Court Judge, to investigate the homicide of the Federal Minist ...
• 22 March 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Second round of elections, relative calm returns to Country, first results 31 March Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Haiti experienced a period of quiet the day after the presidential and legislative elections, held on Sunday 20 March. Meanwhile counting of the votes has begun, which will culminate on ...