News

• 25 February 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A missionary parish, in the proposed renewal of the pastoral plan Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The second meeting convened by the Bolivian Episcopal Conference in Cochabamba, from 14 to 18 February, managed to gather a significant number of priests and laity to work on the theme of � ...
• 25 February 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Senate approves immigration law: “This is the Mexico that we want to see,” comments Fr Solalinde Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Senate has approved a bill on immigration that, for the first time, will impede the criminalization of undocumented foreigners in Mexican territory, regardless of their origin, ...
• 24 February 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest murdered: “a reflection on the corruption, the shame and the immoral social situation which leads to violence,” says the Bishop of Tuxpan Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) – On the night between 21 and 22 February, in the parish community of Mecapala, a community of about 5,000 inhabitants, in the Mexican state of Puebla, Father Santos Sánchez Hernández was fou ...
• 24 February 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - A new report on anti-Christian violence “re-establishes the truth”: the Church presents report to the Federal Government Bombay (Agenzia Fides) – A new report on anti-Christian violence re-establishes the truth, replacing a previous report – entrusted to Judge B. K. Somasekhara – who denied all responsibility for the attacks in Karna ...
• 24 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The murderer of the Coptic Orthodox priest is perhaps linked to the tensions two years ago,” Bishop of Assiut tells Fides Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - “It seems that the issue goes back to two years ago, when a Coptic Orthodox faithful committed an act of sacrilege against Islam, provoking the anger of Muslims. This person then said that it w ...
• 24 February 2011
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - The Bishop of Nouakchott asks for missionaries of the community of Guinea Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Martin Albert Happe of Nouakchott in Mauritania, asked the Bishops of Guinea Bissau to send missionaries from the Guinean community. Mauritania is a country with an Islamic majority and ...
• 24 February 2011
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CENTRAL AFRICA - Lessons under the trees for Ouande school students in Linguiri village Linguiri (Agenzia Fides) – Decades of political violence in the north of the Central African Republic have caused destruction on a vast scale and massive numbers of displaced persons. Even the education sector has been ...
• 24 February 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - More security and a different mentality for girls' education Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – According to the Education Minister it seems that the Taliban have changed their attitude drastically towards the schooling of women, even if the Afghan Islamic Emirate has not publicly confirme ...
• 24 February 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - New information technology promotes evangelisation and information on the life of the Church Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Hong Kong Diocesan Audio-Visual Centre and the faithful of Hong Kong have launched the “Mobile Web Apps” and “Liturgypedia” in version iPhone/iPod to promote formation and inform ...
• 24 February 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Civil society: “Corruption undermines food security” Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – Bangladesh is a country that, as officially announced by the Government, is self-sufficient in terms of food production. Yet despite this, it is afflicted by the scourge of the lack of “food s ...
• 24 February 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - National plan prepared for youth ministry with a missionary direction Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – With the approval of a national plan with a missionary approach, the national meeting of the diocesan youth ministry delegates concluded. The meeting in Bogotà from 15 to 18 February, had thr ...
• 23 February 2011
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Rescue teams arrived in Christchurch: 300 people unaccounted for, mostly tourists; search continues among the rubble Wellington (Agenzia Fides) – “Rescue teams from six countries have arrived today in Christchurch, New Zealand, to join in the relentless race to find survivors under the rubble caused by the 6.3 earthquake that liter ...
• 23 February 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic woman in jail for blasphemy in Punjab: Bishops' concerns and appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Punjab and throughout Pakistan is in shock by this latest case of injustice. Agnes Nuggo, a Catholic woman from Faisalabad, in Punjab has been unjustly accused of blasphe ...
• 23 February 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “The centre of Tripoli is calm, clashes are on the outskirts and in the east of the Country,” the Apostolic Vicar tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is somewhat calm because in the morning because there are no particular movements. Clashes usually occur at night when you hear the echoes of gunfire from a distance,” Archbis ...
• 23 February 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Diaconate and priestly ordinations continue in the Chinese Catholic community Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Various mainland Chinese Catholic communities continue to celebrate new priestly and diaconate ordinations at this time (see Fides 14/1/2011), according to information 'Faith' in He Bei sends ...