News

• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - New wave of anti-Christian violence in Orissa: the nightmare returns for faithful Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – A new wave of anti-Christian violence has once again plunged the local faithful into terror, local Fides' sources report, alarmed that tribal Christians in the district of Malkangiri, Ori ...
• 9 March 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Clashes in the neighbourhood of Cairo's garbage collectors: missionary who works there gives testimony to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “We hope that these remain isolated incidents, because we are seeing what I have been saying for some time, namely that all the sins of Egyptian society will come to the surface,”says Fr Lucia ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Zardari meets with family of Shahbaz Bhatti: his brother Paul close to becoming Minister for Minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Paul Bhatti, the oldest brother of Shabhaz, the Minister for Minorities who was killed on 2 March, seems close to taking his brother's position as the new Federal Minister for Religious Mino ...
• 9 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “I trust that something will give way to a peaceful solution,” the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “There is complete calm in Tripoli. The city appears tranquil and silent. There are no cars on the streets,” Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, in Libya, tells ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protest by Pakistanis in Rome: Catholics grateful to the Pope, disassociate from protest Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Groups of Christian Pakistanis in Italy have announced a protest in Rome tomorrow, 10 March, from 3.00 – 5.00 pm, in front of the Embassy of Pakistan to Italy. Some politicians and unionists ha ...
• 8 March 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “We need to avoid more bloodshed. There are better ways than with violence,” the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “I pray that there will be no further spilling of blood. I don't believe that it is appropriate to step in with force, because there will be more bloodshed. So declared Bishop Giovanni Innocen ...
• 8 March 2011
  ASIA - Urgent measures to counter violence against women in Asia Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against women in Asia is a widespread phenomena that affects the whole continent and that the governments must face and counter with urgent measures: So affirms the Asian Human Righ ...
• 8 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi speaks about Minister Bhatti: we need to protect religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Asia Bibi, from her isolation cell in jail in Sheikhupura, Punjab, expresses her “pain and concern for the death of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti”. Her lawyer, seeing her yesterday, reported this ...
• 7 March 2011
  VATICAN - Card. Tauran: “We remember in Shahbaz Bhatti the authentic hope of the Cross” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “We give thanks to God for having placed an authentic martyr in our path, a witness to Christian faith, who was able to 'say' and 'do'. Shahbaz Bhatti is a reminder that in the Cross we ...
• 7 March 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Internal divisions in Egyptian society will eventually need to be addressed,” says Fr Verdoscia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “In Egypt there are various issues which will need to be addressed sooner or later, one of which regards relations between Christians and Muslims,” Fr Luciano Verdoscia tells Fides, the Combon ...
• 7 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Candidates to succeed Bhatti: a Catholic favoured Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The seat held by Shahbaz Bhatti in the National Assembly (the Parliament of Pakistan), was officially assigned today by the Electoral Commission to Javed Michael, a Catholic, and member of t ...
• 7 March 2011
  VATICAN - At the Angelus, the Pope remembers “the moving sacrifice of the life of the Pakistani Minister Shahbaz Bhatti” along with numerous others who have died and the “growing humanitarian crisis” in Libya Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I am continuously following with great concern the tensions which are currently being manifested in various countries of Africa and Asia,” said Pope Benedict XVI after reciting the A ...
• 7 March 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Caritas Australia launches fundraiser again this year - Project Compassion - for the poorest of the poor Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (ACBC) has invited all Australians to show their support for the poorest of the poor in response to their annual appeal – Project Compassion – ju ...
• 7 March 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - “The future of Haiti is in education”: campaign concludes for 12,500 children, adolescents and young adults Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – More than a year on from the grave earthquake that shook the island of Haiti the education system is distressing. Students still attend lessons in tents. A solidarity campaign, “The f ...
• 7 March 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - Who and what do we celebrate in the Liturgy? The 36th Day of Pastoral Care for the Vicariate of Aysén Aysén (Agenzia Fides) – For 36 years, the Apostolic Vicariate of Aysén has celebrated the Day of Pastoral Care with prayer, formation, planning and brotherhood. “The 2011 Day of Pastoral Care, which will take place ...