News
15 February 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic family home set on fire, threatened by three Muslims; police ignore claim
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Another episode of violence in recent days has targeted a Catholic family in Pakistan, as Agenzia Fides is informed by local Catholic sources. This time, it is the family of Walayat Masih, a re ...
15 February 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' Conference call State of the Nation Address a disappointment to South Africans
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – “Flat and uninspiring” was how the Parliamentary Liaison Office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) described the State of the Nation Address given by South A ...
15 February 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops express concern for moral failings of leaders
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of South Africa express their “strongest concern of the scandalous behavior of leaders who shamelessly flout the norms of morality and decency, accepted and expected by the ...
15 February 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Revision" or "withdrawal”? - “Blasphemy law" ignites public debate
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Some would like to see a “revision,” such as the Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti. Others call for their immediate cancellation, such as the Archbishop Lawrence Saldanh ...
15 February 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Brief Overview of Recent Cases of Christians Targeted by “Blasphemy Law”
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to data from the “Christian Study Center” in Rawalpindi and the Justice and Peace Commission of the Bishops' Conference, Agenzia Fides has compiled a list of the most recent serious ...
15 February 2010
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Annual Assembly for coordinating missionary activity in the country
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador, members of the National Missionary Center (Cemin) of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, and representatives of major religious ...
15 February 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Australian youth on the missions in Peru
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young Australians of the Christian Life Movement (MVC) have crossed the Pacific to arrive in Peru, where they have been carrying out an intense work of solidarity and evangelization th ...
15 February 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church using “Facebook” to evangelize
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Meet young people, encourage dialogue, and exchange on issues of morality and social themes, show the Catholic Church as an institution that is "close" to people using new media for evangelizat ...
13 February 2010
VATICAN - Mass for Haitian earthquake victims, presided by Cardinal Sodano at Saint Mary Major
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The devastating earthquake which hit Haiti on January 12 caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, including Haitian Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot. On Tuesday, February 16th at 18, ...
13 February 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - All baptized should become missionary disciples!
Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) – A call to recognize and accept Jesus in our lives and to take responsibility for evangelizing: this is how Fr. Alejandro Castillo, Vicar General of the Diocese of Copiapo, summed up the signif ...
13 February 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 2nd National Meeting for Youth Missionary Coordinators
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – From February 12 to 15, the National Headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), in Brasilia, will host the 2nd National Meeting of the General Coordinators of the Youth Missionar ...
13 February 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' Message for Elections 2010: a complex year filled with challenges
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Colombia has issued a document on the forthcoming presidential elections to be held in May 2010, just two hundred years since Colombia's independence. The document, a ...
13 February 2010
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Rector of “San Pierre Claver” Interdiocesan Major Seminary in Burasira, Archdiocese of Bujumbura appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on November 14, 2009, has appointed Fr. Daniel Nizigiyimana of the Archdiocesan clergy of Gitega, Rector ...
13 February 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics doing volunteer work during school vacations for New Year's
Zhang Jia Kou (Agenzia Fides) - During the winter school holidays, young Catholics in the parish of Zhang Jia Kou are set to perform works of charity, becoming volunteers to witness to the love of Christ to all people, b ...
13 February 2010
VATICAN - Walking difficulties among young children: inventor of hip ultrasound visits Bambino Gesu Hospital for two-day study session
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On February 12-13, at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, the Austrian orthopedic Reinhard Graf, inventor of the ultrasonic method for the study of the femoral area in infants, will mak ...
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