News

• 28 January 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Talks resume for peace in Mindanao: hopes of the missionaries Cotabato City (Agenzia Fides) – Everyone is hoping that it is a real breakthrough: peace talks resume resume between the new Filipino government and representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to addres ...
• 28 January 2011
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - From Jerusalem “the message of hope needs to be sent that peace is possible and God will achieve it”: 2,000 cities around the world pray for peace in the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On 29 and 30 January 2011 the third International Day of Intercession for Peace in the Holy Land will be celebrated, a prayer initiative which arose from the desire of various associations o ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Climate of violence continues: another two young priests assassinated in Bogotà Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – Another two priests were killed in Bogotà on Wednesday evening, 26 January. According to the message from the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the murder of the two priests occurred in the q ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - “At the service of human dignity and common good”: Bishops in the context of the April elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of its Plenary Assembly the Peruvian Episcopal Conference issued a document that presents a reflection for the community, in the context of the election for President of the Republic w ...
• 27 January 2011
  VATICAN - The Message of the Pope for World Mission Day 2011 in various languages Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the website of Agenzia Fides (www.fides.org), the Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Day, to be held on 23 October 2011, may be found in various languages: Italian, E ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Missionary Society Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 5 May 2010, appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Society in Guinea from 2010-2 ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Missionary Society Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 27 May 2010, appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Society in Equatorial Guinea ...
• 27 January 2011
  ASIA/BHUTAN - Indian missionaries and sisters “ready to bring the Gospel to Bhutan” Chennai (Agenzia Fides) – Much attention, curiosity and interest has been attracted within the missionary world, especially in India, regarding the news of the possible opening of the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan to the ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The Church must make its voice heard in an increasingly materialistic society,” affirms the President of the SACBC Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Southern African Bishops lament the fact that the Church's voice is struggling to be heard in the general debate on issues such as sexual morality and the proper utilisation of wealth. ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The inequitable distribution of national wealth helps to provoke ethnic tensions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) does not automatically translate into improved living conditions for the local people, says a note sent to Fides by the Jesuit Centre for Theological ...
• 27 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human Rights Watch: Asia Bibi, symbol of persecuted Christians Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The widespread fanaticism, intolerance and violence paint a gloomy picture for the respect of human rights in Pakistan: according to the international organization “Human Rights Watch” ( ...
• 27 January 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic Community prepares for New Year intensifying its witness of charity Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The mainland Chinese Catholic community continues to intensely live out its charity work in view of the upcoming Chinese New Year, the traditional celebration of the Chinese people, tha ...
• 27 January 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The Church's missionary work demands an ongoing conversion”: Bishop Moronta at the Symposium of Missiology Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – At the International Symposium of Missiology, held in Caracas (see Fides 19/1/2011; 26/1/2011), Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez of San Cristobal (Venezuela), devoted his opening addr ...
• 27 January 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 500 years on from the creation of the first dioceses in the New World, Bishops recall that “the Catholic Church has been present throughout the country's history” Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Dominican Episcopal Conference, through a pastoral letter, presented a summary of the evangelizing work of the Church throughout the history of the Dominican people. The reason is th ...
• 26 January 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants, instruments in God's plan to spread the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We must not see migrants exclusively as receivers of evangelization, but as agents of it as well. Our Founder himself, from the beginning, saw migration of Catholics as a providential instrume ...