News

• 24 January 2011
  VATICAN - “It is also true in the digital world that a message cannot be proclaimed without a consistent witness on the part of the one who proclaims it”: Message for the World Day of Social Communications Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “As with every other fruit of human ingenuity, the new communications technologies must be placed at the service of the integral good of the individual and of the whole of humanity. If ...
• 24 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Diplomatic and economic pressures increase to force Gbagbo to surrender power Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- Nigeria intends to ask the UN Security Council for a resolution to authorise the use of force to remove Laurent Gbagbo from power, the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire. The Nigerian Foreign M ...
• 24 January 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - Missionaries of Punta Arenas collaborate on Caritas project in earthquake-affected zones Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Silvia Barañados, adviser and school pastoral care minister, together with seven religious sisters and some youth from Punta Arenas, profited from the winter vacation period by ta ...
• 22 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - New impetus for “Star Singers” and for missionary formation Varsavia (Agenzia Fides) – The development of the initiative known as “Star Singers”, the intensification of formation in the Pontifical Society of St Peter Apostle, the deepening of missionary commitment by the g ...
• 22 January 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Meaning, mission, challenges and trends”: meeting of Superiors of the Chinese Salesians Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – “Called by the Lord to be Superiors: meaning, mission, challenges and trends” was the theme of the formation event which brought together men and women Salesian superiors in the Chinese ...
• 22 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Finding new motivation and courage to proclaim the Gospel Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – The National Council of the Pontifical Mission Society (PMS) of Zambia met on 19 and 20 January 2011 at the Charles Lwanga Retreat Centre in Lusaka. “It was a very important meeting, because ...
• 22 January 2011
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Malagasy population of Tolagnaro continues to die of thirst Fort Dauphin (Agenzia Fides) – The drought has always the cause of periods of severe famine and epidemics that have plagued the people of Fort Dauphin, or Tolagnaro in the Malagasy language. According to local missiona ...
• 22 January 2011
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Almost all Central Africa to vote to elect the new President Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, 23 January, 1,800,000 will vote in the presidential and legislative elections of the Central African Republic. “The situation in the capital of Bangui is calm. Our hope is that the ...
• 22 January 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 23 November 2010, appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Socities in Brazil from 2010-2 ...
• 22 January 2011
  EUROPE/THE NETHERLANDS - Appointment of National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 1 January 2011, appointed as National Director of Pontifical Mission Socities in the Netherlands from ...
• 22 January 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Our people are hungry and thirsty, less words and more action needed: President of the Episcopal Conference on the Feast of St Sebastian Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “The Feast of St Sebastian is a very timely invitation to all of us to decisively resume the Christian commitment to bear witness of Jesus Christ in the reality in which we are immersed”. ...
• 21 January 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Mexican actor to build largest American crisis pregnancy center Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - “We are compelled to step up our efforts and will power of the soul to help the unfortunate, the sick and the poor, strengthen family ties, practice charity and live with integrity. This a ...
• 21 January 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Sisters of St Paul De Chartres celebrate 50 years of mission in Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – The Sisters of St Paul De Chartres SPC celebrated 50 years of mission on the Island of Taiwan renewing their commitment and missionary spirit. On the occasion, four Taiwanese sisters and two d ...
• 21 January 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - 140,000 young orphans risk not being accepted into primary school Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) – In Swaziland the new school year has just commenced. Among the young faces that populate the classes of this mountainous Country are 140,000 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC's). “Apart f ...
• 21 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Convert to Islam!”: radical Muslims to Italian promoters of a pro-Asia Bibi demonstration Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Islam is the true religion; convert to Islam!”: this is the invitation by a Pakistani radical Islamic organisation, led by Malik Shaib, to promoters of a pro-Asia Bibi demonstration to be he ...