News

• 10 December 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Pilgrimage and missiological session of the Pontifical Missionary Union in Jasna Góra Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “Communion with one heart and spirit” was the theme of the missiological session and pilgrimage promoted by the Pontifical Missionary Union of Poland, which took place on 4 and 5 Decembe ...
• 10 December 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Tensions remain high, second round of elections on 16 January Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Haiti, following the presidential elections on 28 November, remains uncertain and extremely tense, with some serious disturbances. After announcing the names of candidate ...
• 10 December 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - A return by “Angels for a Day”: young students and academics engaged on behalf of children in difficulty Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, 12 December, in various cities (Rome, Florence, Milan and Palermo), “Angels for a Day” returns, the volunteering initiative carried out on behalf of needy children on the outskirts ...
• 10 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The first assistance after floods for the population of Kotri: the mission of the Camillian Task Force continues Kotri (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the Camillian Task Force (CTF) continues in Pakistan (see Fides 14/10/2010). “With the help and collaboration of many people of good will we started our ministry of healing by sta ...
• 10 December 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Tong to new graduates of the diocesan Seminary: “Make good use of your talents and commit yourselves to evangelization” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “Make good use of your talents and commit yourselves to evangelization”, is the recommendation by Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, during the ceremony for the conferral of the degree by the ...
• 10 December 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Laity worried that new education laws exclude “an integral formation, which also includes religion” Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - In a public announcement, the Bolivian Council for the Laity has expressed its concern about the new laws in question, in particular the new Law on Education, “Avelino Sinani-Elizardo Pérez”. ...
• 10 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In prison Asia Bibi's life is in danger: fears of summary execution Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi is unsafe and in fear for her life, within the walls of the prison in Sheikhupura, where she has been detained for a year and a half. This alarm was raised to Fides by Bibi's family and ...
• 10 December 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “General indifference to the continuing violence in the east of the Congo”, denounce missionaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The tragedy in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues, while the international community assists helplessly, indifferently, passively, or even knowingly,” said the ne ...
• 10 December 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Conference in Rome on the future of Sudan and the role of Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The complexity of the situation in Sudan, a Country that is preparing for the referendum on the independence of the south (to be held 9 January, 2011), has been the focus of the Conference “The f ...
• 10 December 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Story of a parish “disappearing” after the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) - A parish has vanished into thin air. The story of Betticalla Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, the scene of anti-Christian massacres in August 2008, is a tragic sto ...
• 9 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Blasphemy law” at the centre of Human Rights Day Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - “Human Rights Day 2010 is an opportunity to focus attention on the sections of the Penal Code that constitute the so-called blasphemy laws. The law is a blatant violation of human rights, perm ...
• 9 December 2010
  AMERICA - Learning to listen to the voice of migrants: the conclusions of the Continental Meeting for Migrants' Pastoral Care Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The phenomena of emigration and immigration, the “feminization” of migration, massive deportations, migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, are rising considerably in the geographica ...
• 9 December 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Looking for God in culture”: Jesuit Seminar in Hong Kong commemorates Fr Matteo Ricci Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “Looking for God in culture” is the theme of the Seminar organized by the Jesuits in Hong Kong, from 2 to 5 December, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of their brother, mi ...
• 9 December 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Reviving Biblical Pastoral Care in Africa in light of the Exhortation, “Verbum Domini” Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) – One recommendation is to promote the diffusion of the Divine Word in Africa through the use of both modern means of social communications and traditional means of communication in the promoti ...
• 9 December 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops renew proposal to urgently establish “a table for dialogue at the highest level to resolve the issue of Chilean prisons” Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, sdb, of Concepción, issued a public statement about the tragedy at San Miguel prison which resulted i ...