News

• 12 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - NGOs: target for extremists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "The non-governmental organizations are the favorite target of Islamic extremists. Especially for what they represent in Pakistani society: human rights, freedom, democracy" Fides is told by Pe ...
• 12 March 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Missionaries appeal: save Palawan from mines and bio-fuels Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Save the island of Palawan and its indigenous communities from destruction and pollution...this is the goal of a forum of missionaries, Christian communities, NGOs, and environmental groups who ...
• 12 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Stopping abortion: 40 Days for Life Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, nuns, lay people, and activists, have been holding vigils for 20 days now before a clinic known for the practice of abortions in Sydney. They pray, fast, distribute information materia ...
• 11 March 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish bishops and priests send chalices and vestments to parishes in Haiti Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – There has been a prompt and generous response from bishops and priests in Spain to the appeal launched by the Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Bernard Auza, through Father Ángel García, ...
• 11 March 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Cistercian monks from the “Stift Heiligenkreuz” Abbey on their way to Sri Lanka to found new abbey Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - On March 14, four Cistercian monks will leave the Abbey “Stift Heiligenkreuz” near Vienna (Austria) for Sri Lanka. In 2001, three young candidates for the monastic life from the Archdiocese o ...
• 11 March 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Cistercian monks from the “Stift Heiligenkreuz” Abbey on their way to Sri Lanka to found new abbey Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - On March 14, four Cistercian monks will leave the Abbey “Stift Heiligenkreuz” near Vienna (Austria) for Sri Lanka. In 2001, three young candidates for the monastic life from the Archdiocese o ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Count continues for those who fled Haitian capital following earthquake Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Fides has received a copy of the first results from the campaign for the registration of those who left Haiti's capital after the earthquake, from the International Organization for Mig ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Archdiocese of Bello Horizonte promotes encounter for Catholic TVs Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The main Catholic Communication Network (TV Horizonte, Radio America, Radio Cultura, Journal of opinion and the site www.arquidiocesebh.org.br) from the the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, is ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New iPhone “apps” help maintain prayerful conversation with God Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) – Although computer manufacturer Apple boasted of the iPhone's more than 140,000 applications - or "apps” - there were still some waiting to be discovered by Catholic iPhone users. Ac ...
• 11 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Faithful in prayer for victims of World Vision attack Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The flow of the faithful is constant. At the National Shrine of Lahore, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Christian pilgrims from all denominations come to pray, leave flowers, express empathy a ...
• 11 March 2010
  AMERICA - Priestly formation should be geared towards becoming missionary disciples Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The "Formation of Priests in Latin America" was the theme of the conference presented by the Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Archbishop Octavio Ruiz Arenas, among ...
• 11 March 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Intimidation of Muslims in Punjab, one Christian dead Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In the Punjab region of Pakistan, life is becoming more difficult for the Christian minorities. According to reports sent to Fides from the Christian organization "Life for All,” which operat ...
• 11 March 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 300 faithful from the Cathedral of the Diocese of Hohhot in Mongolia attended Lenten formation course Hohhot (Agenzia Fides) – Living Lent by the grace of God, the Heavenly Father's love for us, we are blessed, meeting Jesus in your life, reaching the house of the Lord: these are the topics that were addressed by Fr. J ...
• 11 March 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cardinal Pell meets with the youth, in the spirit of WYD Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – A series of events to meet with young people, hear their questions, thoughts, desires...This is the initiative involving Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, who, according to the Austra ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Nuncio Montemayor visiting Guinea Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau, is paying a visit to the local church, to the two dioceses of Guinea Bissau and Bafata (see Fides 25/2/2010). According to ...