News

• 26 November 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against religious minorities: the truth emerges New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – A publication on the Liberhan Commission Report regarding the events in Ayodhya, a town in the state of Uttar Pradesh, is causing an uproar throughout India. After a long investigation, the ...
• 26 November 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Preparing for the First National Missionary Congress for Seminarians: “priestly formation for a mission without boundaries” Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of institutions that are promoting and organizing the First National Missionary Congress of Seminarians gathered at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) i ...
• 26 November 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “ Learning to Face AIDS as a Family" - Message from the Moderator of the Conference of Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar to all Jesuits of the continent, for the next World AIDS Day Karen (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the upcoming World AIDS Day, which will be celebrated throughout the world on December 1, Father Fratern Masawe, Jesuit and moderator of JESAM, the Conference of Major Superio ...
• 25 November 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Manhattan Declaration” on sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty already signed by over 100,000 Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) – Over 125 Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical leaders have come together in issuing a statement known as the “Manhattan Declaration,” addressing 3 main issues: the sanctity of life, ...
• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Missionaries of 8” prepare for Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in Lyon: churches open until midnight, prayer meetings, welcoming visitors Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - From December 5 to 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the city of Lyon will welcome, as it does every year, thousands of visitors and pilgrims who will visit the Marian shrine o ...
• 25 November 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Archdiocese of Cuzco celebrates Mission Day in Paucartambo as part of Continental Mission Paucartambo (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of young people, children, and adults, a Mission Day was successfully held last weekend in Paucartambo, in the Archdiocese of Cuzco. The parishes of Challabamba, Pilco ...
• 25 November 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic radio reporter among victims of Maguindanao massacre Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic journalist, a volunteer of a diocesan radio, was among the 12 journalists killed in the massacre of Maguindanao, which according to the latest information from the local police has exc ...
• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Thanks to antiretroviral therapy administered to HIV-positive mothers, nearly 200,000 new infections among children have been prevented since 2001 Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, nearly 60 million people have been infected with HIV and 25 million have died. Fortunately, new infections are falling and over the last eight years have ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Rector of Interdiocesan Propedeutic Seminary “Saint Jean Baptiste” of Archdiocese of Bertoua appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 15 July 2009, appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan seminary propedutico "Saint Jean Baptiste" in th ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/BENIN - In response to declining socio-political situation, Bishops launch “prayer chain” for the nation Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Benin have sounded the alarm for the "continued decay" of political and social life in the country, in a statement issued at the conclusion of the Plenary Assembly, held Novembe ...
• 25 November 2009
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The local police are accomplices in the massacre,” and behind it all is an “imprudent decision” made by the Electoral Commission Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – The Maguinano massacre was "an announced massacre.” For days, the "people on the street" knew of threats and impending clashes between rival clans, which had "their own armed paramilitary b ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The UN report is fine, but we have to take steps in stopping illegal trafficking that finances the war," two missionaries with long experience in the Congo tell Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We urge the international community to create a system of tracing illegally extracted minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is good that the UN has issued a report denouncing ...
• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - H1N1 Flu and the mutation: clarifying the distortion of the “Italian case” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As expected, the H1N1 virus has mutated, but this should not recreate the psychosis unleashed in the first weeks of the flu. However, we must remain vigilant about the possible risks related to ins ...
• 25 November 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - The importance of the religious life of the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, November 21, which is so dear to Chinese Catholics, religious sisters of various congregations in mainland China na ...
• 24 November 2009
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Every people, every generation can and should boast about its martyrs. Martyrs are not simply heroic examples of fidelity, courage and perseverance in a pagan world, they are living channels of the salvation brought by Christ.” Cardinal Tomko in Taichung Taichung (Agenzia Fides) - “Christ washes away the sin of the world, taking it upon himself, offering his life, forgiving those who kill Him. The sin of every generation is taken away, conquered by Christ who lives in ...