News

• 30 January 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - In the prison of Uribana 58 deaths and 88 injured: "the Catholic Church cannot remain inactive!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with the ineffective government prison policy, with the overcrowding, lack of adequate food, uncontrolled violence, procedural delays and all the humiliation suffered by the families, amo ...
• 30 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The ten points of the Church for the Year of Faith Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - How to strengthen the faith of the population? How to respond to the pastoral challenges (such as poverty and the presence of sects) and to the spiritual needs of the faithful? In the midst of ...
• 30 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Here I am Lord": meeting in the Year of Faith for the university students in Xing Tai Xing Tai (Agenzia Fides) - "Here I am Lord" was the theme of the meeting in the Year of Faith of the University students in Xing Tai, in the province of He Bei, held from January 26 to 28. According to what was said to F ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Over 50 thousand people displaced due to the floods Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Following the heavy rains that are flooding the southern part of Mozambique, where already a decade ago, hundreds of people died, local authorities have planned the evacuation of 50 000 people. S ...
• 29 January 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Consecrated people: communication and evangelization via mobile phone Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The mobile phone is now an essential tool in the life of consecrated people (priests and nuns) in Papua New Guinea for communication, evangelization, relationship, comparison, transmission of fai ...
• 29 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Gaudium et Spes and Ad Gentes: Year of the Faith-formation course of the diocese of Wen Zhou, destined especially for the laity Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitution Gaudium et Spes and the Decree Ad Gentes, two important documents of the Second Vatican Council, were the subject of the second formation course of the Year of Faith of the dioc ...
• 29 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Brother Narco": a video that urges forgiveness in order to break the chain of violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Miri's story, a 13-year-old girl, who along with her younger brother saw their parents killed by a gang of drug dealers, and then embraces the murderer as a sign of forgiveness, despite the ...
• 29 January 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - New state regulation to stop social and religious conflicts: Bishops approve Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - There will be better coordination between central government, local civil authorities, the police and the army to prevent or stop social and religious conflicts which are shaking the vast Indone ...
• 29 January 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Eco Catolico, the first weekly in the Country has been announcing truth and justice for 130 years San José (Agenzia Fides) - The weekly "Eco Catolico" of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica celebrates 130 years of its foundation, on January 6, 1883, thanks to the initiative of the Bishop of San José de Costa Rica, Ms ...
• 29 January 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Bishops denounce serious violations of human rights, "the Country is not in a state of emergency" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The respect and protection of human rights in our Country is deteriorating at an alarming rate," say the Bishops of Zambia in their last Pastoral Letter, sent to Fides Agency. The document makes ...
• 29 January 2013
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Prayer and medical assistance for pilgrims visiting the relic of St. Camillus Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the celebrations of the fourth centenary of the death of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614), the ampule with the heart of the "Saint of the Sick" continues to go ar ...
• 29 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram declares ceasefire in Borno State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Boko Haram, or at least a part of this jihadist group that operates in northern Nigeria, has agreed to a ceasefire. According to the website of the newspaper "Nigerian Tribune", a group suspected ...
• 29 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Rape and murder of the 23 year-old Indian girl: the accused, who is a minor, soon free New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - One of the six accused in the rape and murder of the 23 year-old Indian girl, who a month ago shook the whole world, is a minor: it was established by the juvenile court in Delhi. This, accord ...
• 29 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: the States arming the regime and opposition take on the criminal responsibility of the Syrian tragedy Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the States "that make war in Syria by providing money, weapons and means both for the regime and for the opposition," with their "evil work of incitement" are responsible before t ...
• 28 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Niamey Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 26, 2013, appointed Rev. Djalwana Laurent Lompo, Vicar General of the archdiocese as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Niamey (Niger). Rev. Dj ...