News

• 26 January 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "The Franciscan Missionary": for 80 years has been supporting "those who go" and tells the "wonders" that the Lord works through his envoys Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first issue of "The Franciscan Missionary " (IMF) appeared in January 1933, subtitled "Illustrated Monthly Magazine of the Minor Conventual Friars." The proclamation of the faith and the adven ...
• 26 January 2013
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Father Bouwen: the election result opens new perspectives also for Christians Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "If the outcome of the Israeli elections favors an opening to peace, Christians will feel less uncomfortable as citizens of the State of Israel." This is what was said to Fides Agency by Belg ...
• 25 January 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Day of Volunteering promotes the hospital pastoral care in the Year of Faith Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Here I am Lord, send me" was the theme of the Day of Volunteering organized by the Commission for the hospital Pastoral Care of the Diocese of Hong Kong, to promote the pastoral care in healt ...
• 25 January 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Joint project for families living in extreme poverty Choluteca (Agenzia Fides) - In southern Honduras there are thousands of families who live in houses made of cardboard or plastic, where the resulting living conditions of the inhabitants are very poor. Thanks to an initi ...
• 25 January 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA- High tension between the Koreas: religions call for a "change of course" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the atmosphere of high tension between North Korea and South Korea, "the Catholic Church and other religious communities call for a change of course, to ease friction and start a new era of coo ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The M23 asks to review the 2011 elections; "on what basis if it does not have popular consensus?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the points that the M23, the guerrilla movement active in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), has asked to discuss with the government of Kinshasa in the ongoing negotiatio ...
• 25 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Stop the violence that is even in schools" concern of the Church and the CEDH Aguascalientes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Aguascalientes, His Exc. Mgr. José María de la Torre Martín, and the ombudsman, Omar Williams Lopez Ovalle, have launched an appeal to society to stop vio ...
• 25 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - "Day of Martyrs": in 2012, 135 attacks against Christians were registered New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2012, 135 attacks on Christians in India were officially counted, according to a new Report sent to Fides Agency by the "Global Council of Indian Christians" (GCIC), released yeste ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Some Western countries invite their countrymen to leave Benghazi Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) – Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia have urged their citizens to leave Benghazi immediately for fear of imminent terrorist attacks. An attack on oil installations is feared, ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop Youhanna Golta: Egypt cannot become Islamist like Mali Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Egypt? At the moment no one knows. Not even President Morsi. " On the second anniversary of the Revolution of 25 January 2013, while there are reports of new clashes in the streets b ...
• 25 January 2013
  VATICAN - The social network, an instrument of evangelization and development factor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The challenge facing social networks is how to be truly inclusive: thus they will benefit from the full participation of believers who desire to share the message of Jesus and the values o ...
• 24 January 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Missionary mandate to the new members of the Apostolate of the Laity of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Peter Liu, Archbishop of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung, presided over the ceremony of the missionary mandate for new members of the Council of the Apostolate for the Laity of the ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Two purifiers will allow 1,800 people to have drinking water Kaolack (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign initiated in these past 12 months by the Catholic Spanish organization Manos Unidas La salud, derecho de todos: ¡Actua! is about to end, which has been busy around the world to try ...
• 24 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "From the heart of Aparecida, to live as missionary disciples": a thousand young people at the First National Congress of Catholic youth Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics throughout Chile arrived in Concepcion to participate in the First National Congress of Catholic youth, from 23 to 27 January. From 6am yesterday, 23 January, the PalaSport in ...
• 24 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Violence: work together for the good of society" Mgr. Rogelio Cabrera Lopez for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the violence that is registered in the country, the Archbishop of Monterrey calls to promote unity, especially these days, when the Church celebrates the Week of Prayer for Christ ...