News

• 21 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The lives of children are at risk: landmines in 31 departments out of 32 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In 2012, 13 children died in Colombia and 52 others were injured as a result of landmines. According to a document of the Presidential Program for Integral Action against Landmines, in 2012 12 bo ...
• 21 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - On line "Radio Veritas", a Catholic station for the Chiapas area San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Veritas, a Catholic radio station in San Cristobal de las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, was able to obtain legal authorization of the Federal Commission of Tel ...
• 21 January 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Lahham: the Church prays for all the election candidates, but does not sponsor anyone Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Jordan offers its prayers for all candidates, but says it does not support any one in particular. This is what Archbishop Maroun Laham, Patriarchal Vicar for Jordan of the L ...
• 21 January 2013
  AFRICA/GABON - Resignation of the Bishop of Mouila and appointment of Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 19, 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Mouila (Gabon), by His Exc. Mgr. Dominique Bonnet, C.S.Sp., in accordance ...
• 21 January 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - The plight of child workers: over 1 million and 300 thousand Sanaa (Agenzia Fides) - In Yemen over 1 million and 300 thousand working children have been registered. This is what emerged from the findings of the first national Study on child labor carried out in the Asian country. ...
• 21 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The Bishops visit the wounded in the fighting; the Bishops' Conference gather up Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops visited the wounded in the fighting in the hospitals in Bamako to offer moral and spiritual comfort" says to Fides Agency Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Confe ...
• 18 January 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on October 5, 2012 confirmed rev. Fr. Martin Kmetec, OFM Conv as National Director of the Pontifical ...
• 18 January 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The first indigenous Bishop consecrated in Santa Cruz: a man born, raised and formed in this land Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral was filled with the faithful for the celebration of the Eucharist in which Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, ordained Auxiliary Bishop of the Archd ...
• 18 January 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The commitment of young people in Hong Kong for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Thirty young Christians in Hong Kong (Catholics, Anglicans, Pentecostals and of other Christian denominations), between 18 and 35 years of age, met in view of the Week of Prayer for Christian ...
• 18 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "A Problem that affects everyone": meeting of the Justice and Peace Commission for the Mapuche conflict Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - As part of a series of initiatives of the Catholic Church before the new crisis that the region of Araucanía is experiencing, the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of ...
• 18 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - In the Year of Faith "We urge people to appreciate, and respect our women": Bishops' Pastoral Letter for the Feast of Our Lady of Altagracia Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 January, the Dominican Republic celebrates the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. In the particular context of this month dedicated to Our Lady and the Year of Faith, the Cat ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The army announces the reconquest of Konna: the first African soldiers are arriving Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Malian army announced today, January 18, to have taken full control of Konna, the city in the center of Mali, whose capture by the jihadist rebels provoked the intervention of the French mili ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak is the new Patriarch of Alexandria of the Catholic Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Catholic Church has a new Patriarch: Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, 57, Bishop of the Eparchy of Minya. The Synod of the Coptic Catholic Bishops, who gathered in Cairo from January 12 to 16, rec ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - "Humanitarian corridors to be opened to help civilians": Archbishop of Bamako’s appeal Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to immediately open humanitarian corridors to allow aid to be sent to the population without food and medicines. This is the appeal launched by Archbishop Jean Zerbo, Archbishop o ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Bishop of Thiès Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 18, 2013, appointed Rev. André Gueye, of the clergy of Thies, Professor of philosophy at the Major Seminary St. Jean Marie Vianney Brin (diocese of ...