News

• 7 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal of the Assyrian Christians in the Syrian opposition: "Stop Salafi groups" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to stop the "Jubhat Al Nosra" Salafist group that is spreading terror in Mesopotamia: is the appeal launched by the new "National Coalition of the revolution and opposition" (CNS) ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The negotiation of Kampala must not compromise national sovereignty": Bishops’ warning Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "An agreement that compromises national sovereignty is unacceptable," warn the members of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a message iss ...
• 7 December 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Microcredit for Haitian women in difficulty, but creative and tenacious Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Considered the main victims of exclusion as well as the campesinos and children, the women of Haiti have creativity and thanks to their work they support more than 43% of single-parent ...
• 7 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong urges newly graduates of the Holy Spirit Seminary to be evangelizers Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Put into practice what you have learned doing the mission of evangelization, to respond to the Year of Faith": is the encouragement that Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, addressed ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Thousands of children are working in the diamond mines to survive Koidu (Agenzia Fides) - In Sierra Leone diamonds helped fuel the civil war that plagued the country from 1991 to 2002, now they are promoting economic growth to some extent, but at the same time attract in mines thousand ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Christmas carols in different languages: a tradition of the Church in Libya Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a joy to be singing together waiting for Christmas" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, where this afternoon the small Catholic c ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ahiara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 7, 2012, appointed Rev. Peter Ebere Okpaleke of the clergy of Awka, Judge of the Inter-Diocesan Tribunal of the Ecclesiastical Province in Onitsha a ...
• 6 December 2012
  VATICAN - Pope's appeal "regarding the grave humanitarian crisis" in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A new appeal for Congo was launched by Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the general audience on Wednesday, December 5. These are his words: " Troubling news continues to arrive regarding the ...
• 6 December 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Prayer Vigil in Jasna Gora for the evangelization of the world Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - About 500 people attended the vigil of prayer at the Shrine of Jasna Góra, in Poland, for the evangelization of the world (see Fides 30/11/2012), which was held on December 1. Thousands of ...
• 6 December 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Wen Zhou consecrated a new church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, which will be "a source of evangelization" Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "May the light of Christ illuminate this temple of God," after the solemn invocation by His Exc. Mgr. Zhu Wei Fang, Bishop of Wen Zhou, all the lights of the new church lit up dedicated to the ...
• 6 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Deaths and missing persons after the typhoon Bopha increase Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of missing persons, over 214 000 displaced and 238 have died in the floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Bopha, which hit the Philippines. Most of the victims were reported in the provi ...
• 6 December 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan Emergency: violence in Jonglei State does not stop Juba (Agenzia Fides) - For more than a year there has been humanitarian emergency in South Sudan. War, epidemics, malnutrition are some of the scourges that the population faces every day. In July, an epidemiological sur ...
• 6 December 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops' appeal of the Middle East: Even Muslims contribute to guaranteeing the freedom and equality of their fellow Christians Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - The second Assembly of Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops of the Middle East came to an end last night, December 5, in Harissa, with the approval of two documents in which the pastoral care of the ...
• 6 December 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "The defense of immigrants is evangelization": the Bishop of Atlanta calls for an integral reform of immigration policy Atlanta (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Atlanta, in the North of Georgia, asked for the umpteenth time an integral reform of immigration. According to information sent to Fides Agency, His Exc. Mgr. Wilton Gregory w ...
• 6 December 2012
  AFRICA/RDC - The first displaced are returning but violence and looting still continue Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Violence and looting in Goma still continue despite the M23 rebels promised to withdraw and every day many trucks depart to the north of the country. In a statement released by the Education Centre ...