News

• 13 November 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholics and New Media: New opportunities to evangelize the digital continent Washington (Agenzia Fides) - 62 percent of adult U.S. Catholics, representing an estimated 36.2 million people, have a profile on Facebook; 58 percent of Catholics age of 30 and under share content such as pictures, art ...
• 13 November 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assembly of Bishops of North Africa in Mazara del Vallo: Churches around the Mediterranean called upon to collaborate on Migration and New Evangelization Mazara del Vallo (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, as from next Sunday, November 18, the Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa will celebrate a session of its General Assembly in Sicily, guests ...
• 13 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Health Emergency: cases of plague in Homs Homs (Agenzia Fides) - The health situation in Homs is at high risk: there have been cases of infections and bubonic plague. This is the alarm launched by a group of 20 Christian civilians living near the convent of the ...
• 13 November 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - More than 130,000 families at the centre of severe famine in the province of Tete Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 000 families are experiencing severe famine in the northwestern province of Tete in Mozambique. The local radio station Radio Mozambique reported that the situation is particularly ...
• 13 November 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Girls bought for 10 euro, the complaint of a missionary Sao Gabriel (Agenzia Fides) - There are already 12 complaints which were submitted last month to the authorities of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the Brazilian town on the border with Colombia, from as many girls who put ...
• 13 November 2012
  VATICAN - The African roads, privileged place of evangelization and education Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – To develop new forms of evangelization suitable for the context of the road/street, especially through the use of social communications and media media; make theology more concrete toward ...
• 13 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - The killing of 42 policemen highlights the spread of weapons and causes concern for the next election Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 42 policemen killed, is the latest toll of the massacre that took place on November 10 in the town of Baragoi, in northern Kenya, where for some time the looting of animals among groups of Sambu ...
• 13 November 2012
  AMERICA/PERU- Forced labor for 200 000 children in the region of Puno Puno (Agenzia Fides) - According to the complaints of the Regional Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour of the Regional Directorate of Labour of Puno, in Peru, 200,000 children are forced to work ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A new home for street children Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - In Luanda, Angola, there are many children who sleep in the streets, in deserted houses or in parks, inhale gasoline to try to cope with hunger and to give themselves courage to survive on the st ...
• 12 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - An Orthodox Archbishop: conflict and refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border, between fear and uncertainty Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "There is great fear among families of different communities for their future. People are so afraid of a real war that could break out at any time between Turkey and Syria. We do not know what ...
• 12 November 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Annual meeting of the priests of Taiwan, "so that all may be one" Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - "So that they may all be one" (Jn 17: 21) was the main theme of the annual meeting of the priests of Taiwan, held from October 29 to 31 in the diocese of Hsin Chu, in collaboration with the Reg ...
• 12 November 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mass and parish meetings in the evening have been cancelled because of violence ; prayer for peace St. Paul (Agenzia Fides) - Given the increase in acts of violence and the increasing number of murders in the state of São Paulo, the Metropolitan Archbishop, Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, recommended the faithful to pr ...
• 12 November 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - More tragedy for the people of Haiti: New floods cause death and devastation Cap Haitien (Agenzia Fides) - Tragedy continues to fall on the most disadvantaged populations. After Hurricane Sandy, new flooding return to devastate Haiti, with 16 deaths recorded since last Friday, November 9 in Cap H ...
• 12 November 2012
  VATICAN - "The cultural and theological formation is in sight and in function of the proclamation and service to the young Churches": Cardinal Filoni inaugurates the academic Year at Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the Concelebrated Mass "De Sancto Spiritu" this morning presided over by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Grand Chancellor of ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Damage to agriculture, boats to rescue people on the roofs of houses: new testimony from flooded areas Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The population has never seen a flood like this," says in a note sent to Fides Agency Brother Damian Krzystof, a Polish missionary, who works in the Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi, in the Delta St ...