News

• 4 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace," says Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga for the 50 years of Mensajeros de la Paz Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace, and solidarity is the way out of the problem of poverty," said the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras) and President of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal ...
• 4 October 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - UN Report: 400,000 earthquake victims still in tents Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 400,000 earthquake victims in Haiti in January 2010 are still living in tents, which have increasingly deteriorated due to lack of resources: the alarm is from a recent United Nati ...
• 4 October 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - "The love of the Good Shepherd: loyalty and sacrifice" theme of the Day of Catholic education Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "The love of the Good Shepherd: loyalty and sacrifice" was the theme of the Day of Education of the Diocese of Hong Kong held on 23 September. According to the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version ...
• 4 October 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A Jesuit priest killed for robbery Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Bruno was the victim of a violent assault and suffered a brutal death. The local Jesuit community is devastated," said to Fides the Church sources in Antananarivo, capital of Madagasca ...
• 4 October 2012
  OCEANIA/COOK ISLANDS - The Year of Faith in the Pacific travels via e-mail Rarotonga (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of Faith is an opportunity for us Catholics of immense value, to deepen our faith. We will do this through seminars, conferences, formation programs and catechesis, in full communion ...
• 4 October 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Two Copt children arrested for insulting the Koran: a "Rimsha case " in Egypt? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of two Coptic Orthodox children accused of urinating on the pages of the Koran is just the latest manifestation of a "growing hatred toward Egyptian Christians that is expressed in many ...
• 4 October 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The marginalized communities march to protest against the exclusion from the development of the country New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - About 35,000 people left yesterday from Gwalior, a city in the center of northern India, to reach New Delhi in a-350-kilometer march. About 100 000 Indians are expected to arrive to protest th ...
• 3 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral Letter of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan for the Year of Faith Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - The Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan published a Pastoral Letter for the Year of Faith, signed on September 8, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the document sent to Fides Agency, ...
• 3 October 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rapes and violence against innocent little victims still go unpunished Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A wave of recent cases of rape has sparked local criticism on the weakness of the justice system in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where inadequate resources and incompetence provide littl ...
• 3 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Sindh government grants land to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Sindh province (in southern Pakistan) has given to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary land on an extended loan in the center of Karachi for a period of 99 years. During a ceremony h ...
• 3 October 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "I do not want to go back": every week 200 Honduran children are repatriated El Corinth (Agenzia Fides) - From two border towns of Honduras, Aguas Calientes and El Corinto, where about 200 minors return every week, arrives the testimony of Sister Lydia Mara Silva de Souza, National Coordinator fo ...
• 3 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A Missionary Fair to explain DOMUND Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for World Mission Day (Domund) which is celebrated this month. In the Archdiocese of Cochabamba the "Missionary Fair ", organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies of this ju ...
• 2 October 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - October 13 - opening of the Year of Faith; "Maria, increase our faith" theme of the 8 December pilgrimage Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith in Guinea-Bissau will officially begin on Saturday, October 13 in Bissau. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Diocesan Secretariat for the Pastoral care of the Dioces ...
• 2 October 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - During the missionary month Chile also lives the "Mission youth" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Chile lives the missionary month of October this year in a particularly intense way for the development of the "Mission youth." "We want to live it by enriching our faith and expressing our hop ...
• 2 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Carmelite Novitiate of Asia returns to Taiwan Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Building a base for the formation of the Carmelite vocation in the Chinese world in Asia and for the linguistic formation of all Carmelites in the world: with this purpose, from January 2013 th ...