News

• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Marikana mine: "The first goal is to make peace among the members," says the Bishop of Rustenburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "I am not aware of the progress concerning the trade union negotiations, I just know that yesterday government authorities held a meeting with the unions to find a peace agreement in order ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Diseases and malnutrition in refugee camps continue to increase in South Sudan Yida (Agenzia Fides) - Since last April the refugees in the refugee camp in Yida, in the south Sudanese State of Upper Nile, have doubled because of scarce food resources and the ongoing conflict since June 2011 in the s ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders: "Rimsha must be released, the sharia says it" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer is a Salafi Muslim leader. He is the current Secretary General of the "Jamiat Ahle Hadith" ("Assembly of the followers of the sayings of the Prophet"), the political-relig ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - General election: "No to abstention," say the Bishops, the Church participates with its observers Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - There will be observers of the Catholic Church to ensure the proper conduct of the general elections on August 31 in Angola. The observer team is coordinated by Fr. Belmiro Tchissengueti, Executi ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith": Pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li, Bishop of Feng Xiang Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith" is the title of the long pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li Jing Feng, ninety-year-old Bishop of the Diocese of Feng Xiang, in the province of Shaan X ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Church’s appeal to help the victims of the torrential rains Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is mobilizing to bring material and moral support to the victims of the floods that for days have been scourging Senegal and at the same time launches an appeal to the universa ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/BENIN - Inauguaration of the first "mini-village of the Child", dedicated to St. Massimiliano M. Kolbe Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - After the apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Benin last November, one of the concrete answers to the special attention addressed by the Holy Father to the children, as the hope of the entir ...
• 29 August 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Alert for the risk of a dengue epidemic Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Paraguayan health authorities have warned the country about the risk of a serious outbreak of dengue. According to data reported by the Directorate for Health Control, the majority of case ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Save Rimsha and the other victims of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There are several hundred adhesions to the campaign "Let us save Rimsha Masih," the Christian girl accused of blasphemy and tomorrow, August 30, there should be the pronouncement of a Court in ...
• 29 August 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Decisive support" of the Bishops in the talks of the government with the rebels for a negotiating table of peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Convinced that dialogue is the only way to achieve peace, the Bishops of Colombia have welcomed with joy and hope the proclamation of the President of the Republic about the exploratory talks wi ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bomb at a funeral, a family beheaded: Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A terrorist attack hit innocent Christian faithful and innocent Druzes in the area of Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus: yesterday, August 28, at 2 pm, a bomb in a car was detonated while a crowd ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The verdict on the case of Rimsha has been postponed; for doctors she is a minor and mentally disabled Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The hearing of the Court of Islamabad on the case of Rimsha, the Christian girl in prison on charges of blasphemy has been postponed to August 30 (see Fides 23/08/2012). The reason for the po ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Camillian Sisters have been in Taiwan for 60 years for the mission of service to the sick Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Camillian Sisters have been in Taiwan for 60 years to carry out the mission to serve Jesus through the sick, in the footsteps of the founder, St. Camillus de Lellis. The anniversary celebrat ...
• 28 August 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "The House of the Child" also opens to 15 HIV-positive young children and their families Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to an initiative by a group of Italian and Bolivian volunteers, in 1993 "The House of the Child" was born in Bogota, a reception center that takes care of children with disabilities, HIV a ...
• 28 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Maybe tomorrow the agreement for the Marikana mine " says to Fides the Bishop of Rustenburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Maybe tomorrow, August 29th, there will be the signing of an agreement between the unions and the managers of the platinum mine in Marikana (North West Province, in South Africa). This wa ...