News

• 27 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "No more violence, we must resume the broken dialogue": an appeal of the Mapuche community priests Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priests who are part of the pastoral Mapuche, have asked to avoid acts of violence and have made an appeal to resume the "broken dialogue" between Mapuche communities and authoriti ...
• 27 July 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Not only Rwanda but also Uganda supports the M23", accuses the Congolese civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Fighting from the Congolese army, backed by United Nations troops and rebels of the M23 continue, in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to agency sources, the cla ...
• 26 July 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni urges on a profound renewal of consecrated life in Central Africa, "valuable and necessary aid to the missionary activity of the Church" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The gratitude for the contribution of evangelization of the Church in pastoral parishes, especially in catechesis, in the world of health care and school education, was expressed by Cardinal Fern ...
• 26 July 2012
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Warning of a hand-foot-mouth disease that mainly affects malnourished children Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - According to some experts, the high rate of malnutrition in Cambodia has caused the rapid spread of an outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease which, since last April, has killed 54 poor boys and ...
• 26 July 2012
  ASIA/THAILAND - Franciscans in mission among AIDS patients, modern "lepers" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In the Spirit of Saint Francis of Assisi – who at the beginning of his journey of conversion embraced a leper, as his biographers narrate - the Franciscans in Thailand are at the service of th ...
• 26 July 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The strike on behalf of nurses in the country has ended, lasted 29 days Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 2,600 nurses from Honduras who have stopped the strike which for over 29 days has kept the country in suspense. The national protest of the nurses came to an end afte ...
• 26 July 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Marian Shrine of the Diocese of Nan Wei has been consecrated to relaunch evangelization and strengthen faith Wei Nan (Agenzia Fides) - The Marian Shrine and Rosary Garden of the Diocese of Wei Nan, in the province of Shaan Xi has been recently consecrated. The solemn celebration was attendced by over two thousand faithful who s ...
• 26 July 2012
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church of Ghana express their condolences over the death of President Atta Mills Accra (Agenzia Fides)-The Bishops of Ghana say they are "dismayed and shocked by the death of His Excellency John Evans Atta Mills, President of our dear nation" in a message published on behalf of the local Episcopal Co ...
• 26 July 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Warning for child soldiers and for the malnutrition that affects many of them Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Food insecurity and political instability, diseases, abuses and violence have become for months part of the life of the population of many African countries. The cultural, religious, ethnic divis ...
• 26 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo: "The West supports dialogue between the parties" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The West, if one wants to make a good service to the Syrian people, has to support and put pressure for dialogue between the parties," says to Fides His Excellency Jean-Clément Jeanbart, Metrop ...
• 25 July 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to priests: "The fruitfulness of your priestly ministry and the effectiveness of your pastoral action essentially depend on your communion with Christ" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – On meeting the priests of the Central African Republic at the Centre Jean XXIII in Bangui on July 24, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni ...
• 25 July 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Muslim leader attends lessons in Christianity at the Pontifical Universities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sohail Raza, 42 years of age, a Muslim from Lahore, is the Director of the Department for Inter-religious Relations in "Minhaj ul Quran" ("The Way of the Koran"), an international Islamic movemen ...
• 25 July 2012
  VATICAN - Foundation "Populorum Progressio": 203 projects are being examined in favor of indigenous, mestizo and Afro-American peoples in Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Foundation "Populorum Progressio" is being held in Bogota (Colombia), from July 24 to 27, assigned since its founding in 1992 to the Pont ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, on June 8, 2012 appointed Rev. Leonardo Rodriguez, of the diocesan clergy of Canelones as Nation ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Poverty has a female face": alarming discrimination against women Durango (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Sanchez Martinez, denounced "the alarming discrimination against women in Mexico", in particular in his diocese. He said that "violence aga ...