News

• 2 April 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: elections and pluralism, "beginning of a new era of peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The result of the elections, although not yet official, "is a new beginning for the country, the beginning of an era of great hope for us all. The opposition will be present in Parliament, a fact ...
• 30 March 2012
  MISSIONARY INTENTION-"That the risen Christ may be a sign of certain hope for the men and women of the African continent" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for April 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Africa is "a continent of hope" par excellence. But like all human realities, it is not able to find the basis of its hope in itself. If it is true that the African Church is full of youth ...
• 30 March 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The lay missionaries share their experience with younger students Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of the lay missionaries of the Commission for the Diocesan Youth Pastoral helps the young of Hong Kong to live more in a Christian spirit, especially in the Year of the Laity. A ...
• 30 March 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The mediation of the Bishop restores calm in the prison of Sula after the riot and fire that caused at least 13 deaths Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Thirteen prisoners died in a clash between groups of prisoners and the outbreak of a fire: which took place inside a prison in Sula, an industrial city in the north of the country, where the ...
• 30 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu Fanatics beat Christians in Karnataka Mundargi (Karnataka) - Allegations of conversions and then violent beatings: is what the Hindu extremists of the movement RSS ("Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh", "National Volunteer Organization") did against the Christian P ...
• 30 March 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Fire "suspects" to throw out the displaced: the denunciation of the social groups in Haiti Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has published the complaint of a "Collective" which brings together some of Haiti's civil society organizations on what happened last March 24: A series o ...
• 30 March 2012
  AFRICA/MALI- A polarization between supporters and opponents of the junta is feared, while the rebels advance in the north Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - There are clashes in the capital of Mali, Bamako, between the pros and cons of the military junta after the coup on March 22. This is reported to Fides by local sources. "Yesterday, March 29, opp ...
• 30 March 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Drought continues to affect thousands of people in Somaliland Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - Health workers in the Republic of Somaliland have appealed with a request for food aid and clean water for thousands of families who, because of drought, have lost their livelihoods. Families l ...
• 30 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians being targeted by armed Islamist gangs Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Armed Islamist gangs, that pollute the Syrian Liberation Army, have targeted some believers in the ongoing conflict in Syria: is what several sources say to Fides in the Christian community in ...
• 29 March 2012
  VATICAN-The Pope in Cuba: " It is greatly to be hoped that the moment will soon arrive when, here too, the Church can bring to the fields of knowledge the benefits of the mission that the Lord entrusted to her" La Habana (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church lives to make others sharers in the one thing she possesses, which is none other than Christ, our hope of glory. To carry out this duty, she must count on basic religious freedom, ...
• 29 March 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The diocesan Eucharistic Congress of Kao Hsiung to awaken the love for the Eucharist Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The Eucharistic Congress of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung will be held on April 21 on the theme "Mystery of Faith", in view of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (Ireland from ...
• 29 March 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Bishops: "A human society without violence" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago and President of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, Mgr. Ricardo Ezzati, issued a statement, dated March 28, entitled "For a more human coexistence and without violen ...
• 29 March 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Childhood tabagism: in Indonesia children start smoking even before the age of 4 Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 10 years ago, the WHO (World Health Organization) estimated that, every day, between 80 and 100 000 children smoked their first cigarette. The figure has not been updated but the s ...
• 29 March 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY-After euthanasia carried out in hospitals, the Church stresses the duty to always defend life. Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The population of Uruguay is still dismayed by the terrible situation that came into the open a few days ago when it was learned that a group of nurses in more than one hospital, carried out ...
• 29 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA- A message of hope and resurrection among the detainees in Orissa Phulbani (Agenzia Fides) - Bringing a message of hope and resurrection to the inmates of Orissa, also and especially to those who are unjustly in prison: is what a Christian community did in Kandhamal, district of the st ...