News

• 14 March 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - The government of Cuba opens a website for the papal visit Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "This are brave people!" Said Esteban Lazo Hernandez, vice president of the Council of State of Cuba, with respect to "a sincere welcome, joyful and well-organized, with full guarantee of safety, ...
• 14 March 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A helpline dedicated exclusively to children Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - In Sierra Leone children often find themselves having to handle a variety of negative situations: from personal, family, educational, legal and child labor problems to unemployment, exclusion, ...
• 14 March 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops against free trade of drugs Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, His Exc. Mgr. Socrates Rene Sándigo, Bishop of Juigalpa, has declard to be against the decriminalization of the drug trade in Central Ame ...
• 14 March 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - As the conflict continues in the north, the Archbishop of Bamako invites "not to lose hope for peace" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The conflict continues, but I can say that there is a strong mobilization to calm tempers. There are also several examples of solidarity on behalf of ordinary people, both towards the families o ...
• 14 March 2012
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Cerials and seeds to prevent famine in the south of the country Nouakchott (Agenzia Fides) - Many places in southern Mauritania, an area mainly devoted to agriculture and cattle breeding, are facing a food crisis that threatens to degenerate into famine if no action is taken immediat ...
• 14 March 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "Less corruption, more unity: urgent need to finalize the Constitution" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The political future of Nepal could be rosy if "corruption and patronage politics are effectively contrasted, if the forces come together for the common good. It is necessary to overcome the ...
• 14 March 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas launches a project for the victims of the LRA in northeastern DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas has launched a reintegration project for more than 28,000 victims of the violence of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Bondo and Butu, in Bas-Uele District of Oriental Province, in no ...
• 13 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian killed in Orissa: the second in a month, the sixth in a year Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – Endless stream of Christians killed in Orissa, a Christian named Nayak Suryakant was Murdered in the village of Bakingia, near the town of Raikia, 'which is in the district of Kandhamal, t ...
• 13 March 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Malagasy population moved by the Pope’s appeal who became "the voice of the voiceless" Moramanga (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank especially the Holy Father, who in his Sunday appeal became the 'voice of the voiceless'. Heartfelt thanks from my community, Christian and civil, to whom I read his message: the peop ...
• 13 March 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - The ability of reading in the growing numbers of immigration, "a new Exodus of people who seek peace, claiming rights, fleeing from hunger and thirst" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the IECM (Italian Episcopal Commission for Migration), at the end of their meeting on March 12, wanted to remember, after a year, the journey of hope that led, through the revolution ...
• 13 March 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Lent assessment in the Diocese of Taiwan: hundreds of catechumens are preparing to receive "new life" on the night of Easter Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - As reported to Fides by the Weekly Catholic of the Archdiocese of Taipei, several dioceses Taiwan celebrated the Lent assessments on the first Sunday of Lent for the catechumens who are preparin ...
• 13 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity to the Archbishop of Huancayo threatened to death for having sought assurances on health and decent work for the workers in La Oroya Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Directorate-General of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, based in Rome, Italy, I would like to express our support to the President of the Department of Justice and S ...
• 13 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Senators: religious minorities have access to the highest offices of the state Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Yes on the possibility of having a Christian or Hindu President makes its way into the Senate of Pakistan, just re-elected, the proposal to remove a clause from the Constitution (the second ...
• 13 March 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Street children and migrants forced to prostitution in exchange for food and money Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child prostitution continues to be a very sad plague among the people of Tapachula. An average of 80 children roam the streets, using drugs like marijuana and solvents. Each ...
• 13 March 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - What's really going on in Haiti? Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, has asked the authorities of Haiti to inform about what is really happening in the country, because any major event ...