News

• 22 February 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Alarm concerning violence throughout the country: children in particular are abused, sold, exploited Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Honduras is the poorest of the 7 nations of Central America, and complains of a very serious situation especially for the violence against children. Out of a population of over 8 million inh ...
• 22 February 2012
  ASIA/IRAN - There are fears for the execution of the Christian Pastor Nadarkhani, sentenced to death for apostasy Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - There are fears for the execution of Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, sentenced to death for apostasy. As reported to Fides by the NGO "Christian Solidarity Worldwide" (CSW), the Pastor’s lawyer is tr ...
• 22 February 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Clashes in a suburb of Kano, a missionary to Fides: "The city center is calm" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The city is calm and we have no news of terrorist attacks in the area where we are," says to Fides Fr. Thomas, of the Society of African Missions (SAM), from Kano in the north-west of Nigeria, wh ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Evangelization: only reference for the Catholic communities of the continent Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" (Rom 10:15) was the theme of the Campaign of Evangelization launched by the parish of Ding Hai, in the Zhe Jiang Province, for the Chin ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan Seminary "Maria Mater Ecclesiae" in Karaganda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 3, 2011 appointed rev. Piotr Pytlowany, of the Latin diocesan clergy of Przemysl (Poland). The new Rector was bor ...
• 21 February 2012
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Drought and malnutrition ravages the country: 12 million people at risk of food insecurity and hunger in Sahel Nouakchot (Agenzia Fides) - The majority of the inhabitants of Douerara, a small town located about 800 kilometers east of Nouakchot, the capital of Mauritania, live in an area surrounded by sand and rocks in Sahel. Beca ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The murder of the fishermen in Kerala seen as a "national outrage", but "religion has nothing to do with it" Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - The death of two innocent Indian fishermen took place off the coast of Kerala on February 15, the accident with an Italian oil tanker, is considered a "national outrage", but this story should "h ...
• 21 February 2012
  AFRICA/ NIGERIA - Assault on the market: "we heard at least 6 explosions," says the Bishop of Maiduguri, who asks the Christians in the world to pray for them Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation appears to have returned to calm, with the people who dedicate themselves to their normal activities" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, the city i ...
• 21 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missionary Childhood and Adolescence: Bishop invites us to reflect on the situation of children in the Sierra Tarahumara Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, the third Sunday of February DOMINF is celebrated, ie, the Day of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence. In this circumstance, Mgr. Armando Colin Cruz, Au ...
• 21 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara people are hungry: corruption on behalf of officials or natural disaster? Tarahumara (Agenzia Fides) - Illegal logging and pollution of the rivers are some of the damage caused by "corruption" and by the authorities’ "immorality", whose effects have caused hunger in the Sierra Tarahumara: th ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Appointment of the Rector of the National Seminar "Our Lady of Lanka" in Kandy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 29, 2011 appointed rev. Clarence Elmo Francis Dias, of the archdiocesan clergy of Colombo as Rector of the Nationa ...
• 21 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - In the northern region of Lambayeque there are about 60 000 working children Lambayeque (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 60 000 child laborers in the northern region of Lambayeque, Peru. According to local sources, the number of children committed to working on the streets has increased ...
• 21 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The repression of the march on February 16: the evaluations of a missionary to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The opposition relied a lot on the success of this march to reassert itself at a political and social level. The police then intervened to prevent a successful initiative that would eventually ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The plight of child soldiers continues even when the wars are over Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - When it comes to child soldiers it is hardly ever referred to girls and to girls enrolled, although 40% are involved in those wars. They have different roles, those who have just been kidnapped ...
• 20 February 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Lenten spiritual retreat dedicated to the operators of the pastoral care of marriage and family Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - Helping those engaged in pastoral care of marriage and the family to improve their spiritual pre-marital and marriage work: this is the objective of the Lenten retreat of the "Committee of th ...