News

• 13 February 2012
  ASIA/THAILAND - Appeal to the Government for Valentine's Day: it is urgent to stop prostitution Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Prostitution is a widespread evil in society, governed by businessmen, government officials and politicians networks; radical measures are urgently needed to stop the thriving illegal sex indust ...
• 13 February 2012
  AFRICA/RWANDA - biogas system for cooking in the orphanage of Muhura Muhura (Agenzia Fides) - The Muhura orphanage houses 150 orphaned or abandoned children who are taken care of by 4 nuns. Thanks to a project launched by the Movement for the fight against hunger in the world, the center ...
• 13 February 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - There will be the first Christian Senator in the history of Pakistan Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Kamran Michael, a Christian politician who is an active member of the "Pakistan Muslim League-N", will be the first Christian Senator in the history of the country. The Party, in fact, has nom ...
• 13 February 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Premier committed for trial, civil society: "The government is not above the law" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The political authorities of Pakistan, such as Prime Minister Gilani and President Ali Zardari "are not above the law, they have to respect the Constitution and the rule of law, or they cannot ...
• 13 February 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - We welcome the Year of Faith with great commitment to evangelization: the exhortation of the Bishop of Feng Xiang to the priests Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - With great commitment to evangelization and new evangelization, we welcome the Year of Faith, as indicated by Pope Benedict XVI: this is the exhortation that His Exc Mgr. Li Jing Feng, 91-yea ...
• 13 February 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Erection of the Apostolic Prefecture of Robe and the appointment of the first Prefect Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on February 11, 2012 erected the new Apostolic Prefecture of Robe, in Ethiopia, with territory taken from the Apostolic Vicariate of Meki. The Holy Father appoi ...
• 13 February 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A project in 4 countries to combat child labor through education has been launched New York City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) 152 million children between 5 and 14 years of age are victims of child labor. Most belong to the most marginalized social groups ...
• 10 February 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "There is an ongoing forgotten massacre on the Nuba Mountains " complaint on behalf of the Bishop of El Obeid; priests and religious sisters are not abandoning the camp Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "On the Nuba mountains people are dying of starvation and bombings" this is the complaint on behalf of His Exc. Mgr.Macram Max Gassis, Bishop of El Obeid, the diocese which straddles Sudan and ...
• 10 February 2012
  VATICAN - The story of Jesus of Nazareth, in whose name even today many believers face suffering and persecution, cannot remain confined in a distant past Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The story of Jesus of Nazareth, in whose name still many believers in different countries of the world face suffering and persecution, cannot therefore be confined in a distant past, but i ...
• 10 February 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Mgr. Tong to the religious: "Everyone has his/her own charisma, but we are all instrument of evangelization" Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Each with his/her own charisma, but we are all instrument of evangelization of the Lord: so this is how His Exc. Mgr. John Tong , Bishop of Hong Kong, who will be created cardinal in the next ...
• 10 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Carrying out missionary animation in the heart of a metropolis: 50 years of the PIME centre in Milan Milan (Agenzia Fides) - For fifty years the "Center of culture and PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) missionary animation" in Milan proposes itself as a place of meeting, exchange, reflection and planning ...
• 10 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 20, 2011 appointed Father Godefroid Manunga, of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) as National Director of ...
• 10 February 2012
  AFRICA - On February 13 the Second Symposium of the European and African Bishops opens in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On February 13 the Second Symposium of the European and African Bishops opens in Rome, which has the theme "Evangelization Today: Communion and pastoral cooperation between Africa and Europe. The ...
• 10 February 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For Cardinal Urosa Savino every presidential candidate must possess the values of love, justice and freedom Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, said that the Catholic values that every presidential candidate must have are love, justice, freedom, respect for people and for the people in ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/REP. DOMINICAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 10, 2011 appointed Rev. Anselmo Alejandro Peña Sanchez , of the diocesan clergy of Mao-Monte Cristi as National D ...