News

• 9 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Cholera runs along the river Congo: alert Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cholera continues to claim victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), especially in the provinces bordering the Congo River, which is therefore both an important trading route and a car ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 25 years later, a blog remembers Mgr. Alejandro Labaka and Sister Ines Arango Aguarico (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, the Capuchin Bishop Mgr. Alejandro Labaka, Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico and Sister Ines Arango, of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family, both missionaries in the Am ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Lacunza intermediary between government and indigenous protesters to avoid other deaths Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Luis Lacunza, OAR, Bishop of the Diocese of David, has succeeded in his mission as mediator between the government and the ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The Bishops: elections crucial to the future of the Country " Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The presidential elections whose first round is fixed for Sunday, February 26, will be decisive for the future of the country", say the Bishops of Senegal in the message dedicated to the presiden ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/TOGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 25 April 2010, confirmed Rev. Benoit Efoevi Penoukou of the archdiocesan clergy of Lomé the office as National Directo ...
• 8 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 3, 2011 appointed Rev. Faustine Lucas Lobo, of the diocesan clergy of Mangalore as national Director of the Pontif ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The rate of acute childhood malnutrition among IDPs in Mogadishu exceeds 20%. Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The mortality rate among displaced children in the Somali capital Mogadishu remains above the threshold of hunger, despite the recent announcement by the United Nations on the end of famine in ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A lay missionary dies to save seven children Quinindé (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, February 5, Pedro Manuel died, aged 43, after saving the lives of seven children who had been dragged off into the sea, in front of a beach near the small town of Quinindé, in Ecua ...
• 8 February 2012
  VATICAN - Pope's Message published for Lent Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lenten season offers us once again an opportunity to reflect upon the very heart of Christian life: charity". This is how the Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message for Lent begins, whose ...
• 8 February 2012
  ASIA/MACAO - New paths to help the poor, Caritas Macao celebrates 60 years of service Macao (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for new paths to help the poor" is the theme of the International Conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Macao Caritas held in past days at the Macao Cultural Centre. It was al ...
• 8 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians protest against the government of Gujarat that supports the radical Hindus Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Gujarat raise their aim and openly protest against the government of Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the state of Gujarat (western India) and leader of the Hindu nationalist ...
• 8 February 2012
  EUROPE - A conference on Christian minorities: the first commitment of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first public initiative of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" will be a conference dedicated to the status and the protection of Christian minorities in the world which has just been in ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Presidency and Parliament in a crisis of legitimacy following the election irregularities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The institutions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are likely to be faced with a crisis of legitimacy as a result of disputes concerning both the presidential (won by outgoing Presiden ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 300 participants at the National Missionary Congress Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The third National Missionary Congress for priests, religious and laity has just concluded, which had the theme "Authentic witnesses and heralds of Christ in communion, so that the world may believ ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Truce and change of mindset for Pope's visit Leon (Agenzia Fides) - The demand for a truce made by the Archbishop of Leon to groups of drug traffickers has been accepted. One group, which is assumed to belong to organized crime, has left in plain view 11 blankets i ...