News

• 31 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA-Aggression on behalf of radical Hindus at the Jesuits’ campus: the dean arrested, students injured Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - It was a day of terror for the Jesuits and students of St. Joseph University Institute in Anekal, near Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka: the aggression was carried out by over 100 me ...
• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Street children create a social network to survive Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico City (UNAM), in order for street children of Mexico City to grow and survive, they need to be part of a social networ ...
• 31 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Apostolate on campus, so that the youth help the young to know Christ Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty years ago, Sister Teresa Li, of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, began the apostolate on the university campus in Taiwan with a dream to be fulfilled: "Young people help young ...
• 31 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Appeal on behalf of Bishops, civil society, politicians: the protection of Christians and religious freedom Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Respect for Christians and to give them full religious freedom is the appeal launched by Bishops, Christian leaders, leaders of movements and associations, politicians of the state of Karnatak ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The newly formed Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO) Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) – The Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa has formally been established (RECOWA-CERAO, two acronyms respectively in English and French), which includes the Episcopal Conferences of ...
• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Children and indigenous adolescents are more vulnerable than their peers Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - 8,7% of Chilean children younger than 18 years of age belong to an indigenous group, and this really puts them in a situation of greater vulnerability than their non-indigenous peers. A recent ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA - One million children risk dying of hunger in the Sahel region Timbuktu (Agenzia Fides) - The international organization Action contre la Faim (ACF) has launched an alarm about the danger more than 10 million people run, and especially one million children, who are running out of fo ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The two priests kidnapped on January 15 have been freed without ransom Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The two priests kidnapped in Sudan on 15 January are free. This is confirmed to Fides by sources of the Archbishopric of Khartoum: "The two priests were released yesterday, January 30, around 4 ...
• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Course for new missionaries, to illustrate the reality of the nation and the Church's commitment La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Missions of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference has promoted the organization of a course for new missionaries arriving in the country, to be held from March 12 to 17 at the ...
• 31 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From the Church "a certain hope" for the Filipino people: the Bishops’ message Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church brings hope, which is the Gospel of Christ, in a country plagued by social, political, economic problems: this is what His Exc. Mgr. Jose Palma, Archbishop of Cebu and the new Presiden ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After the tropical storms, the situation continues to worsen Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100 000 people have been affected by the tropical storms Funso and Dando, that have hit respectively the north and south of Mozambique, according to wusnyo, communicated by the Office f ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ruhengeri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 31, 2012 appointed Rev. Vincent Harolimana, until now Rector of the Minor Seminary St. Pius X in the diocese of Nyundo as Bishop of Ruhengeri (Rwanda ...
• 30 January 2012
  "That the Lord may sustain the efforts of health workers assisting the sick and the elderly in the world’s poorest regions" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for February 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I was ill and you cared for me" (Matthew 25:36). These words of the Lord led the believers to have a special sensitivity for those suffering from disease or old age, recognizing in them th ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-A haven for African children accused of witchcraft Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian NGO Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), welcomed over 160 children labeled as "witches". Dozens of children suffer abuses, are abandoned and even killed by their familie ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The first 13 tertiaries of Hong Kong of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary professed their vows Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebration of 135 years of its foundation of the religious congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), the first 13 tertiaries of Hong Kong (men, women a ...