News

• 2 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - "All together for a Better World: including people with disabilities" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "All together for a Better World: including people with disabilities" is the general theme the International Day of Persons with Disabilities will focus on which is celebrated on December 3. Disabl ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - More than 10,000 Bibles arrive in a hot-air balloon Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Bibles cross the bamboo curtain and reaches the North Korean faithful with a hot-air balloon. Over 10 thousand copies of the Holy Scriptures were delivered to the Christians living in Nor ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shabhaz Bhatti remembered in Italy for his testimony of faith in politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An excellent testimony of faith in politics, significant for the present and the future of Pakistan: With these reasons, on Sunday, December 4, the figure of Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Re ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - City of Hope, a school for young people of Makeni Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Makeni is one of the suburbs in the south of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Here, in 1995, the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco built a temporary Open Community School for girls, with the hope that ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Women religious attacked on the basis of charges all to be verified": the Archbishop of Kananga denounces the climate of electoral tension Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A number of women religious have been attacked in the Archdiocese of Kananga in relation to the tense atmosphere in which presidential elections were held (see Fides 30/11/2011). This was denou ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The number of returnees from Yemen increases Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The continuing unrest and xenophobia present in Yemen have increased the returns of refugees in Somalia. There are about 6000 of those who have returned back, crossing the Red Sea since the beg ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rapes and murders of Christians in Punjab, in silence and injustice Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Javed Masih, Shahbaz Masih's father, a young Christian killed by Muslims in Kasur (in Punjab), has just managed to register a formal complaint (First Information Report) and is now demanding justi ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Girl killed in Faisalabad, a "martyr of the faith" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The local Catholic Church calls her "a martyr of the faith": Mariah Manisha was a Catholic girl from Faisalabd who was killed a week ago by a Muslim man who had kidnapped her and intended to ...
• 2 December 2011
  AMERICA/PERU- The search to find father Alfonso continues, lost in the Peruvian jungle Moyobamba (Agenzia Fides) - From several ecclesiastical institutions and structures prayer requests and help arrive for father Alfonso Asencios Zuloaga, a priest of the Congregation of the Mission (also known as the Vinc ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - "The Post-Synodal Exhortation urges us to a greater commitment to evangelization in Africa", says Cardinal Pengo Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), has described the Apostolic Exhortation ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Mandate to 179 extraordinary ministers of communion of Kai Xi Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - There are 179 extraordinary ministers of communion at Kai Xi Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin, who received the mandate during the solemn liturgy on November 19, presided by the pastor Don ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Erected the diocese of Gaoua and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 30, 2011 erected the new Diocese of Gaoua in Burkina Faso, with territory taken from the diocese of Diebougou, making it a suffragan of the archdioc ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE-Education and evangelization of children and young people Lungi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian community has been present in Sierra Leone for 25 years, and has always been committed to education and evangelization of children and young people in the African country. According t ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Christmas dedicated to the "new evangelization" in the spirit of the II Vatican Council Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is for the Korean Catholic Church an opportunity to reflect and revive the spirit of the "new evangelization": This is what emerges from the pastoral Letters that the Korean Bishops spre ...
• 1 December 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-The Catholic Church may appoint religion teachers in public schools Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the State have reached an agreement in Bolivia as far as education is concerned: The government recognizes the educational structure of the Catholic Church, through t ...