News

• 1 December 2011
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: yesterday as today, the blood of the martyrs touches the human heart and makes it fruitful Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Christian news, of the beauty of faith in Christ needs people who with their lives, consistent with their loyalty, testified if necessary to the giving of oneself, ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: " immediately cease-fire, then a plan of national reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "To the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Myanmar, we ask to invite the government to immediately order a ceasefire in the conflict with the Kachin Independent Army; then to r ...
• 1 December 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest denounces the tragedy of 68 families of Guatemalan refugees abandoned by everyone Tabasco (Agenzia Fides) - The 68 families of Guatemalan refugees who since August 23 are in the municipality of Tenosique, Tabasco (Mexico), after being evicted from their village in Guatemala by the army and police, hav ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas operations in Somalia were not affected by the ban of the Shabab against foreign NGOs Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment, no Caritas operation has been affected by the decision of the Shabab to close the activities of humanitarian organizations in different areas of Somalia controlled by them" ref ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "In the long term disenchantment will prevail towards the political proposal of the Islamists," says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first data and not the final official data, but expresses a real tendency," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, commenting on the f ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - More than a million people need food aid Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Due to very scarse harvest, more than a million people in the Midlands Provinces are forced to survive eating fruit as a main meal in the evening, and are not able to pay school fees for their ch ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace initiative towards ethnic minorities is about to start: a national conference is being prepared Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a "courageous, initiative, with a potential to solve the devastating civil war with ethnic groups, which has been going on for 60 years", this is how the International Crisis Group (ICG) th ...
• 30 November 2011
  "That children and young people may be messengers of the Gospel and that they may be respected and preserved from all violence and exploitation" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for December 2011 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –Since the beginning, the Church has always had a special sensitivity for young people and children. The Lord Jesus urged the apostles to let the children go to Him and urged all his discip ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A wave of anti-US protest: Pakistani Christians are afraid of retaliation Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of protest against the United States and the West has not calmed down, started after the bombing by NATO forces, which in past days, killed 26 Pakistani soldiers on the Pakistani-Afghan ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Christian Kachin kidnapped and raped: "Hillary Clinton look at our suffering" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who arrives in Myanmar today, "look at the suffering of the Kachin ethnic minorities, mainly Christians, victims of atrocities and abuses of the Burm ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Homes razed, crops destroyed: the floods continue to do damage Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Floods caused by torrential rains that have recently hit the south of Vietnam continue to flood the country, victims only a month ago of one of the worst floods in the last decade. When the situat ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says to Fides Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary, an attentive observer of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Co ...
• 30 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - A massive demonstration against the mining project in Cajamarca Cajamarca (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Agenzia Fides from Radio Marañón, today, November 30, the region of Cajamarca is preparing a massive mobilization. The city of Cajamarca is isolated due to a ...
• 30 November 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Only with families one can think to build the new Paraguay": the Pastoral Letter on the Family has been presented Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The first day of the novena to Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé, on November 28, the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) presented the Pastoral Letter on the Family, which opens the three y ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Mandalay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 30, 2011 appointed His Exc. Mgr.Nicholas Mang Thang, until now Bishop of Hakha as Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mandalay (Myanmar). The ...