News

• 28 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU-Missionary missing for 5 days in the Peruvian jungle Moyobamba (Agenzia Fides) - Father Alfonso Asencios Zuluoga, a Vincentian missionary has been missing for five days. The priest, of the parish of Our Lady de los Remedios, in La Banda of Shilcayo, belongs to the Congrega ...
• 28 November 2011
  EUROPE/IRELAND- An Irish missionary awarded for her commitment towards people with AIDS Cork (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Miriam Duggan, from the county of Limerick, a Franciscan Missionary of the Sisters for Africa of, was awarded for her dedication to people with AIDS/HIV and commitment in fighting the pandem ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Six churches threatened by extremist groups, other two will be demolished by the state Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) –Islamic extremists of the Islamic Defenders Front ("Front Pembela Islam," FPI) took to the streets en masse in Bekasi, one of the biggest suburbs of the metropolis of Jakarta, threatening to ra ...
• 28 November 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - A nun and a volunteer killed, another woman religious seriously injured during a robbery Kiremba (Agenzia Fides) - Mother Lukrecija Mamica, of Croatian origin, and Francesco Bazzani, an Italian volunteer, were killed during a robbery attempt, while a second religious, Italian, Sister Carla Brianza, was injur ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "The NATO attack may compromise the fight against terrorism and religious harmony in Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The NATO attack is serious because it can compromise the fight against terrorism but also interreligious harmony, intercultural dialogue, and peace in Pakistan": with these words, the Catholi ...
• 28 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must discern the signs of the times and be witnesses of hope before violence", urges Cardinal Rivera Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico, Norberto Rivera Carrera, urged Mexicans not to think that they have already been defeated and not to give in to despair in the face of rising violence acro ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/SYRIA - Torture and mutilation of children held in prisons in the country Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) expressed serious concern due to the incidents of general violation of human rights that are registered in Syria and for the total impunity to ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Appointment of Auxiliaries of the Archdiocese of Colombo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 28, 2011 appointed Rev. Fidelis Emmanuel Lionel Fernando, Episcopal Vicar for the faithful of the Archdiocese of Tamil Columbus and Rev. Sampathawad ...
• 26 November 2011
  AFRICA-Financial speculation and Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The current international financial crisis is having strong repercussions even towards the poorest Countries of Africa. The international speculation in fact, after the mortgage crisis, bad housing ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Word of God to evangelize society today: Bible Week just concluded Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – To hold firm the reference to Sacred Scripture, in order to evangelize a rapidly changing society: with this spirit, the community celebrated the Catholic Bible Week 2011, sponsored by the Bibli ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - A spiritual offensive to revive faith in North Korea Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Today, since the regime denies personal freedom, including religious freedom, it is not possible to send material aid to the faithful Christians in North Korea. "Only God's action, solicited by pr ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Tentorio’s case, the police have identified the person behind the assassination; civil society on a pilgrimage Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - The investigation of Father Fausto Tentorio’s murder, the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) killed on October 17 in Arakan, may be at a turning point: as loca ...
• 26 November 2011
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops' Appeal: building peace in Central America Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Strengthening the culture of life and peace in Central America: is what the Bishops of Central American Bishops' Secretariat (SEDAC) ask at the end of the assembly held in Tegucigalpa. The A ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Vacuum of authority, ideas, law, morals in Mindanao", denounces a Jesuit Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the difficulties that we live in Mindanao: in particular the absence of the rule of law, the absence of a credible leadership, the lack of adequate investments in social pr ...
• 26 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Thousands of believers marching to defend migrants in Chiapas and the earth San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) – To demonstrate against the mining exploitation, the destruction of nature, drug abuse and violations of the rights of migrants: for this purpose, local sources of Fides report that over ...