News

• 19 November 2011
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Fighting poverty to eradicate child labor Panama (Agenzai Fides) - Fighting Poverty to eradicate child labor is the goal of the awareness campaign against the worst forms of child labor recently launched in the Republic of Panama. This scourge affects approximat ...
• 18 November 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY- Don Bosco’s missionary heart still beats in many Salesian novices Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am convinced that the Lord calls many of the 500 novices who each year enter the Congregation to a life of mission ad gentes, ad extra, ad vitam. Currently about 30 Salesians respond with genero ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minorities in turmoil: a Christian killed, Hindus ask for "the revocation of citizenship" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian businessman, family man, was killed in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province; the Hindu faithful protest and in Parliament ask, provocatively, the government "to revoke the citizens ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Xaverians in Taiwan celebrated the canonization of the founder, St. Conforti Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Eucharist presided by Cardinal Paul Shan, the screening of a documentary about the founder, the inauguration of the statue of the Saint, an exhibition on the life and mission of Confort ...
• 18 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - 800 000 street children escaped from their families, abandoned because of poverty, victims of conflict and abuse Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Benin is a country where more than 3 million people live below the poverty line. Half of the population of the country, about four million are less than 18 years old, and among these, 33% live o ...
• 18 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU -"Sustainable mining activity and development are possible with a frank and patient dialogue": Mgr. Bambarén on social conflict Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The regional and local authorities must insist on dialogue between the State, enterprises and community, on what concerns the sustainable mining activity and development of their areas. This is wha ...
• 18 November 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Sexual violence and child abuse increase Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report released by the authorities of the municipality of Cercado, this year in the city of Cochabamba (Bolivia) cases of sexual violence and child abuse have increased ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Paramilitary behind Fr.Tentorio’s crime; the dam will be built and will inundate the tribal people in Mindanao Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The responsibles of father Fausto Tentorio’s murder are to be sought among "former members of the armed forces or police, expelled because accused of crimes, then recycled into private secur ...
• 18 November 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "We bring a word of encouragement and evangelization to these detainee brothers ": volunteers at the VI Pastoral Care Meeting in Prisons Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The sixth National Pastoral Care Meeting in Prisons ended yesterday, November 17, organized by the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (ECC). According to a statement sent by the ECC to Fides, the e ...
• 18 November 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Child labor in the country has declined in the last 10 years Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the results of a study just published by local authorities, in the past 10 years there has been a 14% reduction of child labor in the Dominican Republic. According to these da ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Erection of "St. John M. Vianney Major Seminary" in the diocese of Moramanga and appointment of the Rector Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People, on May 31, 2011 erected the Inter-diocesan Major Seminary dedicated to "St. John Mary Vianney" in t ...
• 17 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-A Protestant Pastor gunned down in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Pastor Jameel Sawan was killed yesterday with three gunshot in Karachi: this is what Paul Bhatti confirms to Fides, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for religious Minoritt Af ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Killings, injuries, recruitment and rape on minors do not stop Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The lives of Somali children are increasingly at risk due to the ongoing conflict. In the course of the fighting taking place throughout South and Central Somalia, attacks and assaults on chil ...
• 17 November 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Sister killed for her missionary work among the tribal people, "a true disciple of Christ", abandoned by the civil authorities Dumka (Agenzia Fides) – She was one of the many religious from Kerala (a state in South India, thriving in vocations) scattered in India and the world as missionaries: Sr.Valsha John, 53, of the "Sisters of Charity of ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "The Arab spring" at the center of meeting of the Bishops of North Africa Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The social and political situation in North Africa was the focus of the meeting of the Conference of Bishops of North Africa Region (CERNA), which was held in Tunis from November 13 to 16. It was ...