News

• 27 October 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya has a tradition of a balanced Islam", said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Libya has a tradition of being a balanced country, religious, and that has never been fundamentalist" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli. On ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/TURKEY - "A testimony of Christian love towards the earthquake victims of Van", said Archbishop Franceschini Smyrna (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a terrible human tragedy. The population of Van is devastated, especially because there are hundreds of children and mothers in need and at risk of survival. Caritas Turkey has moved swift ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Maternal deaths: the fatal destiny of peasants and indigenous people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the International Day of Rural Women has just concluded, official figures show that in the Mexican states where most of the indigenous people or peasants live, and where ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/ INDONESIA - The path of "triple dialogue": Christians and Muslims in communion with the meeting in Assisi Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Interfaith meetings between Christians and Muslims are taking place today and will take place in different parts of Indonesia to celebrate and live the "spirit of Assisi" This is what Fides lea ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "A political victory is not a blank check": the Church asks us not forget the poor Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Cristina Fernández, the President of Argentina, was re-elected on Sunday with 53% of the votes, a historical event. This is the largest popular support in a presidential election won by th ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Silsilah" movement: "After Fr. Fausto’s death, we need peace in Mindanao " Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The tragic death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME, raises "the urgency of peace on the island of Mindanao" and to repudiate the "total war on the island", this is what is said in a statement ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - A school for orphaned children due to AIDS, thanks to "Jinde Charities" Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) -18 children who have lost their parents due to AIDS are back at school, thanks to the scholarship of the Office of the Prevention of AIDS "Jinde Charities", the largest charitable Catholic ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fr. Tentorio's legacy: "The non-violence Gospel, resistance to evil, the word to the tribal people" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Fausto Tentorio's legacy, the PIME missionary killed 10 days ago and buried yesterday in Mindanao, "is the ability to withstand suffering with the strength of spirit, to overcome evil with good ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti’s appeal: "News blackout for Asia Bibi’s salvation" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "I appeal for news blackout from now on, with regards to Asia Bibi's case. It is necessary not because one wants to hide the truth or silence the media, but to really be able to act for the sa ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Humanitarian Disaster: One child out of 3 is malnourished, hospitals are overcrowded or closed, access to water is difficult Sa'dah (Agenzia Fides) - Yemen is on the verge of a real and serious humanitarian disaster. In some areas of the country vaccination for children has decreased by 40%, fueling the rapid spread of polio and measles epidem ...
• 26 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The long-awaited rain is making the humanitarian situation worse, according to a Report of Caritas Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)-About 4 million people are still at risk of hunger in Somalia, 3 million of these are in southern Somalia. This is what is said in the fourth "Situation Report" by Caritas Somalia of which a cop ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - A Philippine worker has been arrested for blasphemy: Bishops appeal for his release Riyadh (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic Filipino worker, who emigrated to work in Saudi Arabia has been arrested on charges of blasphemy. As reported to Fides by the organization "Brotherhood in the Middle East", which deals ...
• 26 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, "It is a challenge to accommodate an ever-increasing number of deportees from the United States" Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "For Mexico it is a great challenge to receive the thousands of Mexicans who are deported from the United States, after the government of this country established as a priority the indiscrimi ...
• 26 October 2011
  AFRICA - Children, especially malnourished, victims most at risk of one of the worst epidemics of cholera Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This year in West and Central Africa more than 85 000 cases of cholera that have killed 2,466 people have been registered. For dimensions and the danger of outbreaks, the region is facing one of th ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Identikit for two of Tentorio’s killers; two other missionaries in the crosshairs Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Task Force is investigating the death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, killed on October 17 in Arakan (Mindanao) and the identikit of two killers has been traced, say local sources of Fides. A ...