News

• 20 September 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Exhibition in Belem: "Let’s open the windows of our faith to the world" Belem (Agenzia Fides) - From 24 September to 1 October, on the eve of the missionary Month, at a place adjacent to the Basilica of Nazareth in Belem (Brazil), the Diocesan Missionary Council of the Archdiocese of Belém, ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Thousands of children under 5 years of age will be immunized against polio epidemic Nakuru (Agenzia Fides) - Alarm on behalf of healthcare professionals following the confirmation of three cases of wild polio (caused by the virus present innature) of type 1 in western Kenya. The violence of this virus m ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - NGOs to the UN: President Rajapaksa ensure accountability for violations of human rights Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Ensure accountability for human rights violations and war crimes committed during the final stages of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka; and, in doing so, take the necessary measures so that the ...
• 20 September 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - 142th Salesian missionary expedition; the first mission in South Sudan for the Caritas Sisters of Jesus Turin (Agenzia Fides) - 74 missionaries are leaving to reach the 5 continents where they will bring the Gospel, in the educational style of Don Bosco, thus giving rise to the 142th Salesian missionary expedition. Accordi ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Controversy over the decision to move the capital of the new State Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of the Government of Southern Sudan (independent since July 9) to move the capital of the country from Juba to Ramciel is arousing controversy, especially on behalf of the inhabitants ...
• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A nutrition program for children of the diocese of Hosanna Hosanna (Agenzia Fides) - In the Horn of Africa, the situation continues to deteriorate and thousands of people continue to die of hunger every day. Among the organizations that continue to intervene is, "Manos Unidas" w ...
• 20 September 2011
  AMERICA- Solidarity on behalf of LAMEC to the U.S. Bishops contrary to the anti-immigration law that threatens the Church's ministry Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Justice and Solidarity of LAMEC (Latin American Episcopal Council) has expressed its solidarity to Mgr. José Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles and President of the Migration Com ...
• 19 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Spiritual retreat for priests of Feng Xiang on the importance and sacredness of the liturgy Xiang Feng (Agenzia Fides) - The Decree of the II Vatican Council "Presbyterorum Ordinis" and "The pastoral manual of parish priests" have been the subject of the annual spiritual Retreat for priests and religious women ...
• 19 September 2011
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus: "Vast horizons open to the proclamation of the Gospel" Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we live in an era of a new evangelization. Wide horizons open to the proclamation of the Gospel, while the regions of ancient Christian tradition are called to rediscover the beau ...
• 19 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Hindu leader’s fast "is just a show": to build harmony, justice is needed Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Hindu extremist leader Narendra Modi, head of the government in Gujarat and a member of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, launched a three-day fast to assert "his commitment to socia ...
• 19 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO- New ordinations in Burkina Faso, in the footsteps of St. Camillus Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 September in the scholasticate community of "San Camillo" in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, seventeen young postulants and pre-novices entered the novitiate, eight of the Camillian Vice P ...
• 19 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Epidemics of cholera and dengue after the floods in Sindh, children are the most affected Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Cholera and dengue, hemorrhagic fever, are the main dangers for the people in Sindh, South Pakistan, hit by severe floods that have caused about six million displaced persons (see Fides 13/9/2 ...
• 19 September 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The national consultation starts today "Education for a country without violence" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church strongly supports the national consultation titled "Education for a country without violence." This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, auxiliary Bishop of ...
• 19 September 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We demand security for the defenders of human rights": among threats and fears the Caravan of Peace arrives in the capital Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Movement for Peace with justice and dignity (MPJD), led by the poet Javier Sicilia, has asked the authorities to ensure the safety of activists that give life to the Caravan of Peace, wh ...
• 19 September 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - In her prophetic mission, the Church has a positive role to carry out in elections, for the good of all Accra (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Workshop on "The Role of the Church in supporting peaceful and credible elections in Africa", held in Accra, Ghana, from September 12 to 16 (see Fides 14/09/2011), organized by S ...