News

• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church must make a significant contribution to the peaceful development of the 20 forthcoming African elections Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We must ensure that by December 2011, the Catholic Church can claim to have made a significant contribution to peace in Africa through interventions that have ensured the peaceful and fair develo ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Most African countries have serious difficulties in the health care of pregnant women Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Studies carried out by the Institute for African Development Policies (AFIDEP) in East, West and Southern Africa, showed that most countries have great difficulties for universal access to repro ...
• 14 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The march of the indigenous towards La Paz stops, waiting for dialogue Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Santa Cruz has publicly complained about the fact that the government does not show any openness to dialogue with the natives who march towards the city of La Paz to de ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Post-flood trauma: 600 displaced have committed suicide, but "in the disaster the country finds unity" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – It is a tragedy within the tragedy" for over a week heavy rains have not stopped in Thailand and have caused flooding in 21 provinces in central-south part of the country, provoking 87 deaths ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Inauguration of the largest square in the inner Mongolian steppe dedicated to "Our Lady of Mongolia" Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The largest and the most beautiful square in the inner Mongolian steppe, in the diocese of Bao Tou, was inaugurated a few days ago and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Over three thousand faithful ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - High risk of mental health problems for refugee children Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - About 18 million children around the world have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict, one third of these are refugees whose families have crossed international borders. To explain ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - A new program for the mobile phone, iBreviarium, to pray the Liturgy of the Hours Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Paul Leung, SDB, a Salesian from Hong Kong, has invented a program for the mobile phone called iBreviarium, to encourage the faithful to join in the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours thr ...
• 13 September 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A few hours after the end of the Week of Peace, another priest was killed, the sixth in 2011 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia have expressed their deep sorrow and concern over the murder of don Gualberto Oviedo Arrieta, priest of Our Lady of Carmen in Capurganá (10 kilometers from the border wit ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND-Denied access to public information for "security reasons" Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Many public officials in Swaziland do not believe that access to information is a right for everyone but a privilege that can be withdrawn at any time. If it is diffult for adult citizens to get ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Heavy floods in Pakistan; for Caritas, "the government has failed in prevention" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an emergency that overlaps on another emergency. While the reconstruction after the epochal 2010 flood was still being dealt with, new major floods have hit southern Pakistan in recent day ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We call on the security apparatus so that they tell us who fuels the Boko Haram violence": the Bishops’ request Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nigeria criticize the federal government for not having made progress in the fight against the Boko Haram sect, whose violent actions are spreading from the north to other parts of ...
• 13 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - IX Meeting of the Brazilian missionaries in Bolivia Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - From Friday 16 to Sunday 18 September, the ninth meeting of Brazilian missionaries who work in this country with the aim to share moments of spirituality, missionary experiences ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Power games behind the holy war in the Moluccas; the volunteers "belt of peace" Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - The tension in Ambon heightens again, on the Molucca islands: after clashes between Muslims and Christians on Sunday, September 11 (see Fides 12/09/2011), the government has allocated through the ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Helping displaced children overcome trauma and suffering Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The children constitute 60% of the over 100 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Yemen. According to a UNICEF representative in the country, almost all the IDPs children have suffere ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - At least 92 have been killed in a pipeline in a slum in Nairobi, the outdated system is under indictment Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 92 people died and 117 wounded, of which 40 are very serious.This is the toll, still provisional, of the Kenya Pipeline Company explosion (KPC) which happened yesterday, September 12, in the slu ...