News

• 5 September 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Maternal deaths increase mainly among women with HIV Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1990 the rate of maternal deaths has quadrupled in South Africa, mainly due to inadequate prenatal care, neglect and discrimination against women with HIV. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa ...
• 5 September 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A "Peace Committee" for conflicts with ethnic minorities: the hopes of the Church Naypyitaw (Agenzia Fides) - A special "Peace Committee" will deal with the conflicts with ethnic minorities: this is what Myanmar’s Parliament has decided with regards to a measure for the establishment of a Committee ...
• 5 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Priority is to ensure safety, I think the will to make peace is prevailing", says Mgr.Martinelli to Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Life begins to return slowly back to normality. Even the small Catholic community continues its liturgical journey and there are no particular difficulties " says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo ...
• 5 September 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Catholic Church defends the Chairperson of the Episcopal Conference accused of being biased: "the Bishops do not enter the field of mere politics" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church should not be identified with any political party and is therefore unwarranted for politicians to insinuate that the Chairperson of the Episcopal Conference was inspired by some op ...
• 5 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The bluff of the "seats reserved for minorities": abuses against Christians in politics and society, in the silence of the media Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A lack of transparency and representativeness. A mechanism of selection based on political patronage and conditioned by corruption. In many cases, assigned to the choice of Muslim parties. The ...
• 5 September 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - There are no teachers for 100 000 children living in conflict zones Vavuniya (Agenzia Fides) - After years of interruption due to the ongoing conflicts in Northern Sri Lanka, thousands of students can eventually return to school, but there are no teachers. In 26 years of war, schools wer ...
• 3 September 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL-NGOs: No amnesty for war crimes and human rights abuses Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - No amnesty for past war crimes and human rights abuses is what is asked in an open letter to the Prime Minister by the four NGOs': "Advocacy Forum" "Amnesty International "," Human Rights Watc ...
• 3 September 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombia, a priest was killed in the mining town of Marmato Marble (Agenzia Fides) - The priest from the mining town of Marmato, in the department of Caldas in the west of Colombia, Father Jose Reinel Restrepo Idárraga, was killed by unknown assailants, according to information ...
• 3 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Unhygienic ancient cultural traditions endanger the health of millions of people, especially children Pene (Agenzia Fides) - Some aid workers engaged in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), one of the least developed in Indonesia, have registered that infant mortality rate is almost twice the national average and a ...
• 3 September 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - 100 years of the Maryknoll missionaries, the celebrations in Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The task of the missionary is to go where there is need, to be loved, but not to become necessary." This was James Anthony Walsh’s motto, a member, now deceased, of the Society of the Maryknoll ...
• 3 September 2011
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Despite the country's reconstruction after the war that was rampant for decades, there is lack in the assistance for victims who have suffered violence Lira (Agenzia Fides) – After five years of civil war that devastated the country there are still so many physical and psychological repercussions that many Ugandan women are facing. Tortured, forced to join the rebel g ...
• 2 September 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-The United States Catholic Mission Association (USCMA) celebrates 30 years Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Catholic Mission Association celebrates 30 years of promoting mission and global solidarity. "The 30 years anniversary of USCMA is a celebration of loyalty and radical commi ...
• 2 September 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Rosary for missions is said in the editorial office Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - From 1 September, the editors of the Catholic Weekly "Niedziela", based in Czestochowa, after the morning Mass which is celebrated in the chapel dedicated to Mary Mater Verbi, on the premise ...
• 2 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church establishes a fund-deposit destined to Catholic families to encourage births Thiruvananthapuram (Agenzia Fides) - The Kerala Catholic parishes have organized themselves to provide incentives for families who commit themselves to having more children. What is feared is that the Catholic population ...
• 2 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Year of the Laity has been extended: commitment of the lay within the basic ecclesial communities Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - After a year of positive experience, His Exc. Mgr, John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, has extended the celebration of the Year of the Laity until December 31, 2012, "because with the guidance of ...