News

• 1 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - A quarter of the Somali population is displaced according to a report of Caritas Somalia ìMogadishu (Fides Service) - "In south-central Somalia the primary need is the immediate access to food. People affected by drought are in urgent need of drinking water, sanitation, health care, protection, shelter and ...
• 1 August 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - "In the land loved by Saint Justin De Jacobis 12 million risk dying of hunger", Prefect Filoni recalled in his homily for the 150 years since the death of the evangelizing Saint of Ethiopia Rome (Fides Service) - "This land was fertilized by the heroic witness of the life of St. Justin De Jacobis" recalled His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, in the ...
• 30 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-After 30 years the first diaconal ordination in the diocese of Tian Shui was celebrated Tian Shui (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 July the first diaconal ordination in the last 30 years was celebrated in the Diocese of Tian Shui (originally Qin Zhou), in the Gan Su Province, in north-west China. According to a repo ...
• 30 July 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-The Argentinian PMS help to re-build the seminaries of Haiti Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The International Secretary of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle (SSPA), Mgr. Jan Dumon, sent a letter to Father Osvaldo Leone, Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies ...
• 30 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - II Meeting of the Catholic radios on the Internet: Identity and Mission. Challenges and confrontations. Mexico City (Fides Service) – To analyze the current condition of the radio and to plan its future is the main objective of the second Meeting of the people Responsible of Catholic Radio on the Internet. Participants w ...
• 30 July 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency in the Horn of Africa: 2,500 people a day arrive in the Dadaab camps in Somalia. Caritas need help Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The tragic famine that is affecting the countries of the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya) has mobilized various humanitarian organizations. These include the Carit ...
• 30 July 2011
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - St. Justin de Jacobis, Evangelist in Ethiopia Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - Tomorrow, July 31 the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Filoni, will conclude the cycle of celebrations in the church of san fele for the ...
• 30 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The permission to stay for good has been confirmed for a Montfortian missionary who has been committed to looking after, for over thirty years, as Mother Teresa, leprosy patients and sufferers Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Jacqueline Jean McEwan, known as "Sister Jean", is an English missionary Montfortian Catholic nun who has been committed to looking after leprosy patients and people suffering from Ban ...
• 29 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA -The laying of the foundation stone of the church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the diocese of Ji Nan Ji Nan (Agenzia Fides) - On July 27 a solemn ceremony was celebrated on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the diocese of Ji Nan, in the Shan Do ...
• 29 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After one year of devastating rains, the situation remains alarming and dramatic Islamabad (Fides Service) - One year after the floods that devastated the country between July and August 2010, the proportions of the disaster still require a lot of work. The involvement of children in child labor has ...
• 29 July 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - " Bombings have intensified but Gaddafi still seems strong", says Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Fides Service) - "Last night we heard some incredibly powerful explosions. I do not know where the bombings occured, because I only heard the explosions around 2-3am. A very restless night, due to the bombing", ...
• 29 July 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - HIV- positive: malnourished forced to eat animal dung in order to take antiretroviral drugs Mbabane (Fides Service) - Hundreds of HIV-positive are malnourished and weakened by the disease, residents in rural areas of Swaziland, are forced to eat animal dung in order to fill their stomach before taking antiretr ...
• 29 July 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "The educational reform has to be an effective service for poor families", says Mgr. Solari, spokesman of the Bishops of Bolivia Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church intends to contribute to the reform of public education, established by the law called Avelino Sinani, in a note sent to Fides, Archbishop Mgr. Tito Solari, Archbishop o ...
• 29 July 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church is present in social work with newly elected president Ollanta Humala Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is willing to cooperate with the government of newly elected President Ollanta Humala in Peru to improve the social inclusion of the poorer population. This is what was said by ...
• 29 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples will conclude the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of St. Justin, preacher in Ethiopia Rome (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will conclude on Sunday, July 31, in the diocese of Mefi-Rapolla-Venosa, the cycle of celebrations fo ...