News

• 15 April 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Thousands of displaced people, six months after the eruption of the volcano Merapi Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The majority of the 130 thousand displaced people who have lost their homes after the eruption of the volcano Merapi in Central Java, are still homeless and in need of assistance. This is wha ...
• 15 April 2011
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on April 15, 2011 has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica), presented by Archbishop Donald ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA - About 2.64 million fetuses die after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, especially in poorer countries Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The annual number of stillbirths in the whole world is twice the number of people who die from diseases associated with HIV. According to the weekly science magazine The Lancet, about 2.64 mil ...
• 15 April 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Increase of violence against religious minorities”, comments the "State of Human Rights 2011" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "A few positive developments and many worrying signs for many religious minorities in Pakistan”, says the Report "Status of Human Rights 2011", published by the Human Rights Commission of ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Tension is high in Ouagadougou for the military revolt Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – Uncertain situation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, where a military revolt forced President Blaise Campaoré to take refuge in his native village (Ziniaré, about thirty mile ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Religious freedom denied, over 50 thousand Christians in prison camps Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Human rights trampled and denied freedom of religion, more than 50 thousand Christians in prison camps for their faith, victims of a judicial system based strictly on ideology of the regime: this ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Christian missionary in prison, "Week of Prayer for Freedom" in North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian missionary, an American citizen, will be put on trial in North Korea for "crimes against the nation": this is Jun Young-Su, a lay missionary of the Church of Orange County, California ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Providing weapons just means extending the war, " says Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, or rather a way to lenghthening it, " says Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Trip ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - "People need help, we must intervene: 25 000 refugees in the parish of the Salesians in Duékoué Duékoué (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast who does not recognize the election of his successor, Alassane Ouattara, does not put an end to the tragic situation tha ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Profession of the Rule for 5 members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Five members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong have made a profession of the Rule on April 3. Among them was Don Francis Tam Kam Wing, the Hong Kong diocesan priest, who said that th ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Serious outbreak of measles since the beginning of the year 6,524 cases and 33 deaths have been recorded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A cholera outbreak in Katanga province continues to exacerbate another outbreak of measles which in the last six months has affected the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Children infected w ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egypt supports the mediation of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III with Ethiopia over the Nile waters Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Shenouda III, spiritual leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church could play a role as mediator in the dispute that opposes Egypt and Ethiopia for the redistribution of the Nile waters. According ...
• 14 April 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Catholics in Bolivia today, a presence of hope and commitment": Bishops' document La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (CEB) presented the pastoral letter: "Catholics in Bolivia today, a presence of hope and commitment." The press conference was chaired by Archbishop Oscar Apar ...
• 14 April 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Visit of solidarity by PM Pauletti in Haiti: "Involved in concrete support" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil, Father Camilo Pauletti, spent a week in Haiti (April 2 to 9) and was able to see the problems, experiences and hopes of th ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "United as sisters in Christ": a letter from a cloistered nun to Asia Bibi Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "I feel very close to Asia Bibi, to her suffering, as a sister in Christ" writes Sister Mary Immaculate Perez to Fides, abbess of the nuns from the Franciscan Monastery Conception of Escalona ...