News

• 19 February 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Mass vaccination to prevent the re-emergence of the polio virus that has paralysed 33,000 children Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Three years after the last epidemic, polio has reappeared in Myanmar. Following a confirmed case in December and two others with as yet undefined origins in January, the Ministry of Health has ...
• 19 February 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - Innovative sewage treatment plant produces drinking water for remote areas Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) – With the help of a German charity, the Servants (Siervas) of Christ the Priest, who run “Uñacha”, the children's home in the Quiquijana district, province of Quispicachi, in Cuzco, thanks t ...
• 19 February 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New community of religious sisters in Manaus to combat human trafficking Manaus (Agenzia Fides) – Almost a year has passed since the meeting in Brasilia for the Coordinatino of the Religious Network “Un Grito por la Vida”, which discussed and planned actions related to the fight against ...
• 18 February 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - New threats to Christians in Bekasi: a spiral of violent reactions at risk Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – From the Courtroom where the defendant is on trial for inciting religious hatred, Murhali Barda, radical Muslim leader of the Islamic Defenders Front, now suspended from the movement, has laun ...
• 18 February 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Blasphemous” and “enemy of Islam" anyone who opposes the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Anyone who opposes the controversial law on blasphemy (art. 295b and 295c of the Pakistani Penal Code) “is considered blasphemous and an enemy of Islam”, sustain radical Islamic groups who ...
• 18 February 2011
  VATICAN - The relevance of St Paul for the life of the Church in her mission of evangelisation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Pauline Year was “like a strategic moment in the life of the Church. It was strategic because it helped to bring to light not only the many-sided richness of thought by the Apostle ...
• 18 February 2011
  AFRICA/SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE - Following the pilgrim visit of Our Lady of Fatima, we expect “a renewal of Christian life of our diocese,” Bishop Santos tells Fides São Tomé (Agenzia Fides) – From 30 April to 4 June, the Diocese of São Tomé e Príncipe will welcome the visit of the pilgrim image of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima. “We intend to show our devotion to the Moth ...
• 18 February 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New welcome and recovery centre officially opens for girls on the street Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The new “Anuarite Centre” for the recovery of the girls on the street will be officially inaugurated in Kinshasa, in the district of Tshangu. Already in operation since the beginning of t ...
• 18 February 2011
  ASIA/MACAO - Spiritual preparation begins for the delegation from Macao for WYD in Madrid Macao (Agenzia Fides) – Monthly preparatory courses have begun for the delegation from the Diocese of Macao which will travel to Madrid next August to participate in World Youth Day (WYD). According to information prov ...
• 18 February 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Dicoesan directors of U.S. PMS pay visit to the Church in Kenya New York (Agenzia Fides) – A group of ten diocesan directors and coordinators from the Pontifical Missionary Societies (PMS) in the United States, accompanied by two journalists from Catholic News Service (CNS), led by ...
• 18 February 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Reconstruction has not begun and people lack food security Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Haiti needs about a billion dollars to realise the reconstruction projects approved by the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti, says the Haitian Prime Minister, Jean Max ...
• 18 February 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Justice is the foundation of human society”: Bishop's letter Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – The Pastoral Letter written by the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala, published at the conclusion of the Annual Plenary Assembly this year, is called “Construir en justicia, inspirado ...
• 18 February 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa Savino considers the students' strike for human rights “commendable” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note sent to Fides by Unión Radio, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, has expressed his support for the hunger strike carried out by a group of students around ...
• 18 February 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Yola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 18 February 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Dioceses of Yola (Nigeria) Father Stephen Dami Mamza, of the clergy of Maiduguri, currently in Ireland studyi ...
• 17 February 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - A site dedicated to historic buildings recounts 170 years of missionary history within the diocese Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – To use the most advanced technology and new media to build an information archive on historical diocesan buildings; to realise the mission of evangelisation through this web platform: these ...